Best Artificial Fruit Flavor

Yeah, they're grape!

the only time i've had something that was like intentionally cantaloupe flavored it was bubble tea but it was so good i might vote for it

like i've had "melon" flavor but it's never tasted like anything in particular

watermelon is my go-to though

fake banana is the worst

I know this isn't true for people who grew up near tamarind trees, but tamarind, even when natural, kinda only exists as a flavor for me. Tamarind+sugar is undeniable, though.

Where's pear? Pear makes the best jelly beans.

blue raspberry is based off the actual fruit iirc

no lychee no credibility

pear jelly bellies are made with real fruit - i visited the jelly belly factory and can confirm

ultimately i voted guava on the strength of

https://i.imgur.com/E20AP6b.jpg

are the barf flavour made with real vomit

aren't blue raspberry and raspberry the same thing? i always assumed the blue was to distinguish it from strawberry and cherry

Grapermelon

Grape is underrated I think

https://i.imgur.com/ZGR3da1.jpg

blue raspberry is totally its own thing. have never had one but have long debated trying to grow some. whitebark raspberry is its other name.

this is fake banana (nerds) vs fake lemon (starburst etc)

Grape, easy.

blue raspberry is totally its own thing. have never had one but have long debated trying to grow some. whitebark raspberry is its other name.

― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, January 8, 2017 8:11 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mind literally blown

Fake banana is the best, I'm sorry if you disagree.

That said, I would add that I'd much rather eat watermelon-flavored candy than eat actual watermelon. That is an intensely good flavor.

Grape is interesting too, it's like nothing else in the natural world.

fake banana is so bad

Oh Grape owns this. Think Welch's grape soda, grape jolly ranchers . . . It's like someone stumbled on a delicious artificial flavor and needed to connect it to a real fruit and chose grape arbitrarily

― rip van wanko, Sunday, January 8, 2017 10:04 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the real fruit they taste like is concord grapes

As if

What fruit is Juicy Fruit?

rubber

I'd much rather eat watermelon-flavored candy than eat actual watermelon. That is an intensely good flavor.

Same here. I'm one of those weird people who doesn't really like watermelon, but I've always liked watermelon candy and watermelon gum. Dunno why. Think I'd have to vote pineapple though.

black currant

on the one hand, huge high five to you, Josefa, for your ranking of the artificial fruits

on the other hand, there is literally no food greater in this entire world than a ripe fresh cold watermelon on a hot day, all other foods are kind of a joke next to a great watermelon

on the third hand, I have so much love for the black currant people on this thread, they are a treat

on the other hand, there is literally no food greater in this entire world than a ripe fresh cold watermelon on a hot day, all other foods are kind of a joke next to a great watermelon

As someone allergic to watermelon, I say sit on it, Potsie. Also, fresh peaches are better. And slightly underripe cherry tomatoes eaten while u pick.

Do they still make peach/orange/lemon-flavored Jolly Ranchers? Because I look at this poll and it's basically "Jolly Ranchers: Classic or CLASSIC?"

btw I just went to the Jolly Rancher web site to see what flavors they still have and I think I've gone insane because that can't possibly say "a real hootenanny wing-dinger of a jubilee"

https://www.hersheys.com/jolly-rancher/en_us/products/fruity-bash.html

original draft "a real downer of a jubilee" apparently didn't pass muster.

I have an inordinate amount of respect for whatever ad agency was able to successfully pitch "Whatever life throws at you, #KeepOnSucking!" as a tag line to this brand.

when i was a kid the dentist would clean your teeth, politely yell at you to brush/floss more, then have you sit for some kind of fluoride-y treatment, like 10 minutes each top and bottom teeth. the treatment came in artificial flavors, and the banana was so awful that it haunts me decades later

oh god the dentist fluoride treatment flavors were the absolute worst, otm

write-in vote for pear

Oh mannnnn those dentist goo flavors! I think I always chose "bubblegum" and it was always awful.

oh god the dentist fluoride treatment flavors were the absolute worst, otm

― mh 😏, Monday, January 9, 2017 11:44 AM (nine minutes ago)

yeah you were a sucker if you didn't go with mint, the safe choice

I don't think I was ever offered mint, just "strawberry" or "bubblegum"

bleccch

most of the thread otm that artificial banana is disgusting

lots of great choices here but guava probably takes it for these https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/8bb7d968-de64-4a5c-aa27-598e21ce9264_1.752fe857ea5a52dd67aac5a18ef76d15.jpeg?odnHeight=450&odnWidth=450&odnBg=FFFFFF

