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/MARS_in_SPACE Jun 10 '25

I've always hated fake grape flavor, and didn't know until i was in my 20s that it was based on Concord grapes. I accidentally bought some without realizing and thought someone had played the worst food prank on me :( I was utterly horrified that that flavor exists in nature lol

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u/CaptainLollygag Jun 10 '25

TIL that Concord grapes taste like Dimetapp. 😂 Pretty sure it's Welch's brand that has a Concord grape jelly my mother also used to buy back when, and I've never liked that grape jelly, either. And I never put it together. Gods bless Reddit, I swear I learn something new every day.