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

[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?

 

[bigrash]

Maybe next time you should eat some vanillas instead of having vanilla ice cream

 

[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.

 

[archiloco]

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.

yeah, what he said hehe.....but i mean havanero,avocado,salsa verde flavored doritos......yum!!!

 

[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?

uh, because it takes a long time to make a cake and only takes a minute to scoop out some ice cream?

 

[Mr Pickles]

Because items without taste we find tastes for. Think about it, what does ice cream taste like? Always something else...

 

[AbsolutDealage]

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.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: MrLee
Because items without taste we find tastes for. Think about it, what does ice cream taste like? Always something else...

oooo, good point.

 

[Rubycon]

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.

 

[Dedpuhl]

Why make popcorn when I can eat a handful of Jelly Belly popcorn-flavored jelly beans!!

 

[altonb1]

Originally posted by: bigrash
Maybe next time you should eat some vanillas instead of having vanilla ice cream

This made me laugh...

 

[trmiv]

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.

Violet! You're turning violet, Violet!

 

[FoBoT]

i like both cake AND ice cream

 

[Lonyo]

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?

uh, because it takes a long time to make a cake and only takes a minute to scoop out some ice cream?

Uh buy a cake like you bought the ice cream? :roll:

 

[SaltBoy]

Why can't we have pie-flavored ice cream?

MMmmmm... pie!

 

[sygyzy]

The worst are the vegetarian psychos that make tofu or soy steaks, burgers, ice cream, corn dogs. JESUS!

 

[Schfifty Five]

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?".

 

[Kyteland]

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.

It taste like sweetened dairy. It's made out of cream and sugar. That's like saying milk has no flavor.

 

[everman]

Pie > Cake > Cake ice cream

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
Why can't we have pie-flavored ice cream?

MMmmmm... pie!

Ben & Jerry's Apple Pie (yes, its real and yes its good!)

 

[IdioticBuffoon]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: MrLee
Because items without taste we find tastes for. Think about it, what does ice cream taste like? Always something else...

oooo, good point.

We got a philosopher amidst us!

 

[swimscubasteve]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
The worst are the vegetarian psychos that make tofu or soy steaks, burgers, ice cream, corn dogs. JESUS!

qft

 

[Pepsei]

chicke flavoured iguana.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Raspberry flavored water FTW!

 

[JDrake]

new textures ?