Some friends of this troper made two failed attempts at making Bacon flavored vodka. We decided that it tastes like "Satan's Taint".

This troper loves Lemon Skittles. His mother on the other hand thinks they taste like "Lemon Pledge". Yes, the window cleaner.

If you've ever had freshly slaughtered cow brain, it tastes like feet. I've been kicked in the mouth before. I know feet.

RealLife example: For the release of the first HarryPotter movie, 'Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans' were sold in theater concession stands. Like in the book, they mixed traditional jelly bean flavors with not-so-traditional ones, like grass. ThisTroper ate one of the grass-flavored ones and, somehow, immediately recognized the taste- to the confusion of his family members.

Well... There is such a thing as wheatgrassjuice...

What, you never ate grass as a kid?

Different troper here, no, because I wasn't a retard.

Also, smell and taste are quite similar, so smelling freshly-cut grass and recognizing the jelly bean flavor don't seem too far-fetched. It's also useful in explaining how rose (yes, the flowers) tastes like.

Nobody has heard of using a piece of gras for a whistle?

Crystallized rose petals are actually quite nice. They make good cake decorations.

To head off on a tangent, this is the ideal, delicious way of demonstrating the taste of rose.

This troper has tasted the Earthworm and Spaghetti-flavored ones. Oddly enough, they both taste the same.

The Sardine ones were actually pretty good, and the dirt-flavor didn't totally suck. Actually, it probably tasted a little better than real dirt...

Real dirt isn't too bad - at least not the peat moss dirt I've tasted.

Sardines taste good, and dirt doesn't really taste like anything, just kinda earthy, unless there is something mixed in.

Actually, some of the rather sandy dirt here tastes kind of nutty. And it's so dry that it goes into the air a lot, so I ''know'' what it tastes like.

There was once a minor-league pitcher who used ballpark dirt to help break the habit of chewing tobacco. He became quite an expert on the flavor of various infields.

This Troper's father once mistook an earwax-flavored Bertie Bott's for mint. Six-year-old Troper was laughing her head off.

This Troper actually really, really likes the grass-flavored ones--to me they taste mildly sweet and flowery. I've often wondered if I can get a bag of just the grass-flavor beans.

This Troper has had them before, but only remembers the soap flavoured one. She must admit, it tastes remarkably like soap. Soap does not taste good.

This troper often can only describe tastes as the smell of something else entirely, getting odd looks as friends try to match the taste to some other smell.

Same here - I once ate a jelly bean (or maybe it was gum... it was egg-shaped and came in a tiny carton) that tasted like the smell of chlorine.

Chlorine actually tastes salty. Yes I've tasted chlorine, though it was only about 3%. This makes sense when you consider what salt is.

This troper's dentist once put painkiller-soaked cotton balls in her mouth. It tasted like a dead goat.

Another RealLife example: This troper once lamented that Taco Bell "taste like suffering."

You need to get this Beef/Rice/Cheese burrito from their dollar menu but ask for no rice. It tastes like happiness and perfectness.

This troper once had a lollipop that was supposed to taste like popcorn, and remarked "This tastes like a Post-it Note!"

This troper tried Sen-sen, and claimed that it tasted like the Great Depression.

And to all those who think anything tastes like shit... my condolences.

This troper's older brother once bought a cheap bottle of wine that tasted like "Welch's grape juice fermented in an old ski boot."

Subverted with this troper when he once remarked that a badly cooked Balut tasted like a hamster, a taste he knew as he had once put his pet hamster in his mouth on a dare years before.

This troper has had popcorn that tastes like a post-it. Blueh!

This troper believes that diet drinks taste like regret. Sure, they're fine if you chug for the first few seconds....Then the saccharine kicks in

I assume we've all known someone who's used the phrase "tastes like ass". Which, according to adventurous friends of ThisTroper, isn't all that bad if the ass in question has been properly washed.

Well, yes... but improperly washed, speaking as a biology student, I mean... look, just: Sour-'bad', okay? BigNo

This troper once loudly exclaimed this [in the middle of the cafe] upon taking a bite of the worst pizza she's ever had, while on a school trip. She was immedietly asked how she knew by surprised classmates. Then another girl tried it "to see what ass tastes like," and spat it into a napkin.

