Looking for Nouns and Adjectives: FlavorFrob 750

In my current project, I have a need to randomly determine flavors. I am looking for suggestions! The construction is simple:

[modifier] [noun].

Help me out by suggesting modifiers and nouns to use in my implementation. They can be based on real life foods, or else utterly surreal.

I will also accept unpaired words. Sample response:

throbbing pumpkin
ripe peach
gristle
electricity
savory broth

etc. I would be delighted to credit any contributors; please include your name as you would like to see it credited (if you don’t provide a name, I’ll assume you don’t wish to be credited).

SFW content only, please!

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I don’t know if this is useful (I see now I went for colours rather than flavours, so maybe not) but I had this code in a previous project:

(link-repeat: "You take one of the pots.")[(show: ?snack)(rerun: ?snack)]

|snack)[Inside is (either: "a small", "a large", "a")(either: " pink", " red", " green", " coral", " yellow", " brown", " grey", " black", " white", " clear") (either: "round ", "square ", "")(either: "sweet", "piece of candy", "piece of sushi", "slice of cake", "sandwich", "sushi roll", "roll", "dumpling", "nugget")(either: " in a sauce", " sprinkled with either salt or sugar", " with a little bottle of sauce", "").

(link-replace: "You try it.")[''You try it.''(show: ?snacked)(rerun: ?snacked)]

|snacked)[(either: "It's pretty good.", "It's okay.", "It's not great.", "It's tasty.", "It's not very tasty.", "It's fantastic.", "It's like nothing you've ever tasted before.", "It melts in your mouth.", "It sucks all of the moisture out of your mouth for no discernable purpose.", "It tastes better than anything else.", "You can barely taste it.", "The taste lingers for a while.", "You spit it out immediately.", "It's too good.", "It's not good.", "It's terrible.")(set: $oo_eaten to true)]]
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It’s Poland’s Independence Day so I propose “sharp” as a modifier, as Polish uses the same word (“ostre”) to specify that something is sharp and that something is spicy.

Also, naturally, pierogi as a noun

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…you can use pierogi as a verb or adjective? Why was I not informed of this?!

Happy Polish Independence Day. I wonder, does “polished” work as a modifier? Or maybe just “Polish”? You could possibly add a modifier for every nationality out there, though one can only guess at the difference in taste between, say, Ghanaian and Cambodian electricity.

I additionally propose:

  • chili oil
  • sesame paste
  • alkaline noodles
  • pickled carrots
  • chopped garlic
  • diced chives
  • soy sauce

These are some ingredients for a dish I quite like. Though I don’t know if all the modifiers and nouns are fully compatible, and the nature of chopped sauce or pickled oil must be left to the imagination.

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  • treacly bitter melon
  • clove marmalade
  • tardigrade tartare
  • ionic ennui
  • BBQ cotton candy

Wine tasting descriptors are evergreen comedy gold. You can find similar for coffee and chocolate.

lengthy hilarious list derived from above
  • acidic
  • alcoholic
  • astringent
  • autolytic
  • baked
  • balanced
  • big
  • biscuity
  • bitter
  • body
  • brilliant
  • buttery
  • chewy
  • chocolaty
  • citrus notes
  • closed
  • cloying
  • coarse
  • complex
  • concentrated
  • connected
  • crisp
  • deep
  • dirty
  • dry
  • earthy
  • effervescent
  • elegant
  • expressive
  • extracted
  • fat
  • firm
  • flabby
  • flat
  • foxy
  • fresh
  • fruity
  • full
  • grassy
  • green
  • hard
  • heavy
  • herbaceous
  • herbal
  • hollow
  • hot
  • jammy
  • lean
  • leathery
  • musty
  • nutty
  • oaky
  • oxidized
  • petrolly
  • powerful
  • raisiny
  • reticent
  • rich
  • rough
  • round
  • smokey
  • smooth
  • soft
  • sour
  • spicy
  • supple
  • sweet
  • tannic
  • tar notes
  • tart
  • toasty
  • transparent
  • vanillin notes
  • vegetal
  • vinegary

Pair those with flowers, herbs, fruits, nuts, vegetables, words for feelings or states of mind…

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enraged pens

(make no sense/surreal in english, but “penne all’ arrabbiata” is an actual Italian dish…)

Saluti,
dott. Piergiorgio

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Leavened, unleavened

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Some nouns:

