Best Artificial Fruit Flavor

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

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.

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.

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.

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Two great British old skool sweet flavours missing from the list: pear and rhubarb.

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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.

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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.

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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.