Artificial flavors we love

[Fat Guy]

I confess I really like the taste of artificial almond flavoring in things. Anybody else with examples?

[toolprincess]

Watermelon jolly ranchers.

[pastrygirl]

That's funny, I was just thinking about that the other day when I sampled an artificially flavored coconut cookie. I was in love for a minute, but decided I do prefer real coconut.

[heidih]

Watermelon jolly ranchers.

Absolutely - there is no substitute

[gfweb]

Liquid smoke

[Genkinaonna]

Fake cherry. Like in Ludens cough drops or (hangs head in shame) cheap maraschino cherries...could eat 'em by the jarful, god help me...

[janeer]

Liquid smoke

Liquid Smoke is a completely natural product

[conor610]

Jolly Rancher watermelon is ambrosia. So natural it's divine.

[Mjx]

Watermelon AND green apple Jolly Ranchers. And I have no idea whether Tang still exists, but I remember liking it better than orange juice.

[Twyst]

Watermelon AND green apple Jolly Ranchers.

And cherry jolly ranchers!

I also like fake banana like is found in now & laters and laffy taffy, so bad, yet so good.

Edited May 1, 2011 by Twyst (log)

[Tri2Cook]

As much as I hate admitting it, I like peach Nerds. I've actually considered working them into a dessert... but so far I've been able to talk myself out of it.

[TeakettleSlim]

Fake banana! When I was a kid, the local swimming pool sold these flavored sugar powders in little plastic fruit-shaped bottles. The banana was my favorite. I like to pretend my affection is mostly nostalgia-based, but I'm not sure that's true.

[sparrowgrass]

Oh, dear. If you pop a watermelon Jolly Rancher into your mouth when you are in my vehicle, you WILL be walking home. Cannot bear the smell. I would rather that you lit up a cigarette!

I guess I am pretty much anti-anything fruit-flavored.

Or artificial butter-flavored.

[ScoopKW]

Oh, dear. If you pop a watermelon Jolly Rancher into your mouth when you are in my vehicle, you WILL be walking home. Cannot bear the smell. I would rather that you lit up a cigarette!

I guess I am pretty much anti-anything fruit-flavored.

Or artificial butter-flavored.

Agreed.

I'd rather eat road tar than put anything made by Jolly Rancher in my mouth.

[gfweb]

Liquid smoke

Liquid Smoke is a completely natural product

Liquid smoke is essentially bottled air pollution from the colonial era.

[natasha1270]

Was going to list diet coke but they supposedly use natural flavoring oils so I'll just say I enjoy whatever artificial flavorings are in my coffeemate italian sweet cream coffee creamer.

[butterscotch]

I have to admit to loving Nocello liquer, which has artifical walnut flavor.

I remember being very bothered by a friend who I had gifted a bottle to. She said she very much enjoyed the first glass of it, and while reaching for a refill, read the bottle and immediately pronounced it repulsive. Rude. I should have hidden her eyeglasses, and if not that, I should have taken the bottle home with me. It's wonderful on dark chocolate or expresso flavored gelato too.

[kitchensqueen]

Fake banana! When I was a kid, the local swimming pool sold these flavored sugar powders in little plastic fruit-shaped bottles. The banana was my favorite. I like to pretend my affection is mostly nostalgia-based, but I'm not sure that's true.

Me too! And I actually hate real bananas... totally shameful, I know. :-)

[Tri2Cook]

Fake banana!

Me too! And I actually hate real bananas... totally shameful, I know. :-)

I'm just the opposite. I love bananas but artificial banana flavor is one of my most disliked artificial flavors.

[karlos]

On the savory side, cheetos cheese dust and most doritos flavors. For sweet, I haven't come across a gummi flavor I don't like

[andiesenji]

Fake banana! When I was a kid, the local swimming pool sold these flavored sugar powders in little plastic fruit-shaped bottles. The banana was my favorite. I like to pretend my affection is mostly nostalgia-based, but I'm not sure that's true.

Me too! And I actually hate real bananas... totally shameful, I know. :-)

I'm on board. I like bananas but the Cavandish - the only variety available except in ethnic markets, simply doesn't have enough banana flavor - even when I use the method favored by Cook's Illustrated.

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The artificial banana flavor tastes more like what I think of "banana" than the real thing.

[maggiethecat]

When young I suspected that no beverage in the world could ever taste as good as Orange Crush.

[DanM]

Blue Moon ice cream... Its a Midwestern thing. I have no idea what it is supposed to be, but it is so good.

And the mystery flavor dum dums. You are what you eat.

Edited May 2, 2011 by DanM (log)

[technophile50]

Occasionally I get a craving for a McDonalds "vanilla" milkshake

Vanilla Triple Thick® Shake:

Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream: Milk, sugar, cream, nonfat milk solids, corn syrup solids, mono- and diglycerides, guar gum, dextrose, sodium citrate, artificial vanilla flavor, sodium phosphate, carrageenan, disodium phosphate, cellulose gum, vitamin A palmitate.

1100 calories, 26 grams of fat, 16 grams of saturated fat; YUM! - but definitely not real vanilla.

[kitchensqueen]

Occasionally I get a craving for a McDonalds "vanilla" milkshake

Vanilla Triple Thick® Shake:

Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream: Milk, sugar, cream, nonfat milk solids, corn syrup solids, mono- and diglycerides, guar gum, dextrose, sodium citrate, artificial vanilla flavor, sodium phosphate, carrageenan, disodium phosphate, cellulose gum, vitamin A palmitate.

1100 calories, 26 grams of fat, 16 grams of saturated fat; YUM! - but definitely not real vanilla.

Scary.