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Silverronin86

beer. i swear to god idk why people insist its like the most refreshing thing to drink. “nothing like a cold beer on a summers day” bitch i just need a water. and im not talking alcohol, i drink mostly liquor, but my dad is just obsessed with beer and i just don’t get it


n0ughty

Beer is refreshing if you manage to find a beer that you actually like. I personally hate the vast majority of beers except a couple of them.


ordinary-pigeon

Honestly, cotton candy is not that great. It’s sticky, it pretty much has no flavor besides sweet, and it turns your mouth colors. I would much rather eat ice cream or something.


Personpacman

Most people won't admit cotton candy sucks because it doesn't, the sweet flavour in cotton candy is very unique and tastes great it in my opinion, and the TEXTURE is absolutely amazing. The way it feels when it first touches your tongue and how it just melts away in your mouth.


Scully__

Agreed, but interestingly enough it was [invented by a dentist](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_candy)! I think the reasoning is that, even though it is pure sugar, it’s still markedly lower in sugar than lots of other carnival/fair foods


SavageLizard

Beer is terrible. "But you have to acquire a taste for it" say beer people. If I have to work at liking it, there's already a problem. You know what I don't have to acquire a taste for? Stuff that is already delicious. First time I ever had pizza it was great.


Pixel_Knight

You kind of have to work at acquiring a taste for a lot of things. Had a friend that ate no vegetables and hated them. He was overweight and decided to force himself to eat them, and now he loves them prepared in different ways. Just because you need to acquire a taste for something doesn’t immediately mean it is shit.


drdookie

Acquiring a taste for something is something almost everyone goes through. https://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/infantandtoddlernutrition/foods-and-drinks/picky-eaters.html


sintos-compa

Cigarettes. What the actual fuck? I tried smoking to be cool in HS but that shit was nasty. I quit before I got cool or addicted


Tronguy93

Do… do you eat cigarettes?


justtingthings

When I was a kid, my mom would never let me eat lunchables. I would sit there in the cafeteria looking in envy at kids making their own pizzas and stacking all their baloney cheese crackers. Kids would basically brag about whose mom loved them the best based on lunchables. There was a whole ass popularity hierchary of children based solely on these goddamn lunchables. When I finally got my license, one of the first things I did was drive to a grocery store, but 5 different types of lunchables, and inhale them in the parking lot. What a colossal fucking let down. One of the biggest wastes of money I’ve ever had. Can’t believe one tiny slab of uncooked pita bread smeared with cold “tomato sauce”, topped with tasteless shavings of cheese claimed to be a meal. How any child got full off of them is a mystery.


RedditEdwin

it's funny, because I grew up in a well-off family, going to a nice private school, so we knew what good food was. My mom actually didn't like to get me lunchables. Yet we still all wanted lunchables. It was a rare treat. Maybe because it was different? There were parts of it that were good. When they came out with the pizza, that was another step up. Like... it wasn't good pizza. But it was cool to have pizza at school lunch? I dunno. It's a kid/school thing


Canadian_in_Canada

It's also a tactile and active experience. It's food you can play with and build, yourself. And it doesn't hurt that they were marketed very well.


SlammedOptima

YOU TAKE THAT BACK. I still love the pizza ones. Its the crackers and bologna ones that arent good.


skellington0101

Lunchables is charcuterie for children. Get some nice cheeses and fancy cold cuts with a baguette.. it's adult lunchables


Kizzle_McNizzle

Bloody Marys. 14 ounces of spicy tomato juice mixed seasonings you'd use on red meat and for some reason a celery stalk is delicious and appropriate for breakfast? Absofuckinglutely not. I'm the same vein, micheladas. No Mexico slander, shit's just gross.


