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Post by Murray the Demonic Skull on Dec 14, 2016 10:28:29 GMT -5
You must choose and resolve this once and for all
Edit : I forgot Fake green apple but it doesn't matter because the answer is obviously fake watermelon.
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Post by ganews on Dec 14, 2016 10:32:31 GMT -5
Obviously fake cherry. Who thinks, "Mmm, you know what would taste good right now? Some cough syrup." Maybe Lil' Wayne.
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Post by Tellyfier on Dec 14, 2016 10:32:40 GMT -5
Fake Hodor
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Post by pairesta on Dec 14, 2016 10:35:01 GMT -5
I'm going with watermelon because it's the biggest gap between the real deal and its imitator. Real watermelon is one of the greatest joys there is. Watermelon flavored anything almost always gets spat out.
Banana is second. Just because banana flavor is just a bad idea in general.
Not included: root beer flavor, which makes me nauseous just thinking about it after an Incident from when I was a kid.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Dec 14, 2016 10:44:06 GMT -5
I don't think fake watermelon tastes like real watermelon, but I don't mind it. I do mind fake banana, it's so gross. I had banana-flavored amoxicillin as a kid and just the thought is gag-inducing.
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Post by GumTurkeyles on Dec 14, 2016 11:01:47 GMT -5
I love watermelon jolly ranchers, so you're all clearly wrong and I now question everything I've ever known about you.
Fake banana is disgusting.
Ipso factoid: I recall hearing that the fake banana taste is modeled after what bananas actually tasted like in the 19th and early 20th century, and what we have now is a completely different variety of banana, which is why there's a disparity. But I have no idea if that's true.
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Post by Baron von Costume on Dec 14, 2016 11:57:46 GMT -5
Fake watermelon is the absolute worst but it only beats out green apple by a little.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Dec 14, 2016 12:00:14 GMT -5
What, no "Fake Sour Apple"?!
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Dec 14, 2016 12:02:16 GMT -5
I'll vote banana on the basis that banana flavor, fake or real, is vile. But the worst fake flavor I've ever actually eaten (I know better than to try banana) was "butter". Interestingly, not the fake butter flavor on microwave popcorn or what-have-you, but a fake butter extract that a recipe called for in a cake. ::shudder::
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Post by Powerthirteen on Dec 14, 2016 12:02:32 GMT -5
Fake Green Apple isn't even a fake flavour, because I'm not sure there's a real-world referent it approximates. It tastes exactly like Green Apple flavour.
Fake cherry can be nasty, but fake banana - which I also associate with childhood doses of amoxycillin - is the absolute worst. It's like drinking someone else's fermented boogers.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Dec 14, 2016 12:03:20 GMT -5
I love watermelon jolly ranchers, so you're all clearly wrong and I now question everything I've ever known about you. Fake banana is disgusting. Ipso factoid: I recall hearing that the fake banana taste is modeled after what bananas actually tasted like in the 19th and early 20th century, and what we have now is a completely different variety of banana, which is why there's a disparity. But I have no idea if that's true. No wonder they re-bred bananas, then. |
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Post by Baron von Costume on Dec 14, 2016 12:28:12 GMT -5
Fake Green Apple isn't even a fake flavour, because I'm not sure there's a real-world referent it approximates. It tastes exactly like Green Apple flavour. Fake cherry can be nasty, but fake banana - which I also associate with childhood doses of amoxycillin - is the absolute worst. It's like drinking someone else's fermented boogers. It's supposed to be trying for granny smith, I don't see it... but I also don't see it for most of the others |
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Post by songstarliner on Dec 14, 2016 12:53:55 GMT -5
BA
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Post by Ben Grimm on Dec 14, 2016 12:59:07 GMT -5
The answer is watermelon, and anyone putting anything else down is wrong, in absolute terms.
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Post by Smacks on Dec 14, 2016 13:43:08 GMT -5
I'll vote banana on the basis that banana flavor, fake or real, is vile. But the worst fake flavor I've ever actually eaten (I know better than to try banana) was "butter". Interestingly, not the fake butter flavor on microwave popcorn or what-have-you, but a fake butter extract that a recipe called for in a cake. ::shudder:: I saw that butter flavoring in the store years ago and I was like "why? why does this need to exist?" |
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Dec 14, 2016 13:48:09 GMT -5
Ipso factoid: I recall hearing that the fake banana taste is modeled after what bananas actually tasted like in the 19th and early 20th century, and what we have now is a completely different variety of banana, which is why there's a disparity. But I have no idea if that's true. This appears to be true. Apparently it is the case that Gros Michel bananas tasted pretty much like pure isoamyl acetate, whereas the Cavendish bananas we now enjoy are more complex in their chemical flavor profile and thus taste less like pure isoamyl acetate than Gros Michels did. Confectioners didn't bother to update the chemical makeup of fake banana flavor because pure isoamyl acetate was "close enough." I have never personally eaten a Gros Michel banana but apparently they are still widely commercially available in China and Japan so maybe one of our better-traveled colleagues can fill us in on how much they taste like banana flavoring? I knew they didn't go extinct! Always included in the version I've heard is that Gros Michel bananas went extinct, because why else would we stop buying them? And I never bought it. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 14:10:17 GMT -5
I love fake banana flavor AND real bananas. Watermelon is mostly not very good.
