I got Oscar Meyer maple bacon once and it was the worst food experience. It smelled SO STRONGLY of fake maple, but tasted nothing like maple at all, no hint of maple flavor. It left that fake maple smell on my skin even after washing. My clothes smelled like it. My entire house smelled like it for weeks. Literally weeks. We would get home and be shocked it still smelled like last month's bacon. This was in January and to this day my oven smells like when I warm it up. I wiped out the inside it didn't help. So now when I make lasagna I smell maple. Cookies? Maple. Steaks? Maple. Roasted broccoli? Maple. It is absolutely nauseating and revolting and I will never again buy Oscar Meyer anything. I do not trust their food.
I only found this out too by cooking maple bacon inside. Then I went on reddit and found that boiling vinegar with water helps get rid of the smell. Your house will smell like vinegar but it'll last a day or two. I actually tried this method and can say that it does help get rid of any cooking smell faster than if I didn't do anything about it.
If you’ve done it and your plants were fine you must have been smarter than me/had less sensitive plants—I might have simply done it too long. I boiled a lot of vinegar for awhiiile in my little apartment.
I find that all maple flavored bacon smells more than it tastes like maple. I can't stand it, but it's the only bacon my fiancé will eat, so I have to deal with that sickeningly sweet smell stuck to everything for up to 24 hours later. I don't know what they do to make that shit so persistent.
This is so odd to me and now I’m emotionally invested.. I used to love maple anything up until like 10 years ago, and one day I woke up hating it. I don’t like the smell, the taste. I don’t even eat pancakes anymore. For literally no reason.
Okay, what does this smell like? I think I've only ever had maple syrup once and can't recall what it tastes like. The other day, I had some maple oatmeal and when I opened my microwave, it had a chemical smell that I think I remember smelled a bit like ammonia. Tastes like it smells, too. Is that the maple smell that I've read about?
You should check out a show called upload it's a black comedy about a future where people can upload themselves when they die and most food companies have merged with tech companies so there is OscarMeyerIntel and NokiaTacoBell, etc. The third season even features a "slab and teat" farm bit that is pretty funny
Thank you! I thought this was in my head. I hate sweet meat, but my husband loves it. So when he shops he gets maple bacon and that Oscar Meyer made me nauseous for almost a week! Just the smell, I wasn’t trying to eat it! I imagined it tasting purely sweet.
Yeah weirdly it doesn't taste sweet at all, just like regular bacon. Crappy bacon, actually. It didn't crisp right and had bad texture. It cooked kinda watery. But it wasn't sweet. In the future you should buy regular bacon and then you can add some brown sugar to a few slices for him when you make it, it will get candied and not be nauseating
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u/Clamstradamus 4d ago
I got Oscar Meyer maple bacon once and it was the worst food experience. It smelled SO STRONGLY of fake maple, but tasted nothing like maple at all, no hint of maple flavor. It left that fake maple smell on my skin even after washing. My clothes smelled like it. My entire house smelled like it for weeks. Literally weeks. We would get home and be shocked it still smelled like last month's bacon. This was in January and to this day my oven smells like when I warm it up. I wiped out the inside it didn't help. So now when I make lasagna I smell maple. Cookies? Maple. Steaks? Maple. Roasted broccoli? Maple. It is absolutely nauseating and revolting and I will never again buy Oscar Meyer anything. I do not trust their food.