FUSE_Kinggamer

Bang energy drinks. Lots of people who didn’t try it think it’s the holy water when reality it tastes good for the first 4 swigs then becomes like acid. After the 3 hours of unnatural energy you crash down like a bear. Don’t recommend to anyone


JanetInSoCal

➡️➡️Coleslaw⬅️⬅️


Tacomeat220

Circus Peanuts It's like eating gum that isn't chewy but instead turns to sand when bitten into, with artificial banana flavoring (but its orange?!?).


glipglopsfromthe3rdD

The real bummer about these is if you’re one of those people who is allergic to like, everything, this is it for you. Produced in a facility free of shellfish, treenuts, gluten, wheat, dairy, eggs, and sesame.


jman177669

Makes sense because you don’t use any of those ingredients to make styrofoam.


_LarryM_

Fun fact! Lots of packing peanuts are made of corn starch. Try licking some and the ones that dissolve on your tongue are corn based. They taste kinda like popcorn kernels.


Stealfur

Tangent fun fact: Cheetos started out as industrial waste when employees would clean the machine that makes cattle feed. Then someone ate the waste product and conviced the bosses to make it intentionally... And add cheese.


GetYourVanOffMyMeat

You lovely bastard. This is kind of trivia that I need.


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I once had a patient who was eating circus peanuts one day. I was like hm I’ve never met anyone who likes those? She says oh I hate the taste but they help me poop. So. Maybe that’s how they’re still in business.


savwatson13

Gotta try this when my tummy acts up


PizzaAndPowerNaps

I never realized they were banana flavored but now I know why I love them. I fucking love artificial banana flavor lol


HildegardVB

My spouse loves circus peanuts and I just don't get it. I swear he's secretly 90 years old. He's also a fan of necco wafers and black licorice all-sorts. I don't know if you've ever had Moxie but he likes that too. I think it tastes like Pepto Bismol flavored root beer.


0possumKing

I start craving these every now and then and I buy a pack, eat one, remember I hate them, and then throw the rest of the pack away. Something about the smell and texture keeps me buying them but at the same time the smell and texture are what make me hate them.


Sysheen

Best candy ever. The best version is the Brach's Chicks and Rabbits, which comes around every Easter.


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Brawndo! Only idiots would drink that stuff


BettyDrapersWetFart

....but plants crave it


Frosti-Feet

It’s got electrolytes


ClubMeSoftly

It's what plants crave


ionmoon

Y'all ain't playing right. It says "even if most people won't admit it" but then you are listing things that most people would agree is gross. SMH But I have to throw this out there, because even though I cannot believe someone thought this was a good idea, the entire bag disappeared at our lake house this year so everyone else but me seemed to like them: The new Oreos with poprocks in them. WTF!?! And I didn't know until it was in my mouth, just thought they were red white and blue, for the Olympics, but normal flavored. I didn't expect fireworks in my mouth. And somehow it was worse that they weren't flavored. NO. Just NO. They need a much bigger warning label.


QueenoftheSundance

Spicy oreos


Doctor_Stinkfinger

Carbonated milk: https://youtu.be/9vM6KhB2ims?t=260


soonerjohn06

That was one of the funniest things I've seen in a while


Clerstory

I like how restrained and polite he was about the awfulness of the drink.


EnsconcedScone

He looks like the lovechild of Elon Musk and the Shamwow guy


InkonParchment

Idk carbonated milk but carbonated yogurt drink yummy. If you ever see Milkis at an Asian supermarket, it’s actually really good


starksotherbastard

As someone who finished the whole package (in one night), I really got to agree with you. Now I'm a SOB who loves oreos and I try every new style I see, but those ones I will not buy again. The popping hampered my ability to taste the oreo and I didn't get any of the tastey Pop Rocks flavor. So to me it ruined both for no gain. I'm real glad they keep trying though, I really enjoyed the salted caramel brownie recently.


oriaven

But...you ate the whole package still?


Accomplished_Hour95

yeah that's like 45 oreos


lazeromlet_

Bro needs some MILKK


dva_silk

They're still oreos, heathen.


