As usual, here I am with an inane question, wondering if anyone else is as odd as I am! ;D
I really like the taste of fresh cherries, especially Bings, Rainiers and Queen Annes.
However, I really hate the taste of almost anything that's "cherry flavored." This includes hard candies, drinks, jello, and -- of course -- medicine!
I wondered if anyone else has this "love/hate relationship"? The only reason I can think of it, at least for me, is that I developed a distaste for the flavor as a child, when I had to drink cherry-flavored medicine. When the brain links a certain flavor with a bad experience or an ill feeling, it's very hard to ever like that flavor again. Add to that the fact that the cherry flavoring is never a very pleasant or accurate reproduction anyway! Yuck! :(
Fortunately, I guess "real" cherries taste different enough from their cheap knock-offs that I still enjoy them. :)
I'd like to hear what everyone else's experiences are. Thanks!
2006-07-27 17:25:50 · 25 answers · asked by scary shari 5 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
I didn't think I'd get so many answers, with so many interesting details and experiences! :) Thank you ALL -- I enjoyed reading everyone's contribution. Usually I pick a "Best" answer, but it's too hard this time, so I'm putting the question up for a vote. Thanks again.
2006-07-29 17:54:43 · update #1
I like orange flavor yet hate oranges. Hmm....
2006-07-27 17:28:06 · answer #1 · answered by Plasmapuppy 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Cherry Flavouring
2016-11-17 02:19:51 · answer #2 · answered by moriyon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Artificial flavors just aren't as good as the real thing. I love coconut in the shell but hate anything flavored coconut - even the shredded stuff you get in the store. Banana is another that only tastes good when it's the real thing. But I love raspberry drinks - go figure.
2006-07-27 17:31:44 · answer #3 · answered by betty.boopster 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am the excat oppisite of that, I love artificially flavored cherry candies etc. but hate the taste of fresh ones.
2006-07-27 17:28:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like cherry anything. But I feel the way you do about strawberries.Like fresh, don't like any strawberry flavored things.
2006-07-27 17:30:21 · answer #5 · answered by highchaparral2006 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a similar distaste too, but for grapes. I love fresh grapes, but anything "grape-flavored" I can't stand. it might be because of the artificial nature of the flavorings that makes it taste horrible.
For example, grape soda makes me want to vomit since it's horribly sweet and fake tasting.
2006-07-27 17:29:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My wife is actually alergic to anything cherry flavored!!! Fresh cherries,,, she's ok with. She's also alergic to Tootsie Rolls, artificial banana flavors, and a few others that I can't remember. I can't stand anything with fake Grape,,, it literally makes me want to vomit!.
2006-07-27 20:37:06 · answer #7 · answered by impalanator71 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm complete opposite ......
I like almost everything cherry-flavored,
but I don't much care for eating around pits of real fruit
2006-07-27 17:30:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love fresh cherries but wont eat them after any kind of processing or cooking.... gross!
But i do like cherry flavored candy, only eat the red life savors
I also eat lemons but hate lemonaid or lemon cake, candy ect.
i like raisins also but wont eat them if they are in anything like cereal or breads
it is wierd, oh well, we are who we are
2006-07-27 17:30:26 · answer #9 · answered by woman38 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strawberries for me. Love the real thing. Hate artificial.
Love cherries. Real and artificial.
2006-07-27 17:29:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The washington cherries are the heat but I do not like anything jared or canned.It just doesn't taste the same.
2006-07-27 17:28:50 · answer #11 · answered by kahmfs74 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