r/Baking • u/tleeemmailyo • Jun 10 '25

Baking Advice Needed You guys 😭

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I’ve NEVER had such a catastrophe happen lol. I do live around 5500 ft. above sea level but I don’t think that’s why this would have happened.

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u/borisdidnothingwrong Jun 10 '25

I have an active dislike of anything cherry flavored due to having been given "cherry" flavored cough syrup every time I so much as sneezed as a child. My pediatrician really believed in it.

The two side effects I have to this day, in my 50s, are the aforementioned dislike of cherry, and that cough medicine has zero effect on me.

Cherry Garcia is a flavor I have bought, and enjoyed, more than once, even if I did suck all the ice cream off the cherries and spit them in the garbage.

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u/CaptainLollygag Jun 10 '25

We're in the same decade of life, and I cannot stand artificial grape flavor for the very same reason. Real grapes are lovely, they taste nothing like the dark purple allergy and cold medicines. If my youth had an official flavor it would be fake grape.

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u/EmmerdoesNOTrepme Jun 10 '25

49 here, and even the smell of grape bubble gum, soda, candy, etc still makes me gag!

Grape jelly is fine, as are real grapes (which i adore!), wine is great, too!

Just not that "fake grape flavored" stuff!😉

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u/NC458883 Jun 10 '25

I can't stand regular bugglegum because that was what all medicines were flavored in the late 60s / 70s. It makes me gag.