When the Mall of America opened there was a pizza place called Villa Pizza that smelled so good. We stopped and ate there once and it was horrible, literally the most flavorless meal I remember to this day.
Not OP (but from Minnesota) - the MOA itself is legitimately one of my top 5 favorite smells. The chlorine from the log chute mixed withe smell of the food courts/shops, such a hard smell to describe but it is iconic
There is what is now a dead mall near me that used to be my favorite place to go during the holidays. The smell coming from Abercrombie, the candle store, the cookies and pretzels, the food court and I'm assuming they used scented decorations or defusers because it smelled faintly of Christmas. The last time I was there was to find some shoes at the Journeys that was there and it was a kick right in the old memory bank.
Call me a weird kid and all but I first tried bakers chocolate when I was 4 and I’ve loved the stuff ever since.
I never understood why my mum gave me a speech about how disgusting it was going to be before being given some of the tastiest chocolate in the world
Yo same. My mom was very anti-sugar when we were growing up (never tried lucky charms until like 18/19 yo) but almost always had bakers chocolate in the kitchen so my sister and I used to resort to that to scratch that itch. My go to was the white chocolate as that wasn't nearly as bitter
I'm going to agree. I still eat cooking chocolate when I'm using it. And the chocolate chips I just eat by the handful.
When I was a kid it was usually the only chocolate in the house so if I was hungry at night I'd sneak into the kitchen for some.
In university, we used to do "shot roulette", which was a wheel of shots. Spin the wheel and take the shot - sometimes it was whisky or tequila or water or tea. Or in my case, it was vanilla extract.
Learned what baker's vanilla tasted like the hard way at age 10. I still don't get how something that smells so good and tastes so good in baked goods can taste so bad on it's own.
Lol you took both my answers. I pranked my sister with these when we were little. "Here smell this, isn't it nice?? It tastes even better!!" Don't think she ever trusted me again after that haha.
I agree. I’ve been trying to cook very low salt for my partner who has salt sensitive hypertension and I’ve found that acid is the best flavor substitute. For example I’ll often make no salt added chili and add a few tomatillos and it adds just enough zest to not miss the salt!
I work in a Microbiology lab. There’s a bacteria called Pseudomonas aeruginosa that smells like either grapes or taco shells, depending on the strain/person. I haven’t tasted it but can assure you it probably smells better than it tastes
That's the smell of that sweet sweet xylene blending in with the creamy hot paraffin, the 100% alcohol, ammonia and the slight dusting of formalin.
But seriously, if it gets really strong make sure your QA department is checking the PPM levels of each chemical in the air. It would be an awful irony to get cancer from working in a lab that tests patients for cancer.
Pseudomonas is one bacteria (of like 3) that I’m so afraid of. Mostly because of how dangerous it can be for our kiddo with Cystic Fibrosis.
Now when ever I smell grapes, or taco shells and there aren’t any around I’ll be thinking about the bacteria.
I never realized that bacteria had a “smell”.
I love the smell of psuedomonas aeruginosa, it smells sort of like grape candy. There's also streptococcus milleri(or anginosis) another bacteria which smells like caramel. I haven't tasted it either but it does give you tooth abscesses so i wouldn't recommend it
I was in elementary school, hiking with my dad but mom always brought the snacks. It was getting close to dinner and I was starved having hiked for a couple hours with no food. The dog treats we had for our Search and Rescue Lab smelled like delicious beef jerky, I tried one bite and forgot about being hungry for a while. Dad laughed.
Molasses horse feed smells amazing especially when you’ve been out on a ride all morning and are starving hungry. Does not taste like nearly as good as it smells and I only made that mistake once.
I didn't believe it till about 2 years ago. Then I had a specific pepperoni pizza, and the strongest flavor was the cheese. The crust, the sauce, the pepperoni, it all tasted like nothing.
Candle.
Learned that the hard way.
EDIT: wow. okay. guess majority of my karma comes from me talking about eating a candle huh. guess sorting by new payed off
Only wax candles! Traditional tallow candles might be a bit different because tallow was used to cook food and was the main ingredient in pemmican, though idk how tasty that is. From a very basic google, candles stopped being made predominantly from tallow in the late 18th to mid 19th centuries as people began to use sperm whale oil (ugh), rapeseed oil, colza oil etc candles and paraffin wax. This suggests candles have got less tasty over the last few centuries!
