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Bananano
What flavor grosses you out?
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Just me on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 11:02 PM
This evening my sister and I were shopping at a discount store that has bags of various specialty candies by the checkout.
I picked up one or two and looked them over, then reached for a bag that was backward on the shelf.
My sister laughed as I let out a little shriek and dropped it when I realized what it contained: banana gummy candy.
I’ve been known to enjoy the occasional gummy bear (the clear pineapple-flavored ones are my favorite) and I really like those sour apple gummy rings, but banana gummies? Really? I was grossed out.
I’m not a hugely picky eater, but I cannot stand banana-flavored anything. Actual bananas are fine. Banana splits, banana bread: yes, please. But once you veer into artificial banana flavoring, it goes wrong. So very, very wrong.
When I was a kid, Runt candies were a rare treat, but I’d always leave the tiny crunchy bananas for someone else. And banana Laffy Taffy? Forget about it. I probably would have preferred to chew on frozen spinach, so disgusting did I find that stuff.
Is there a candy, or a flavor, that you abhor? Please share!
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I’m with you on the artificial banana candy. When I was a small child, my dentist made me gag with banana flavored fluoride treatments and all that artificially flavored banana candy tastes exactly like that….. yuck !
I am really not a fan of any artificial fruit flavor and avoid them all. Good milk chocolate is my choice.
Posted by HereWeGoAJen on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 8:50 AM (EDT):
I’m with you on the fake banana flavoring. I really don’t like most artificial flavors though. Strawberry is one of the only ones I actually like. Cherry is okay sometimes. But mostly, ick. I’m more of a chocolate candy kind of girl.
Posted by Laura on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 9:29 AM (EDT):
Okay, I’ll be the weird one—I like fake banana flavor! My favorite as a kid was banana slurpees from 7-Eleven. Yum. 
I cannot stand artificial apple flavor though. Blech! Give me a crunchy fall apple any day, or apple pie, caramel apples, apple butter, you name it. Just can’t do the fake stuff!
Posted by StephC on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 9:34 AM (EDT):
Artificial cherry flavors give me goose bumps & make me hold back a shudder & gag…flashbacks to childhood, when I was forced to take liquid cherry-flavored Robitussin for coughs!
Seriously, just thinking about it makes me feel queasy…
Since Robitussin is pretty much the gold standard for cough-suppressant/expectorant, you can imagine how relieved I was when they came out with the liqui-capsule!
Posted by Kerri on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 12:35 PM (EDT):
I like the fake banana Runts, especially how they explode when you bite into them with little pearls of sugary goodness - all my friends used to save them up for me. It seems I am one of the few who liked them. I cannot take licorice though. Or those gummy soda bottles - ick!
Posted by Christine Hebert on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 3:44 PM (EDT):
When I was a child I was frequently car sick. The medication that was prescribed for me had artificial banana flavoring and did not help! It smelled gross, tasted gross and I usually had to taste it twice…if you gather my meaning. I still hate banana flavored anything, and the smell of banana flavoring makes me nauseous.
Posted by Sarah in Ottawa on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 8:11 PM (EDT):
For me, it’s more of a texture thing. That’s why I hate what we Canadians call “Rockets” and you guys call “Smarties”. Canadian (well, British) Smarties are like M&Ms; but better. I will never forget going to a rez hall conference at CMU and having Michiganders offer us ‘Smarties’. We were gracious yet appalled when we discovered that the Smarties we’d been anticipating weren’t forthcoming!
Posted by Gwen on Friday, Sep 3, 2010 6:22 AM (EDT):
I don’t really like any of the artificial candy flavors - banana, watermelon, grape. But one I esp don’t like is raspberry because i love the real thing and the artificial flavor is so off. Funny I didn’t mind any of those as a kid, and my kids don’t. It’s just as an adult that I have more refined taste. I’ll skip all that candy stuff until I can have dark chocolate.
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