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[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite)." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint.", ">\n\nI never thought of it as toothpaste flavored, but unless it's in ice cream or cookies or sweets, it's definitely doesn't belong in any of my food. Floral flavors in anything is so gross to me as well, and that one goes for being in anything, sweet or not!" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint.", ">\n\nI never thought of it as toothpaste flavored, but unless it's in ice cream or cookies or sweets, it's definitely doesn't belong in any of my food. Floral flavors in anything is so gross to me as well, and that one goes for being in anything, sweet or not!", ">\n\nLOL" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint.", ">\n\nI never thought of it as toothpaste flavored, but unless it's in ice cream or cookies or sweets, it's definitely doesn't belong in any of my food. Floral flavors in anything is so gross to me as well, and that one goes for being in anything, sweet or not!", ">\n\nLOL", ">\n\nSlightly muddled (bruised) fresh mint added to fruit punch." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint.", ">\n\nI never thought of it as toothpaste flavored, but unless it's in ice cream or cookies or sweets, it's definitely doesn't belong in any of my food. Floral flavors in anything is so gross to me as well, and that one goes for being in anything, sweet or not!", ">\n\nLOL", ">\n\nSlightly muddled (bruised) fresh mint added to fruit punch.", ">\n\nOP has toothbrushing PTSD." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint.", ">\n\nI never thought of it as toothpaste flavored, but unless it's in ice cream or cookies or sweets, it's definitely doesn't belong in any of my food. Floral flavors in anything is so gross to me as well, and that one goes for being in anything, sweet or not!", ">\n\nLOL", ">\n\nSlightly muddled (bruised) fresh mint added to fruit punch.", ">\n\nOP has toothbrushing PTSD.", ">\n\nBig big big facts" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint.", ">\n\nI never thought of it as toothpaste flavored, but unless it's in ice cream or cookies or sweets, it's definitely doesn't belong in any of my food. Floral flavors in anything is so gross to me as well, and that one goes for being in anything, sweet or not!", ">\n\nLOL", ">\n\nSlightly muddled (bruised) fresh mint added to fruit punch.", ">\n\nOP has toothbrushing PTSD.", ">\n\nBig big big facts", ">\n\nI used to work with a guy who said this exact thing in 2012. I haven’t heard it since then so I have to presume it’s you." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint.", ">\n\nI never thought of it as toothpaste flavored, but unless it's in ice cream or cookies or sweets, it's definitely doesn't belong in any of my food. Floral flavors in anything is so gross to me as well, and that one goes for being in anything, sweet or not!", ">\n\nLOL", ">\n\nSlightly muddled (bruised) fresh mint added to fruit punch.", ">\n\nOP has toothbrushing PTSD.", ">\n\nBig big big facts", ">\n\nI used to work with a guy who said this exact thing in 2012. I haven’t heard it since then so I have to presume it’s you.", ">\n\nMy little sister gave me a cookie with toothpaste as a prank and dummy me was about to happily eat it thinking it just had mint cream 💀" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint.", ">\n\nI never thought of it as toothpaste flavored, but unless it's in ice cream or cookies or sweets, it's definitely doesn't belong in any of my food. Floral flavors in anything is so gross to me as well, and that one goes for being in anything, sweet or not!", ">\n\nLOL", ">\n\nSlightly muddled (bruised) fresh mint added to fruit punch.", ">\n\nOP has toothbrushing PTSD.", ">\n\nBig big big facts", ">\n\nI used to work with a guy who said this exact thing in 2012. I haven’t heard it since then so I have to presume it’s you.", ">\n\nMy little sister gave me a cookie with toothpaste as a prank and dummy me was about to happily eat it thinking it just had mint cream 💀", ">\n\nGenuinely don't get why people only associate mint with toothpaste and then let that ruin mint flavor for them. Apparently as a kid you must have made no effort to try mint candy or ice cream and your parents only bought you mint toothpaste. If that's the case I feel sorry for you" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint.", ">\n\nI never thought of it as toothpaste flavored, but unless it's in ice cream or cookies or sweets, it's definitely doesn't belong in any of my food. Floral flavors in anything is so gross to me as well, and that one goes for being in anything, sweet or not!", ">\n\nLOL", ">\n\nSlightly muddled (bruised) fresh mint added to fruit punch.", ">\n\nOP has toothbrushing PTSD.", ">\n\nBig big big facts", ">\n\nI used to work with a guy who said this exact thing in 2012. I haven’t heard it since then so I have to presume it’s you.", ">\n\nMy little sister gave me a cookie with toothpaste as a prank and dummy me was about to happily eat it thinking it just had mint cream 💀", ">\n\nGenuinely don't get why people only associate mint with toothpaste and then let that ruin mint flavor for them. Apparently as a kid you must have made no effort to try mint candy or ice cream and your parents only bought you mint toothpaste. If that's the case I feel sorry for you", ">\n\nBrain dead take, upvoted" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint.", ">\n\nI