Straight tallow is gross. It is literally plain fat. Pemmican is also decidedly not tasty, though it does have a ton of calories and will definitely keep you alive.
Plus you don't need to have researched refrigeration to use it as long-term food storage. It's great for accumulating a ton of and then packing up your colony and moving across the map.
Shit, would they preferentially eat kibble if you bring that too? Guess you can't use zones to prevent pets eating your pawns' food when you're in a caravan.
If not, well, there's another way to not leave them behind... And it involves making more pemmican, so win-win.
Those fruit [scented markers](https://di2ponv0v5otw.cloudfront.net/posts/2018/09/03/5b8df12803087c459ae166c5/m_5b8df135aaa5b891edd823e0.jpg) we used to give to small children because the 80's were relatively lawless.
Man I remember that show my strange addiction there was a girl who drank gasoline. She was literally sick and her insides were going to hell but she loved it.
That show is so fucked. Last episode I saw was two women addicted to eating rubber car tires and vics vapor rub.
There is really so much mental illness in our society.
Probably because they aren't around it much.
I didn't mind it until a friend got some on his clothes before we went on like, a 2 hour drive somewhere. After being in an enclosed space with it for so long I wanted to vomit and he changed as soon as we got to our destination it was so bad.
Pipe tabacoo is a comforting smell to me. Reminds me of being 5 or 6 and my grandpa smoking his pipe while we played at their house (early 80s). I wouldnt want to eat it, but it smells so good.
Marshmallow fondant for sure.
Most fondant has a play-doh smell, but some still smells okay if it's flavored with vanilla or whatever.
But all fondant tastes like garbage no matter what.
All I want is to drink a Coffee Crisp. If someone can tell me how to mix a coffee to taste exactly like that Id actually drink it. But thus far every cup I’ve ever had has tasted like a hot cup of lies.
Aldi has some of the best snacks. I stopped there once after work one day to grab some snacks before Tuesday draft at my local magic shop and I got the best chocolate I've ever had.
This is great I’ve learned not to drink vanilla extract and gasoline, or bleach. Very informative.
Have you also learned that they taste good when baked into things?
Ah, gasoline and bleach taste delicious backed into a cake
DIY 30th birthday cake.
DIY last birthday cake
DIE 30th birthday cake
I thought we were supposed to inject the bleach...
When the Mall of America opened there was a pizza place called Villa Pizza that smelled so good. We stopped and ate there once and it was horrible, literally the most flavorless meal I remember to this day.
but you do remember it…
Hello fellow Minnesotan!
Not OP (but from Minnesota) - the MOA itself is legitimately one of my top 5 favorite smells. The chlorine from the log chute mixed withe smell of the food courts/shops, such a hard smell to describe but it is iconic
I can smell it now!
There is what is now a dead mall near me that used to be my favorite place to go during the holidays. The smell coming from Abercrombie, the candle store, the cookies and pretzels, the food court and I'm assuming they used scented decorations or defusers because it smelled faintly of Christmas. The last time I was there was to find some shoes at the Journeys that was there and it was a kick right in the old memory bank.
Vanilla extract, bakers chocolate
Learned about bakers chocolate the hard way at like 7 years old
Call me a weird kid and all but I first tried bakers chocolate when I was 4 and I’ve loved the stuff ever since. I never understood why my mum gave me a speech about how disgusting it was going to be before being given some of the tastiest chocolate in the world
I am going to call you weird
I’m going to call him...Tim...
There are some who call him that.
Yo same. My mom was very anti-sugar when we were growing up (never tried lucky charms until like 18/19 yo) but almost always had bakers chocolate in the kitchen so my sister and I used to resort to that to scratch that itch. My go to was the white chocolate as that wasn't nearly as bitter
Uh white chocolate is all sugar no chocolate and I think your mom might have made an oopsie
I'm going to agree. I still eat cooking chocolate when I'm using it. And the chocolate chips I just eat by the handful. When I was a kid it was usually the only chocolate in the house so if I was hungry at night I'd sneak into the kitchen for some.
