A number of years ago when cupcake shops were opening everywhere, there was this one called Mancakes that did “manly” cupcakes (think bacon and alcohol). I finally broke down one day and decided to try one. I went with the “Buffalo wings” cupcake which turned out to be what I guess was Frank’s Red Hot flavoured cake, topped with icing and some sort of crispy sprinkles (chicken skin?), and stuffed with (to my gagging surprise) blue cheese icing.
I love hot wings, I love blue cheese dip, and cupcakes are just fine.
But a buffalo wing cupcake has to be the nastiest concoction to be called a cupcake that I’ve ever tasted.
The bakers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
That’s the greatest thing I’ve ever heard that I absolutely wouldn’t try.
Thank you for experiencing this so the rest of us don’t have to.
A number of years ago when cupcake shops were opening everywhere
Starts off in a universe completely separate from my own, and keeps veering further.
Do want.
Edit: but it needs some form of hot pepper.
Chocolate and yoghurt. Chocolate flavoured yoghurt taste gross.
I once found a Cafe Latte flavoured yoghurt. I thought it would be amazing. Tasted it and immediately regretted it. It tasted just absolutely awful, I can’t even describe it.
Stracciatella cream yoghurt?
French fries sometimes go in kebabs and stuff around here. When they’re on the side, that is awesome. When they’re just drenched in the sauce so you get a soggy pile of greasy potato, it is disgusting.
Oh, and fruity beers suck: not just “notes of blahblahblah in my hipster IPA” which can be good, but “we literally put fruit juice in this stuff” which… can’t. I like beer, I like fruit. They do not, however, need to mix on my account.
Sorta related: coriander (cilantro) is fine in moderation and I’m a sucker for a baguette. Once had a banh mi that had a fucking bushel of the stuff, tasted like being dragged through miles of dense shrubbery after someone yanked you out of the shower mid-shampooing. Also burning.
this one sounds unironically delicious
I said the same about fruity beers, sours, lambics, (also found white wines too acidic) and now I like them lol. Sometimes taste changes when you get older.
I like meat. I like jelly. But aspics… just looking at their image grossed me out.
Knowing how popular gelatinized everything used to be in the middle of the previous century makes me want to barf more than a little.
I understand the history behind it (gelatin used to be something that took all day to make, refrigeration used to be uncommon, so gelatin was a marker of wealth, blah blah blah) but no force in heaven or earth will ever move me from the belief that high lead levels were a huge factor in what people put in gelatin, served to guests, and told themselves was good.
Mint chocolate. Hate that stuff, but I don’t mind mint or chocolate.
Cookout pasta salad. I like pasta, mayo, corn, tomatoes, cucumber, olives, onions, whatever else goes in normally, but pasta salad is just so disappointing.
I am the opposite about a Reuben- I’m not especially a fan of pastrami, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, or thousand island dressing, but fuck if it’s not incredible together.
Pasta salad and mayo just sounds wrong to me. I generally use a red wine vinaigrette, it holds up better at a barbecue.
I like your idea of reversing the question. On their own I’m not big on sour cream or mayonnaise, but either of them mixed together with the right seasonings or sometimes even together with some seasoning and I can’t get enough. Mayo is nasty, but a garlic aioli? Fricken great. Plain sour cream? A tad on a baked potato is fine, but a chipotle lime crema? I might lick that up off the floor…
I too have an oddly specific one of these, which is tartare sauce.
I actively dislike all three of mayonnaise, gherkins, and capers. Mix 'em together though? Brilliant.
My mother’s coworker’s child made a bacon bundt cake, and specifically sent a piece for her.
I agreed to eat it with my mother out of solidarity.
Honestly, she’s like, 9 or something, and did a great job of it. Kinda had a bacon pancake going, didn’t have many tunnels or anything. Would be a great dessert for a barbecue, that kinda thing.
But no one in my immediate family is that into bacon, let alone being combined with sweets.
Really unpopular opinion, peanut butter and jelly. I do not like them together nor do I even like peanut butter with added sugar.
I like peanut butter with sugar, but it’s candy in my mind. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich is just a dessert sandwich.
It’s considered healthy here
Yeah, the texture makes me want to vomit. Something like trail mix with peanuts + raisins or dried cranberries or something are fine for me, though.
Let me confess that I didn’t actually eat this, so maybe it actually whipped ass. Once a friend ran for donuts and I asked them to pick something up for me. They came back with a donut with maple icing and bacon bits sprinkled on top.
The sight and smell were so upsetting to me that I shoved it in my purse when no one was looking and never got around to trying it.
I feel like I’m in the minority on this one, but I don’t like fruit and yogurt together. Individually, they’re great.
Fucking same. Gives me the same vibe as OJ with pulp, ugh
I love chocolate and licorice but there’s those licorice balls with chocolate coating which I just find to be an unpleasant and weird combination.
Unpopular opinion? Strawberries with whipped cream make want to puke.
There’s a trick. Don’t use sweetened whip cream, use heavy whipping cream and sprinkle the strawberries with sugar (Just a bit). Strawberries are best sweetened only slightly to me and the savory flavor of the cream compliments the tartness of the strawberries.
Edit: Thanks for the unlocked memory, it’s probably been decades.
whipped cream? we always used sour cream and sugar. sounds fucked but it goes hard. maybe cultural difference
Maybe there’s something like that going on. There’s nothing about the aspect of it that throws me off, I always thought it looks appealing, but the time I tried it didn’t go so well.
Thai food.
I love peanuts, and I love pretty much most Asian region dishes that I’ve had access to in the US, but peanuts/peanut flavor in a “meal” is gross to me. Peanuts are a snack/dessert to me so it’s just really odd to have it in a meal.
Growing up my mother would occasionally make a dish my father enjoyed that she called “Depression Dinner”. It was mashed potatoes covered in fried ground beef with beef gravy poured on top of it.
I like mashed potatoes. I like using ground beef in a variety of dishes. And who can say anything bad about gravy? But mix those three together — ugh, no thanks. It was like baby food for adults. There was a reason why my brother and I took to calling it Depressing Dinner growing up.
Doesn’t sound that far from Shepard’s Pie though, a tasty dish beloved by zillions.
Yeah, the mistake here is in putting the beef and gravy on top resulting in mush. Putting the potatoes on top and allowing them to crisp would really change the flavor and texture.
Oh certainly changing the presentation, texture, and separation of the ingredients can make a big difference in a dish! I’d say the difference between “depression dinner” and Shepard’s pie is like the difference between cake batter and cake — they’re both made up of the exact same stuff, but one is a gloopy mess you’d probably not want to eat a whole bowl of, and the other is delicious cake you’ll want a second serving of.
I hear ya, altho at the same time your DD as is doesn’t sound that bad to me.
Of course, I’d want to drain the hell out of that ground beef and cook it with some chili mix, too. Without some simple steps like that I could indeed see how it might taste more like oily Gerbers.
To be clear — Mom’s “Depression Dinner” was in fact just greasy fried ground beef poured over mashed potatoes. No spices. I don’t even think she used any salt or pepper. Oily Gerbers would be a perfectly apt description!
meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and gravy but with fewer steps?
Potatoes and hamburger gravy, yep that’s a thing
A lot of things on shittyfoodporn. For instance, pb&j devilled eggs
Why, and I say this with as much emphasis as possible, the. FUCK… would anyone do that!?
