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[–] 58008@lemmy.world 82 points 1 week ago (5 children)

My girlfriend-at-the-time's dirty, dirty ass. Thought it would be like in my fantasies, where it tastes like candyfloss and smells like a Yankee candle. Nope. Shit. Just shit.

If you're curious, shit tastes exactly as it smells. I wish I didn’t know that. Although I'm happy that now you, too, know that.

And she had the nerve to dump me later. I deserve a Nobel peace prize for not recoiling in horror and instead just powering through in silence like a fucking GENTLEMAN.

On the bright side, it became a great way to ensure future partners were cognisant of the issue. I'd drop it into the usual "what was your ex like?" gossip sessions that come with new relationships. It's like saying "please wash your various holes if I'm gonna go rooting around in them like an ant-fiending aardvark" without actually saying it. A cautionary fable from days of yore to guide the next generation.

P.S. I'm still pro-anilingus. Just... clean the fuckin' thing first. I don't need to be picking dingleberries from between my teeth, thanks.

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 week ago

What the fuck

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago

I made a reply a while back about catching H. Pilori from eating ass ... but I didn't realise at the time what had got in my mouth ... I just can't understand doing that intentionally.

For the love of dog, why?

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

She didn't even like, shower beforehand??

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[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 71 points 1 week ago (3 children)

A particular man's penis. I realized too late that he didn't routinely clean under his foreskin.

[–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Was it like parmesan or..?

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Piss and stagnant sweat and more.

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[–] Drusas@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh god, I just remembered this one guy's cum that always tasted absolutely, horrendously foul. Could not keep doing that.

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[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Cat treat. Ate it on a dare. It was fucking foul. 0/10.

[–] toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used to work in a pet food store and tried a bunch of treat samples we had. They're not very good if you aren't a dog or a cat, turns out

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I remember a food chemist telling me that one of their hardest problems was making things that smell and taste good to dogs and cats, but didn't smell too gross for the humans.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Live ants.

This was 30 years ago. I lived on the second floor of an apartment. I left a half-eaten bag of Little Debbie chocolate donuts on the floor next to my bed. The next night, in a dark room, watching David Letterman, I remembered and reached for the bag. I was three donuts in before I noticed the slightly strange taste, and the ant crawling on my face.

Ants taste a bit sour and bitter.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Well duh. You didn't cook em first

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[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Gasoline. Had to siphon, did it wrong, mouthful of gas.

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[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Maggots. I've been chasing the high ever since. They were hiding in a pineapple flavored Swiss roll. I thought the maggots were coconut flakes at first. Pina colada is a good flavor. The maggots popping like boba didn't set any alarm bells off. It was better than the usual coconut crunch. The maggots wriggling against my gums and tongue didn't set any alarm bells off. It was the only time I ever chewed something that felt carbonated. The lone maggot crawling across my couch away from certain doom finally clued me in. Half of his platoon just got eaten and the other half was without a doubt up next.

The same thing happened to my mom at some point when she was a kid. For her it was an Almond Joy or Mounds, which let the maggots blend in even better. Is it a once in a lifetime thing everybody experiences or a generational curse? I feel cursed with the knowledge that maggots in the right context taste like the fuckin' future.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bro what the fuck did I just read?

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[–] CelloMike@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

An oyster

The town I grew up in is famous for them, we even learned about them in school but I'd never tried one

Finally decided to just before I moved away for university and eugh, salty mucus-y blob, had to spit it out again, poor lil guy

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I adore oysters. You could have spat it out into my mouth and I would have eaten it.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is this a service you offer for free?

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[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Malort

Tastes like turpentine and grapefruit juice. The former I've actually tried accidentally... dipped my paint brush in my cup of water and took a swig of the other cup. Somehow, the malort was worse. Learned recently that they make a barrel aged version that they claim is

dare we say, sippable

We do not.

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[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This thread's got me curious about what my dick would taste like.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Incoming back pain

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When I was around 3 or 4 y/o, a neighbour kid managed to convince me to take a bite of a dried dog shit.

I don't remember what he'd said that convinced me, I just remember the laughter when I actually did it... I wasn't the brightest kid, but very curious and gullible.

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[–] Saprophyte@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Stinky tofu. It's hard to describe the flavor. It's like dead anchovies in fish sauce but with the texture of a slice of omelette. It's like eating rotten fish snot. I involuntarily spit it out immediately after putting it in my mouth, almost like it fell out of my mouth. My hosts laughed and said I didn't have to eat it, but I tried again and was able to keep it in my mouth but was not physically able to swallow it, like my ability to swallow was rejecting it. I spit it into a paper napkin and everyone laughed. I just couldn't force myself to consume it.

