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When it comes to taste, we all have different palates and enjoy different foods and drinks. Some of us just love to try some new cuisines that offer us some never-before-seen dishes, while others enjoy more casual things. This is why there's no accounting for taste. But have you ever found yourself in a place where you tried something and didn’t like it a lot but continued to pretend to enjoy it? If so, you’re not alone. Reddit user @u/ExtremeCumMaster asked others online to share what is in their opinion that one food that everyone says tastes so great when in reality they just pretend to like it. The question “What food do you swear people only pretend to like?” received more than 37k responses that revealed some interesting and yet relatable answers. 

While some people were interested in why others like to eat some less known foods that have a perhaps nasty-looking texture or smell and pretend to enjoy it, other users were naming things that they didn’t like at first but with time their opinion changed. How many of you also didn’t eat blue cheese or licorice because of its weird taste? Some Redditors not only mentioned foods but some drinks too, most of them being alcoholic beverages such as beer or vodka. One user also mentioned spicy food, knowing how some people love to eat extremely spicy dishes that make their mouth feel as if it's “literally on fire”. 

What is one food or drink that you think others pretend to like when in reality they despise it? Don’t forget to share your answer in the comments section!

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#1

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Extremely spicy foods

I get liking a little bit of spice. But I don't see how it's enjoyable when your mouth is literally on fire.

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Nathaniel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What is the fun in not being able to taste anything but heat. Then suffering butt heat.

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#2

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Stevia...there's absolutely no way someone enjoys that aftertaste. It's a weird cult that I'm not willing to join and such a dominant flavor.

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OmBoyGanesh
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even in the smallest amounts it makes me retch. And that aftertaste lingers for what seems like forever.

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#3

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Gold leaf - need I say more?

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#4

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Extremely hoppy IPAs (if drinks can be included in the discussion).

I enjoy bitterness in my beer, and I know there are some good IPAs out there, but it's gotten to the point that breweries seem to be competing with one another to see who can make the bitterest, most unappealing beers imaginable. They taste like earwax.

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ArodTheHorrible
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've always said it was an "Emperor's New Clothes" situation. He's still naked, and IPAs still suck donkey balls

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#5

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks all artficial sweeteners

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#6

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks I like a lot of stuff people are s******g on here, but I am in my 30s so I think tastes change as you get older.

Love me some cheese that smells of feet, anchovies on pizza and coffee strong enough that I see through time.

I used to go crazy for gummies, especially the sour ones. Now I find sweet things a bit, meh, I can take or leave it. But you'll have to prize a stinky cheeseboard out of my cold dead hands.

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#7

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Paper straws.

Unintended food.

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#9

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Grapefruit. People will be like "I love grapefruit" and then proceed to dump enough sugar on it to lose a foot.

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#10

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Oysters. Revolting.

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GirlFriday
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was recently in Biloxi, MS for vacation and the oysters there were divine. Fresh harvested and chargrilled and enjoyed on the beach. I would go back tomorrow for more of those oysters.

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#11

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Tripe, the smell of it makes me gag. My dad loves it because his dad loved it.

THE BUCK STOPS HERE TRIPE.

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Lakota Wolf
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm white af but I was adopted at birth into a Mexican family. I grew up eating tripe (sometimes called "tripas" in Spanish). Menudo wouldn't be menudo without tripe. :) I can understand not liking it if you haven't been exposed to it properly. But please don't allude to it as "trash" or "dog food only"; there are many people that like it, and those are cruel labels for a food that other cultures eat and enjoy.

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#12

Turkish delight, never quite did understand why that little s**t betrayed his family for some perfume flavored rubber in the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe.

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love u
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had some for the first time recently, it's actually pretty good

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#13

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Cilantro.

Yes, I have been informed that I must have a gene that makes cilantro taste like soap. But you cannot convince me that the rest of you cilantro-collaborators aren't just pretending.

