Ever since I was a child I hated both the taste and the smell of that bee vomit called honey.
If it's an ingredient in something and end product doesn't actually taste like raw honey, I'm fine with that end product.
As years went by I tried to accustom myself to all kinds of different types of honey, but to no avail.
If I take honey in my mouth I immediately feel vomit spasms. If I inhale a good whiff of it, any kind of appetite is gone and I feel sick. (now that I put it into writing, perhaps, I can utilize honey as my own ozempic alternative )
Anyone else with distaste for honey?
P.S. I like all kind of other sweets with the exception of Liquorice (too sweet for me).
I love honey, I put it in my tea. And always go "why not?" and eat a bit directly when I do it.
Not really on topic but I have the same reaction to guacamole. Worst spread/condiment/whatever on planet earth.
I can't even smell it without gagging. Flat out doing this:
Liquorice is too sweet? To me it taste like if someone added allspice to motor oil
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When I first tasted avocado, pickled olives and hummus I distinctly remember thinking to myself there's no way I'm ever gonna like them. Decades later I've gained acquired taste for those 3, that fact still surprises me.
So guacamole is fine by me.
Onions and Olive are like that for me. Before 30(ish) I couldn't do either. Now I like them. But guacamole still makes my eye twitch and gag even smelling it.
Well olives after I dump out the brine, and replace it with water. Dunno if its just american sold olives (not pickled just brined) but holy fuck they are salty. I have to replace it and let them sit for a few days to 'de-salt' some in some water in the jar.
But jalapeno stuffed olives are the bomb. Pimento stuffed is good. But I like the spice of the others, once the 4000% salt flavor is diluted..lol
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I dunno what I would do if I couldn't do spicy. Food would lose all meaning.
I'm from southern US, and despite not being anything like a typical southern redneck. I grew up on the food. It has to be overly hearty, overly savory, some form of greasy comfort food, or (preferably and) spicy.
Only healthy things I eat is the things my wife 'makes' eat me by cooking healthy food when she cooks. Our dinners when we make them are SO different depending on whos cooking that night.
If it was up to me, everyday I would cook things like country fried steak with thick brown gravy and mashed potatoes with that same gravy, and the 'vegetables' would be a tossed salad with enough bacon bits, cheese, and blue cheese dressing to drown a horse.
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- Watching people my age grow from cynical youth who distrusts and dismisses the older generation, into cynical old people who distrusts and dismisses younger generations.
Depends on the honey, the cheap shit which usually isnt even real honey or just super diluted, i have no issues with it, can taste good. Same with slightly more expensive "bought directly from actual bee keeper", tastes good, maybe a bit better actually, but that could be placebo.
Manuka honey, very coarse, not very good tasting but has several benefits over the usual stuff.
Honey the best, for tea and breakfast, Croatian seaside honey, meadow honey. There are so many to choose from you can find one, we have hundreds of types.
Honey is like beer to me (but I don't like beer)
I mean it in the sense that. No matter what 'special beer' someone has me try. They all taste like 99% beer flavor, 1% whatever the special thing is.
Honey tastes 99% like 'honey' to me, with a whiff of something else depending on what type it is.
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Honey has quite a range, though.
Some of them are too sweet, some them sour, and most of them hit that special spot that makes it delicious!
For me the "eh" of my youth that turned into an acquired taste are mostly wiskey and cilantro. Use to have the soap thing with the latter, but now it's a treat with a fresh salad.
My GF makes it some kind of dip for her Brazilian things like coxinhas, and it's great.
But then again, as you grow older your taste buds change, and your knack for things apparently changes with them.
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I agree I think it's just me. As no matter the honey I get its "Yep that honey". Dark light, thin, thick, 'grainy' whatever the type. mostly same same.
I have the same with beers. I get told all the time "You just haven't had the right beer, huge range of them" for 30 years. And always the same after tasting it: Yep..that's mostly what a beer tastes like.
I can't stand beer, it tastes like a cup of tea you left out overnight and accidently drank some of the next day.
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Beer wise, all lagers taste more or less the same to me, perhaps with the exception of beers with added roasted (malted) cereal seeds (usually barley). Those will taste more toward coffee.
Ales, however, especially pale ales (like IPA) will taste so much differently due to added hops, that you can't confuse them with bland lagers.
Then there are Belgian ales that also have a taste of their own.
I can taste the difference, but the overwhelming taste is the root fermentation flavor/smell/hit to me I think.
