ngl I think orange juice coffee is pretty good
I have a, shall we say, pretty adventurous sense of taste (autism gave me the weird taste buds that don’t really get taste stimulation right). I frequently order/make things all my other friends call ‘cursed af’.
But y’know what, the summer that I worked at a cafe and had unlimited time to make my own ‘secret menu items’ was a really fun period of experimentation. Yeah, I found some that were nasty. But a lot were fun and unique.
Don’t be afraid of new things! Unless you’re the other kind of autistic, in which case, it’s totally fine to stay in your comfort zone.
I think the problem is the orange flavor syrup. I’ve met people in my country that add lemon to coffee, but you must like the bitter and sour food to enjoy it.
Fuck yeah! I’ve always been like this, trying new things just for the experience and possible good outcome but never getting mad or wasting anything if it isn’t good. I’ve never understood people who always go for the same thing, need stuff to happen the same way on a schedule etc.
Gotta be clear that I don’t think bad of people like that at all, it’s what they need and all power to them for having that, but I don’t understand it. I go crazy from anything like it, I can’t stand things being the same all the time.
I’d much rather try something new and it not working out than having the same thing over and over.Do most people just throw away a thing they dislike or something? Idk why it’s noteworthy to commit to the decision you made.
yes
I have done that with beer. I never get the same beer twice, I always get a variety.
Protip: pistachio beer tastes like sadness.
My experience with pistachio beer was mild horror. Like being unsure where you left your keys and taking more than a minute to find them.
What do you mean? That would be blazing fast for my wife. Should she try the beer to get this speed?
I’m generally the same. I live in a region of America with a bustling craft beer scene. I don’t think I could try all the different brews around here if I tried.
There are some exceptions. I.e., Heady Topper…I don’t think it’s really all that great of a beer, tbh. It’s good, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t think it’s worthy of all the hype that it gets…but damn if that hype doesn’t make me want to order it whenever I see it actually on a menu.
pistachio beer
Who the fuck had the audacity to disrespect pistachios like this? I still can’t forgive dairy companies for pistachio ice cream, but now the alcohol industry has drawn my ire
I once mixed mango pulp in beer. It was GLORIOUS. Best drink ever.
Mango lassi with vodka, however, was not the best match. Not bad, but not great either.
Theres a number ofango beers I’ve enjoyed…but that sounds more like a slushie beer. Also delicious.
you havent had Indeed’s pistachio ale then. heavenly flavor
Oh god that the exact shit I mean. The flavor of sadness and despair.
you must be going through some shit then damn
Yeah! I definitely went through some shit when I had that beer. Most of that shit being defined by phrases such as: Why did I buy this garbo? Who make this garbo? What were they smoking when they made this garbo? Can I buy an ounce of what they were smoking, because it must be some goooood shit. Also, I need to get the taste of pistachio beer out of my mouth, and smoking on that good stuff will definitely help.
I don’t know. Indeed makes a fair Pistachio Ale.
When a tire company can’t sell tires, it makes up a restaurant review system to get people to drive more.
Is the jobs market really that bad that Indeed has turned to brewing?
If you’re talking about Indeed in Minneapolis, that is a brewery I should like but find it quite bleh.
“i am living with the consequences” goes hard. major personal accountability. I respect it. props to OOP for extending mercy too tho.
Honestly, that’s my type. “I fucked up but I won’t complain my way to trying for something better.” I agree, good on both of em.
I mean, living with the consequences doesn’t mean you have to drink it. Having to buy a second drink that you know you like is still living with the consequences.
Now that’s a healthy personality.
I fuck with this hard. I always pick weird foods when I go to a new restaurant, stuff that I don’t know what I’m getting, and if it’s bad I eat it, if it’s good I eat it.
I live with the consequences, and as a consequence of that, I have found some amazing meals and foods that I never would have eaten if I hadn’t experimented.
“How’s everything tasting, folks?”
“… like I got what I deserved 😑”
“It’s exactly what I ordered, thanks. 😵💫”
Was at a restaurant with a friend years ago. He had salad and they came to the table and asked “how is the salad?”
His answer: leafy.
You’re friends with Pee-Wee Herman?
Is that something Pee-Wee said?
Not specifically. A classic Pee-Wee trope was to eat something and say, “Mmm… [something]-y!” According to Paul Reubens’ posthumous biography, it was a gag that he got from his first and only serious boyfriend.
Ah, got it. 🙂
the joker when he has to eat a custard pie
Last week I was drinking rum and rasberry flavoured pepsimax. I didn’t buy the mixer but it was the only cola we had. It was not good.
2nded. I usually don’t
trysample ice cream flavours, I just pick something new. If it sucks, it sucks, whatever.Me neither, I just pick chocolate. I related hard to Troi.
Any amazing recommendations? Anything horrible to avoid? I would love to hear your experiences
my amazing surprise recommendation doesn’t seem that crazy but the summer before last a new ice cream parlor opened up next to my favorite sushi place and i decided i’d get a little treat after my lunch. i had the wild idea of making not a rootbear float nor an orange creamsicle float but a bizarre fruity bastardization float with rainbow sherbet in this locally bottled lime soda. it looked radioactive and tasted like an industrial disaster but, like, in a good way.
This comment has the synesesthetic flavor of Skittles and type 2 diabetes
tasted like an industrial disaster but, like, in a good way.
…ladies
good work, I was terrified for the rest of the comment after you mentioned sushi right after ice cream
To be fair the sushi place also does some hibachi dishes and noodles, and what i had gotten that time was this fancy ramen they do. I remember it only because that was the day I saw superman 2025 and i really loved that movie ;3
Solid and timely film!!
Normally at Vietnamese restaurants I’d always get a bahn mi, hard to go wrong with a delicious tasty sandwich, but I decided to try the pho.