I don't think I've had a Jolly Rancher that wasn't Green Apple flavor in decades

huh yeah if we're going to include blue raspberry i think green apple has to be a choice too

I recall starburst once removing lemon from the standard lineup of "original" flavors, but I can't find evidence anywhere. Maybe it was all a fantastic dream.

and pink lemonade? xp

I don't think I've had a Jolly Rancher that wasn't Green Apple flavor in decades

my heart aches for you

Another for pear

boscie bros

lychee

what artificial pear-flavored things are yall very refined eaters of artificial flavors eating other than the occasional jelly belly. (I will concede that the pear jelly belly slays, however is not better than the following jelly bellies: tutti fruitti, peach, green apple, the lamented baked apple, top banana, guava, dr. pepper)

I am now longing for Dr Pepper fruit

the fruit of dreams

Fake banana is the most vile and disgusting thing. You fake banana lovers are all clearly insane. Fake grape a close second to worst fake fruit.

i think i have maybe written somewhere else on ilx abt one of the things inflecting any decision about which is your favorite nut being 'how many do you want to eat', just as much as 'which tastes the nicest to you', by this metric cashews gathering real momentum over some more outre or expressive picks, cashews good throughout the whole process, consistent, where walnuts, hazelnuts, even pecans are losing steam despite their charm. & i think something similar is true of blueberries, where 'how nice is the blueberry compared to the raspberry' really mis-frames the question, the raspberry is sweeter, juicier, sociologists are watching infants reach for the raspberry, but so much of their satisfaction is in the restraint - it is so nice to sit & eat this kind of sixty-percent-intensity berry, subtly instead of brightly delicious, kind of ruminative, not all peak, & so to work through a chain of them, something less concretely confined to any sort of treat or sweet categories & so more open, & something small + (but for being expensive !) closer to maybe something like sunflower seeds in having less individual economic object value, One Blueberry much less commodifiable than a raspberry or especially a strawberry, somewhere between regular berries & grains of rice where the individual leans hard on society for meaning, is best understood as part of a group, a camera floating above a city of blueberries going about their business, too small to pick out. & that they are blue, too - this is definitely informing my image of sitting & eating blueberries & thinking - but that they are not just blue, & not even just-blue-but-secretly-green; i was just eating some & getting lost in that amazing red color, that they are secretly pomegranate-red, sometimes, this always apparent as a layer of paint visible through another, this burnished or rubbed deep rothko glowing red. definitely a time & a place to eat a lot of blueberries.

also those cute lil collars

i remember this great banana medicine, as a child, too. kind of a disarming context to encounter artificial fruit flavors tho so idk if i can rly extrapolate out.

iirc blueberries are red when they are green

they are mood berries

You guys are making me feel bad about liking artificial blueberry flavor.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

great poll. very revealing how poorly orange did; the candy magnates should take notice.

You don't like cinnamon or black licorice? Those are pretty much my two favorite flavors in the whole world. Also, almond.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB)

bitter almond is my favorite

the bitter taste is cumbersome imo

great poll. very revealing how poorly orange did; the candy magnates should take notice.

― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino)

orange is nobody's favorite, but does anybody hate orange? i don't. it's a solid fruit flavor. i'll take it over cherry or lemon or banana (unless it's laffy taffy in which case banana is the best).

love schlump

we get bad blueberries here that taste like greyberries tbh

can't believe banana beat lime, what a travesty

great poll in spite of banana's high showing. rushomancy otm re:orange, a flavor that may not be my favorite but is invariably good in just about every incarnation

thrilled for art-cher fans everywhere

Is it fair at this point to ask where coconut flavor figures in all of this?

Are you prepared for the answer to be "your mom"?

Where is lychee

And: peach was robbed

thank god no one voted cantaloupe

The Haribo fruit salad has an awesome artificial grapefruit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYBmVVuMIa0

best artificial flower flavour

schlump that long post was a stone classic, thank you

"sixty-percent-intensity berry" will stay with me whenever I eat blueberries. I want to poll the 4 permutations of liking brazil nuts and honeydew to make a case there.

The schlumpberries taste like schlumpberries!!

Suspect these people are idiots. maybe not.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/video/2016/jun/17/jelly-bean-flavour-is-it-all-in-the-eyes-video

Just had a grape Jolly Rancher for the first time, oh baby that's flavour.

Watermelon is also good.

Watermelon flavored vodka is far better than it has any business being.