Curious food items you've seen, but have no interest in buying or trying

Balut is a fascinating food. I don’t want to try it even once.

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Found on the front desk on a night shift. These sounded so terrible I had to try a few just to satisfy my curiosity. A sort of vaguely waffle shaped puffed corn snack with such an awful synthetic flavour I think it will keep me wide awake the entire night shift. I think this is why my nursing colleagues eat this sort of stuff on night shifts! ‘Straight outta Chompton’

This caught my eye at the grocery store the other day. Pink pineapple from Costa Rica in a fancy box for $7.99.

Balut is tasty, but I don’t need to eat it again. I might eat it if somebody else is buying. Then again, I might not.

Balut is a bridge too far for this guy. I thought about trying it the first time I visited the Philippines, but I realized I would never have the courage to dig in.
It may be a character flaw. When I went to the Lutheran dinners, I usually ate the Lefse, not the Lutefisk.

Nah. No point eating anything that makes you feel uncomfortable. There’s no joy in that.

I ate escargots, frog legs, and sea barnacles when I was younger. I can’t say I enjoyed the idea.

I wouldn’t be able to tell the differences among frog nuggets, rabbit nuggets and chicken nuggets, from the taste.

The idea of eating frogs and rabbits bothers me a bit, so I won’t go out of my way. At the same time, I’m not bothered if someone used leftover rabbit in a pasta sauce or risotto.

The idea of frog meat bothers me more than the idea of rabbit meat

I haven’t knowingly eaten horse, iguana, guinea pigs, turtles, bear, or squirrels, and I have no interest. My cousin served me moose sausage, and I ate it to be polite. I wouldn’t seek it out or pay for it.

I have no interest in eating fermented shark, seal, live baby octopus, or balut.

I, too, will only do lefse; meatballs, anything but the lutefisk. Tried it, hate it, forget it.

I was born and raised in Uganda, where grasshoppers were fair game to be eaten. They collected en mass around street lamps, where they were easily harvested. I can’t remember who cooked them for us, but my mother refused to eat them, so as kids we used to hide them in her rice; never fooled her! I loved to eat them.

I love most offal. Veal sweetbreads are wonderful, as are veal kidneys in mustard sauce. There is a famous Goan dish called Sorpotel, that contains a variety of pork organ meats and pork blood. It’s a staple at celebrations.

That’s so true seeing dried strawberries during peak fresh season feels odd! Nothing beats the taste of freshly picked local ones, especially when they are juicy and naturally sweet…

It was one of the most bizarre things I’ve seen. But I’ve lived a sheltered life when it comes to dried fruit.

Thank goodness.

Dried strawberries have their place. We use them for two things. One, although we are surrounded by strawberry patches and hit our favorites in season, we like to have the taste of strawberries at other times. For instance, Mrs. ricepad will frequently put them in her oatmeal, which she is far more likely to eat when the weather is cold (IOW, not strawberry season) than when the weather is warm/hot. Also, they’re a very portable snack for hiking/camping/other outdoor activity, no matter the season. We get our dried strawberries at Costco.

I just read through this thread for the first time and my reaction on seeing the Ritter Sport was “I need to try that!” I like crunchy stuff in chocolate, and I fully expect the “strawberry creme” to have a somewhat artificial candy taste – and that will (I bet) trigger some sort of childhood flavor nostalgia. Or if it doesn’t, that’s fine too…how bad can chocolate, strawberry, and crunchy bits really be?

I like dried strawberries too. This cereal from Trader Joe’s (which is a clone of this Special K – I like the TJ’s one more) is lightly sweet and the strawberries have a chewy texture that also gives me a nostalgic vibe. (This time, Fruit Roll-Ups.)

Ritter Sport also has Strawberry Yoghurt version and the strawberry flavor isn’t really artificial but along the lines of strawberry jam

Infamously marketed entirely to women, bc women only want chocolate that tastes light & “healthy.”

Balanced out by Yorkie, which is not for girls!

Oh, my.

I still don’t “get” the flavoured coffee thing. A good cup of the stuff doesn’t need anything.

Though I don’t drink flavored coffees myself anymore, those flavors seem oh so Canadian to me and I find myself charmed.

I don’t get it, either. I don’t need my coffee to taste of anything but coffee. If I want dessert, I’ll eat a slice of cake or pie or a cookie with it.

Same with those flavored creamers. Nope.

ETA: I feel that way about flavored water, too.