never thought of it as toothpaste flavored, but unless it's in ice cream or cookies or sweets, it's definitely doesn't belong in any of my food. Floral flavors in anything is so gross to me as well, and that one goes for being in anything, sweet or not!", ">\n\nLOL", ">\n\nSlightly muddled (bruised) fresh mint added to fruit punch.", ">\n\nOP has toothbrushing PTSD.", ">\n\nBig big big facts", ">\n\nI used to work with a guy who said this exact thing in 2012. I haven’t heard it since then so I have to presume it’s you.", ">\n\nMy little sister gave me a cookie with toothpaste as a prank and dummy me was about to happily eat it thinking it just had mint cream 💀", ">\n\nGenuinely don't get why people only associate mint with toothpaste and then let that ruin mint flavor for them. Apparently as a kid you must have made no effort to try mint candy or ice cream and your parents only bought you mint toothpaste. If that's the case I feel sorry for you", ">\n\nBrain dead take, upvoted", ">\n\nbut my toothpaste tastes good so, y'know, 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint.", ">\n\nI never thought of it as toothpaste flavored, but unless it's in ice cream or cookies or sweets, it's definitely doesn't belong in any of my food. Floral flavors in anything is so gross to me as well, and that one goes for being in anything, sweet or not!", ">\n\nLOL", ">\n\nSlightly muddled (bruised) fresh mint added to fruit punch.", ">\n\nOP has toothbrushing PTSD.", ">\n\nBig big big facts", ">\n\nI used to work with a guy who said this exact thing in 2012. I haven’t heard it since then so I have to presume it’s you.", ">\n\nMy little sister gave me a cookie with toothpaste as a prank and dummy me was about to happily eat it thinking it just had mint cream 💀", ">\n\nGenuinely don't get why people only associate mint with toothpaste and then let that ruin mint flavor for them. Apparently as a kid you must have made no effort to try mint candy or ice cream and your parents only bought you mint toothpaste. If that's the case I feel sorry for you", ">\n\nBrain dead take, upvoted", ">\n\nbut my toothpaste tastes good so, y'know, 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️", ">\n\nYep mint is overwhelming. \nI literally can't taste anything else if it's in the dish." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint.", ">\n\nI never thought of it as toothpaste flavored, but unless it's in ice cream or cookies or sweets, it's definitely doesn't belong in any of my food. Floral flavors in anything is so gross to me as well, and that one goes for being in anything, sweet or not!", ">\n\nLOL", ">\n\nSlightly muddled (bruised) fresh mint added to fruit punch.", ">\n\nOP has toothbrushing PTSD.", ">\n\nBig big big facts", ">\n\nI used to work with a guy who said this exact thing in 2012. I haven’t heard it since then so I have to presume it’s you.", ">\n\nMy little sister gave me a cookie with toothpaste as a prank and dummy me was about to happily eat it thinking it just had mint cream 💀", ">\n\nGenuinely don't get why people only associate mint with toothpaste and then let that ruin mint flavor for them. Apparently as a kid you must have made no effort to try mint candy or ice cream and your parents only bought you mint toothpaste. If that's the case I feel sorry for you", ">\n\nBrain dead take, upvoted", ">\n\nbut my toothpaste tastes good so, y'know, 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️", ">\n\nYep mint is overwhelming. \nI literally can't taste anything else if it's in the dish.", ">\n\nI don’t use mint toothpaste. Or mint anything for that matter - gum, breathmints, etc. So mint is a delicious ingredient for me." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint.", ">\n\nI never thought of it as toothpaste flavored, but unless it's in ice cream or cookies or sweets, it's definitely doesn't belong in any of my food. Floral flavors in anything is so gross to me as well, and that one goes for being in anything, sweet or not!", ">\n\nLOL", ">\n\nSlightly muddled (bruised) fresh mint added to fruit punch.", ">\n\nOP has toothbrushing PTSD.", ">\n\nBig big big facts", ">\n\nI used to work with a guy who said this exact thing in 2012. I haven’t heard it since then so I have to presume it’s you.", ">\n\nMy little sister gave me a cookie with toothpaste as a prank and dummy me was about to happily eat it thinking it just had mint cream 💀", ">\n\nGenuinely don't get why people only associate mint with toothpaste and then let that ruin mint flavor for them. Apparently as a kid you must have made no effort to try mint candy or ice cream and your parents only bought you mint toothpaste. If that's the case I feel sorry for you", ">\n\nBrain dead take, upvoted", ">\n\nbut my toothpaste tastes good so, y'know, 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️", ">\n\nYep mint is overwhelming. \nI literally can't taste anything else if it's in the dish.", ">\n\nI don’t use mint toothpaste. Or mint anything for that matter - gum, breathmints, etc. So mint is a delicious ingredient for me.", ">\n\nPeppermint patties fresh out the freezer tho" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint.", ">\n\nI never thought of it as toothpaste flavored, but unless it's in ice cream or cookies or sweets, it's definitely doesn't belong in any of my food. Floral flavors in anything is so gross to me as well, and that one goes for being in anything, sweet or not!", ">\n\nLOL", ">\n\nSlightly muddled (bruised) fresh mint added