This troper and her friends complained that Communion wafers tasted like cardboard, leading their parents to quickly admonish them, asking, "Did you ever ''eat'' cardboard?"

This troper had the same conversation. He actually ''had'' tasted cardboard once, but offering to find some for his parents to try did not go over well.

Speaking as a Jew, who must eat a similar product, matza, for one week per year, ThisTroper can safely say that you are not alone in refering to that infernal cracker as cardboard. I myself go a step further, referring to the ultraspecial Shmura Matza as tasting like wood. No, not that kind of wood. Get your mind out of the gutter.

Seconded. That's why we only use the plain matzo for the seder and use the flavored matzos for the rest of the week.

This seems to be a universal thing. I've heard the same about the wafers. Weird.

It's not really that much of a stretch to come to that conclusion. Communion wafers are famously bland and are ''corrugated''. Thankfully, this troper's church allows the congregation to dip their wafers in the wine, which helps mitigate the taste.

ThisTroper always thought they tasted (and felt) like styrofoam. (Maybe his church uses a different brand...?) Where has he tasted styrofoam? Cups.

Black. This Catholic troper agrees that Communion wafers taste of paper products. And the cheap wine my church uses tastes of backwash cough syrup.

The Baptist wafers taste of pure dry wall. The grape juice never disappoints though.

You know that Fruit Punch that you find in cola bottle but tastes like no fruit from this Earth. I have dubbed that it tastes red.

This troper always seem to describe flavours as colours. Unfortunately, I can't remember any good examples to put here, except maybe the various cordials that taste red. Of course, I don't think this is the same red ''you're'' talking about...

Harshaw}} This troper calls it "vaguely fruit flavored".

This troper agrees, but in the opposite direction. You know the various "Blue Raspberry" flavored things? Well, they lied. They don't taste like Blue Raspberry. They just taste like Blue.

This troper's brother was once tasked with describing the flavor of blue Jello to his Grandfather with no sense of humor. The brother said it tasted like blue, which the grandfather found to be poor humor. Then the grandfather tasted the Jello and promptly stated "Well I'll be damned. It does taste like blue."

This troper habitually describes blue candy/sweet drinks as "blue-flavoured".

This troper purposely buys a lot of "Cool Blue" Gatorade for this very reason.

This troper and her friend once argued about whether a can of energy drink tasted purple or blue.

They're vaguely fruit-flavoured but don't use actual fruit? Just a large variety of esters. Which has, in fact, led to me trying something 'tropical fruit flavoured' and declaring it tastes like ethyl butanoate. Which is... probably accurate.

Making esters and discovering the familiar smells many of them have is a staple of A-level chemistry practicals.

The "blue raspberry" flavor Jolt Cola is actually just named "Jolt Blue." Yes, it tastes like blue.

A certain comedian once posited that the two main colors of Nyquil, red and green, taste like red and green, respectively.

If you're very unlucky, that "taste of red" is from cochineal color. Cochineal color comes from cochineal ''bugs.'' SoBe, I still have not forgiven you.

"Blue Powerade tastes like blue" is a minor running joke among this troper and her friends. The green, red and blue ice drinks our local cinema serves also taste more or less like their respective colours.

On a similar note, as a child, this troper always refered to Cheerios as tasting Green. Not meant as an insult. To this day I picture Green as the classic cereal.

Are you sure you're not synesthetic or something?

After working at a fancy grocery store that stocked interesting varieties of fruit, I was amazed that 'grape flavor' is ACTUALLY BASED on a real variety of grape! They're called Concord grapes, and they seem to be the archetypal grape. They're round, dark blue/indigo/purple, and 'purple' tastes like them.

After getting some hokey 'skull and bone' shaped Halloween candy, this Troper declared that it tasted of 'Corn Syrup and Hatred'. Interesting, Troper Mom tasted it and agreed.

To this troper, a certain brand of sunflower-seed-and-honey bread tastes like disinfectant. This probably has something to do with the scented floor cleaner we used while housebreaking the puppy... which smelt like sunflower honey bread tastes.

