• sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Also there was a small Greek place in Queens that was basically the "Papa John's" version of Greek food. Everything was super funky and rotten tasting. Just absolutely grody. People fucking loved it.

      Maybe some people are just attracted to slightly decaying food

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      a lot of food tastes weirdly sweet when it starts to go bad

      it's a slight sweetness that is unpleasant in an indescribable way. It doesn't taste outright rotten but it's kind of like a "twilight zone", you get the instinct that this isn't a normal type of sweetness

      • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        This would make sense. pectin, cellulose, and starch are polymers of sugars. Their breakdown products would be sweet before those sugars are fermented into lactic and acetic acids.