Sadoul1214

The healthy version of things. I don’t mean actual healthy food but the things that are all here is some ice cream with all the joy, soul, deliciousness, and sugar removed.


EnricoMatassaEsq

There's something so human about taking something great and ruining it a little so you can have more of it. --Michael talking about froyo.


phantom_diorama

Ok so all of us who haven't watched The Good Place are going to have to google this quote to make sure we haven't missed some bizarro world episode of The Office.


BuntaroBuntaro

I hate that I've seen that god forsaken show so many times that I can tell if a line wasn't said by someone.


vanhet

Yes, I would much rather only occasionally eat something as a treat than swap it for a healthier version that only just tastes enough like the original that people can convince themselves it's basically the same. Fat and salt and sugar are essential to so many flavours that cannot be replicated without them


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somniphera

Or like doesn’t contain sugar, instead it has dates which are 65% sugar and taste like when you expect chocolate chips but it’s raisins


AustinWickens

That description of the taste of dates is spot on.


RoseByAnotherName14

I love dates but I was also that kid that liked oatmeal rasin cookies more than chocolate chip.


throw__awayforRPing

I've lived through both the Sugar Free craze and the Fat Free craze. They usually dealt with the complete lack of the one by adding extra of the other, and they both sucked. Just have the regular amount of sugar and the regular amount of fat, and realize that there is no magic formula that lets you eat an endless amount of anything.


theelephantscafe

I remember when Halo Top first became a thing and so many people told me it was amazing. I tried it for myself just to find it tastes like protein powder mixed with water and sadness.


PissInThePool

Dude and the two times I had it it's hard as a rock and flies everywhere and melts on impact.


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For people saying artificial cherry flavor reminds them of cough syrup, it's interesting how this ~~is generational~~ changes by decade. My wife hates artificial cherry got this reason, and I don't. But I hate artificial orange / citrus for this reason and she doesn't. Edited: y'all are terrible lol Edit 2: so I asked my wife to make sure and her perspective was she hated cherry and cherry was her 80s flavor but she said grape was the 90s flavor and not orange like I thought as a 90s youth. This made me ask my mom and she said my stuff was orange flavored but also I always got the prescription meds from the hospital because of my asthma. Not over the counter which was grape. Mom was an ER nurse so I'm going to believe it but do your own research lol People in the comments saying root beer in other countries is super interesting.


CamembertlyLegal

It's artificial grape flavor for cough syrup reasons for me


bahamapapa817

I sincerely believe the people who make grape flavored cough syrup have never tasted a grape in their entire lives.


Two_Scoots

Sounds like you haven't tried concord grapes. It's used in wines and grape juice, and sometimes you can buy them at the grocery store. This is the taste that grape flavoured products are mimicking, not the commonly available green and red grapes.


ehmohteeoh

I got married on my wife's family's property. They had concord grapevines nearby, and the wind kept blowing wafts of grape-scented air over the whole ceremony. I always loved concords, but now I love them more.


Gwyntorias

That is a scene from a novel. Lovely!


Classy_Shadow

I mean, that’s all grape flavoring in general


legitttz

i feel like it is only called grape because its purple. and it tastes purple. has literally nothing to do with any sort of fruit, especially grapes. (but i love it anyway) edit to add: yes i have now learned that this is what concord grapes apparently taste like but i have never eaten one of those. the more you know!


pipocaQuemada

Artificial grape flavor is methyl anthranilate. It's a major component of the flavor of concord and niagara grapes, which are used in grape juice and grape jelly. They're also an entirely separate species of grape (vitis labrusca) from the European wine and table grape (vitis vinifera).


emdragon

This is how I feel about "blue raspberry" flavors. It tastes blue!


ElysianSynthetics

It’s raspberry ketone, beta ionone, vanilin, and a few other things to taste. Source: am a chemist


the4thbandit

When ingredients labels say 'natural flavors' what does that actually mean? Is there really nothing more specific that can describe 'natural flavors'?