This troper's mother says that lime lollipops taste like Mr. Clean to her. I asked her about this when I was a kid, and she elaborated that it had something to do with the smell. Also, when Wrigley's came out with their WinterFresh gum, she said it tasted like Pepto-Bismol. This, however, only served to make Pepto-Bismol the stomach medication of choice in our household, as we all agreed and we liked the gum.

One troper's husband insists that strawberries taste like solvent to him.

This troper's most common complaint about the taste of water from her local sport centre's water cooler is 'It tastes like a whale died in it.' Somehow she always feels obligated to launch into a somewhat pointless explanation about how she doesn't know what dead whale tastes like but she once saw a very smelly whale skeleton on display and yeah.

IIRC, certain indigenous populations eat whale, and also IIRC, killing whales is illegal (I'm not certain on this but I seem to recall it) but an exception is usually made for said indigenous populations.

This troper once said that twizzlers taste like boot leather. I've never experienced the taste of boot leather, but ''you know it's true''. They have the same texture, too.

I hope you mean black licorice, and not the strawberry ones. Black licorice tastes like tar.

For some reason, a former friend in elementary school knew that blood tasted and smelled like pennies.

It tastes like copper. Do pennies have copper in them? (We don't have pennies here.)

Yes, they do. And knowing how blood taste isn't even remotely strange. You never accidentally bit the inside of your cheek? ...on the other hand, knowing how pennies taste is completely another matter...

Not really. Swallowing them is another matter, but chewing on small metal objects is common among children. Er...and maybe the occasional teenager... *embarassed* I swear, I haven't put a single paper clip in my mouth in over two years!

More like iron, to me. Unless it's Vulcan blood, that has a high copper content.

My sister is perfectly justified in playing this trope straight - when we used to share a room, I accidentally stepped on her face in the middle of the night when I got up to use the loo. (We had one of those beds where the second bed slides out from under the first - I'm sure you can work out which one she slept on.)

This troper's mother once said "This tastes like more" of some pasta. A joke about it tasting like {{Mordor}} was made, to which this troper responded by saying that Mordor probably tasted like death and despair.

This troper's favourite cheap candy is a lollipop you dip in this sort of weird chilli powder mix -- delicious while being simultaneously VERY VERY PAINFUL. (The lollipops often have sharp edges, and the powder itself is fairly abrasive and salty... ever licked sandpaper? It is not uncommon for her to have to inspect the cuts on her tongue, or rinse out the very strong taste of iron and salt -- admittedly probably from the candy itself.) She has described it as tasting like stigmata. It hurts. But you know it's for a good reason.

If it's the same candy this troper has seen, that reason is probably brain damage - the chilli powder in those things has dangerous amounts of lead in it. (This troper has never eaten said candy personally - he got one in Spanish class and traded it to a roommate for some instant chilli. Which, incidentally, tasted like farts.)

So now I can never eat them again? It'd be too soon. I stopped eating them shortly after posting the original comment, because frankly, nobody really ''likes'' stigmata. However, on another food-related anecdote, a local store I occasionally visit sells plastic pouches (Capri Sun-style) of something that's supposed to be lychee-flavoured but with the consistency of one of those little plastic jelly cups after it's been strained through your teeth into a sweet semi-liquid. It tastes like {{Gundam}}.

This troper's school canteen occasionally serves cheese-filled pastry things that have been affectionately dubbed 'foot-cheese pastries' by her friends due to their taste. Oddly enough, this troper actually ''likes'' them.

This Troper once bit his friend on the arm. She asked if she was "nummeh" and I responded that she "tastes like the tears of a freshly-made orphan." She assumed this was a bad thing, but I told her it was, in actuality, "delicious." Yeah, so, I'll see some of you in hell, I'd imagine...

Makes sense. After all, EvilTastesGood.

This troper's mother is on record as comparing the taste of beer to "cougar piss."

This troper has licked and sucked many feet, and knows exactly what they taste like.

I'm torn, I really want to just say TooMuchInformation and get on with my life, but the morbid curiosity part of my brain that makes me click on links on the NightmareFuel page wants you to describe the taste in great detail. My brain scares me sometimes.