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Post by LazBro on Dec 14, 2016 14:11:40 GMT -5
I don't know how grapes hasn't gotten more votes. Grapes are the worst, and therefore by association grape flavoring is the worst, no matter how much it does or doesn't taste like grapes, and therefore by association people who didn't vote for grapes are also the worst.
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Dec 14, 2016 14:16:39 GMT -5
I don't know how grapes hasn't gotten more votes. Grapes are the worst, and therefore by association grape flavoring is the worst, no matter how much it does or doesn't taste like grapes, and therefore by association people who didn't vote for grapes are also the worst. Forget fake cherry, fake grape reminds me of, to quote Lil' Wayne, "a very beautiful liquid called cough syrup. SIZZURP!" |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Dec 14, 2016 14:18:18 GMT -5
I don't know how grapes hasn't gotten more votes. Grapes are the worst, and therefore by association grape flavoring is the worst, no matter how much it does or doesn't taste like grapes, and therefore by association people who didn't vote for grapes are also the worst. You are more wrong than the world's wrongest person, dancing on the wrong table, singing "wrong times are here again." |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 14:41:55 GMT -5
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Post by Trurl on Dec 15, 2016 11:45:42 GMT -5
I expect that fake banana flavour tastes like isoamyl acetate is because isoamy acetate is cheap to produce in large amounts (I remember making it in high-school chemistry). The people who came up with it weren't foodies.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2016 12:06:17 GMT -5
I expect that fake banana flavour tastes like isoamyl acetate is because isoamy acetate is cheap to produce in large amounts (I remember making it in high-school chemistry). The people who came up with it weren't foodies. You...you MADE banana flavoring in chemistry class? I want to know how to do that! |
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Post by Trurl on Dec 15, 2016 13:54:40 GMT -5
I expect that fake banana flavour tastes like isoamyl acetate is because isoamy acetate is cheap to produce in large amounts (I remember making it in high-school chemistry). The people who came up with it weren't foodies. You...you MADE banana flavoring in chemistry class? I want to know how to do that! We also made whatever ester is that flavoured Popeye Cigarettes. Lab smelled like a shitty candy factory. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Dec 15, 2016 14:23:18 GMT -5
We live close to an artificial-flavoring company with the cheery name of FlavorChem. There is a lot of "pancake syrup" smell in the air sometimes, or a generic "candy." I'm actually glad it's never been more specific than that. I wonder how it smells inside their building...
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Dec 15, 2016 15:13:45 GMT -5
Please send me all your fake banana flavoured items because fake banana flavour is THE BEST.
THE BEST.
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Post by ganews on Dec 15, 2016 15:58:58 GMT -5
Please send me all your fake banana flavoured items because fake banana flavour is THE BEST. THE BEST. I will trade you fake banana flavor for fake pumpkin flavor! |
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Post by dＬᵒ on Dec 17, 2016 10:05:33 GMT -5
I don't know how grapes hasn't gotten more votes. Grapes are the worst, and therefore by association grape flavoring is the worst, no matter how much it does or doesn't taste like grapes, and therefore by association people who didn't vote for grapes are also the worst. grape is ＴＨＥ ＷＯＲＳＴ because it takes what should be a very subtle flavor and ramps it up into infinite disgusting. What I hate most about it is that when it gets in my mouth it becomes nearly permanent and inescapable, like I've chewed on a shapie, but one made of chemical ass. |
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Post by rainbowsherbert on Dec 17, 2016 11:28:45 GMT -5
Haven't seen this one mentioned, but I'll throw in Artificial Cola Flavored as being pretty unpleasant.
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Post by Pastafarian on Dec 17, 2016 16:36:57 GMT -5
Ipso factoid: I recall hearing that the fake banana taste is modeled after what bananas actually tasted like in the 19th and early 20th century, and what we have now is a completely different variety of banana, which is why there's a disparity. But I have no idea if that's true. This appears to be true. Apparently it is the case that Gros Michel bananas tasted pretty much like pure isoamyl acetate, whereas the Cavendish bananas we now enjoy are more complex in their chemical flavor profile and thus taste less like pure isoamyl acetate than Gros Michels did. Confectioners didn't bother to update the chemical makeup of fake banana flavor because pure isoamyl acetate was "close enough." I have never personally eaten a Gros Michel banana but apparently they are still widely commercially available in China and Japan so maybe one of our better-traveled colleagues can fill us in on how much they taste like banana flavoring? More like Gross Michel bananas |
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