• pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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    Sea urchin sushi.

    Thoroughly unrecommended.

    It was like someone boiled the souls of a thousand fish down into a paste and then let it ferment underground for a year. I was not prepared.

    For the record it was part of a set multi course meal in a fancy Japanese restaurant - I didn’t seek it out in particular.

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      Strange. I’ve only been able to have it once. I found it to be buttery, with a mild taste, about as fishy as salmon. I really enjoyed it.

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        14 hours ago

        Maybe there was a translation issue, but there were a dozen or more of us at the dinner and almost all of us found it unpalatable. A couple asked ‘what the last dish we had was’ when the next dish came out and were told it was sea urchin.

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          9 hours ago

          Did some searching, apparently it can be variable in taste due to sea urchin diet, freshness, and preparation. There are commercially prepared pastes that aren’t very palatable.

          The urchin I had was really expensive and was a special that was rarely available. This sushi place had very good stuff, you could also order freshly grated wasabi from imported Japanese roots (I totally recommend).

          Probably similar to canned crab vs fresh crab. Stuff in the can is terrible and I don’t know how people eat it.

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    I grew up hating a lot of vegetables because my grandfather - who I’m sure meant well - used to boil the life out of them. Green beans or broccoli would be soft, mushy, and greyish (while the water became green), and taste like unseasoned sadness.

    One day when I was in grade school in the year nineteen eighty-bad, the cafeteria served hot dogs which had gone greyish and we were all told it was fine. They smelled awful and made a bunch of kids sick.

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    There’s a local grocery store chain here that has the most bland tasting everything in their prepared food counter. You’ve never eaten such tasteless food in your life. Poor seasoning? Try none at all. Everything tastes like cardboard.

    Want to simulate what it’s like to eat food as a 30 year long habitual chain smoker, shop at Freson Bros.

    Kellogg would cum his pants on the spot discovering such blandness could exist.

    Their potato salad gave me depression. I didn’t know you could make a calzone taste like the box it came in.

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        I seem to write better when I’m passionate about something. What gets me is none of it looks* off/shitty visually. Like the coleslaw looks appealing until you eat a mouth full and wish to die from your utter disappointment. If the Demiurge is real, one of his angels runs their kitchen just to fuck with people.

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          Or Famine, one of the horsemen of the apocalypse. Make food that looks good but doesn’t feed anyone, made of sawdust and wax.

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      Oh lord. Tongue can be so damn good if prepared well.

      I have many UK relatives, and I know the horror of which you speak.

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    2 days ago

    Ordered indian takeout from a place in thr UK. The butter chicken tasted like they cooked a frozen chicken breast and strained a can of Spaghetti Os sauce over it.

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    Either live octopus or raw stingray. The former is chopped up and dipped in spicy sauce to make it writhe. The latter absolutely reeks of piss (stingrays are full of ammonia apparently). Silkworm larva are surprisingly delicious.

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      I can’t have octopus ever since I watched My Octopus Teacher. But am fine with squid

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        That would explain the smell and the taste. The one upside to this is that stingray meat never really goes “bad”. It pickles itself. Which as I understand it is the reason people started eating it despite the awfulness.

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    Bitter gourd curry. Was so so so bitter. I’ll bet it tastes different to different folks.

    Reminds me of a migraine medicine. I have to eat candy for a few hours after taking that.

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    When I was in my twenties I met this girl. I got really sick, and she wanted to impress me and made soup. She knew nothing about cooking.

    She boiled a chicken, did not separate anything. Chopped up a head of parsley and threw it in.

    Then she served it to me with glistening eyes and a hopeful look. “I want you to feel better, I made soup for you”.

    It was just basically grey chicken fat with bones, cartilage, skin floating in it.

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    I made pancakes once. I didn’t know the difference between baking powder and baking soda. It tasted like chewing aluminum foil or licking a 9v battery.

    I’m generally not allowed in the kitchen.

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      This is why the correct way to make pancakes is from a box.

      Preferably with applesauce instead of egg, but you do you.

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      I have had some truley awful CFA sandwiches. When they are good they are fine. But Everytime I go to one it is really hit or miss. So why bother?

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    Anything I’ve bought at a sports stadium. The FootyScran twitter account catalogues some similar examples -

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    Couple months ago I got a tonsillectomy. I got nerve damage in my tongue as a side effect of a tool they used and everything tastes different since. Tomato based pasta sauces have been the absolute worst, it tastes very metallic. The only normal type of food I can stand is Asian food that isn’t breaded/fried.

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      LOL, 80% of our home cooked meals either have tomatoes and/or fried Asian food. :)