@Inge

P.s.: For all those people who recall Captain Picard to you ... {laughs} after all, people were enamored of Earl Grey tea long before Captain Picard was (invented.)

The correct chain is

Earl Grey => Captain Picard

not

Captain Picard => Earl Grey

@redrummy @Inge

I've lucked out. The only two things I ever DIDN'T like (or didn't mind, anyway) were

1. Corn Meal Mush, and in fact it must have been that brand, it was almost caustic and un-foodlike.

2. Lemon Grass. To me, it tastes metallic.

I am one of those 1 in 7 people who tastes the aldehyde in Cilantro, so it tastes SOAPY to me ... but I can handle it, I just don't seek it out.

Apart from those. NOTHING (food) bothers me, a fact which impressed my parents. But I understand disliking things (since there are things I dislike, if few.)

Sorry for you to dislike Bergamot. Then I conjecture: do you have a problem with other oils, say derived from the skin of fruits, e.g. Orange Peel oil, then you would dislike Constant Comment too. OR, it could just be Bergamot.

Have you ever eaten Cardamom seeds? {I wonder what it is about Bergamot you don't like.}

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Also, you should follow me at

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because I run that server, thus will always be there. I seem to be thrown off other sites for having unpopular opinions.

@Inge @redrummy

{laughs and laughs} Oh PATCHOULI. Oh FAVORITE MEMORIES of HEAD SHOPS in the '70s. They were famous for seeming to have dumped GALLONS of patchouli oil on the floor and walls ... THAT, certainly was oppressive.

I don't mind it so much otherwise, in fact it bears that memory (patchouli => head shop.)

But one doesn't EAT patchouli ... ?

In Oakland (CA), I forget the name of the shop (circa Telegraph and 46th), it sold to people following the occult, and they stocked various oils. I tried some (for fragrance.) One in particular was Frangipani, a name I always thought interesting. I'd lived on Guam, there was a shrub that grew these wonderful flowers, fragrant, exotic. We called them PLUMERIA, but I later learned it was the SAME as Frangipani (I was edified to have liked it in advance.) So of course, that was an oil I checked out.

But the REAL test is to go to an Indian food store, and get FLOWER WATERS. Oh synesthetic heaven. They "taste like shit" to just taste them per se (too strong!) But add them to a confection, OH BOY. Where do you get turned on to that?

Rice pudding. ROSE water, ORANGE FLOWER water. We know those. But the Indian food store will have another half dozen flavors with unfamiliar (to Americans) names.

https://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/slideshow/flower-water-recipes

It's a real bitch to get the <epithets> internet to cough up names, but here's ONE, at least:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kewra

I had four kinds, whose names I can't recall. It begs belief that the fucking net CAN'T ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTION!

Here's another ABNQ (almost but not quite):

https://food-hacks.wonderhowto.com/news/weird-ingredient-wednesday-5-kinds-flower-waters-0167257/

and

https://food-hacks.wonderhowto.com/news/these-edible-flowers-will-literally-shock-you-0162055/

FINALLY, a start, but still not the Indian stuff:

https://foodsofnations.com/collections/floral-flavored-water

and this is as close as I can get to a list of /Indian/-used flavors; and I give up.

https://www.cntraveller.in/story/12-edible-flowers-india-add-pantry/

@Inge @redrummy

Oh, right, the store was called "Ancient Ways".

@Inge @redrummy

Remember this?

@juliew2010 @Inge @redrummy

I don't know what "laundry violet" is. No, this is the FLOWER, Violet.