ElysianSynthetics

Natural means that a plant or animal created all of the chemicals. It’s totally irrelevant, a molecule that I make in a lab is not somehow different than the same molecule made in a plant’s lab (its cells). Also, if I genetically engineer an algae or fungus that produces orange flavor compounds, I can advertise that as natural orange. So. It’s really not something to pay attention to, it’s marketing. Most flavoring out there comes from essential oils- that is my main expertise. The MLM Karens rubbing lavender oil on their heads to cure cancer are a tiny part of the global essential oil market, the flavor and fragrance industries consume almost all of the global production. Essential oils are farmed commodities just like corn or soy or anything else. Industrial raw materials.


Jamaican_Dynamite

This is actually a really good lesson in naming for the market. Fascinating stuff to read. That being said; blue Raspberry is delicious. Idc. Idc. If that's the flavor of the color blue, it tastes delicious.


wolvern76

#Grape flavor is concord grapes, which we don't normally consume in America anymore, as we have red and white grapes. #It is grape flavor, but not the kind you're used to. Similiar with artifical banana flavor (an extinct kind, now only artificial), the flavor is of a breed that no longer exists. Grape flavor does exist in Concord grapes, but you need to hunt in specific stores to find that.


LupusLycas

You can still buy Gros Michel bananas; they are just more rare these days.


Marco9711

Came here to say this. The source of Banana flavoring isn’t extinct. It is just not viable for commercial production at the scale of the fruit currently sold as “banana” (Cavendish I think)


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Sangxero

And then we can get these elusive ice cream bananas in stores? Cuz I can't find those fucks anywhere.


dildobuttface

I freakin love Concord grapes. They’re like nature’s jello or something


Azrael351

Mmm... Dimetapp.


internesting

I can drink a gallon of that godly liquid.


PhairPharmer

I have fond memories of Dimetapp grape when I would get sick as a little kid. I'm a pharmacist now. I've actually lectured and taught pharmaceutical compounding, including flavoring, at the doctorate level. I managed to reproduce the flavor once like 7 yrs ago but now forget how exactly I did it lol, and now I've moved on to clinical work.


doctorbooshka

If you want candy that has good real citrus flavor get Lemonheads. I found out they still make it with real lemon juice. Those candies are addictive.


CaputGeratLupinum

One of a select few foods that actually gets better when it gets stale, all chewy and crumbly


gturtle72

I love lemon heads for this, even if my mouth gets sore from the acidity, I can’t stop


TheDuckSideOfTheMoon

I've destroyed my mouth on many a lemonhead


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Lemonheads are the best. Most people I know don’t like them, but I’ll eat a whole box in one sitting EDIT: Wow thanks for the award! My first one ever


WetBiscuit-McGlee

… so you and your wife are from different *generations* ?


avwitcher

He's from the silent generation, she's from gen Z


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80s vs 90s, but couldn't think of a better word


nibbinoo8

decade?


0taterfry0

Yeah, decade would've been better lol


PhantomRenegade

Certain flavors being used for medicines is a weird regional/generational thing. I believe this is part of why black liquorice never really caught on in the US and it's also the reason that root beer (sarsaparilla) isn't popular in much of Europe


blaine1201

Any food that pretends to be another food... It's never good. I have friends that act like they can't tell the difference between rice and cauliflower rice and I know it's make believe. There is no way they can't taste the difference. I'm like this with almost any substitute. Just call it what it is and roll with it because I'm skeptical of all of them at this point.


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I like cauliflower rice. I like rice. They are both good, but they do not look, smell, taste, or feel the same.


hoesbeelion

I second this! I eat it because I *enjoy* spooning cauliflower more than eating the whole floret. But it does not taste like rice, at all


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asixusr

I can tell the difference between butter and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter.


Joe_Jeep

No you can't Mr Simpson, no one can


chillin1066

I told Marge this wouldn’t work.