to fruit punch.", ">\n\nOP has toothbrushing PTSD.", ">\n\nBig big big facts", ">\n\nI used to work with a guy who said this exact thing in 2012. I haven’t heard it since then so I have to presume it’s you.", ">\n\nMy little sister gave me a cookie with toothpaste as a prank and dummy me was about to happily eat it thinking it just had mint cream 💀", ">\n\nGenuinely don't get why people only associate mint with toothpaste and then let that ruin mint flavor for them. Apparently as a kid you must have made no effort to try mint candy or ice cream and your parents only bought you mint toothpaste. If that's the case I feel sorry for you", ">\n\nBrain dead take, upvoted", ">\n\nbut my toothpaste tastes good so, y'know, 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️", ">\n\nYep mint is overwhelming. \nI literally can't taste anything else if it's in the dish.", ">\n\nI don’t use mint toothpaste. Or mint anything for that matter - gum, breathmints, etc. So mint is a delicious ingredient for me.", ">\n\nPeppermint patties fresh out the freezer tho", ">\n\nMint grows wild in my yard. I do add a leaf or two now and then to dishes or salads. It gives a little freshness without being toothpasty." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint.", ">\n\nI never thought of it as toothpaste flavored, but unless it's in ice cream or cookies or sweets, it's definitely doesn't belong in any of my food. Floral flavors in anything is so gross to me as well, and that one goes for being in anything, sweet or not!", ">\n\nLOL", ">\n\nSlightly muddled (bruised) fresh mint added to fruit punch.", ">\n\nOP has toothbrushing PTSD.", ">\n\nBig big big facts", ">\n\nI used to work with a guy who said this exact thing in 2012. I haven’t heard it since then so I have to presume it’s you.", ">\n\nMy little sister gave me a cookie with toothpaste as a prank and dummy me was about to happily eat it thinking it just had mint cream 💀", ">\n\nGenuinely don't get why people only associate mint with toothpaste and then let that ruin mint flavor for them. Apparently as a kid you must have made no effort to try mint candy or ice cream and your parents only bought you mint toothpaste. If that's the case I feel sorry for you", ">\n\nBrain dead take, upvoted", ">\n\nbut my toothpaste tastes good so, y'know, 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️", ">\n\nYep mint is overwhelming. \nI literally can't taste anything else if it's in the dish.", ">\n\nI don’t use mint toothpaste. Or mint anything for that matter - gum, breathmints, etc. So mint is a delicious ingredient for me.", ">\n\nPeppermint patties fresh out the freezer tho", ">\n\nMint grows wild in my yard. I do add a leaf or two now and then to dishes or salads. It gives a little freshness without being toothpasty.", ">\n\nTragic, kinda like how Australians hate sarsaparilla and sassafras because they use it for medicine flavor." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint.", ">\n\nI never thought of it as toothpaste flavored, but unless it's in ice cream or cookies or sweets, it's definitely doesn't belong in any of my food. Floral flavors in anything is so gross to me as well, and that one goes for being in anything, sweet or not!", ">\n\nLOL", ">\n\nSlightly muddled (bruised) fresh mint added to fruit punch.", ">\n\nOP has toothbrushing PTSD.", ">\n\nBig big big facts", ">\n\nI used to work with a guy who said this exact thing in 2012. I haven’t heard it since then so I have to presume it’s you.", ">\n\nMy little sister gave me a cookie with toothpaste as a prank and dummy me was about to happily eat it thinking it just had mint cream 💀", ">\n\nGenuinely don't get why people only associate mint with toothpaste and then let that ruin mint flavor for them. Apparently as a kid you must have made no effort to try mint candy or ice cream and your parents only bought you mint toothpaste. If that's the case I feel sorry for you", ">\n\nBrain dead take, upvoted", ">\n\nbut my toothpaste tastes good so, y'know, 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️", ">\n\nYep mint is overwhelming. \nI literally can't taste anything else if it's in the dish.", ">\n\nI don’t use mint toothpaste. Or mint anything for that matter - gum, breathmints, etc. So mint is a delicious ingredient for me.", ">\n\nPeppermint patties fresh out the freezer tho", ">\n\nMint grows wild in my yard. I do add a leaf or two now and then to dishes or salads. It gives a little freshness without being toothpasty.", ">\n\nTragic, kinda like how Australians hate sarsaparilla and sassafras because they use it for medicine flavor.", ">\n\nOh my god, someone finally said it!" ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint.", ">\n\nI never thought of it as toothpaste flavored, but unless it's in ice cream or cookies or sweets, it's definitely doesn't belong in any of my food. Floral flavors in anything is so gross to me as well, and that one goes for being in anything, sweet or not!", ">\n\nLOL", ">\n\nSlightly muddled (bruised) fresh mint added to fruit punch.", ">\n\nOP has toothbrushing PTSD.", ">\n\nBig big big facts", ">\n\nI used to work with a guy who said this exact thing in 2012. I haven’t heard it since then so I have to presume it’s you.", ">\n\nMy little sister gave me a cookie with toothpaste as a prank and dummy me was about to happily eat it thinking it just had mint cream 💀", ">\n\nGenuinely don't get why people only associate mint with toothpaste and then let that ruin mint flavor for them. Apparently