So today I took a giant leap of faith and bought some "Beer Nuts" from the vending machine. I'm not sure where it ranks on the list of bad choices, but it is absolutely at the bottom of my list of prepackaged nuts available in our vending machine. Right above... well, OK so they are the only prepackaged nuts available in our vending machine last time I checked.So I don't know if I've ever had proper "Beer Nuts" before but I have had peanuts at bars before and maybe it was just the highly toxic levels of alcohol in my blood but they always seemed to have a flavor.. at least a little. I mean I guess that "Beer Nuts" do have some flavor, but it isn't a desirable flavor. Even just nuts right out of the shell unsalted have a flavor that is better.
"Beer Nuts" are labeled as having a "Sweet & Salty" taste, but I was unable to taste the sweet.. just a very light salt, and the dry husk like thing surrounding the nut. So in the name of science, I put one in my mouth and sucked on it to see if it would change the flavor. Luckily I got to taste sweet for 1 second, and then the sweet was all gone and I was left with the dry husk and the odd lack of taste that I have come to associate with bitter.
In High School anatomy class, when we were doing that thing where you put odd chemicals on your tongue to find the areas on your tongue where certain taste receptors are more heavily concentrated my partner and I both thought our bitter chemical was broken, but it turns out we were just both genetic abnormalities.
Please don't try to poison me with a poison that is bitter.
Please note, Beer Nuts are not Cracker Nuts, as Cracker Nuts have a taste, and it is not awful.