Edit: everyone saying "It tastes like soap to me, but I learned to like it" just proves my point. It's the culinary equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome.

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ArodTheHorrible
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is a wonderful herb for those of us to whom it does not taste like soap. Salsa/pico wouldn't be the same without it

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#14

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Any of those keto substitute foods. Use your imagination as much as you’d like but lettuce wraps will never be as good as a real sandwich with bread

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#15

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Peeps... wtf they're terrible! The whole experience is just... terrible.

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#16

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Cat food. I mean come on, my cat can't like eating that every day. I think she's just being polite.

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#18

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Circus Peanuts.

There's no way people are actually out there enjoying those things, but enough people pretend to keep them in business.

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#19

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Kombucha

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Chucky Cheezburger
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My wife and I were outside doing something or other and was drinking this, and takes a drink and says to me 'Wanna taste my kombucha?" Well I had never heard of this stuff before. So with a look of shock, I ask her " Out here in front of everyone baby? I didnt think you were into that kind of thing. But if you really want me to, ok."

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#20

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Chitterlings. My mom-in-law made some at my house, and it smelled like a grown man s***ted all over my home and walls.

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Marc Booker
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Chitterlings are one of the vestiges of the history of enslavement in this country. In Southern Death Camps where enslaved people were held captive, they had to make do with what the Human Traffickers holding them gave them to eat. Often, after feeding the owners, the enslaved people took what was left to feed their own families. Such was the case with chitterlings, which, for those who don't know, are the intestines of a pig. To survive, the enslaved people often took what their owners wouldn't eat, and prepared and seasoned it in such a way as to make it palatable so their own families wouldn't starve on the meager food they were provided. In time, some of those dishes became delicacies. I personally don't eat chitterlings, but my many family members who came from the South still do.

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#21

Stunt foods on Instagram.

Pizza cones, Barria meat Ramen, and of course when they freaking drown a burger, and I mean waterboard it with melted cheese.

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Nikki Sevven
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, those overstuffed sandwiches that have half a dozen different types of meat. What's the point? I can't fit the damn thing in my mouth, and the individual tastes gets lost in the maelstrom of meat.

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#22

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Overnight oats. It's what I imagine prison food to be like; sloppy and cold.

Edit: no topping makes this not true.

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#23

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Slugs
Edit: I am soo sorry! I meant snails! Not slugs
Edit the second: I see we have a highly defended culinary niche and I am willing to surrender! Please have mercy!
Do not eat slugs! Seemingly some of them are deadly! Oddly enough I am having so much fun reading through your responses and stories xD

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Debby Keir
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Snails need to be 'cleaned' before eating. I quote "Rinse them in cool water and prick out the meat with the tip of a knife. To remove the last of the slime, rinse the snails in a bowl of vinegar water (1/2 cup of vinegar per gallon of water). Repeat this process several times with fresh water and vinegar until the mucus is gone." serve with garlic butter and yum.

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#24

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Hákarl.

I can’t imagine someone coming in from a long day of work and tucking into a plate of fishy smelling, ammonia flavored chewy shark chunks that make you smell like a bait camp for the rest of the evening.

It seems like survival food - you will stay alive if you eat it, but it’s not appealing … to me.

If you’re Icelandic - please help me understand why this is a thing.

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#25

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Lutefisk

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Sivi
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a Norwegian I take smalahove over lutafisk any jul.

Erik Ivan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lutefisk in itself is kind of bland, does not taste that much. But with the right sauce and compliments it's really, really good!

LH25
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My Norwegian MIL was teasing me about liking sushi. "How can you eat raw fish?!" I reminded her that she likes lutafisk.

Cassi Lyris
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, not for me either, and I am pretty Norwegian. It would beat starving to death, though.

PiLaaja
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mum loved lutefisk. I couldn’t stand the awful smell coming from boiling it.

CP
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My friends and I got lutefisk one time because it is such a fascinating food and we wanted to see how terrible it was (it sounds like it would be terrible). I don't know if it was my low expectations, but I actually liked it.