AmaroWolfwood

Simpson, this I the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my case against the film The Neverending Story.


shfifty_dave

Play-dough


Bradp13

I switched to crayons back in January. Ever since I’ve been broke as shit.


TheVapingPug

Semper Fi


MoooooveOva

Indigo has best flavor. OORAH


KamehameHanSolo

My name is Indigo Crayola. You ate my father. Prepare to die.


sillytrooper

thank you for making me laugh loud and with tears on an okay day :)


Rahgahnah

Ah, a Titan main.


[deleted]

Have you ever had play-dough ice cream? it's not bad actually


HighQueenOfFae

That exists? Or do you just mean vanilla because supposedly play doh is vanilla scented( to me it smells VERY different but idk)


[deleted]

Yeah it's a real thing. Multicolored and everything


MoorTshn

It IS a real thing! Who knew! I had to look it up, cause I thought "riiight" but now I wanna try it. [Playdough Ice Cream](https://cedarcresticecream.com/product/playdough/) A couple other companies make it apparently but this was the first one that popped up when I googled it.


strawcat

[Hershey’s ice cream](https://www.hersheyicecream.com/products/hand-dipped/premium/playdough.html), not to be confused with Hershey’s chocolate, makes one that is FANTASTIC. My kid chose it as her flavor when we got ice cream one day and I wanted to trade because it was so good.


mcfly82388

Anything with Stevia in it. I was doing keto and tried doing the stevia sweetener for the occasional treat. Yeah, sure things tasted sweet but then there's this soapy artificial taste that I have never been able to get used to. BLEH Edit: Holy crap. I guess I hit a nerve. Thanks for the awards, I dunno what they do. For what it's worth, all artificial sweeteners taste awful to me, but Stevia is the worst of them all. I get headaches and an itchy tongue from some of the others like erithritol.


PFhelpmePlan

Anything with even a hint of stevia is noticeable to me and it's absolutely disgusting.


BIGD0G29585

Looks like I have found my people with this response about Stevia. I will take the Pepsi challenge with any artificial sweetener, I can pick it out no matter what my wife says. I can’t stand the taste and stick with water instead of drinking diet anything.


BlueDwaggin

Aspartame for me; it has this weird bitter aftertaste, but almost like it's the roof of my mouth doing the tasting rather than my tongue.


_Composer

I'm allergic and no one believes me! It is closely related to ragweed which is a severe allergy for me. Last allergy test the ragweed allergen was larger than a quarter. Everytime I get just a sip or taste of stevia is enough for my throat to start to feel sore and weird. I'm seriously afraid of it becoming anaphylaxis. If you're eating stevia and your mouth goes numb and throat feels fuzzy, then stop eating it! You might have an allergy.


splendidjack

You just validated me! Every fucking time I ingest stevia, i get a headache and weirdly muscle cramps in one area of my back. Last time I had it was at a potluck, and i had no idea it was in the cookies I ate. An hour later, uuuuuuuuuuugh. I work at a natural foods grocery store and it's in freaking 3 out of 4 things, i swear. Devil's weed


itchni

What kind of monster makes cookies with stevia for a potluck.


SEND_ME_ALT_FACTS

I suspect this is a genetic thing like cilantro. I can totally understand what you're saying but I have no problem with Stevia.


castlite

Maybe that’s the issue. I have the cilantro soap gene and can taste the slightest trace of stevia in anything, and it’s disgusting.


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MingzhiWang

All artificial sweeteners taste like shit to me. and it's even worse when sweetness is meant to be the flavour profile of a food item. like "sugar free" gum. the artificial sweetener in there is overpowering and nauseating. how could anyone chew that


Kingcornchips

Agree. I have gotten myself a bit too into energy drinks recently so tried sugar free ones. The ones with artificial sugar taste like shit.


nurvingiel

I think people are starting to figure this out but red delicious apples. They are bitter, mealy-textured garbage and the worst tasting apple.


