Which artificial fruit flavor is the most better than the real thing?

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Megaton Punch

Megaton Punch

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No, "most better" isn't a typo. This thread is where we will determine, once and for all, which artificial flavor is the best relative to the flavor it's mimicking. This isn't about choosing which one is the best overall, it's about which has the highest artificial:natural deliciousness ratio, which I will call Megaton Punch's Ratio, named after the only person who has ever cared enough to think about it.

My vote goes to watermelon. Artificial watermelon tastes like some sort of otherworldly alien chemical, but in a good way. Real watermelon tastes like if sugar water could go stale the same way bread does. It's not even close.

Runner up would have to be banana. Bananas are good, but fake banana has this creamy, sweet taste that you just can't find in a true and honest banana. Unless you live in the early 20th century, that is.
 
For the most part, grape. Fake grape flavor is usually concord if I remember correctly. They're way too... grapey to eat like red and white grapes. But the flavor itself works well as a candy.
 
There's a hitch in your question here:
How exactly do you factor in citrus fruits like lemon or lime? Because if you just sat down and chugged a bottle of lemon juice you'd be pretty unhappy, yet lemonheads are good.

So what are the rules, is sugar allowed to be added to the original fruit while still considering it "natural"? Because poor naive individuals will eat guava candies and think "Wow, this stuff is great" then see a guava in the store and buy it thinking it'll be just as good, and they're shocked when it tastes like wet sand; however if you just add sugar to guava it's not bad at all.

But if you're allowed to add sugar to fruits and still consider the same flavor, can you take away sweetness from artificial flavors and still consider them the same flavor? Because I'll bet if you took any flavoring used to make candy and took away the sugar it would taste like exactly what it is, industrial chemicals.


What a silly thing to ask. Maybe think before you make a fool of yourself next time :neckbeard:
 
Uberpenguin said:
There's a hitch in your question here:
How exactly do you factor in citrus fruits like lemon or lime? Because if you just sat down and chugged a bottle of lemon juice you'd be pretty unhappy, yet lemonheads are good.

So what are the rules, is sugar allowed to be added to the original fruit while still considering it "natural"? Because poor naive individuals will eat guava candies and think "Wow, this stuff is great" then see a guava in the store and buy it thinking it'll be just as good, and they're shocked when it tastes like wet sand; however if you just add sugar to guava it's not bad at all.

But if you're allowed to add sugar to fruits and still consider the same flavor, can you take away sweetness from artificial flavors and still consider them the same flavor? Because I'll bet if you took any flavoring used to make candy and took away the sugar it would taste like exactly what it is, industrial chemicals.


What a silly thing to ask. Maybe think before you make a fool of yourself next time :neckbeard:
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Flavor is flavor. There's stuff too strong to enjoy comfortably--one of my friends used to own a snow cone trailer and I suggested that to make his business more unique, he should add a Dr Pepper flavor, so he bought some syrup. Unfortunately, Dr Pepper syrup is designed to be mixed with water (and carbon dioxide) and the initial batch was far too strong, so he had to dilute it with water just to use it as a snow cone syrup. The flavor of it didn't change.

Lemon, guava, and Dr Pepper are fundamentally good flavors, even if they require extra things to work.

A "Tranny's Rotten Discharge" or "Outdoor Latrine" flavor will be terrible no matter what's added to it.
 
Blue flavor. Blue flavor tastes great, sweet and tangy but color blue doesn’t taste like anything at all. Don’t say blue flavor is supposed to be raspberry because that’s fucking laughable, raspberries are not blue and do not tast like artificial blue flavoring in the slightest.
 
Lemon. Easily lemon.

Because most people would never just snack on a lemon. But even if you hate it, lemon candy is basically edible.
 
Banana and watermelon are the obvious choices but I also like the specific strawberry flavouring that they use in both Runts and Pop Rocks. Not that I dislike the taste of the actual fruits and I don't think the fake candy flavour is better, just different.
 
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