Rachel Terese Öz
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m Norwegian and just thinking about having to eat, sorry swallow, just one piece this Christmas makes me want to vomit. Gross

Michelle C
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reading about this reminds me of the aversion some people have to gefilte fish. If you’ve ever had to gefilte fish prepared properly, it’s actually really good! I haven’t tried lutefisk, though, so I can’t say anything about that!

Timbob
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How do you know when fish turns bad. Does it start to smell good?

Cindy Olson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad said I wasn’t a good Swede because I wouldn’t eat pickled herring, and that’s supposed to be better than lutefisk 😝

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#26

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Once upon a time I swore that salted licorice was the most vile thing ever to have graced our fair planet. However about a year ago my wife made me try some and much to my surprise, I liked it!.

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#27

Chicken feet

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GirlFriday
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love chicken foot soup. It not only tastes good, but reminds me of family dinners in the winters when the power was out and it was cooked in summer kitchen. Ah!!!!!

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#28

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Any cookie with raisins in it. Those are an insult to chocolate chip cookies.

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Stardust she/her
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the reason raisin cookies are hated it because they look like chocolate so you feel betrayed when you realise. Personally I like raisin cookies made of oats

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#30

Vegemite

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Elita One
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LISTEN UP NON AUSTRALIANS, ITS NOT NUTTELA. So many people who try it say its horrible cause they've spread it on like Nutella. Just toast a shitty piece of white bread, slather it with butter/margarine and spread like 5 grams on top, thats it. PERFECTION. Eat it like that and you can be a happy little vegemite too.

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#31

Sparkling water.

People are like "oh yeah, yeah I like it." But on the inside it's just

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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#32

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Vodka...it taste like the walls of a hospital

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Luke Branwen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think any alcohol can fit into this list. I wonder how many people actually hate alcohol but drink it anyway because it's a social norm / because of peer pressure.

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#33

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks There's an emotional reaction to foods (and other sensations) that develops over time. Eventually, it gets to the point that the food--regardless of what's disgusting about it--makes you feel something enjoyable and pleasant.

If I'd never eaten Bleu Cheese before, I'd be disgusted by it now. But, I unknowingly had some when I was 4 or 5 at a family Christmas party in a cheeseball. When I eat Bleu Cheese these days, it reminds me of warm happy Christmases of decades long ago.

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#35

Chicken liver, my family makes it for every big holiday dinner, I’m convinced that no one actually likes it but they make it out of tradition and the older people force it down.

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Nikki Sevven
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom used to make chicken liver pâté to Julia Child's recipe. I really, really dislike the smell and taste of liver, but loved the pâté. I also love Mother Goose liverwurst, but no other brand.

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#36

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Fruitcake

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Benita Valdez
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not all fruitcake are created equal. My dad loved the stuff so I tried several and there are many different types; some delicious and some meh

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#38

How the f**k can you like milk and water mixed?

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OmBoyGanesh
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What?! Is this a thing done outside of affordability and instead out of desire/preference/taste?

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#39

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Gefilte fish

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Arcady Royzen
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Canned one? Hell no. But traditional homemade? I will eat as much as I can, especially the one done by my grandma... that is all in the past though...old generation passed away and no one knows how to make it anymore...

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#40

Black jelly beans

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zak
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, black licorice? When I was little I used to find licorice root in our yard or the woods behind our house, and I'd dig it up and chew on it. 😁

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#41

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks The fat part of the meat. Come on, the texture and taste are gross

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#42

Balut

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Kenny Kulbiski
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tried one once on a dare. If anything it tasted worse than it looked. Youth and alcohol were involved.

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#43

Folks Online Can't Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks Caviar. It's so salty.

Fun fact (cmiir): you're supposed to eat it with a spoon made of bone because using metal causes a chemical reaction thereby altering the flavor.

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