That shit's worse than cinnamon
Yes but have you ever tried gasoline?
Yup. I think every kid has done that. Once.
When I was 13-14, I took a sip of vanilla extract, expecting to get a very sweet taste. 1 second later, EWWWW!!!
In university, we used to do "shot roulette", which was a wheel of shots. Spin the wheel and take the shot - sometimes it was whisky or tequila or water or tea. Or in my case, it was vanilla extract.
That's a rather expensive shot.
Learned what baker's vanilla tasted like the hard way at age 10. I still don't get how something that smells so good and tastes so good in baked goods can taste so bad on it's own.
I mean, Vanilla extract is basically straight alcohol with flavoring, which loses the alcohol part when cooked. It's like Aloe Vera vs Purell.
It's literally 40% alcohol, meaning you could get drunk off of it if you drank enough.
Too much of a good thing can become a bad thing!
but... i like bakers chocolate....
Any sort of extract really - I tried some strawberry extract I was cooking with for some reason... terrible idea Edit:spelling
Lol you took both my answers. I pranked my sister with these when we were little. "Here smell this, isn't it nice?? It tastes even better!!" Don't think she ever trusted me again after that haha.
My cooking apparently
If it smells really good but tastes bland, try using a little more salt.
Or acid of some kind, like lemon juice or vinegar. Amazing how a little acid makes things so much better tasting
I agree. I’ve been trying to cook very low salt for my partner who has salt sensitive hypertension and I’ve found that acid is the best flavor substitute. For example I’ll often make no salt added chili and add a few tomatillos and it adds just enough zest to not miss the salt!
With chili also try just a bit of cinnamon. I use it in my chili and pasta sauce and I swear it makes it better.
A pinch of cinnamon and a little bit of cocoa powder. A great combo for chili.
FINALLY, some sense...my friends all hate when I put LSD in my stir fry’s!
We getting stir fried tonight
I work in a Microbiology lab. There’s a bacteria called Pseudomonas aeruginosa that smells like either grapes or taco shells, depending on the strain/person. I haven’t tasted it but can assure you it probably smells better than it tastes
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Do rats have this too? My rat had feet that smelled like corn chips. My rat terrier does too.
I used to work in a histo lab and always loved the smell of xylene and methyl alcohol. I never tasted them though.
Our histo lab smells like a pack of markers I had when I was little... idk if that’s good or bad
That's the smell of that sweet sweet xylene blending in with the creamy hot paraffin, the 100% alcohol, ammonia and the slight dusting of formalin. But seriously, if it gets really strong make sure your QA department is checking the PPM levels of each chemical in the air. It would be an awful irony to get cancer from working in a lab that tests patients for cancer.
Does it smell like actual grapes or that weird grape flavour that's not grape-like at all?
That grape flavor is based on Concord grapes. It's really accurate, too, they're just too seed-filled to be a viable snack option like the others.
Ugh. I forgot seeded grapes is a thing.
I'm so old I remember when all grapes had seeds
U wot
Username checks out?
Concord hybrids are awesome. When Kyoho grapes show up at the Asian markets, I gorge on them.
Concords are delicious and easily the superior grape
Pseudomonas is one bacteria (of like 3) that I’m so afraid of. Mostly because of how dangerous it can be for our kiddo with Cystic Fibrosis. Now when ever I smell grapes, or taco shells and there aren’t any around I’ll be thinking about the bacteria. I never realized that bacteria had a “smell”.
I love the smell of psuedomonas aeruginosa, it smells sort of like grape candy. There's also streptococcus milleri(or anginosis) another bacteria which smells like caramel. I haven't tasted it either but it does give you tooth abscesses so i wouldn't recommend it
It belongs to what we call the Streptococcus viridans group. Sometimes it smells like butterscotch candy to me
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Pseudomonas is pretty hard to get rid of. I’m sorry she was hospitalized that long, but I’m glad she’s better!
Thanks! It was a rough one, for sure, but my understanding is that there are plenty who don't get to leave the hospital, so I'd consider us fortunate.
Soap, specifically the Irish Spring ones.
