Mixing Random Foods

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

Does anyone else relate to this? When I am eating, my wide reaching seemingly perpetual curiousity tends to get the best of me. I want to find out what the various food or drink items are like combined. Even if I expect it to taste nasty, I still like to try the combination once to find out for certain what the flavor combo is like. Sometimes I actually get surprised and find something yummy. There is a very wide range of foods and drinks that I will sample together and occasionally make a point to attempt to combine all potential combinations in a meal at least once. I'll even try the desert with the meal if it is already on the table (eg. a bite of green beans with a bite of pumpkin pie or a swallow of my tea with a bite of my ice cream).

 

[AprilR]

Yep i like to try strange combinations too.
Recently found an osso bucco (some type of meat with bone) recipe with a tiny bit of chocolate in the sauce. Now i am curious to try that!

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

Wow! I actually wasn't expecting to find people who shared this trait on here due to so many autistic people being very particular about their foods. I thought I would be just as much an anomaly on here in regards to this as I often am around presumed neurotypicals.

 

[Tired]

Oh, I like trying different foods like that too, but I rarely give something nasty another try. I prefer mixing together different tasty foods

 

[Judge]

About the only extent of this in nearly my last 70 years would be to add orange juice to root beer.

 

[Levelskid]

Yep. Especially when I was little. Are you a scientist by any chance?

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

Yep. Especially when I was little. Are you a scientist by any chance?

I wish. Maybe one day. Of course, if it doesn't have to be a career to count, I do actually do a lot of science experiments at times. I've come up with experiments since very early childhood.

 

[Levelskid]

Me too. I've write reports about the experiments I do.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

As for the outfit in my photo, I took a certificate level course at the community college earlier this year. I got to learn some interesting chemistry techniques as well as some interesting microbiology techniques.

 

[Levelskid]

I'm learning chemistry on the side, but I love biology and computers.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

I'm learning chemistry on the side, but I love biology and computers.

Are you pursuing a degree in it?

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

I actually experiment with my food in other ways besides the flavor test. My grandparents weren't very impressed that I could dissect my veggies and explain whether they were monocots or dicots based upon their anatomical structure.

 

[Levelskid]

No. It's a hobby. But I am doing a computer networking certificate. Carrots are my vegetable to dissect.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

About the only extent of this in nearly my last 70 years would be to add orange juice to root beer.

How does that taste?

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

No. It's a hobby. But I am doing a computer networking certificate. Carrots are my vegetable to dissect.

I don't have much experience with computers. I finally got my first cellphone around 25 years of age. We had a freestanding computer at one point prior to that, but it wasn't connected to the Internet. I've been told that I have the brains for IT jobs, but it seems intimidating after being so far behind. Also, doesn't it get dreadfully boring?

 

[Judge]

How does that taste?

Wonderful. Tangy rootbeer, where neither source cancels out the other.

But then it's not my creation. A&W root beer was serving them as "Orange Tigers" circa 1962.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

Wonderful. Tangy rootbeer, where neither source cancels out the other.

But then it's not my creation. A&W root beer was serving them as "Orange Tigers" circa 1962.

So I am assuming that you were fairly certain of what to expect before you tried it. Would that be correct?

 

[Judge]

So I am assuming that you were fairly certain of what to expect before you tried it. Would that be correct?

Nope...I was six years old.

It was just handed to me and the commanding officer ordered me to drink it. Though if I had my druthers about it, no I'd not want to be the family's "canary in a coal mine".

I know! Let's get Mikey! Yeah!

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

Did anyone else ever do intentional food based science experiments inside their own mouth to test theories or learn what would happen [ eg. mixing an acidic food item with a base food item to see if they became tasteless due to neutralization, testing the reaction of lactose (by using milk) on an acid based beverage inside your mouth, or testing various foods with a carbonated beverage to see how they react]?