If they've been washed, they don't taste any different than the skin on any other part of your body.

Not that unusual, if you think about it. The feet's sensitivity makes them erogenous for a lot of people.

Oooookay, that really was Too Much Information. And what have we learned about asking people questions that we don't want to know the answer to?

It's the name of the trope, someone was going to shed light on the taste of feet sooner or later.

As far as personal experience is concerned ('''Blush'''), feet that have been recently washed do just taste like skin anywhere else. Not recently washed, however, can range from 'slightly musty' to 'just like the time my dog rolled over on a dead squirrel. So I guess there's something of a range...

Does 'cheese' happen to fall into that spectrum?

I'd say yes. Some mosquitoes that specialize in human feet (usually biting ankles) have been decoyed by the smell of certain cheeses.

This troper has eaten vegetable mash that tasted exactly how cardboard smells. This troper's father tried, and agreed.

This troper has heard various people say:

Communion hosts "taste like cardboard."

Some type of Mexican candy "tastes like a dry erase board marker."

Someone's homemade candy "tastes like a tree."

The cotton that dentists put in people's mouths "tastes like drywall." (said by the troper's sister)

The troper himself said in first grade, after eating year-old frozen wedding cake: "It tastes like she dug it out of Plymouth Rock." (But that was mostly just the troper being the silly stupid person he was, and still is.)

Also, the troper once inverted the trope by saying that a particular tropical fruit (mango or papaya, he thinks) "smelled sour."

Mango smells like pine trees. It was probably papaya

Upon eating some dough, the first thing to come to mind in response to how it tastes was, "sugary ocean".

Root beer jelly beans taste like disinfectant.

This reminds me of when I was in History class and I don't know how we got on the subject of root beer but this girl sitting next to me proclaimed, "I hate root beer, it tastes like butt!" Everyone just looked at her awkwardly and I asked, "How the hell would you know it tastes like butt?" "I don't know. But it still does!" Me, the girl, our teacher,and a few guys then had a ten minute debate on how silly her argument was.

This troper once smelled some dying animal while walking with a Boy Scout troop and commented "God, that smells like seven year old cheddar dipped in crap!" which spawned a twenty minute conversation of my fictional tests on cheeses.

This troper recently had his friend describe something as "tasting like sunshine"... despite the fact that we were talking about our mutual habit of digressing to ridiculous levels. When he asked what sunshine would taste like, the friend responded, "... like yellow". (This troper's response to that being "well, at least it doesn't taste like feet".)

This troper has described American cheese as tasting "like Play-doh, but in a good way." She knows what the latter tastes like. Don't ask.

My memories of childhood dredge up the fact that Play-doh tastes a lot like bread dough with a lot of salt in it. That would be the sweat, I assume.

Actually, they add salt, so the kids don't eat it. Having made homemade play-doh for church several times, I can say that it ''is'' bread dough with lots of salt, and possibly some scented oil to make it smell nice.

Wait, they add salt so the kids DON'T eat it?

Oh, so ''that's'' why Play-Doh is salty! Well, it certainly never put off this troper as a kid.

This troper once had "Play-Doh ice cream." Don't remember what it tasted like, but I think I enjoyed it. But I think it was called that because it kind of ''looked'' like Play-Doh. (Yellow, to be precise.)

This troper once saw a brand of salsa with the words "The Taste of Texas" on the label. He commented, "So what, it tastes like cows and Republicans?"

I'd expect republicans to taste good (we already know cows do). Why? For two reasons. First, 99% are rich (ba doop chsh) and there's the satisfaction that if you're eating one, he's dead and therefore there's one less republican in the world.

You'd have to expect that they have a good diet and therefore a good flavor, and are also well-marbled.

A friend of this troper once declared that he must take out his trash, claiming it "smelled like Thanksgiving." For anyone wondering, he later explained that the culprit was a chicken cheesesteak with ranch sauce.

The first time this troper ever tried candy corn, she decided it tasted like ADHD.

This troper and some friends once tried some sort of odd cake; we came to the conclusion that it tasted either "the way soap smells" or "like potpourri".

