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Why do we have foods that are flavored to taste like other foods?

NuclearNed

NuclearNed

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For example:

A few nights ago my wife got birthday cake flavored ice cream. As advertised, it tasted exactly like birthday cake. Why not just eat birthday cake instead?
 
taste is only a component of food. You also have smell, texture and temperature. It may have had a taste like cake, but the texture and temperature were much different giving you a different overall feeling when eating it.
 
Originally posted by: CPA
taste is only a component of food. You also have smell, texture and temperature. It may have had a taste like cake, but the texture and temperature were much different giving you a different overall feeling when eating it.
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yeah, what he said hehe.....but i mean havanero,avocado,salsa verde flavored doritos......yum!!!
 
Originally posted by: NuclearNed
For example:

A few nights ago my wife got birthday cake flavored ice cream. As advertised, it tasted exactly like birthday cake. Why not just eat birthday cake instead?
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uh, because it takes a long time to make a cake and only takes a minute to scoop out some ice cream?
 
Because items without taste we find tastes for. Think about it, what does ice cream taste like? Always something else...
 
Cost is also a factor. Extracting "imitation vanilla" from wood by-products is a hell of a lot cheaper than growing a vanilla orchid, hand pollinating it, waiting for the fruit to develop, picking, fermenting, storing and shipping it to you.
 
Originally posted by: MrLee
Because items without taste we find tastes for. Think about it, what does ice cream taste like? Always something else...
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oooo, good point.
 
They tried that with gum right?

A full course meal in a stick of gum but something happens with the blueberry pie dessert and makes the person blow up and turn blue. 😉
 
Originally posted by: MS Dawn
They tried that with gum right?

A full course meal in a stick of gum but something happens with the blueberry pie dessert and makes the person blow up and turn blue. 😉
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Violet! You're turning violet, Violet!
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: NuclearNed
For example:

A few nights ago my wife got birthday cake flavored ice cream. As advertised, it tasted exactly like birthday cake. Why not just eat birthday cake instead?
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uh, because it takes a long time to make a cake and only takes a minute to scoop out some ice cream?
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Uh buy a cake like you bought the ice cream? :roll:
 
Ice cream has no original flavor associated with it. It only has texture, temperature...it then needs a flavor added.

When you chew gum, maybe like a strawberry flavored gum, why don't you just eat strawberries? Gum has no original taste, thus you need to add to it.

Now take chicken, chicken has a natural flavor to it, so if you made chicken taste like candy, then that would be a "WTF?".
 
Originally posted by: Schfifty Five
Ice cream has no original flavor associated with it. It only has texture, temperature...it then needs a flavor added.
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It taste like sweetened dairy. It's made out of cream and sugar. That's like saying milk has no flavor.
 
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