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Salted caramel is honestly terrible (imo). Who made it and why?

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MrToughPants said:
America.

Lets be honest, you can throw salt and sugar on a deep fried turd and they'll devour it.
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As opposed to your unknown country, where ya'll just eat it straight?

Salted caramel is okay. Lots of places just throw tons of salt in caramel, which makes it disgusting. But it can be done right.

Edit: Except for Ben and Jerry's Salted Caramel Core ice cream. That is bleck.
 
Salted Caramel is the best food fad of the past decade. Great flavor combo, it's decadent, and works on so many types of sweets.

Think I might go get a Salted Caramel Blizzard later today, just to remind myself how wrong this thread is.
 
SecretMoblin said:
I mean

we all knew Gaga fans had no taste
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bye tbh
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Dennis said:
OP, do you hate lamb?
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No, but I wouldn't rate it highly on the list of meats
 
frozen yogurt anything is disgusting. I've had bad salted caramel foods and great foods.

You haven't had the good ones. They obviously exist and you obviously haven't tried them all. I don't know how you can hold this opinion knowing that you haven't had the good.s
 
I remember reading that sodium ions are small enough that they interact with all taste buds thereby regardless of what you're eating adding salt increases the flavor signals to your brain. Which is why when in small amounts salt makes sweet things sweeter, savory thing more savory, etc. Obviously however with too much salt it's an overload and becomes disgusting. I imagine OP and those that agree have more sensitive tongues.
 
Salted Caramel is awesome. Salt Licorice on the other hand... That stuff is disgusting. Are you sure you're not getting the two confused OP?
 
Garrett Hawke said:
I had the misfortune of being fed a salted caramel chocolate a few years ago and the experience has stuck with me ever since. It was around a year or two ago when the salted caramel phase was at it's peak, and everything was salted caramel. I also tried a salted caramel sauce on ice cream and it was disgusting too. I remember during graduation one of the staff bought flavoured frozen yoghurt for everyone as well and lo and behold - salted caramel flavour.
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Cut to now. I thought we as a society had moved past it but today I saw a recipe for "banana pudding with salted caramel sauce" and I couldn't believe that people were still doing it, I seriously thought it was just one of those things that people pretended to like to seem cool because it was a phase and that's why nobody had really mentioned it since.

Do any of you actually like it? Why? And more importantly, what started the craze?
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Just curious, but do you bake?
 
This is one of those fads that would be perfectly fine if it was provided and advertised to the appropriate level but as it stands now, they're ruining far more caramel than is going to be bought.

It is not as popular as say strawberry, don't kid yourself food manufacturers.
 
Literally every time I have had salted caramel something there has always been way too much salt, so I just gave up on it.

I once had a "salted caramel" chocolate bar and ended up chewing on crunchy crystals of salt. No thanks.
 
There's never been a more wrong OP. Congrats OP!

Salted Caramel is the thing here in Australia. Almost every ice cream maker comes up with their own variation.
 
You should almost always salt your cantaloupe. Salt goes with most things. I do dislike when they straight up drop huge salt crystals on top. I prefer it integrated into the dessert, fruit, etc.
 
It's not your thing. That's fine. Plenty of us think it's yummy though :).

But for me it can't be salted caramel flavoring. Actually has to be caramel with a few big grains of salt on it (best I had though was one that had ghost pepper chili flavored salt crystals on top. Just 4 or 5 large crystals on top of a caramel chocolate bon bon. Very very yummy :) ).
 
Hmm. I can't do much other than disagree.

I'm not gaga over it, but salted caramel is tasty. So is salted chocolate.

Salt on most sweet things is unsurprisingly good.
 
Funny because I just had a Dark chocolate + Salted Caramel bonbon and it was delicious.

I personally love it, but it has to be made right. But to be honest, even the bad ones I had were mostly fine.

Tigress said:
It's not your thing. That's fine. Plenty of us think it's yummy though :).

But for me it can't be salted caramel flavoring. Actually has to be caramel with a few big grains of salt on it (best I had though was one that had ghost pepper chili flavored salt crystals on top. Just 4 or 5 large crystals on top of a caramel chocolate bon bon. Very very yummy :) ).
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This is exactly what I'm talking about. Slated caramel flavouring is less than ideal, but the actual caramel with the salt crystals...

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Depends on the salt; depends on the caramel.

If either is lackluster, it will taste boring to awful.

I have a friend who works in an upscale grocery, and their caramel/salt combination is delicious. She shares the nearly expired stuff with me for free.

That said, it's to damn expensive for my taste if it's not free. I can buy upscale chocolate for their price.
 
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