as a kid you must have made no effort to try mint candy or ice cream and your parents only bought you mint toothpaste. If that's the case I feel sorry for you", ">\n\nBrain dead take, upvoted", ">\n\nbut my toothpaste tastes good so, y'know, 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️", ">\n\nYep mint is overwhelming. \nI literally can't taste anything else if it's in the dish.", ">\n\nI don’t use mint toothpaste. Or mint anything for that matter - gum, breathmints, etc. So mint is a delicious ingredient for me.", ">\n\nPeppermint patties fresh out the freezer tho", ">\n\nMint grows wild in my yard. I do add a leaf or two now and then to dishes or salads. It gives a little freshness without being toothpasty.", ">\n\nTragic, kinda like how Australians hate sarsaparilla and sassafras because they use it for medicine flavor.", ">\n\nOh my god, someone finally said it!", ">\n\nI don't think it is that it tastes like toothpaste I think it is that it dominates a palate and modifies other flavors in ways that aren't necessarily favorable much of the time." ]

[ "Mojito", ">\n\nMojito", ">\n\n🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵Mojito!", ">\n\nThank God it wasn't just me", ">\n\nI suppose this would be the case if you only ever use mint toothpaste. I mean, I get it, I can't eat artificially flavors cherry things because of cherry flavored medicine.", ">\n\nGod my mind was blown when I tried an actual cherry and instantly loved it. I absolutely hate cherry flavoring but an actual cherry tastes fucking spectacular. \nAlso different but the same with watermelon. I've always loved artificial watermelon, my favorite flavor. But when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste. I have no idea what they based the watermelon flavor off of but it's definitely not watermelon.", ">\n\n\nBut when I finally tried a watermelon a few years ago I wanted to throw up because there's no taste.\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty watermelon then. Good watermelon is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nWatermelon is at best a vessel for salt or booze.", ">\n\nBooze ruins the taste of everything", ">\n\nLol, you must have tried a really shitty booze then. Good booze is delicious and full of flavor", ">\n\nOh I've had plenty of high quality alcohol but I don't believe anyone who says they like the taste. At least not enough to drink it without the effects of alcohol.\n\"Good booze\" just means \"booze that can hide the godawful taste of its alcohol content a bit better than others\"\nAlcohol itself tastes like poison...because it is kind of poison lol", ">\n\nI just used your comment and changed watermelon to booze.", ">\n\nI know, I just think booze is nasty lol", ">\n\nI wonder if this is true or have you been too conditioned by your toothpaste to believe that mint is essentially toothpaste by now.", ">\n\nIt's the latter.", ">\n\nActually it's toothpaste that tastes like mint", ">\n\nThank you. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree", ">\n\n\n. People act like mint was created in a lab to taste like some magical naturally existing tube of toothpaste picked straight from the toothpaste tree\n\nLiterally no one acts like that...", ">\n\nThe real unpopularopinions are always in the comments.", ">\n\ni mean where else do opinions go", ">\n\nI seen this taste test of lemon flavor on American test kitchen. of all the fake lemon flavors, real lemons scored the worst. What you say is true of mint, but that's because mint flavor is used in toothpaste.", ">\n\nAdding mint to Greek meatballs makes it infinitely better. Also salads, teas, you name it.", ">\n\nLamb with mint is delicious.", ">\n\nIt has been sort of scientifically shown that it is (lamb + mint = good). Basically lamb has compounds that when combined with mint taste different than if you were just to eat raw mint or raw lamb alone (albeit I realize that seems obvious about food pairings).", ">\n\ni prefer to cook my lamb", ">\n\nIf you mean artificial mint flavor, you're mostly right. If you mean fresh mint leaves (and there's different varieties with different aromatic properties), then definitely not.", ">\n\nFresh mint leaves in a dish or a beverage is great. Anything artificial tastes like toothpaste and does not belong in food IMO", ">\n\nYou have never eaten Indian or Arab cuisines, I see.\nAlso, mint chocolate is not the only kind of mint. Nor mint jelly. I think you're falsely equating mint flavoring with the use of mint as an herb, which leads me to understand your position.", ">\n\nI’m a white girl that grew up in the country areas of Australia, though I have eaten Indian food and I love it.", ">\n\nI'm a white guy who grew up in a town of less than 1000 people in the Midwestern US. I didn't meet a non-white person until I was 13 years old. Ignorance isn't really an excuse lol\nThe green chutney that comes with most Indian food is coriander-mint. It has almost zero mint flavor.", ">\n\nI meant the actual mint flavour itself doesn’t taste good, if you can barely taste it, then it isn’t an issue.", ">\n\nThat's the problem then, your only experience has been when it overpowers everything. That's just bad cooking.\nI also hate mint chocolate.\nMint and lemon and coriander and oregano with some olive oil mixed as a marinade before a nice grilling are a combination to die for.", ">\n\n\ncome at me with the downvotes.