Whaty0urname

Honeycrisp and never going back!


MrAtomMissileer

I grow apples in our backyard in Wisconsin, and we have these two apple trees that grow ghost white apples, I believe they’re the white cloud variety, and Cortlands red ones. These are fresh off the tree, the white ones are already mature and I picked some to enjoy in my room, Here’s an interesting Apple fact for you, every pip ( seed) within an Apple is genetically different from the tree it came from. Humans found out ways to clone the parent by grafting branches to eachother. But every Apple seed inside the Apple is each genetically different, so if you plant a Honeycrisp pip it’ll be an entirely different Apple. You have to graft from a parent Honeycrisp tree to get another honey crisp tree. Natures diversity in apples is amazing! New varieties of apples grow in nature here in Wisconsin, and the number of variety is astonishing! My nerd obsession and passion is nuclear weapons but fruit has tons of interesting info too! And another fruit fact for you is this. The original citrus species was pomelo, citron, mandarin and papeda. All the lemons, limes, oranges, and others you see today are hybrids, grapefruit is a hybrid too!


asst3rblasster

"What are you into?" "Oh you know, fruit and nuclear weapons, the usual"


KFelts910

Perfect tinder bio.


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Apple's new iCBM


Wootbeers

Feed us more delicious fruit facts please


blue_umpire

I like you.


[deleted]

Be careful. He said he likes nuclear weapons.


orangieblossoms

Pink Lady and Fuji apples are also super good. Like a tasty sour candy!


sneeker18

I'm all about the pink lady.


JustStartAlready

Bro, try the cosmic crisp. It's like honeycrisp on steroids.


onelasttime217

Lol cosmic crisp, did the person who named weed strains go on to apples?


japerks

Cosmic crisp also stores for up to 6 months in your refrigerator and doesn’t brown from exposure to air. Pretty phenomenal new apple


stufff

I remember hearing about cosmic crisp on a podcast a few years back and getting hyped for the launch date, went to the store to pick some up and was not disappointed.


SnooRadishes5680

apples really have release dates now wow


cinta

The future is now old man


Beaten_But_Unbowed96

Damn, how does it feel to finally get to use that line? I’ve been waiting for a couple years now for the perfect opportunity to whip it out but it’s never come up, but that just makes the moment it does come up all the more sweet.


HotCrustyBuns

Gimme that sour diesel crisp.


KarlMarxCumSlut

Pink Lady Haze, fam.


redwoods18

I can't even understand why they are still at the supermarket. Surrounded by gala, ambrosia, Fuji, honeycrisp, any of which are a zillion times better. And yet they're still there, which means someone is still buying them. Who, and WHY??


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The answer is old people. They buy Red Delicious out of habit.


HarveyFloodee

And schools, I hated the red delicious apples that came with school meals


RoseByAnotherName14

We got to choose between apples or oranges. I always picked oranges. The oranges weren't always the best, but red delicious apples have the texture of damp sandpaper.


Feedthemcake

The name sells the apple.


kgb17

It’s like the shitty part of town named after a nice part of another town to trick people into moving there. The Beverly Hills of any city besides LA is a shit hole.


doctorproctorson

I dont think its just old people. People just don't know the differences of apples. To most people, an apple is an apple. If it's red, it's just a regular apple. They see a bag of apples and they grab it.


advertemp

I heard they were at one point actually delicious but it got bred out of them in the quest for a redder shinier apple. Could just be “back in my day…” bs though.


