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), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 17:14 (seven years ago) link
jackfruit is pretty good, i don't remember juicyfruit gum tasting like it though but i haven't had it since i was a kid
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 17:21 (seven years ago) link
I have a Clockwork Orange type reaction to black licorice. Everyone I know likes it fine, for some reason it activates the puke center of my brain on first contact
― frogbs, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link
Cinnamon is fine. But the thing with Jelly Bellies is, you want to combine the fruit flavors, cuz they're tiny. One cinnamon just ruins everything.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 19:15 (seven years ago) link
black licorice and olives are two things that ILX has convinced me to try that I really like now
― wrinkled sweater guy (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 01:55 (seven years ago) link
Voted "lemon" on a "most tolerable" basis.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 03:11 (seven years ago) link
I voted for blueberry, which are almost always disappointing when I eat the real thing. I don't eat candy much anymore, so it's the baked goods I'm looking to. I did love Jolly Rancher grape and watermelon as a kid.
― nickn, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 04:22 (seven years ago) link
pineapple soda is god
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 04:53 (seven years ago) link
fake lemon is the best of these
fake banana is the worst, can't stand basically anything banana flavored. Love real bananas though, eat one pretty much every day.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link
what about fake cheese, like they put in doritos and other stuff? That's another common junk food flavor I have a hard time with.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 15:46 (seven years ago) link
I guess cheese isn't a fruit, so off topic I suppose
― silverfish, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 15:47 (seven years ago) link
blueberry, which are almost always disappointing when I eat the real thing.
lifetime ban
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 19:42 (seven years ago) link
raspberries > blackberries > blueberries
― (The caption: βfine dining.β) (DJP), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 19:47 (seven years ago) link
I'd put blackberries ahead of raspberries.
I should point out that I'm in SoCal, so maybe I don't get good blueberries out here.
― nickn, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 22:35 (seven years ago) link
I have no idea where blueberries are more of a thing, but I grew up with them as mostly something you saw in muffins or whatever, whereas sitting around and eating raspberries is more normal? And strawberries are omnipresent for part of the year
― mh π, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 22:45 (seven years ago) link
I think the only blueberry plants I see for sale here are those that were bred to do well in warmer climates, so I don't doubt that any locally grown ones are sub par. The baskets I've bought in stores may be those local ones, or more likely imported from colder areas, but maybe the shipping, or picking early to ship easily, affects the flavor.
― nickn, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 23:01 (seven years ago) link
I had great blueberries in Vermont! My friends got married on a farm next door to a blueberry farm and the neighbors told them to take as many for the reception as they wanted. I probably ate more that weekend than ever before.
― mh π, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 23:22 (seven years ago) link
Late on this, but one of the few things I remember from Chemistry 101 ages ago is the professor talking about esters, and how certain ones are the characteristic thing that make some fruits taste the way they do.
Some lab isolated orange, for example, and realized they're some sort of polymer chain - so if you add another "link" with more carbon and hydrogen atoms, you get the flavor in banana, and add another one and you get lemon, etc. Somebody in the lab added some more links, following the same pattern, and ended up with a something that tasted like a fruit that had never existed, and that became Juicy Fruit gum.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/04/8c/13/048c137aff211f2e08d758266f7e8fe1.jpg
― joygoat, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 23:31 (seven years ago) link
Two great British old skool sweet flavours missing from the list: pear and rhubarb.
― Madchen, Thursday, 12 January 2017 06:50 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 15 January 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
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.
― schlump, Sunday, 15 January 2017 04:55 (seven years ago) link
also those cute lil collars
― schlump, Sunday, 15 January 2017 04:56 (seven years ago) link
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
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 15 January 2017 04:57 (seven years ago) link
they are mood berries
― schlump, Sunday, 15 January 2017 05:01 (seven years ago) link
You guys are making me feel bad about liking artificial blueberry flavor.
― nickn, Sunday, 15 January 2017 07:56 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 16 January 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
great poll. very revealing how poorly orange did; the candy magnates should take notice.
― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Monday, 16 January 2017 00:06 (seven years ago) link
β Benson and the Jets (ENBB)
bitter almond is my favorite
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Monday, 16 January 2017 00:15 (seven years ago) link
the bitter taste is cumbersome imo
― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Monday, 16 January 2017 00:16 (seven years ago) link
β 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).
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Monday, 16 January 2017 00:18 (seven years ago) link
love schlump
― trilby mouth (darraghmac), Monday, 16 January 2017 00:29 (seven years ago) link
we get bad blueberries here that taste like greyberries tbh
― trilby mouth (darraghmac), Monday, 16 January 2017 00:36 (seven years ago) link
can't believe banana beat lime, what a travesty
― intheblanks, Monday, 16 January 2017 02:07 (seven years ago) link
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
― intheblanks, Monday, 16 January 2017 02:09 (seven years ago) link
thrilled for art-cher fans everywhere
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 16 January 2017 02:22 (seven years ago) link
Is it fair at this point to ask where coconut flavor figures in all of this?
― Josefa, Monday, 16 January 2017 02:29 (seven years ago) link
Are you prepared for the answer to be "your mom"?
― (The caption: βfine dining.β) (DJP), Monday, 16 January 2017 05:59 (seven years ago) link
Where is lychee
And: peach was robbed
― fgti, Monday, 16 January 2017 06:02 (seven years ago) link
thank god no one voted cantaloupe
― mookieproof, Monday, 16 January 2017 06:15 (seven years ago) link
The Haribo fruit salad has an awesome artificial grapefruit
― wrinkled sweater guy (los blue jeans), Monday, 16 January 2017 06:27 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYBmVVuMIa0
― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Monday, 16 January 2017 19:35 (seven years ago) link
best artificial flower flavour
― Fβ― Aβ― (β), Monday, 16 January 2017 19:38 (seven years ago) link
schlump that long post was a stone classic, thank you
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 16 January 2017 19:59 (seven years ago) link
"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.
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 16 January 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
The schlumpberries taste like schlumpberries!!
― wrinkled sweater guy (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 06:30 (seven years ago) link
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
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 17 March 2017 14:55 (seven years ago) link
Just had a grape Jolly Rancher for the first time, oh baby that's flavour.
― Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 07:43 (five years ago) link
Watermelon is also good.
― nickn, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 06:07 (five years ago) link
Watermelon flavored vodka is far better than it has any business being.
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 07:49 (five years ago) link