The water in this troper's common room tastes of rice.

This troper recently bought a new brand of soap. The bottle says "sweet mandarin and grapefruit", but on trying it, the soap smells of old women. The troper is not able to explain this any further.

This troper has identified several things that somehow smell exactly like rotting and maggoty hamster corpse.

The bottled apple juice available at this troper's school's canteen tastes suspiciously like tap water...

This troper suffers chronic migraines (once a month, {{If You Know What I Mean}}), and has an olfactory aura preceding them. For those of you going "LOLwut?", it means that just before the pain starts, my sense of smell gets enormously f*cked up. I have noticed that nearly everything smells like some sort of food - car exhaust smells like baked chicken, my dad's pipe smoke smells like chocolate, etc. Also, normal food smells (and tastes) like completely different normal food - the best example that comes to mind is a chicken-lemon-onion-rice soup recipe my mom was dying to try out, which tasted EXACTLY like cooked tomatoes. I don't think there were any tomatoes in the house, much less in the soup. Weird as hell.

This troper once tasted durian candies. Apart from the fact that her boyfriend said he could smell them on her breath from across the room, she decided they tasted like a rainy day.

This troper likes to describe exceptionally delicious things as tasting "like God," or occasionally, "like licking the face of God." God, apparently, tastes like chocolate.

Same troper as above: My father once ate a diet cracker that, he said, tasted like construction paper. He proceeded to actually eat a piece of construction paper to confirm it. Apparently, he was right.

@/DesertDragon here. A few years ago me, my then-boyfriend, and a friend were out driving when we got really hungry and realized we hadn't eaten in hours. So we got off at the next exit and decided on Chinese. The place we went to was called "CHINA'S BUFFET" but it was night and some of the letters weren't lit, so it looked like it said "INA'S FEET" at first glance. We should have taken that as an omen. What makes it worst is that we were so hungry, we didn't even notice how disgusting everything was until we were on our second plates.

@/{{Night}} described the limestone-saturated hard water you get from the tap in rural Mississippi as tasting like cigarette ashes. Years later, I actually tried cigarette ashes to compare them to the less-hard water you get from a tap in Southern California. It seems I was correct the first time but not the second.

This Vancouverite troper exclaimed "Mississippi's ''worse?'' California water tastes like hell!" in horror when she read that.

The water in Northern California tastes fine. It's just in Southern California that it is terrible.

This troper used to live on a farm. Having been extremely gawky and uncoordinated in his teenage years, he slipped many times during the grueling process of feeding the pigs, horses, and chickens. Due to these repeated events, he actually knows what he's talking about when he says that something "tastes like pig shit." Whenever he's called on this, the standard response is "Are you really sure you want to know?" This manages to scare most people off, due to his CloudCuckoolander ways.

The coffee from the machine in this troper's sixth form common room tasted like chloroform, and was probably the ''most'' palatable drink the machine put out, apart from the hot chocolate which was actually very nice so always sold out. The vegetable soup looked and smelled like it had already been drunk once and the troper wasn't about to take the experiment to the next logical step, and the less said about the tea the better.

This is more of a smell than a taste: When this troper was getting a wart removed via laser surgery, he discovered that smoldering flesh smells a lot like burnt popcorn.

Another troper thinks that burned popcorn and skunk smell rather similar.

This troper will taste pretty much anything that isn't unsanitary or poisonous, just for more accurate comparisons. This is how he knows that earwax tastes like a battery and rotting lemon, the lychee flavour of Ramune tastes like cactus skin, corn syrup, and a hint of raspberry soda, and is bothered that nobody ever mentions what ''kind'' of dirt something tastes like. And yes, he has tasted his own feet, which generally taste like jalapeno jam with no spicy aftertaste where they don't taste of skin.

This troper likes the phrase 'tastes like hell on toast' because no one can really ''know'' what that tastes like, but can be sure it's pretty unpleasant. If it really tastes like ass, then I'll have seconds. Anyone who doesn't enjoy the taste of ass isn't properly chewing it.

This troper's cousin has made a bit of a subversion: after diving to the bottom of a lake he claimed the dirt at the bottom "felt like (poo) on his skin". Much jokes have been made about his bathroom habits since.