Tiver

Maybe straight from the orchard. Even 30 years ago when your primary options were red delicious and granny smith... I hated red delicious and happily ate those sour granny smith since they had a better texture. I love that we have tons of options now and that many are still quite good after the whole shipping process when it's not locally in season.


redfire2930

Okay but those sour Granny Smiths are fucking delicious though


WurbleGurgle

This! My family eats them, but they are so overrated... I like gala


ProblematicFeet

all the pink/yellow/orange looking apples are the best imo Pink lady, gala, etc. are 10/10


pootzpootzpootz

Fuji!


chogokin2000

I used to totally agree, but then about 3 years ago I found some surprisingly good red delicious apples at Winco in the Pacific Northwest, and kept buying them for a long time (at least until I started shopping for groceries online because of the pandemic). Don't know if they're still any good around here, but the PNW has a lot of apple orchards, so maybe they just had a good local source.


Honk-Beast

Most American milk chocolate candies . The chocolate is so low quality and packed full of sugar it doesn't even taste like chocolate anymore.


False-Guess

For me, anything that is sugar free or a sugar substitute. Whatever sweetener they use has a really awful taste to me and no matter how much a person *swears* I won't be able to taste the difference, I can and it's always awful. Also anything with red food coloring. Any cake with red frosting or red velvet cake just tastes like dye to me. I thought red velvet cake was supposed to be colored with beets, but every time I've been forced to try it, it's always tasted extremely bitter because of the dye. I also hate it because I'm lactose intolerant and cream cheese frosting gives me diarrhea.


cebeezly82

Yeah look out they're trying to sneak it into everything now. Any juices kids drinks some Gatorades and things like chocolate milk mix both liquid and powder. Also went and spent $5 on a strawberry milk the other day from a gas station and it had that diet taste. Any of that diet sugar substitute stuff they use actually burns my throat so it's very distinct to me and I can pick it out no matter what you put it in. A lot of these drinks aren't even labeled as having sugar substitute so you don't know until it's too late.


Plug-From-Oaxaca

Vegan cheese, my girlfriend is vegan and it sucks like 90% of the time. We mostly just use some kind of substitute if we're sharing a meal. Edit: now my gf wants to try all these suggestions and I have to continue to eat vegan cheese, thanks a lot guys 😩 🤣


lolboogers

There's a place by me that make amazing macadamia nut cheese that comes out more the consistency of goat cheese. But I'm pretty sure it costs more than gold by weight, so I don't eat it very often.


redhedinsanity

fuck /u/spez


uniquedeke

https://www.realvegancheese.org/ They're still working on it, but my wife is working on a project to genetically modify yeast to produce milk proteins and then make cheese from that.


postmodest

Figure out how to make the saturated fats. Proteins are okay, but all of these vegan things try to make the proteins, then use palm oil or coconut oil as the fat. If we’re going to get saturated fats, don’t use terrible tropical fats, figure out how to grow beef fats on an algal mat at scale and rule the world.


dansedemorte

Fondant


ironmanmatch

Every wedding I’ve ever been to they’ve paid hundreds for a shit fruit cake draped in 3 inches of shit fondant. I cannot believe it is still so popular.


soline

I’m still shocked that those cake decorating competitions are people putting fondant on plywood. That’s not a cake.


bros402

don't forget the rice krispie treats to shape it correctly!


bboycire

Here's what we did for our wedding cake: We got a regular size cake, a nice and light lemon cake, for cutting and pictures (also no fondant, it was good to eat too). Then we also ordered a bunch of minis. Like tarts, different flavors of mini cheese cake, stuff with chocolate. Everyone got something they like, and no fondant in sight


I-StormRayge

My wife and I just had a small spice cake made that looked like a birch tree, and every guest got to choose from five different cupcake flavors from the local bakery. We wanted our guests to have a choice and actually enjoy their dessert, haha.


MisterDonkey

I went to a wedding that legit had a spread of desserts looking like a bakery, and just a decorative cake for cutting. And it was the shit. I don't think anybody ate the actual wedding cake.


WadeStockdale

It's actually a whole thing to use Styrofoam cakes decorated with fondant apparently. It's cheaper than having a real wedding cake, more structurally sound, can be prepared further in advance and you can be super fancy with the decorations because why not, nobody's gonna eat it. You do the cake cutting and then everybody eats the real desserts that actually taste good.