\n\nI dont think you know how this sub works", ">\n\nI think he does actually", ">\n\nI bought some of those Oreos with the light green stuffing . I couldn’t even finish half of one. It literally tastes like an Oreo with toothpaste on it.", ">\n\nDamn, the mint oreos are my favorite lol", ">\n\nI thought I was gonna like it honestly. The stuffing though kinda over powered the cookie to where all I could taste was the toothpaste.", ">\n\nHuh that's odd, it tastes nothing like toothpaste to me. I guess everyone has a different palate so not everyone will like them", ">\n\nYou know how cilantro tastes different to different people ? Mint seems like it would be one those things", ">\n\nI would not be surprised. Cilantro is in the mint family. I think Basil is as well. Just like mint they extremely hearty, grow and spread like weeds and seem to natural deter pests.", ">\n\nMint chocolate and mint ice cream is fantastic. I can't get behind peppermint tea because it's hot and cold at the same time and it bothers me.", ">\n\nSeconds after scrolling past this post it clicked for me- most menthol smokers I’ve known through the years clearly hadn’t flossed since elementary school, if ever.", ">\n\nMenthol ciggies taste like smoking a Mintie lolly.", ">\n\nWell menthol is derived from mint. It is like capsicum from peppers.", ">\n\nI think you mean capsaicin\nCapsicums are bell peppers lol", ">\n\nSorry it was the auto correct.", ">\n\nNo worries\nImagine tho\nMillions of small and mildly spicy capsicums in a normal chilly making it hot.", ">\n\nThat is why they put the little chili symbols to indicate how hot. Its actually the number of capsicums in the ~~bottle~~ serving... right?", ">\n\nMojitos are top tier cocktails tho", ">\n\nFuck that opinion, have an upvote. (And be more adventurous with your palate!)", ">\n\nIt's not even an opinion. I can't disagree with them associating mint with toothpaste, even if I don't.", ">\n\nThe way Americans use it in sweets - yes, I agree.\nUsed in Indian cuisine - very different story.\nAnd I don't mind a mint julep or two, but that's just 1 day a year.", ">\n\nWe hardly use mint in sweets tho?", ">\n\nIt's in cookies and ice cream a lot. At least I see it semi-often where I live.\nPerhaps regional I suppose.", ">\n\nAgreed. Mint flavor in general doesnt mesh well with others.", ">\n\nExcept for lamb. Lamb with mint is delicious 😋", ">\n\nCant say Ive tried it.", ">\n\nI agree with you about the artificial mint that you get in ice cream, cookies etc, that does just taste like toothpaste, because presumably they're using the same flavourings as toothpaste\nBut fresh mint is nice with certain things. Mint sauce with lamb is great, and doesn't taste like toothpaste at all. Same with indian food which uses mint.", ">\n\nMint sauce is delicious. The combo of vinegar and mint just hits different. It's like acidic and cool all at once", ">\n\nNot even gonna argue with you. Its completely right, downvoted :)", ">\n\nI understand what you mean. You put the same mint flavored toothpaste in your mouth twice a day, and it becomes the dominant association with that flavor in your mind. I have a couple other food flavors I don't like for the same type of reason. \nThere are different mint flavors, though. The one they usually pair with chocolate (peppermint) doesn't taste like toothpaste to me, and I enjoy it on occasion.", ">\n\nOmg finally. Someone else who appreciates the lack of appeal of mint. Hate it", ">\n\nCongratulations on having a very unpopular- and incredibly incorrect- opinion.", ">\n\nMint is delicious.\nSorry for your tastebuds. More for me.", ">\n\nI mean… you know mint comes from the leaves of a mint plant right? \nBy your reasoning anything cherry flavored would taste like cough syrup and anything vanilla flavored would taste like a car freshener.", ">\n\nFor a lot of people thats exactly the case. Cherry robitussen ruined cherrys for me for a long time", ">\n\nThis seems so backwards. \nDoes adding strawberries to a dish make the dish just taste like strawberry bubble gum to you?\nMaybe switch toothpaste flavors?", ">\n\nAgree 100%... toothpaste, candy, food.... American chemical industry has messed with our ability to taste real flavors (see also r/sugarfree)", ">\n\nMINT SUCKS 😡😡😡😡😡", ">\n\nYou need to try a Mintie lolly. Yummy 😋", ">\n\nYou're talking about mint flavoring, which can be overpowering, but is different than adding mint as an herb in savory or sweet cooking. Here's some info as to why, but long story short, mint flavoring is concentrated and I would say a little exaggerated, relative to the actual plant.\nAdding mint as an herb is way more subtle, way less menthol-y. If you put it on lamb and grill it, you don't really pick up any mint flavor, it tastes generically herby. This is actually my favorite ways to cook lamb - mint gremotata", ">\n\nI have a mint-ish shampoo. Feels like I'm putting toothpaste in my hair lol", ">\n\nOP was not happy when girl guides (boy scouts?) came around to sell cookies and all they had was mint chocolate\n/s", ">\n\nFinally an unpopular opinion", ">\n\nHoly shit, this is actually an unpopular opinion. I wholeheartedly disagree with you, Well done.", ">\n\nYou leave my mint moose tracks alone!", ">\n\nIs this food with actual mint in it, or food with artificial mint flavouring? Because the two are not at all alike and toothpastes will have the latter unless you're getting expensive stuff at a health ood store.", ">\n\nWho gonna turn down a junior mint? Its mint, its chocolate, its delucios!", ">\n\nThose can be very refreshing.", ">\n\nNope I like Mint