Food nouns

aspic
beignet
biryani
bouillabaisse
bouillon
butter
cake
canapé
ceviche
cream
crepe
custard
dumpling
emulsion
fricassee
gelatin
headcheese
infusion
jelly
kebab
loaf
menudo
noodle
omelette
paella
paste
pâté
pie
pudding
purée
quiche
roll
roux
salad
sauce
sausage
soup
spread
stew
syrup
terrine
toddy
tofu
ube
vichyssoise
wonton
xanthan gum
yakitori
ziti

And some adjectives. A lot of these are more a description of mouthfeel than a flavor, but they could work:

Food adjectives

acerbic
bland
bouncy
briny
bubbly
burnt
carbonated
chalky
cloudy
creamy
crunchy
crumbly
decadent
doughy
fermented
flaky
fleshy
foamy
gritty
honeyed
icy
juicy
lemony
malty
minty
moldy
oily
peppery
pillowy
piquant
prickly
pungent
rubbery
salty
silky
slippery
soupy
sparkly
springy
stretchy
stringy
tangy
unctuous
velvety
viscous
watery
yeasty
zesty

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The mention of Poland in a thread about food has me craving Polish sausage… and wondering if what’s sold in the US under that name actually originates from Poland or if its a total misnomer…

Anyways, potential adjectives
blueberry
blackbery
raspberry
strawberry
chocolate
apple
peach
cinnamon

potential nouns:
blueberry
blackberry
raspberry
strawberry
pie
cheesecake
shortcake
sauce
puree

and i feel like most of the cartesian product of adjective noun works… maybe not blueberry blueberry or other cases where a word on both lists is used for both at the same time.

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  • Hoppy ale
  • Jellied eels
  • pressed duck
  • Briny
  • burning
  • fried
  • poached
  • chocolate-coated
  • barnyardy
  • washed-rind cheese
  • coffee eclair
  • greasy
  • offal
  • kidneys
  • sweetbreads
  • liver
  • rumen
  • reticulum
  • omasum
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Wow! These are all great. I’ve added them to my ```table of flavorful flavors``. I’ll respond to individual replies soon.

Thanks for helping me improve the feature set of the FlavorFrob 750!

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Isn’t your current project Zorkian? I’m imagining some sort of Frobozz-brand vending machine dispensing savoury gristle…

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The FlavorFrob 750 is a Frobozz Magic Flavor Company product!

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OK! I have introduced all of these words to the FlavorFrob’s lexicon! Its dataset is quite compelling. The Frobozz Magic Flavor Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Frobozzco International, is grateful for your contributions.

I’m happy to have more, if anyone thinks of anything else. Consultants from the Frobozz Magic Table Company tell me that Inform can handle more rows if needed.

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luscious mussel-meat
heaven-sent boot-leather
diphtheria
bland gruel
unctuous parsnip
bloated gnome
white-hot geranium
boot polish
licorice giblet
hayseed-scented
mop water
tender little pod
cromulent
garish crab-apple
mottled
moldy biscuit
damp weather
obsession
stale shrimp
ragged pantaloon
temperamental
occipital
bone broth
fundamental broccoli
tepid lasagna
gorgeous peppercorn
loofah
ham hock
chicken neck
deliquescent placebo
soap
marzipan
distended baguette
euphoria
sludge
escargot
pigeon pie
walrus lard
wishbone

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  • starry-eyed lettuce
  • forsaken soda
  • smug pancakes
  • roaring penguins
  • groundbreaking pancakes
  • lusty mushrooms
  • laughable boxes of cereal
  • previously chicken
  • zealous pineapple
  • zesty soup
  • imperialistic banana
  • sleepy stew
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This is great! you all have contributed 163 nouns and 227 modifiers to the flavorfrob. More are welcome! Thanks everyone.

to savor the flavor:
     let N be a random number from 1 to the number of filled rows in the table of frobbed flavors;
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Hello hello! I thought I’d bump this a last time. I’m still looking for nouns and adjectives! The more, the merrier.

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I’ll be honest, not sure how mahy of these have been done since there’s so many here.

ADJECTIVE

  • charred
  • whole
  • rich
  • buttery
  • wet
  • bold
  • vile
  • mocha
  • bittersweet
  • burning
  • stale

NOUN

  • dragon’s head
  • dragon-scale wasabi
  • ox tongue
  • champagne cubes
  • gold flakes
  • sambal chilli
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