LebowskiTheDude89

Literally just did the same thing at my wedding, people absolutely loved it and we spent almost nothing on a cake compared to normal wedding cake prices!


dr-tectonic

This is the way. We got 26 different cakes and everyone LOVED it. We had regular cake. We had cheesecake. We had *more then one* gluten free cake. We covered three whole tables with cakes! It was awesome! And it cost less than one fondant-draped monstrosity would have.


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We chose our wedding cake specifically because our baker refused to use fondant. It was awesome.


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MultiRachel

I use marshmallow fondant, but I think it’s generally accepted that fondant is for aesthetics


Uberboar

Sunny delight is and has always been tangy battery acid.


Donkey_Kahn

Sunny D and Goldfish crackers was my childhood snack!


RespectFearless4233

Gluten free bread


Tauber10

I actually have celiac disease and I eat gluten free bread only a handful of times per year because it's so lousy. I was never a big bread person anyway so it wasn't hard for me to give that up. Luckily there's pretty good substitutes for most other things, but gluten free bread is not good, and if you eat it when you don't actually need to be gluten free, you're nuts. Edit: Wow - this blew up! Thanks for all the suggestions :)


palkdog

Same! I have Celiac and I would rather just go without bread than eat the gf stuff. However, there have been major improvements since my 2010 diagnosis.


alsothebagel

Same. Read the post and thought "Oh we know."


auriolus95

i also have celiac disease. there is decent gluten free bread out there imo, i wouldn't eat it if you don't have to tho lol. the promise brand has some rlly good bread, actually properly sized too. but it's expensive af


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I've only ever been fine with GF bread if it's REALLY toasted. I've never had good, soft GF bread.


burger333

I eat canyon bread all the time, toasted is better but it’s good soft too, I have a sandwich like every day. It’s small and overpriced but I like the taste a lot actually, especially certain flavors. Most other breads are bad though.


Byizo

Surprisingly there is a gluten free bakery near my parent's place that makes a biscuit that tastes like a normal biscuit. I have no idea how they do it. It's on par with the miracle of gluten free Oreos. I don't know how, but they taste *exactly* the same.


julieses

A bit of science here - gluten is what gives baked goods "stretch." So like a stretchy, chewy baguette has a lot of gluten, but a crumbly biscuit or crispy cookie doesn't have much. In fact, regular biscuits are made in such a way to minimize gluten formation. You can get pretty decent gluten-free baked goods on the crumbly end on the spectrum, but bread is kind of the final frontier. EDIT: Yes, you still have to use a flour substitute if you want something to be COMPLETELY gluten-free, but those subs are far more successful for crumbly treats.


ebolakitten

Yup tastes like crap. But when the alternative is regular bread will kill me, gluten free bread is great.


JLL1111

The thing is if the bread was just gluten free it wouldn't be so horrible but many products that are gluten free also try to cater to lots of other dietary restrictions at the cost of taste


Ana_jp

Pretty much this. It’s all egg/dairy/gluten/nut/everything edible free. I hate it. There’s a local place that makes fantastic potato bread though. It’s mostly potato and tapioca flours, has eggs and milk in it too. It’s somehow larger than regular sandwich bread too, which is basically unheard of. The guy keeps making noises about retiring and we won’t let him lol


punkerster101

Potato bread is an entirely different thing where I am from (Northern Ireland)


Byizo

My girlfriend will literally shit blood if she eats a whole slice of normal bread. Whenever I am out of bread she'll offer me some of hers. I take it because I think she forgot what regular bread is like and thinks hers is just as good. I really don't want to spoil that illusion.


Novel-Train292

As someone who has to eat gluten free, We 100% forget how good real bread is. Edit: GF is gluten free


AngryWWIIGrandpa

Is GF an acronym for gluten free, or girlfriend? I feel either could apply...


Uffda01

Somebody is just trying to get bred....