Chocolates it doesn't taste like toothpaste at all.", ">\n\nfinally an actually unpopular opinion in this subreddit", ">\n\nMint is awful. Agreed OP. Perhaps unpopular but I’m glad someone said it.", ">\n\nIsn't this literally a genetic thing? The same as cilantro tasting like soap to some people? Like you literally are genetically predisposed to disliking that taste. You're not wrong, your experience is just literally physically different from other people", ">\n\nI support this 100%. Mint chocolate? Mint in ice cream? No thank you. I don't enjoy my deserts tasting like toothpaste.", ">\n\nSimilarly, I don’t enjoy my toothpaste tasting like mint. The mint flavor and smell are just gross to me.", ">\n\nYES. STOP IT. I fucking HATE mint.", ">\n\nDo you prefer tendies and dewey?", ">\n\nMy local butcher makes minted lamb pies. They are by far my favourite pie.", ">\n\nNow I’m hungry for my medium rare leg of lamb rolled up with mint, garlic and Greek yogurt. I slice it and put it on sourdough bread with a kiss of mustard. \nMint shouldn’t be the star of the dish. It’s a supporting character. (I get the hate though when toothpaste is the only reference point)", ">\n\nHating on mint is one of the most popular \"unpopular opinions\" on here. This is just a lazy attempt for attention.", ">\n\nYeah I haven't seen that either. :p", ">\n\nhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc. \nThere's pages and pages of it.", ">\n\nI also did a search for it and yeah it seems to come up about once a month. I would say that that isn't exactly constant, and I hadn't seen the opinion before. I think it's fine to post one's opinion without searching to see if anyone else has said it before. It doesn't annoy me like when people post old tweets as if they were original thought", ">\n\nHonestly, it was the \"come at me with the downvotes\" that annoyed me. If it hadn't been that comment just begging for attention, I would've ignored the whole thing. Most things posted on here are the same recycled opinions and I'm typically fine with it.", ">\n\nFair enough :)", ">\n\nI don't get it, not all toothpaste taste like \"mint\".", ">\n\nIt's a US thing. Non-mint toothpaste is limited to kids options (or the occasional cinnamon flavor).\nI have to use sensitive toothpaste, so my options for the best brand for that are 'Fresh Wave' (mint), 'Mint Essence' (also mint), 'Cleansing Mint' (mint again), or Alpine Breeze (another mint).", ">\n\nI like mint leaves in my food. I hate mint in desserts. That's all.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip is my favorite ice cream. It’s a flavor like any other, only it’s more interesting because it comes with another sensation (like spicy food, which I also love).", ">\n\nThank you, I never understood it either.", ">\n\nI disagree. Completely.", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is the worst ice cream flavor ever", ">\n\nYou guys do know that mint came LONG before toothpaste, right?\nThis is a matter of personal taste, so nobody's really \"wrong\" but i think this is a modern problem that is only because people eat mint flavoring so much more often than actual mint leaves. Has nobody ever had a mojito with fresh mint? Shit's fire", ">\n\nI love fresh mint in almost any context--Indian food, teas, etc--and the mint julep is one of my favorite cocktails, but I cannot stand mojitos. The combination of citrus and mint absolutely makes me gag. In that context I can sympathize with OP, it just reminds me of drinking orange juice after brushing my teeth.", ">\n\nThat's a toothpaste problem, not a mint problem!\nYou see, citrus being gross after brushing isn't caused by the mint, it's caused by a chemical (surfactant maybe?) Which has that effect on your taste buds. We all associate the effect with mint because of toothpaste flavors, but it's not really the mint.\nYou're not wrong to be grossed out by the association with brushing and citrus, but i still think it's a shame that mint gets the blame for it", ">\n\nI mean, I got the same sensation the few times I tried mojitos, with fresh mint and real citrus. It's just a flavor that disgusts me.", ">\n\nOk, fair", ">\n\nNah mint margirits is love", ">\n\nMint is a great palette cleanser. Also goes great with chocolate, at least now that I'm older it does. It's a strong flavor when you're young, as you get older and your taste buds deplete though, damn is that shit good.", ">\n\nI hate it so much it's unreal", ">\n\nYou're a psycho. Mint chocolate chip ice cream is second only to vanilla \nUpvoted", ">\n\nAmerican child outs themselves", ">\n\nIf you think that mint chocolate icecream tastes anything like toothpaste then you don’t brush your teeth.", ">\n\nWhat about before toothpaste was invented?", ">\n\nSo this is just gonna be a 'you' thing, really. Your brain has made a sort of harder wired connection between 'mint flavor' and 'toothpaste'. It's not even really an opinion, it's just something that's happening with you. \nI'm not going to disagree with you, cuz I cant deny what you are tasting and your actual experience. I'm sure that's very real for you.", ">\n\nI briefly dipped wintergreen tobacco like a decade ago. It’s ruined anything wintergreen flavor for me.", ">\n\nMmmm fake mint yes. Real mint no, mojitos taste nothing like the menthol mints you get at the counter.\nThe fake mint taste your saying I'm positive is menthol, the herb mint is used in fine dining all the time and it's delicious.