Basically, this troper's reaction to store brand English muffins. I wanted to get Bay's but my stepdad said that were too expensive and I had to get store brand. Couldn't get past the smell of them.

This troper has described a chilli soup of tasting like 'burning and pain' and a hot curry as smelling of the same. This has become a bit of a catch-all term for anything that tastes or smells very spicy. And yes, that's probably another one.

This troper's godmother once tried crystallized ginger and hated it, saying that it tasted like Lemon Pledge. This troper hopes her godmother was only referring to the smell of Lemon Pledge and that her godmother never really ingested any (it sounds like it's poisonous).

This troper will swear up, down, and sideways that green olives taste like Satan's gym socks. (And that straight amaretto tastes like nothing so much as marzipan-flavored paint stripper, but ''in a good way''.)

Da_Nuke refers to any nasty alcoholic drink as tasting like car fluid. Recent examples include sugarcane spirit that tasted like octane booster, cheap vodka that tasted like brake fluid, and cheap tequila that tasted like engine coolant.

This troper's young sister claims that cigarette smoke smells like "rotten tacos." (On a semi-related note, this troper also had to backtrack after telling her nonsmoking brother that menthols are "like candy." I meant that they're nice sometimes, but too strongly-flavored to have all the time — not that they're literally sweet.)

After tasting some Korean stop-smoking-aid mints, this troper proclaimed "It tastes like assholes and death!" To which a bystander replied "And you know what that tastes like, right?" "I've never tasted death."

This Troper can smell storms. They smell a little like the taste of gunpowder, which she knows from experience also tastes cold.

I can do that too! I do love the smell, it's all damp-y and earthy and mmmmm...

Thunderstorms smell too humid for this troper. Until it actually starts, then she stays at a window just breathing...

They smell like water and exciting to me. Also, they make the air feel like caffeine. (People wonder what's wrong with me when I'm running around grinning during a thunderstorm, it's just the charge in the air...) After thunderstorms, outside smells like green (in suburbs/rural) or like... blurry with shiny bits behind it in the city. (I really don't know how to describe that one.)

I once tried a somewhat nasty flavour of yogurt, which I described to a friend as tasting like "strawberries and sour, with a slight hint of nausea." It was supposed to be chocolate.

"This tastes like paper... no, the good kind, like those little mail-in cards you get in PC magazines!" Apparently not everyone shared this troper's childhood love of eating paper.

If he ever uses it, this troper has come up with a description for a GargleBlaster in an RPG (any RPG) as "tastes like crude oil, feet and death."

This troper has tried lavender candy, and can verify that it tastes like sugar and perfume.

This troper noticed that some things, like his old worn-out sweatshirt, "smell like hobos".

And one particular bus smelled like hobos and kerosene.

To this troper, everything mildly spicy or alcoholic tastes like burning, and once during a science experiment declared that pure bitter essence tasted like sick bay.

Recently, this troper saw several younger teens enjoying a blue milkshake. One tried it, and promptly said it tasted like blue. She passed it around the table and everyone agreed... except for a girl who said it tasted like ''green''.

My sister once smelled my hair and promptly told me it smelled like ice. My shampoo? Head and Shoulders[dandruff], before anybody thinks to speculate. ;)

Cheez Doodles really do taste like feet. Open up a bag of those and inhale, and then go take a whiff of a sweaty old sock, then just try to claim you can tell the difference.

I always thought that dog feet smell like corn snacks like Doritos.

The pages of AvatarPress comics have some sort of chemical gloss treatment that makes them smell and taste awful. Every time this troper eats something that tastes terrible, he exclaims "this tastes like an Avatar book!"

This troper once heard the phrase "This tastes worse than my grandpa's dick!"

Umm... do I even want to know? Actually, yes I do.

Subverted, I think. This troper's dad used to make bacon-wrapped oysters, and although I never ate any, as I hate oysters (or most seafood, actually), I remember the smell. They smelled EXACTLY like old sweaty gym socks. I mean the ones that you wear non-stop for a month, run ten miles in every single day, and don't wash. Ever. In fact even if I liked oysters I still probably wouldn't have eaten any just because of that smell.

