What are your favorite salty/sweet food combinations? [more inside]
posted by rachaelfaith on May 21, 2009 - 118 answers

I love ranch dressing. So does my wife. But we really only love the ranch dressing you find in restaurants.... [more inside]
posted by Spyder's Game on Mar 18, 2009 - 25 answers

I once heard something along the lines of there being three foods in the world all of which hardly anyone enjoys the taste, even though many people enjoy at least two. One of them was peanut butter. Another might have been Vegemite. Where might I have heard this possibly false factoid? Any idea what the three items were?
posted by billtron on Jan 29, 2008 - 24 answers

Can you show me some amazing literary descriptions of the pleasures of tasting and eating food? [more inside]
posted by laumry on Jan 5, 2008 - 15 answers

why does all my food taste bad,and where can i find replacements which taste great? [more inside]
posted by yeara on Aug 10, 2007 - 20 answers

This link on today's front page reminded me of my mother-in-law's extreme aversion to cucumber and melons. I remember hearing or reading that this was an actual physiological condition and that people with this aversion actually taste these foods differently than the rest of us. Have you heard of this and, if so, could you point me to any studies on it?
posted by alltomorrowsparties on Jul 15, 2007 - 27 answers

I used Crest Pro Health alcohol-free mouthwash about an hour and a half ago. Now I'm eating McDonald's and I cannot taste the salt on the fries -- in fact, I made my roommate eat some of them to make sure I was not crazy, as they tasted sweet to me, like they'd been honey-roasted. Furthermore, the cheese on my ketchup-free burger tastes weirdly like ketchup. What the heck did that mouthwash do to my taste buds, and is there anything I can do to undo it quickly? I put a pinch of salt directly on my tongue, and it tastes just like sugar!
posted by logovisual on Mar 11, 2007 - 14 answers

I want to go from goat to gourmet. Having taste buds that are happy eating MREs all day long has its advantages, but it would be nice to enjoy the finer things in life. But I can't spend all my money on high-end restaurants. How do I become a pescetarian foodie on a college budget? [more inside]
posted by schroedinger on Feb 28, 2007 - 28 answers

I like to be taken on a journey far beyond my own culinary cultural milieu. What is the worst tasting food? [more inside]
posted by roofus on May 22, 2006 - 69 answers

Why does cookie dough taste better than cookies? [more inside]
posted by coolhappysteve on Mar 24, 2006 - 20 answers

What has happened to my love of food? [more inside]
posted by luriete on Jul 25, 2005 - 24 answers

In my endless pursuit of bizarre new taste sensations, I bought, and ate, a packet of Fei-Chang Flavour Chinese Instant Sweet Potato Noodle. It was pretty good, actually: vermicelli noodles with a salty dark-green powdered stock, not dissimilar in appearance to a pesto of some kind. The ingredients list seemed innocuous: vermicelli, refined sweet potato, potato starch, salt, gourmet powder, sugar spices, vegetable, and the aforementioned feichang flavor powder. So what the hell did I eat? What the buggery bollocks is fei-chang?
posted by chrisgregory on Feb 6, 2004 - 6 answers