It literally only tastes of something if you sear it with thermonuclear fire. There's the classic scene in Terminator 8: What's Cooking? where Sarah Connor tells the Terminator no, let judgment day happen, I'm planning to make baba ganoush.
Another lie is avocado. The average UK supermarket avocado is ripe for 14 seconds. Before that it's rock, after it's slime.