Weird Food Experiences

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I've had two over the past year. Chemical explanations are appreciated.

1) I was going to make some hot chocolate, so I filled a coffee cup with milk and put in the microwave. Right after I added the powder, I realized that I was using apple cider mix. So, out of curiosity, I started stirring anyway, and this disgusting white gooey liquid started forming at the top. I started to spoon it out. All that was left was 2/3 of the original milk--it was as clear as water, though.

2) I just put a piece of licorice (cut at each end like a straw) into a can of Coca Cola, and it fizzed rapidly for four or five minutes until I took it out.

Anybody else witness any odd food occurences?

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Thursday, 11 January 2007 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

I think your disgusting white gooey liquid was cheese curds. To make a fresh cheese, you heat milk up to just under boiling, then add some sort of acid (your apple cider mix might have ascorbic or citric acid in it for tartness). The acid causes the milk protein to stick together (curdle). What's left is a clear, yellowish green liquid called whey.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 11 January 2007 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

I put cream of tartar in my coffee today, to see if it would knock down the bitterness caused by shitty deli tapwater blend. It didn't; it made the whole thing smell like a mule's infected pus-sore.

Also I tried eating cabbage once (to which I'm pretty allergic) and yammed in the back of Jaq's rental truck. :(

― remybean (bean), Thursday, 11 January 2007 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

whoa. that whey reaction happened to me the other night when i had a glass of chai with hot milk and decided to for some reason put lemon juice in it. it tasted rotten but i drank the whole thing anyway.

― ath (ath), Thursday, 11 January 2007 05:52 (nineteen years ago)

i watched my freshmen year ASU roommate once eat a pine cone and then wash it down with a pond water and sloe gin cocktail

― ath (ath), Thursday, 11 January 2007 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

freshman year my idiot friends who were drinking outside decided to take "moth shots." they were exactly what they sound like. one guy had like 10.

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Thursday, 11 January 2007 06:05 (nineteen years ago)

One time I came out of the bathroom thinking I was really really sick internally, but it turned out I'd just eaten too many uber-potent beets the day before.

― remybean (bean), Friday, 12 January 2007 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

What's left is a clear, yellowish green liquid called whey.

-- Jaq (js...), January 11th, 2007 3:25 PM. (later)

For a second I though that said "whisky", forgetting everything rational; "It's that easy!"

― S- (sgh), Friday, 12 January 2007 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! If only!

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 12 January 2007 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

"Whey" is how it's pronounced after you've had a few.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 12 January 2007 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

(thinking of whey - Beth, I'm going to try making gjetost in Feb if I get a few weeks home.)

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 12 January 2007 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

Gjetost! Oh, nostalgia!
I tried to eat some orange "medium" cheddar that came in a Harry& David gift basket. I ate it with slices of organic fuji apple, but even tarted up like that it was the pits. Giving the remainder to the doggy.
SUB-PAR CHEDDAR: A WEIRD FOOD EXPERIENCE

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 12 January 2007 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

I went grocery shopping today and the bagger didn't put the milk I bought into my shopping basket, so I went back from my car but left my cart in the vestibule. The security guard said I should take my cart with me, but I didn't bother to take it all the way inside. Someone took a jar of raspberry preserves but nothing else.

In New Haven you see abandoned boxes of doughnuts, etc. on park benches and today I saw a rat that had been run over in the crosswalk.

I just ate a spongata cake that I received for Christmas. The cake was more like a cookie with filling. I had it with tea. Both were very good.

― youn (youn), Friday, 12 January 2007 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

i've tried that h&d cheddar -- it wasn't weird, it was just meh and rubbery.

― shanghaied by the dragon lady (get bent), Friday, 12 January 2007 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah. Exactly.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 12 January 2007 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

Couple months back I bought three bottles of a "spiced soda" that I didn't investigate carefully because, hey, I like spice, I like sodas, what's more to know? Opened it up, smelled like taco mix. Became wary. Took a sip. Tasted like -- like I still don't know what. Savory spices and salt, LOTS of salt.

Turns out it was a Masala Spice soda, with both regular and black salt (it's saltier than brine) and a spice blend that prominently features cumin.

I've had raw crab still in the shell, Hubba Bubba soda, turkey soda, butter soup, and the Krispy Kreme burger, but that's probably the weirdest taste that's ever been in my mouth.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 12 January 2007 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

My blog entry about it was titled "don't cumin my mouth," which kind of made the whole thing worthwhile.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 12 January 2007 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

I tried a Sanpellegrino Chinotto soda a few days ago, pretty good, though not what I was expecting. It reminded me of those dried chinese plums, with grapefruit undertones. A bit bitter. Cool bottle - the little 200 ml teardrop kind.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

armenian tarragon soda is pretty good, except for the chicken salad aftertaste

― remybean (bean), Friday, 12 January 2007 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

I went to a Greek restaurant in Boston with some friends and foolishly we all ordered margaritas. They had a distinctly fishy taste. I was the only one who dared complain, which is weird because ordinarily I'm totally submissive when served bad food. I just push it around with my fork and feel sorry for myself. I guess because other people were suffering too, my mothering instinct kicked in, and I lifted the car off my baby.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Nerds and Laffy Taffy also fizz like crazy when they come in contact with Coke.

Also, I had a dream that I opened up a pomagrenate and it was full of teeth.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

i dreamed sherry is made from earwigs

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

everyone should try putting two icebreaker sours in their mouth and then take a sip of coke. taste sensation!

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

"icebreaker sours"

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'm always having dreams about cooking fiascos.
I made a comic of one:

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/editors-dream-left.jpg

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/editors-dream-right.jpg

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 13 January 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

i will eat a whole tin of those icebreaker sours at a time, beware sunny , they pack a mean stomach ache when eaten in large quantities!

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Saturday, 13 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

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