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[–] Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

I got some of that pre period goop in me once. I would say that turnabout was fair play for a dude but I don't like blowies so I just got gooped for nuthin

Yeah I fuckin swallowed it, I'm not bitch made

[–] Pistachio@lemmy.zip 42 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I'm not reading any more of these.

[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

I want to stop but I can't

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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago (18 children)

The Elvis. The sandwich American rock singer Elvis Presley made famous. Peanut butter, banana, and bacon. Grilled like a grilled cheese sandwich.

Addendum: I am allergic to peanut butter. I got ahold of a soy-based alternative called Wowbutter, and people who are not allergic tell me they nailed the taste, but the aftertaste is kinda not good. So, the first thing I did was shove a whole teaspoon-full of it in my mouth. My brain goes "you dumb fuck, you're gonna die," but I didn't, because it wasn't toxic. So I went and tried everything made with peanut butter (BTW, strawberry > grape for PB&Js), including the Elvis. A lot of it was kinda gross. I guess if you were raised on peanut butter, maybe, I can see it, but I didn't think the experience was anything special. Not when Nutella exists... which I also can't have. But then there's Biscoff spread, which is non-toxic, apparently it's also vegan (wouldn't peanut butter be, too?), and it's ten billion percent better than all that other shit. Though, you would be absolutely right in saying I've never had real peanut butter, or your favourite variety of it.

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Actual shit. I was rimming my boyfriend and he had thought he cleaned enough, he was wrong. I immediately threw up washed my mouth out and brushed my teeth. Disgusting, in case I needed to say it.

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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Fly in my coffee is up there.

[–] Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

A Zataran's Cajun chicken Alfredo freezer meal...that had been in the un-freezable, non-refrigerated cabinet two weeks.

My wife...gods bless her, was trying to feed me dinner...and found that in the cabinet... after having put it there during our last grocery stock up, not realizing it required freezing. In her defense, it was a grocery order and the item was not something we ordered, so she didn't know the particulars of it, and it wasn't cold upon arrival.

After microwaving, she brings me the plate and a fork and I notice the smell is...unique, but me being hungry and not overly picky though "meh...Cajun seasoning...I guess" so i stir the sauce into the noodles and then lick the fork, as one does, preparing to consume.

The weirdest part, is it was fucking sour. Not sour like spoiled, sour like a million warheads sour. I stopped... looked at the stuff, looked at my wife and shuddered. "This is weird...why is it sour?" I said...still not dawning on me that my wife would attempt to poison me so obviously. She disappears and I sit there, with the offending offering on the table in front of me. "Am I brave enough to eat this? I don't like wasting food..." goes through my head at about the same time as my wife, pale faced and trembling, rushes in and grabs it hollering "don't eat that! It was supposed to be frozen!"

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[–] Cloaca@mtgzone.com 14 points 1 week ago

I've had surströmming exactly once and intend to keep it that way.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Mouldy yoghurt

This was something like 16-17 years ago now so it's clearly left a mark

It was about 2-3am, I lived on the ground floor of a student house and I wanted a snack. Remembering I had bought some yoghurts a day or two before I figured that's what I was going for.

Now I'm not really sure what happened, if I picked up an old one I'd not noticed or it was just bad from the shop, but it didn't notice until after I'd taken the first mouthful.

Needless to say it tasted genuinely awful and put me off yoghurt in general for a good while

[–] seathru@quokk.au 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

One time I got the bright idea to siphon the water out of my ~50gal aquatic turtle tank for some long overdue cleaning. I anchored one end of a water hose at the bottom of the tank and strung the other end out into the yard and proceeded to start the siphoning process with my mouth. Got force fed a giant gulp of whatever got sucked off the bottom of the tank.

I've put some nasty shit in my mouth since then and nothing comes close.

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[–] macji@pawb.social 12 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I was passing through Montevideo, Uruguay, and me and some folks at the hostel I was staying at were out trying a local restaurant. The guy who owned the place saw we were tourists and said he wanted to treat us to a local specialty, and so brought out... something. It was something like animal bits, chunks of fat, and who knows what else all suspended in a hard gelatin. It was truly vile, and I swear it had bits of hair in it as well. To be polite we all tried a small bit, and then got the heck out of there as quick as we could.

To this day I can't tell if he was sincere, or if he really hated tourists and gave us the contents of his dish trap. Googling has turned up nothing, but thankfully our politeness didn't extend to actually finishing the awful thing.

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[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Slug.

When I was small I left my kazoo outside in the yard, and then when I went to play it the next day, I learned the hard way what slugs taste like.

They’re bitter.

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[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A raw firefly squid marinated in soy sauce. ホタルイカの沖漬け。

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Natto. Japanese fermented bean paste. Slimy and tastes like rotten cabbage.

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Boiled down San Pedro cactus juice. Tasted like old, ultra concentrated bong water.

And I didn't even trip.

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[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago (6 children)
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