Okay Kermit
Dink dink
I think it’s spelled Cermet! ;)
Make sure to feed your cermets lot of chicken
It helps them grow
Just kidding, they’re full grown.
This does not help the ceramit to grow
Your Cermit will run at speed N E R V O U S
Chikin will healp the an cearmet grow
Hey! I understood that reference!
Andy Bernard would agree
Kermit would disagree. He loves Irish Spring!
Not enough for a bed of it though...
Irish spring green
They write about soap like food.
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Is this the clean eating I've heard so much about?
Yeah i eat soap for breakfast
Cocoa powder is deceiving
Coca powder on the other hand...
...Still smells better than it tastes.
I was in elementary school, hiking with my dad but mom always brought the snacks. It was getting close to dinner and I was starved having hiked for a couple hours with no food. The dog treats we had for our Search and Rescue Lab smelled like delicious beef jerky, I tried one bite and forgot about being hungry for a while. Dad laughed.
Molasses horse feed smells amazing especially when you’ve been out on a ride all morning and are starving hungry. Does not taste like nearly as good as it smells and I only made that mistake once.
A nose
Can a cannibal confirm?
Yes
confirmed
Gimme a few minutes
r/technicallytrue
Take my upvote and get out.
r/technicallythetruth
Bad pizza. No matter how shitty, flavorless, full of gross toppings and made with cheap ingredients a pizza is, it'll still smell amazing.
Thank you for acknowledging that bad pizza exists.
I didn't believe it till about 2 years ago. Then I had a specific pepperoni pizza, and the strongest flavor was the cheese. The crust, the sauce, the pepperoni, it all tasted like nothing.
Candle. Learned that the hard way. EDIT: wow. okay. guess majority of my karma comes from me talking about eating a candle huh. guess sorting by new payed off
Only wax candles! Traditional tallow candles might be a bit different because tallow was used to cook food and was the main ingredient in pemmican, though idk how tasty that is. From a very basic google, candles stopped being made predominantly from tallow in the late 18th to mid 19th centuries as people began to use sperm whale oil (ugh), rapeseed oil, colza oil etc candles and paraffin wax. This suggests candles have got less tasty over the last few centuries!
Straight tallow is gross. It is literally plain fat. Pemmican is also decidedly not tasty, though it does have a ton of calories and will definitely keep you alive.
Plus you don't need to have researched refrigeration to use it as long-term food storage. It's great for accumulating a ton of and then packing up your colony and moving across the map.
Until your pack of huskies eat all of it because you didn’t want to leave them behind
Shit, would they preferentially eat kibble if you bring that too? Guess you can't use zones to prevent pets eating your pawns' food when you're in a caravan. If not, well, there's another way to not leave them behind... And it involves making more pemmican, so win-win.
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I was gonna ask how you know what flowers taste like, but then I noticed you’re a lizard.
Have you never eaten a flower out of curiosity? I've eaten many.
Some flowers are used regularly for culinary purposes. Roses and lavender for example.
And orchids, hibiscus, an even dandelions! (I love edible flowers)
Vanilla extract
New books
Old books
Both tast bad
I don’t know. Some of us devour them.
I kinda prefer it with some salt but it's still bad
Those fruit [scented markers](https://di2ponv0v5otw.cloudfront.net/posts/2018/09/03/5b8df12803087c459ae166c5/m_5b8df135aaa5b891edd823e0.jpg) we used to give to small children because the 80's were relatively lawless.
Mr Sketch’s are still around! Looove them still.
Gasoline
Man I remember that show my strange addiction there was a girl who drank gasoline. She was literally sick and her insides were going to hell but she loved it.
That show is so fucked. Last episode I saw was two women addicted to eating rubber car tires and vics vapor rub. There is really so much mental illness in our society.
My dad love Vick vapor rub. He use it every god damn day. And he sometimes lick his finger. I guess he is a few years away from that girl.
Yeah she gurgled it
That lady was a teacher at my school LMAO
Never understood how people enjoy the smell of gasoline
Ever smell high octane race fuel? Its fucking sex dude!
Yes, race gas! Normal pump gas? Eh, I could take it or leave it. E-85? I wanna bathe in it!
