Salted Caramel gross. AIBU?

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Where did it spring from and why isn’t it going away?!

It’s just sugar and salt flavour. Yuck!

My theory is that it’s everywhere because it’s a cheaper flavour to make than cocoa or vanilla for example.

But regardless of why, it’s mank. Aibu?!

YABU. Salty and sweet together, delicious. See also alternating crisps and chocolate buttons.

I love it. Also love salty sweet popcorn and sea salt dark chocolate. Popular things tend to stick around, OP, so there’s you’re answer.

Yes I agree! I totally think we are in the minority though OP, but I don't like it at all!

It’s horrible!! Just doesn’t work for me!

No I love it. Caramel isn't just sugar flavour, it's deeper than that. Add salt and it's perfect.

Salty sweet popcorn! I can never get a big bucket with my partner at the cinema because he just doesn't get it! It's a bucket of sweet for him and a sweet and salty for me. Absolute perfection.

Nope. Lovely sweet caramel and then 🤢 salt. Just why would you do that??

Can't stand salt. Hate salted caramel. It feels wrong too.

Where did it spring from? Brittany I think, they had salted caramel sweets, salted caramel sauce and butter biscuits years before the food industry took it up.

I used to hate it until I tried a salted caramel milkshake, which is delicious.

It's the work of the devil.

I want yummy unpolluted caramel!

Voting currently suggest there are more salted caramel fans out there than not. Heathens!

This post was mainly inspired by a longing for actual proper caramel flavoured stuff. I like caramel. I don’t want salt in it. You can barely find any ‘plain’ caramel any more ☹️

Yes! 🙌 My feelings precisely.

I love it, especially in ice cream form

I quite like it for one mouthful, like in a box of chocolates, but when my boss gave me a fancy salted caramel easter egg it was disgusting, so sickly to have in any quantity.

YANBU, OP.

The only people I know who like salted caramel are British - not all Brits, obviously.

I am fine with ordinary caramel, I love a bit of sea salt on my dark chocolate, but I am with you on this.

YANBU.

If I decide to eat something caramel flavoured, it's because I want to eat something sweet. I don't need a glob of salt dumped in it ('to take the edge off the sweetness' as a friend once explained it).

I do not want 'the edge taken off the sweetness' - the sweetness is the point!

It's horrible, it's an abomination, and it cannot fall out of vogue quickly enough, as far as I'm concerned (along with this weird assumption that all women love Prosecco and peculiar flavoured gin).

I don't like caramel, but I like other sweet and salty combos like chocolate pretzels, and jam and peanut butter.

Honey and salt is better

I'm not a fan of salted caramel in a chocolate bar as it's usually way too sickly sweet, but I love it as an ice cream flavour. I do love sweet and salty together generally though. Popcorn, sea salt on dark chocolate. Honey on halloumi is my latest obsession!

I can’t stand it (but never liked caramel anyway) and hate that it’s everywhere. I went to a restaurant recently where three of the deserts featured it.

I thought it would be a short-lived fad but it’s been going on for years now, so I guess we’re stuck with it.

It’s just butterscotch, rebranded. It sneaked in and stole butterscotch from us. Butterscotch was that very slightly salty caramel flavour, as butter has a bit of salt in it. And now it’s all “salted caramel”.

Oh nooooo you cannot be serious?!!

Oh interesting. I have honey on greek yoghurt - should I add a bit of salt?