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pepper tastes funny

0somuchbetter0
0somuchbetter0 Posts: 1,335 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I'm eating a red bell pepper and it has an odd plastic-like flavor. It's just a regular pepper from my grocery store, came in a plastic bag, washed it this morning. Blech. :\ Anyone else experience this?

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  • 0somuchbetter0
    0somuchbetter0 Posts: 1,335 Member
    Pretty sure it's real. It came from the produce department, not the "home decor" department. LOL
  • Chief_Rocka
    Chief_Rocka Posts: 4,710 Member
    Funny how? Like a clown? The pepper is here to amuse you?
  • 0somuchbetter0
    0somuchbetter0 Posts: 1,335 Member
    Quoting myself, from original post: "I'm eating a red bell pepper and it has an odd plastic-like flavor."
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    edited October 2014
    Chief_Rocka wrote: »
    Funny how? Like a clown? The pepper is here to amuse you?

    Cute! ;)

    OP, it's probably just because the pepper was picked too early. Or, it could be some type of wax the supermarket uses to make it pretty that didn't get fully washed off.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    I wonder how a mom joke would go over right now.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    red peppers taste funny to me- which is why I don't eat them. I like green ones fine- but the red ones definitely have kind of weird flavor.

    Just don't eat it.
  • Basilin
    Basilin Posts: 360 Member
    edited October 2014
    0somuchbetter0 wrote: »
    I'm eating a red bell pepper and it has an odd plastic-like flavor. It's just a regular pepper from my grocery store, came in a plastic bag, washed it this morning. Blech. :\ Anyone else experience this?

    This sounds like a setup. :joy:

    For real though, maybe it was old, or absorbed flavor from the bag.

  • 0somuchbetter0
    0somuchbetter0 Posts: 1,335 Member
    Well it's gross. I think it's ruined red peppers for me forever. :'(
  • Basilin
    Basilin Posts: 360 Member
    0somuchbetter0 wrote: »
    Well it's gross. I think it's ruined red peppers for me forever. :'(

    Oh no! Well, I never liked them.

    MY PLAN IS WORKING. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

  • 0somuchbetter0
    0somuchbetter0 Posts: 1,335 Member
    :'(:'(:'(
  • habit365
    habit365 Posts: 174
    I'm going to go with wax coating. They taste terrible on things like apples and I expect the same would be true of peppers. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
  • tulips_and_tea
    tulips_and_tea Posts: 5,759 Member
    Maybe it just didn't get washed well enough. I wouldn't let it ruin your appetite for red peppers forever! They are good for you. I like the 5 lb. bags of the baby bells in yellow, orange, and red. I buy those almost once a week.

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