\nBut I have to agree, mint ice cream tastes just like some mint essential oil is sprayed into it.", ">\n\nThis shouldn’t be that unpopular at all. As far as I can remember, it was my reaction to tasting something with mint for the first time.", ">\n\nIsn't it crazy how the addition of sugar to something makes it gradually taste more like cheap candy?", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip icecream is one of those foods that you love or hate. Like pineapple on a pizza or black licorice.", ">\n\nI know, right?!?! Nobody I know likes mint flavoured stuff, why do they even make it?!", ">\n\nThinmint cookies are food related and those are absolutely yummy.", ">\n\nMint gives me headaches", ">\n\nEh, that's fine. That just means more for me 😋 I will say I don't really prefer too much mint in the things I enjoy - it does have to be balanced. Sometimes it can be overdone, and then I can understand how it turns people off.", ">\n\nYes! I’ve finally found someone with the same opinion! Mint foods are vile simply because they share the exact same taste of toothpaste", ">\n\nMint on its own is awful.", ">\n\nCommon mint? Peppermint? Spearmint?", ">\n\nI freaking WISH my toothpaste tasted like Andes mints", ">\n\nEven those little after dinner chocolate mints?", ">\n\nSo you're telling me you were never tempted to consume the tasty toothpaste? Mint choco ice cream is exactly that.", ">\n\nYou haven’t tried tabbouli", ">\n\nI will happily eat all the mint chocolate chip ice cream that the mint haters in here don’t want", ">\n\nI love minty and sour stuff so much but spice is what has the potential to really ruin my day", ">\n\nI've tried a bunch of dishes that use mint from several parts of the world. It doesn't matter whether they use leaves or oil or how they infuse it, I just don't like mint in dishes at all.", ">\n\nThey flavor toothpaste to be a pleasing and incentivizing flavor to experience and use. This is why mint flavored things taste good. Just because your brain can't comprehend that doesn't mean that they are flavoring ice cream as \"toothpaste flavored\".\nGo try use some cinnamon toothpaste then get back to me about how holiday spices make you think it's the toothpaste season.", ">\n\nMojitos taste nothing like tooth paste, or I want whatever toothpaste OP is buying", ">\n\nIf you keep adding sugar to everything, of fucking course that mint tastes like toothpaste 😃", ">\n\nThis is true.", ">\n\nRoast lamb with mint sauce is the food of the gods and not remotely toothpastey", ">\n\nI hate it when my mojito tastes like toothpaste /s", ">\n\nI hate spearmint and my yard is festered with it", ">\n\nTrue.", ">\n\nPeople out there that can't distinguish between edible mint, and toothpaste, really are living lesser lives.", ">\n\nI’m not sure if I love mint chip ice cream because I’ve never used mint toothpaste, or if I just have superior tastebuds.", ">\n\nYou are superior, clearly", ">\n\nYour pallete being trash is on you", ">\n\nStart using Toothpaste that isn't mint flavored and fix your palette.", ">\n\nyeah, if you only buy mint toothpaste. i like cinnamon, but that means cinnamon donuts taste like toothpaste. i can't put cinnamon on my rice pudding.", ">\n\nI like mint in a mojito, a caipirinha or in ramen or rice but that’s basically it. Anything else is agree tastes toothpastey.", ">\n\nI agree partially and I’m usually the odd one out on this topic", ">\n\nI just think mint doesn’t taste all that nice. The comparison with toothpaste is bound to trigger know it alls to argue with you tho", ">\n\nToothpaste actually tastes like plastic and baking soda mixed together. That’s why the flavor of mint is added to it.\nToothpaste therefore is made to taste like mint, mint does not taste like toothpaste", ">\n\nNot if you use cinnamon toothpaste", ">\n\nTry it as part of a sauce or marinade on some meat", ">\n\nMint jelly with lamb is amazing.", ">\n\nAny mint, with the sole exception of frozen York peppermint patties, is evil.", ">\n\nI have never found mint mixed with chocolate or sweet ingredients works for me. My brain can't figure out if I am using mouthwash or indulging in chocolate goodness.", ">\n\nChocolate tastes great after brushing your teeth though", ">\n\nYou're acting like that's a problem! Mint toothpaste tastes good (as long as it's really minty, not that spearmint shite).", ">\n\nI swear, my family loves mint chocolate, as in mint coated with dark chocolate. I gag everytime I have one", ">\n\nI’ve never liked mint flavor, sometimes I tolerate it for my toothpaste, but that’s it.", ">\n\nReal mint doesn’t really taste like toothpaste mint", ">\n\nIdk man as an indian we use mint in tons of dishes and nothing tastes like toothpaste", ">\n\nSince I was a kid I loved mint flavor but the moment it was mixed with a sweet it was like poison. I tried oreo/mint and mint-chocolate chip ice cream and nearly vomited.", ">\n\nWhat if toothpaste and the combination of anything non-food related just tastes like mint?", ">\n\nThis is making me want mint chocolate chip ice cream andddddd thin mints", ">\n\nSome mint in lemonade is amazing.", ">\n\nI have ruined anything minty, ice cream, peppermint Patty's etc..for my boyfriend. I told him it's like eating toothpaste,I agree with you and think it's gross..and he has joined us.", ">\n\nLamb is an expensive meat. Putting mint sauce on it is tantamount to spitting on as you serve it as far as i am concerned. I just lost my appetite.", ">\n\nThere are different types of mint. Spicy mint: toothpaste, Cool mint: gum, And dessert mint: York chocolates.", ">\n\nMint does not equal peppermint flavour.", ">\n\nI hate mint in food.", ">\n\nJust letting you know I 100% agree with you OP. Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong", ">\n\nHoly fuck that’s an UO. Never tried mint in mixed salad? S Tier good", ">\n\nThere's more then one kind of mint", ">\n\nI for one fucking love my toothpaste flavored m&ms. Also that toothpaste flavored chocolate chip ice cream is the bomb!", ">\n\nYou try drink arabian tea or eat Indian spicy chicken with shredded mint leaf on top, this things never taste like toothpaste, atleast if you are not using artificial flavor", ">\n\nFor “mint-flavored” things, yes, but not actual mint leaves.", ">\n\nThis reminded me of mint chutney , one of my favourites. the smell of freshly grounded mint chutney with kebab.", ">\n\nI never buy Mint flavored Toothpaste, because it tastes too much like food.", ">\n\nMint and chocolate is so disgusting. It goes with lemonade or limeade if it isn’t too strong, but that’s about it.", ">\n\nSo you associate mint with toothpaste - I think this a fairly common opinion. Belongs in r/commonopinion", ">\n\nLamb with mint sauce does not taste like toothpaste. ~~It tastes like minty ovine screaming.~~", ">\n\nBaskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip tastes nothing like toothpaste, lol", ">\n\nMint bad. Hurts my mouth", ">\n\nMint chocolate chip ice cream is great", ">\n\nTrue, I hate mint chocolate", ">\n\nMost mint flavored foods taste vastly different than the mint flavored toothpaste, to me. It’s still mint but not the same. I LOVE mint foods (candy, ice cream). So with that.. take my angry upvote 😂", ">\n\nI agree. Except for cookies", ">\n\nI personally HATE mint chocolate for the same reason", ">\n\nisn't toothpaste generally designed to taste 'good'? i mean...you wouldn't wanna put shit flavored teeth cleaner in your mouth. so if it tastes good...why not enjoy it?", ">", ">\n\nYou've never had mint jelly + roast lamb. Even mint jelly on its own is delicious, the mint is prominent but doesn't steal the show", ">\n\nI've never liked mint, since I was a kid. It's fine in gum n stuff, but once you get into cookies and chocolates it just ruins whatever it's in. \nI've never had mint + anything else that wouldn't be better without the mint.", ">\n\nMy wife used cinnamon flavored toothpaste and doesn’t like cinnamon on any food because she feels it makes it taste like toothpaste.", ">\n\nAgreed. I like mint, and I like chocolate. But the two do not mix in my book. Chocolate is something you indulge in, and want to savor the taste. Mint is for when you freshen up and want to feel clean and new. The flavors just don't go together.", ">\n\nSister/brother/whatever you want to be called, I am with you on that.", ">\n\nA dollop of cold mint yogurt sauce in a hot bowl of spicy mashawa soup is the best.", ">\n\nMint sauce with lamb chops is incredible", ">\n\nBro a good bowl of Pho with mint and that heavenly brown sauce tho???? Sad for you.", ">\n\nI don't mind mint in a Mojito, but taht's about it. it's too strong a flavor to be in foods for me, and the overwhelming association is toothpaste", ">\n\nMy daughter calls my mint truffles toothpaste BonBons. I'm like good I don't want you eating them anyway.", ">\n\nApparently Crest toothpaste is the way to go 🤣", ">\n\nI’ve heard this so often and I don’t really see it, even then mint toothpaste still tastes great.", ">\n\nUse peppermint instead of mint", ">\n\nThat's just mint you're tasting not toothpaste, which most have mint. Maybe you just don't like mint.", ">\n\nI never thought of it as toothpaste flavored, but unless it's in ice cream or cookies or sweets, it's definitely doesn't belong in any of my food. Floral flavors in anything is so gross to me as well, and that one goes for being in anything, sweet or not!", ">\n\nLOL", ">\n\nSlightly muddled (bruised) fresh mint added to fruit punch.", ">\n\nOP has toothbrushing PTSD.", ">\n\nBig big big facts", ">\n\nI used to work with a guy who said this exact thing in 2012. I haven’t heard it since then so I have to presume it’s you.", ">\n\nMy little sister gave me a cookie with toothpaste as a prank and dummy me was about to happily eat it thinking it just had mint cream 💀", ">\n\nGenuinely don't get why people only associate mint with toothpaste and then let that ruin mint flavor for them. Apparently as a kid you must have made no effort to try mint candy or ice cream and your parents only bought you mint toothpaste. If that's the case I feel sorry for you", ">\n\nBrain dead take, upvoted", ">\n\nbut my toothpaste tastes good so, y'know, 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️", ">\n\nYep mint is overwhelming. \nI literally can't taste anything else if it's in the dish.", ">\n\nI don’t use mint toothpaste. Or mint anything for that matter - gum, breathmints, etc. So mint is a delicious ingredient for me.", ">\n\nPeppermint patties fresh out the freezer tho", ">\n\nMint grows wild in my yard. I do add a leaf or two now and then to dishes or salads. It gives a little freshness without being toothpasty.", ">\n\nTragic, kinda like how Australians hate sarsaparilla and sassafras because they use it for medicine flavor.", ">\n\nOh my god, someone finally said it!", ">\n\nI don't think it is that it tastes like toothpaste I think it is that it dominates a palate and modifies other flavors in ways that aren't necessarily favorable much of the time.", ">\n\nLove me a mint gimlet or mojito" ]