Poll of the Day > What flavor is purple?

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Blackcurrant is barely known in the US because it was banned in the US until 1966, with some states continuing the ban into the 2020s. Blackcurrant is one of the hosts of white pine blister rust, so the plant was banned to protect American timber interests. As a result, most purple candies & drinks sold in the US are grape-flavored.

Nipple flavored

Eggplant

It's purple-flavored.

I'd say grape, but let's be honest, that shit doesn't taste like any grape I've ever eaten.

Same with orange flavor. And "strawberry" flavor. And "banana" flavor. And "root beer" flavor. None of those things taste like what they're claiming to be. They're like their own alternate universe versions.

I bought a box of 64 different flavors of drink mix powder. Lots of common flavors (grape, orange, strawberry, lemonade, etc), and some unusual ones (rum, yogurt, tomato, elderflower, mango chilli).

The flavor I'm trying tonight is blackcurrant. It's... kinda gross. It's sort of a mix of berry and soap.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Eggplant

Aubergine yum yum

ube

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's purple-flavored.

I'd say grape, but let's be honest, that shit doesn't taste like any grape I've ever eaten.

Same with orange flavor. And "strawberry" flavor. And "banana" flavor. And "root beer" flavor. None of those things taste like what they're claiming to be. They're like their own alternate universe versions.

Agree on the fruits, but it's not uncommon for Rootbeer flavor stuff to taste like root beer.

ultra_magnus13 posted...

Agree on the fruits, but it's not uncommon for Rootbeer flavor stuff to taste like root beer.

It tastes close, but it's not quite root beer.

Though to be fair, I'm mostly basing that on my childhood memories of root beer Hubba Bubba and root beer barrels. Maybe they taste closer now.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It tastes close, but it's not quite root beer.

Though to be fair, I'm mostly basing that on my childhood memories of root beer Hubba Bubba and root beer barrels. Maybe they taste closer now.

I can agree with this. It's definitely sweeter than real root beer. "Root Beer Flavor" has a unique flavor.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's purple-flavored.

I'd say grape, but let's be honest, that shit doesn't taste like any grape I've ever eaten.

Same with orange flavor. And "strawberry" flavor. And "banana" flavor. And "root beer" flavor. None of those things taste like what they're claiming to be. They're like their own alternate universe versions.

Well apparently, banana artificial flavor tastes different because its based on a different species of banana than we eat today. The original banana died out in the 50s or something IIRC.

Hejiru posted...

Well apparently, banana artificial flavor tastes different because its based on a different species of banana than we eat today. The original banana died out in the 50s or something IIRC.

This is true. The main banana used to be the Gros Michel, but the one we have now is the Cavendish:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_banana

And the banana we eat today is sort of in the process of dying off as well, because there's currently an unstoppable fungus wiping out crops. Which is going to be utterly devastating to the banana industry, because they don't have a good replacement right now. Of all the fungus-resistant strains they have, none of them taste close enough to the Cavendish, and the one that does doesn't look right, and they've done studies where people refuse to eat them because of it.

It's been something that's been an issue for more than a decade now. I remember first reading about it way back when Cracked.com was still a site worth visiting:

https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2216-6-reasons-bananas-are-brink-extinction.html

Bananas are extremely difficult to breed because the kind we prefer to eat are triploid, which means it has three sets of chromosomes. Because of this, they have no seeds and can only reproduce by cloning. This is also why they are so susceptible to diseases such as Panama disease, because they are all genetically identical. (The same issue with lack of genetic diversity in cloned potatoes resulted in the death of over 1 million people in the Irish Potato Famine.)

Wild bananas are either diploid (2 sets of chromosomes) or tetraploid (4 sets), so they can produce seeds and thus can be bred to improve their characteristics just as we do with crops like corn and wheat. But who wants to eat a banana full of seeds?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/eef047d8.jpg

Hejiru posted...

Well apparently, banana artificial flavor tastes different because its based on a different species of banana than we eat today. The original banana died out in the 50s or something IIRC.

This explains why I like bananas but hate banana popsicles, good to know

captpackrat posted...

Bananas are extremely difficult to breed because the kind we prefer to eat are triploid, which means it has three sets of chromosomes. Because of this, they have no seeds and can only reproduce by cloning. This is also why they are so susceptible to diseases such as Panama disease, because they are all genetically identical. (The same issue with lack of genetic diversity in cloned potatoes resulted in the death of over 1 million people in the Irish Potato Famine.)

Wild bananas are either diploid (2 sets of chromosomes) or tetraploid (4 sets), so they can produce seeds and thus can be bred to improve their characteristics just as we do with crops like corn and wheat. But who wants to eat a banana full of seeds?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/eef047d8.jpg

Now that I know there is a different kind of banana with seeds (and a different flavor?), I sure do

Clench281 posted...

ube

Duuuude, I really want this to become the definitive "Purple Flavor" because I love ube!

Salrite posted...

Now that I know there is a different kind of banana with seeds (and a different flavor?), I sure do

There's actually a bunch (no pun intended) of different types of banana, and a lot of them taste different than others. Some people even prefer the alternatives to the "main" one (some of them are supposedly sweeter). But they're harder to find and usually more expensive.

Purple is grape flavor, yo. Not the taste of actual grapes though.

It really gets me when candy uses certain artificial flavors. Because I think it tastes like the stuff that's used to flavor medicine for kids.

Haze

The aftertaste of cream soda... not cream soda itself, just the aftertaste

Grape.