Pho is a soup made with raw meat in hot broth. It looked mildly unappetizing when I first got it, but it was one of the best meals I’d ever had in my life.
Maybe it’s more commonplace now, but where I lived, there was only one Vietnamese restaurant in like a 20 mile radius, so it was completely new to me.
Also, Egyptian food, I found a place called kebab in Portland when I was driving through on vacation one year, and I stopped there because they said they serve Egyptian food and I’ve never had Egyptian food. The food I picked was called chicken kusharia.
It was grilled chicken with a tamarind sauce on top of a bed of rice and a slightly crunchy chickpeas. The dish had the aroma of patchouli, which is not something I associate with food.
It was an experience. From the very first bite, it was like I was very present in the moment. Each and every single bite had a new flavor, a new twist to it. There was like lemon juice and lime juice and side salad and one of the best hummus sides I’ve ever had in my life.
If I just stuck with plain, ordinary fast food because I was on vacation, I never would have gotten to experience that.
Not a restaurant but I feel like I’ve tried about everything from the fridge or pantry on a peanut butter sandwich.
Banana fluffernutter is as awesome as it sounds. Pickles are weird but not exactly bad. Jellybeans are kinda good, or maybe I’m weird. Peanut butter pepperoni is surprisingly good. But I especially love savory applications of peanuts (like OMG a good satay) so what you should really try is curry powder and a fried egg with scallions on your PB sandwich.
Just get the regular eggs Benedict. The California benedict adds nothing.
Always pick the scariest thing on the menu.
Unless it’s fugu and you don’t have 110% confidence in the chef 😁
If I remember correctly most deaths in Japan happen because the deceased went to a restaurant that sells fugu liver which is illegal in Japan.
Also I’ve tried fugu before. It’s expensive and definitely not worth it over regular sushi.
If I remember correctly most deaths in Japan happen because the deceased went to a restaurant that sells fugu liver
Most fugu-related deaths in Japan or the majority of ALL deaths in Japan? 😉
Im pretty sure its some type of disease that kills us the most. Not some obscure ass food ingredient.
I’ll try anything twice.
how i came to love drinking Guinness. The first drink was nasty but by the time i finished the second there were aspects of the flavor that i couldn’t detect earlier that suddenly came through, and i’ve enjoyed it ever since.
That’s what my partner says!
This is such a good idea but I think my picky autistic palette wouldn’t be able to handle it :(
That’s totally fine. Do what works best for you.
One time hanging out with my dear friend at the mall she said “I wanna go to the cheesecake factory. Its not very good, but sometimes I want bad food, ya know?”
It was in the shopping center and I had never been, so bewildered and curious I agreed. The food was fucking abysmal. I don’t think I’ve ever had worse restaurant food honestly.
Their artichoke is good. Maybe the only great thing there but it’s so good I learned to make it at home, even though it’s an enormous pain in the ass to make.
I live with the consequence of buying two drinks, usually. Maybe not with $45 meals.
Yeah I like trying weird foodstuff and recipes at least once and I hate wasting food. so if it’s something I don’t like I’ll just finish it because it’s wasteful otherwise.
Well, yes and no. It’s good to order new food! But if you gave it a fair chance and still don’t like it then you shouldn’t force it down your throat
Orange and chocolate is a thing so I can see how they might think it would be worth trying.
Disgusting
Counterpoint: Jaffas
(Not the Kree kind)
It sure is. Reading this while eating a bit of Lindt Excellence - 70% cacao with sicilian orange… You don’t really feel the orange, to be honest. But you get little nuggets of the fruit amidst the bitterness. Delish !
My family’s motto growing up was “Eat all mistakes.” It mostly applied to not wasting food, even if you messed it up. So when I baked cookies in the oven after my mom made a roast, but forgot to turn the temperature down and burned the shit out of them, I had to eat them all. Stuff like that. It really taught me to pay more attention, and appreciate when food was good, even if it wasn’t my favorite.
Nowadays I use it for a lot of things - if I decide to watch a show that ends up not being great, I’ll eat my mistake and finish the season before dropping it. If I start a hobby that I end up not being as motivated to do as I initially thought I’d be, I eat my mistake and use up the materials I bought before stopping.
It both gives me an opportunity to make sure I really don’t like something before I give up on it, and also trains me to not dive too deep into something before I know whether I’m going to enjoy it.
I agree with you, but with shows I would say they already eat too much time so I learned to trust my gut, if it is bad after one or two episodes, I will waste my time with something else. Maybe that’s also why in general I avoid shows in recent years. I prefer self-contained content. A series were every episode is its own thing with little or no overarching plot line. Like Columbo series which I love.
Sunk cost fallacy.
I thought adding a bit of oregano to my omlette would be nice. I too lived with the consequences.
Good for her! I think more people need to love with the consequences of their actions.
Don’t you dare edit your comment ❤️
Loving With Chronic Typo Syndrome, an autobiographu
Gotta punish those neurons. Little bastards must be made to learn one way or another
I let the bad thoughts in and ordered a drink that was a mix of espresso and root beer. It wasn’t undrinkable, but I wouldn’t order it again.
Cold brew and Jarritos mandarin soda is actually pretty good.
Cold brew, fresh orange juice, and fizzy water over ice is so odd but really good. The Jarritos would be too sweet but with real oj it tastes like smoky orange. I was so skeptical the first time I made it but it’s good.
Raspberry can work with coffee IF you add cocoa, similarly I would imagine orange would do better with some chocolate as well.
Toss in some Amaretto and baby, you got a morning cocktail.
What is WRONG with you?!
I mean… Its a known good flavour. Exhibit A:
Bet that tastes great after brushing your teeth