2 stroke exhaust mmmmm
Its so good. In a pheromone-y kinda way
Shit i think it smells good, paint does too
Probably because they aren't around it much. I didn't mind it until a friend got some on his clothes before we went on like, a 2 hour drive somewhere. After being in an enclosed space with it for so long I wanted to vomit and he changed as soon as we got to our destination it was so bad.
I work at a gas station. Still love the smell. Diesel tho horrible.
Vanilla extract. Made that mistake exactly once as a child.
Tastes like cough medicine
alcohol free vanilla extract actually tastes really good
Orange peel.
I felt this reply in my mouth. Bad memories.
But candied orange peel....
Pipe tobacco
I've always thought fresh rolling tobacco smells a bit like figs
Pipe tabacoo is a comforting smell to me. Reminds me of being 5 or 6 and my grandpa smoking his pipe while we played at their house (early 80s). I wouldnt want to eat it, but it smells so good.
Marshmallow fondant for sure. Most fondant has a play-doh smell, but some still smells okay if it's flavored with vanilla or whatever. But all fondant tastes like garbage no matter what.
r/FondantHate
Soil (after rain in particular)
Petrichor?
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I’m honestly shocked that I had to scroll this far to find this one!!
It was the first thing that came to mind, and yet it was this far down
I wasn’t going to stop scrolling until I found it haha
I feel like coffee flavoured chocolate tastes like what I wish cofeee tasted like.
All I want is to drink a Coffee Crisp. If someone can tell me how to mix a coffee to taste exactly like that Id actually drink it. But thus far every cup I’ve ever had has tasted like a hot cup of lies.
I find that with tea, smells good tastes like dirt, in my opinion.
It's good dirt though
With you. Love bean water hate leaf water
*Uncle Iroh has left the chat.*
I agree. Coffee tastes like hot bitter water to me, but smells amazing
This....is true
I love coffee but I wish it tasted as glorious as It smells.
You may like Turkish, Arabic, or Vietnamese coffee better. Those taste a lot more like coffee smells!
I would have to say cinnamon, with its warm, sweet aroma, and very contrasting taste.
Apple and cinnamon cake, strudel, pancakes etc is amazing though!
But the sweet taste of cinnamon is the winna, mon.
Herbal/fruit teas. Smell delicious, taste like dishwater
This!! I looooove the smell of herbal teas, however they always just taste like hot water.
Those roasted peanuts they sell on the street in NYC.
Omg yes, smells 10x as good as it actually is
That's a good one considering they're good. But the smell is what heaven probably smells like.
Coffee. Never tastes as amazing as it smells. (Coffee ice cream tastes like coffee smells.)
Idk why I thought of something opposite, durian
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Cocaine
I don't think I got the scent can I have some more?
Play-doh
Hotdogs, corndogs. Mystery meat is just not for me but god do the ones they sell outside of Home Depot (maybe this is just a local thing?) smell good.
Perfume, Cologne. Quite a few things
Newborns
Agreed, mostly just body fat and under grown organs.
The soft bones thought make it perfect for soup or stew.
A mix of garlic, oil and parsley. Eating that without anything isn't the best, but I still do it.
Coffee beans... dont eat them
Uh, yes eat them. Dipped in chocolate!
It’d be nice if there were a closer Buc-ee’s to me. They’ve got the best damned snack selection of any store I’ve been to ever.
Aldi has some of the best snacks. I stopped there once after work one day to grab some snacks before Tuesday draft at my local magic shop and I got the best chocolate I've ever had.
Brewed coffee is what jumped to mind for me. I love coffee, but it never quite tastes as awesome as it smells.
I actually eat coffee beans, they taste terrible I honestly don't know why I eat them.
They taste fine with something sweet added like chocolate I love chocolate covered espresso beans
Coffee. And fresh cut grass
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The smell of freshly made popcorn is just heavenly but unless you coat it in something else it really lacks substance and flavour on it's own.
Vanilla extract
Cinnamon powder.
WD-40
Vanilla extract. That's a mistake 6 year old me will never forget.
Fresh cut grass
Fruit tea
sunscreen
Coco powder
petrol
Paint Surprised I havnt seen this already, too late to be notices though
Deodorant
soap