Oh! And I was just reminded up the page of the one time I tried eggnog-flavored yogurt. It had the same exact, sickly-sweet-acidic flavor of vomit.

This troper has heard Buckley's cough medicine described as tasting like "a mixture of tar and motor oil." The smell isn't exactly pleasing either.

This troper has impaired senses of smell and taste. As such, lots of stuff taste like... paper.

Inverted: my brother claims that urine tastes like Cheetos.

This troper often describes nice foods as "tasting like delicious" which doesn't make any sense. I think I once described mushrooms as "squishy and taste like squishy". (I hate mushrooms)

This troper is not a fan of steak or roast beef and has consequently spent years trying to explain to her parents that they taste 'like brown mustache'.

This troper once described a thin crust pizza from Domino's as tasting "like cardboard covered with pizza toppings"

''Yes''.

After eating it I was convinced that the dessert pizza WAS cardboard covered with toppings. And yes, I have eaten cardboard (I even took a bite out of the box to confirm it).

This troper thinks that a certain brand of iced tea tastes like needles.

This troper's first experience with alcohol was an ''extremely'' dry wine. It tasted like nail polish remover. This troper doesn't use makeup of any variety, either.

This trope is very common with this troper's friends, mostly for the sake of being silly. Said troper was once with a friend in the grocery store when the friend stopped and pointed at a bottle of something, and said in all seriousness, "It tastes like Christmas." Given that ''pine needles'' immediately entered my mind, I have decided not to test her assertion.

Feta cheese. It certainly ''smells'' like feet, and though I've never licked my own foot to find out, I would bet it tastes like feet, too.

This troper is on record as saying that Diet Coke tastes like battery acid. No, he hasn't tried battery acid to verify that.

This troper has recently concluded that earwax smells and tastes like a mixture of that powder stuff inside medicine capsules and ass.

This troper once ate an out-of-date microwaveable burger. Then declared it tasted like zombies.

This troper was at lunch with her family the other day. When she sipped her root beer, it tasted off. Her mother asked her why she was making a face, so she said that it tasted like cats. She still drank the whole glass.

This troper was prescribed quinacrine for giardiasis as a child, and proclaimed that it tasted like "eyedrops." (Which scared the ''hell'' out of her mother.)

This troper had a friend in high school who claimed that Hansen's Energy Drink tasted like "Mountain Dew and feet".

(about Bertie Botts Beans) This troper is particularly fond of fresh grilled sardines, and the sardine-flavored beans actually taste rather more like sugar than sardines.

The main reason my mother wont' try Gatorade is because it "tastes like sweat."

I've heard that before. Not surprising, since Gatorade is formulated to replace minerals lost through perspiration.

This troper has tasted salted licorice and is quite certain that they now know what it would be like to lick fresh asphalt.

I was once accused of this for saying "This tastes how horse food smells." The people I was with actually did ask how I knew what horse food tasted like. Which I didn't even find out until, like, a month later. (Very grainy, not unlike granola; but it wasn't the same kind of horse food I was referring to the first time.)

There was a quote board in the game shop this troper frequented where a quote from during a Magic tournament claimed drinks tasted like Magic effects. Specifically, "Moxie tastes like wither. Diet Moxie tastes like deathtouch."

My brother once drank a lemon flavored drink that are made with one of those small flavor packs to put in bottled water and said it tasted like how dish washing detergent smells.

My mother once made a fruit salad that tasted of the smell of hyacinths. We're still wondering how.

I once attempted to describe the taste of Ka blackgrape soda, and the best I could come up with was 'sugared loneliness'.

My brother's friend once said some cheap cigarettes tasted like ass-fuck. I have no idea what that's supposed to mean and really don't want to know how he even knows what that tastes like.

This troper's sister recently tried some heated apple spice wine and said that it tasted like A.C. Moore. (That's a craft store, for those who don't know.) Everyone else who tasted it, including the troper, agreed.

This troper's brother has stated that Dr. Pepper tastes like "carbonated bat piss".

Not bat.

