# Favorite Starburst flavor **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-starburst-flavor/620282 "2012-04-29T00:00:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-starburst-flavor/620282/1 "2012-04-29T00:00:54Z")
I’m talking original four, not this tropical nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-starburst-flavor/620282/2 "2012-04-29T00:09:27Z")
Pink? You voted pink? This means war. BURST!!! ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-starburst-flavor/620282/3 "2012-04-29T00:27:41Z")
Red is the superior flavor. Followed by pink. Then yellow. Orange is gross and only to be eaten if the rest have already been devoured. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-starburst-flavor/620282/4 "2012-04-29T00:49:27Z")
I voted pink, but if we’re talking original four, my vote is green. ---
**Author:** ![kmshrader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@kmshrader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kmshrader)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-starburst-flavor/620282/5 "2012-04-29T00:54:53Z")
Ya’ll are nuts. Yellow is the best. Unless we’re talking tropical nonsense, in which case ‘Pina Colada’ is the nastiest flavor ever concocted. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-starburst-flavor/620282/6 "2012-04-29T00:55:26Z")
Toughie. I love them all so much. I’d probably have to go orange, lemon, cherry, whatever pink is supposed to be. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-starburst-flavor/620282/7 "2012-04-29T00:59:15Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Red is the superior flavor. Followed by pink. Then yellow. Orange is gross and only to be eaten if the rest have already been devoured. I agree with your opinion but not your method. The proper eating procedure is Orange, Yellow, Pink and then Red so that you culminate your Starburst experience with the most delicious flavor made sweeter by the asceticism of eating the orange ones. I suppose you also eat the tops of muffins first too. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-starburst-flavor/620282/8 "2012-04-29T01:11:24Z")
> [@Mr.Accident](#): > > Toughie. I love them all so much. > > I’d probably have to go orange, lemon, cherry, whatever pink is supposed to be. Strawberry. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-starburst-flavor/620282/9 "2012-04-29T01:43:09Z")
R\>P\>O\>Y. Yellow gets too… what’s the sour version of “cloying”? if you eat too many of them. The same thing happens with Skittles (but they’re worse), and you can’t stop eating yet every bite pains you. And I eat every type of candy in the same way that **Inner Stickler** does. Save the best ones for last! ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-starburst-flavor/620282/10 "2012-04-29T03:28:45Z")
Green (lime), which is not a poll option but was my favorite in the UK version, then called Opal Fruits. I think I have seen green (apple) flavor, but they are nowhere near as good. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-starburst-flavor/620282/11 "2012-04-29T04:24:58Z")
Lemon For exactly the same reason **thelurkinghorror** likes them the least. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-starburst-flavor/620282/12 "2012-04-30T13:33:22Z")
Just as I suspected. They should make an all-pink pack of Starburst. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-starburst-flavor/620282/13 "2012-04-30T14:18:02Z")
Mmm. Toughie. Orange, then Yellow. But it’s close. Then way way way down the list are the other two, in no particular order. The pink and red aren’t bad, they just lack the transcendent yumminess of the orange and yellow ones. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-starburst-flavor/620282/14 "2012-04-30T15:27:49Z")
I think that I would like to share starbursts with some of you people because pink are fit only for throwing at annoying people. Red is the best, orange and yellow are in a close race for second and pink we’ve discussed already. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-starburst-flavor/620282/15 "2012-04-30T15:50:17Z")
Yellow is king.