Like to me, a stout german dark lager, and any old pale ale american beer like Coors, or a pilsner taste 95% the same to me. Ones 'stronger' on the taste, but still dominated by the ferment taste in my mouth. Only way I can explain it, I never had a roasted, or barley/cereal or fruity taste out of any beer. It dominated by my brain doing that "Whatever this is, its gone bad and spoiled, pay attention to that part of the flavor for survival and spit it out" reaction.
Even alcohol is like that to me, unless you make me a reallllly 'cover up the taste' mixed drink first heavy note is that rubbing alcohol type nose burn along with the distinct taste of alcohol, I have to ignore that flavor and focus to taste the rest of the spirit/mixed drink/whatever.
Vanilla Vodka and coke I can do (my go to if I drink). As it tastes kinda like vanilla coke, if someone knocked over a bottle of Isopropyl Alcohol near it and some got in
Edit: We have went so far off topic because of me...
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- Democracy Dies in Dumbness.
- Watching people my age grow from cynical youth who distrusts and dismisses the older generation, into cynical old people who distrusts and dismisses younger generations.
I feel the same about whiskeys and wines.
All whiskeys taste the same to me. All wines are grape juices that went sour with added alcohol.
Brandies, however, I like, especially, cognacs. I cherish the hope that I'm capable to discern cheap young cognac from more aged and more costly ones.
Ales and brandies I prefer to wines and whiskeys. I jump from fermented barley to fermented and further distilled grapes. Weird.
Edit: Speaking of honey, meads I drank went fine, no vomit reflex was observed.
All whiskeys taste the same to me. All wines are grape juices that went sour with added alcohol.
RIGHT? I forgot about that. I have never had a wine even remotely enjoyable. Cheap wine, good wine, expensive 'at a fancy wedding' wine. Champagne same way.
All taste like someone left grape juice outside in the sun for a week, put it in the freezer to chill to try to cover up the taste and gave it to me. Only difference is if wine it was red grapes, champagne was white grapes.
Stormwolf - "Who cares about some racial stuff, certainly not the victims."
- Democracy Dies in Dumbness.
- Watching people my age grow from cynical youth who distrusts and dismisses the older generation, into cynical old people who distrusts and dismisses younger generations.
Beer wise, all lagers taste more or less the same to me, perhaps with the exception of beers with added roasted (malted) cereal seeds (usually barley). Those will taste more toward coffee.
Ales, however, especially pale ales (like IPA) will taste so much differently due to added hops, that you can't confuse them with bland lagers.
Then there are Belgian ales that also have a taste of their own.
You can vary lagers with bitterness, if you are capable of tasting that.
Some people confuse it with acidity
Belgium (notice the spelling!) beers are among the finest.
All whiskeys taste the same to me. All wines are grape juices that went sour with added alcohol.
RIGHT? I forgot about that. I have never had a wine even remotely enjoyable. Cheap wine, good wine, expensive 'at a fancy wedding' wine. Champagne same way.
All taste like someone left grape juice outside in the sun for a week, put it in the freezer to chill to try to cover up the taste and gave it to me. Only difference is if wine it was red grapes, champagne was white grapes.
It's probably the way you are drinking it. You're supposed to sip it slowly over a meal or something. Not guzzle it down like an ape.
It's probably the way you are drinking it. You're supposed to sip it slowly over a meal or something. Not guzzle it down like an ape.
Doesn't matter how I drink it, soon as it hits my mouth its my brain going "Abort, Abort, rancid fruit alert"
Stormwolf - "Who cares about some racial stuff, certainly not the victims."
- Democracy Dies in Dumbness.
- Watching people my age grow from cynical youth who distrusts and dismisses the older generation, into cynical old people who distrusts and dismisses younger generations.
All whiskeys taste the same to me. All wines are grape juices that went sour with added alcohol.
RIGHT? I forgot about that. I have never had a wine even remotely enjoyable. Cheap wine, good wine, expensive 'at a fancy wedding' wine. Champagne same way.
All taste like someone left grape juice outside in the sun for a week, put it in the freezer to chill to try to cover up the taste and gave it to me. Only difference is if wine it was red grapes, champagne was white grapes.
It's probably the way you are drinking it. You're supposed to sip it slowly over a meal or something. Not guzzle it down like an ape.
I went to a wine taste event once.
They told me to fully appreciate a wine, you should not eat.
Fat on your tongue hinders the taste buds.
And I have to agree with SumZero: "Wine is foul tasting."
Edit: I only drink it, when I need to get drunk fast.
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