I once though some kind of cream smelled... brown. Yeah, I don't know either.

My brother told me he once heard one of his friends say something "tasted like dope". ...I don't want to know.

Common theory is that the generic school food tastes like various non-food items. The pan pizzas, for instance, are cardboard with dust, cheese, and grease. Then again, most of the food has as much flavoring as a cereal box with grease. Also, in my personal opinion, almonds taste like wood.

I've said that burnt cookies "taste like CATS's grammar". No, I don't know how you can taste someone's grammar either.

While at the store with her morther eariler, this troper was handed an apple candle to smell. She promptly decided that it smelt like strawberry Febreeze. Which, while actually rather plesant, was mildly overpowering.

This troper's father often says things taste/smell like feet or ass. When she asks how he knows this, his response is generally "I don't want to talk about it."

I once determined that my cat smells of flowery floor cleaner and warm. I don't get it either.

I've always thought that kittens smell like powdered milk and puffy.

This troper's cat somehow manages to smell like brownies.

My mom loves asparagus. I told her it tastes like earwax. She wanted to know how I knew this...

Does anybody remember those cereal straws? Do they still sell those? When I was younger, my cousin and I had gotten some from the grocery store. Upon taking a gulp out of a glass of milk with it, and then proceeding to take a bite out of the cereal straw, I asked, "How does it taste?" To which he replied, "... It's like eating hair."

I once ate candy that tasted like dishwashing liquid.

I've eaten one thing that tastes exactly like foot odor smells: a pickled pig's foot. Also, Limburger smells like a dead rat, but it has less of that flavor when it's eaten.

This troper once tried a particularly awful brand of Parmesan cheese "Parmesan-style topping" on pasta. I described the result as tasting like sawdust (even ''after'' I added at least a few tablespoons of butter in a failed attempt to get rid of the taste!). My sister said that, judging from the "style" in the name, it probably WAS sawdust.

ThisTroper once said that certian forgein dessert tasted like being spanked with a bar of soap. Even I was confused after saying it.

When on vacation in Spain, the cashier in a GAME shop was handing out free samples of some energy drink I didn't know of(I think it was, it wasn't fizzy enough for a soda at least), and gave one each to me and my brother. Though I don't care much for energy drinks, I thought "hey, free drink, that's nice! And seeing how the can isn't opened, nothing bad could have been done to it either!" It tasted like watered-out, non-fizzy Sprite(not THAT bad compared to the rest, but non-fizzy soda isn't any good), with a hint of what might or might not have been wallpaper paste. That's another reason not to accept drinks from strangers.

A weird inversion: During an oil painting class, one of my classmates admitted to me that he really liked the smell of lead white paint, but for obvious reasons couldn't eat it to see if it tasted as good as it smelled. Fortunately, he had a vegan friend who once offered him some plain soygurt which tasted the way he imagined lead white would taste like, and it cured him of his craving to eat paint.

This Troper had an unfortunate incident of not reading what she was putting into her mouth, and bit into a jalapeno. Not having a high tolerance for spicy food, this troper discovered exactly what pain tastes like.

A chocolate pudding I ate tasted good at first, but had a strange aftertaste of soap.

When I drink lukewarm water, it feels like some small specks and strands of dust got into my throat. Needless to say, I prefer ice-cold.

My friend was recently in a housefire in which he suffered second degree burns on his feet. While the EMT was looking him over, Friend asked the EMT what smelled like roasted pork. The EMT informed him that what he was smelling was burnt human flesh.

This troper briefly worked for a major coffee chain, and on trying their mildest blend, scribbled in her notebook "tastes of battery acid with a hint of bile". She sometimes wishes she still had that notebook, so as to include the coffee her uncle prepared at her grandfather's wake ("mud") and the brownish sludge that resulted when her roommate tried to use her moka pot ("mud, but probably volcanic mud").

My parents are diabetic, so they get sugar free or diet sodas. The worse for me is the Diet Mountain Dew, which I think tastes like Oxy Clean mixed with piss and sweetener.

When this troper was in Cuba, she ordered milk at a restaurant. It literally tasted like the cow it came from. Not beef, live cow.