Things that don't taste like what they are supposed to but are still good.

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That subject is a mouthful, I know.
Peanut Butter Captain Crunch doesn’t taste like peanut butter to me but I still like whatever it is that it tastes like.

Oreos don’t taste like chocolate; they taste like Oreos which is delicious and I wish I was eating a handful of them right now (Double stuff!). But still not chocolate to me.

Any other foods like that for you?

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Grape Nuts.

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Heinz Tomato Soup tastes nothing like tomatoes and nothing like any soup I’ve ever made from tomatoes. But whatever it is that it does taste like, I know I like it.

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According to some pizza snobs:

Pizza Hut or Domino’s. Pizza Snobs say that ain’t pizza but I love the stuff.

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I was thinking of Totino’s (not Jeno’s) pizzas. Overly-processed foodstuff, but still tasty.

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Purple-flavored Kool-Aid. There are no grapes involved - it tastes like purple.

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Are you trying to claim it tastes nothing like a real Purplesaurus Rex?!

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Tiramisu

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Artificial banana and watermelon flavored stuff gets murdered on this forum, but most of it is still good.

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I like artificial raspberry, strawberry and watermelon flavors, but can’t stand artificial banana.

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Applejacks don’t taste like apples

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They based a whole ad campaign on that.

Christ, that was '96 and not last year? I’m getting old. :frowning:

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Orange soda & orange juice taste very different. If you drink one expecting the other you’ll probably spit it out.

But they’re both good in their own ways.

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Until I made a Concord grape pie a few years back, I too wondered about that purple flavor euphemistically called “grape”.

Well, damned if those Concord grapes don’t smell exactly like grape jelly, grape Kool-aid, etc. By the time I got done with that pie filling, my hands and my entire kitchen smelled like a Welch’s factory had blown up all over the place.

My submission, in that same vein: cherry candy or beverages. I’ve never tasted a cherry that was even remotely like those, and I love fresh cherries, but I love cherry-flavored Life-savers etc.

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“Veggie burgers” and similar. There are several that I’ve been coerced into trying because, “they taste just like a burger”. No, they don’t. However, some of them are pretty good in their own right, and if you’d just sell them as “Veggie patties” or something, you’d get a lot more people eating them.