How do you think gems taste like?

[RainbowMau 291]

So Spike loves to eat gems, they're like candy for him, he even adds them to his cakes, but how do you think they taste like for him? I guess he tastes like a sugary flavor probably, or probably like a hard candy

 

[repsol rave 2,963]

i think they taste like those hard sugary candies. tough each color tastes different, like the blue ones taste like blueberry, and the green ones like apple or something

[baltoist 303]

Probably just like rock candy.

[PonyEcho 1,610]

They taste outrageous, truly truly truly outrageous. 

[Frith is Magick 1,469]

Well, the reason sugary foods taste "good" is that sugar is a good source of energy and our bodies are adapted to seek it (which is sadly not such a good thing these days). For dragons, the minerals that form these gems may be essential nutrients or even a source of energy that only they can process. Gems probably just taste like rocks or something (I've never licked a diamond or anything), but to dragons that is freaking delicious.

[RavenholmZombie 1,329]

They look like those Rock Candies. So i'm guessing that they'd taste like those Rock Candies too.

[(MARVEL) Blue Blood 991]

Gems, in terms of food, are probably the equivalent of Jolly Ranchers. They'd have flavor, but are rock solid. I don't like Jolly Ranchers, and I wouldn't like gems. 

[Digit 321]

I think they taste like meat. Spike is a dragon who lives with herbivores. But its been shown a dragon will try to eat a pony or cow or anything. I think a gem taste like a nice cut of meat.

 

In real life they taste like rocks.

[Admiral Regulus 2,769]

I imagine that they'd taste something like plastic.

[GenderIsAnIllusion 2,177]

Probably like dirt covered rocks.....

[Midnight Gaze 131]

Like any type of hard candy.

[Champion RD92 8,653]

I would say they probably taste like rocks...

[Midnight Gaze 131]

Hmm...someone should make that. A cake, with "gems" (rock candy) on top. It would be pretty cool.

[Majikku 65]

I'd say it tastes like really really really really really yummy (and shiny  ) rock candy.

[Thunderlane 550]

Rock / Boiled Sweet / Crunchy sweet (Because of the sound Spike makes when eating them)

[Espurr 449]

It'd probably taste like my favorite candy. ROCK CANDY! Just thinking about gems tasting like rock candy makes my mouth water. Then I bite down on a gem and break my teeth. Stupid gems.

[paradoxical 1,735]

This rock has a touch of heliotropic flavor with just  a hint of Lauzli -- just perfect to compliment the fruity Mossan flavor.

 

If you got that, you eat too many rocks.

 

If you sort of got that you're an amateur geologist.

[A goat 323]

I bet that they taste like chicken.

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,151]

Apparently...crunchy. Just crunchy.

 

[remove p l e a s e ? 800]

They probably taste like... PIG.

No they'd probably be rock candy.

[Zekromic 1,054]

I imagine them tasting like honey, much like star bits from Mario Galaxy

[Princess Periwinkle 3,774]

To anyone except dragons, probably like rocks. That's my theory anyways... For Spike I would assume some sort of candy.

[I used to be a stranger 7,988]

It really depends upon how his brain and biochemistry is wired.

This is Thyroxine, better known as table salt.

 

This is Sucrose, a common sugar compound found in nature.

 

This is Chromium Corundum, a compound which forms red crystals which we call "Ruby".

 

Spike's tastebuds could very well operate much like our own, except with a preference towards aluminum, chromium, cobalt and nickel over nitrogen, iron and carbohydrate compounds. For all we know, gemstones could be as varied in flavor as ice cream.

[Luna 831 465]

They taste like candy most likely but why would you want to eat them.

[Pastel 7,627]

They taste like rocks, EXCEPT for the dragons: they taste like hard candy.