Flavor Divorce

          So I often personify my flavors (yeah, you can tease me if you want). Strawberry is like a girl that is always the center of attention, she is sweet but a bit sharp and dominating. Flavor personalities that go well with her, can't compete for the palate spotlight and instead act as back up flavors; think strawberries and cream, the cream is mellow and cuts the strawberries tartness.

Perfect Couples and Best-friends: Flavors that are made for each other and are often seen together; one precedes the other.
-Chocolate & Hazelnut
-Butter & Honey
-Lime & Cilantro

Odd Couples: Unconventional or unintuitive matches that go great!
-Cheese & Fruit
-Salt and a Margarita

A Friend Group: A group of flavors that goes well together but any two individual flavors in the group aren't necessarily destined to go together.
-Curry
-Apple Pie

Divorced Flavors:

          I recently found a couple of flavors that are so awful together that they are forever divorced in my mind; Balsamic Vinegar and the Anise/Licorice flavor (fennel, anise, Thai Basil). Balsamic is like a sweet but really complicated person while, for instance, Thai Basil, is fresh but dominating and lacks the ability to appreciate the vinegar's complexity; as a couple the basil sours the balsamic and the vinegar turn the basil bitter. It's an awful, awful combo.

That's all, let me know what your observations on this concept are.