Looking again at that old Five Centre(s) wrapper above, I still can't believe they shoved in a coffee flavour among all those (at the time) tropical fruits. I don't mind coffee flavour on the whole, but it doesn' t really go does it?
I like fake fruit flavours a lot, but I don't really like real fruit that much. I only eat it because I feel I should and, though I have a banana and an apple a day, it's only the banana I really look forward to.
I'm no fan of strawberries, raspberries are sharp, pears go everywhere, oranges etc., are too acidic for my delicate stomach, blueberries to me taste of absolutely nothing, mangoes are overrated and taste like washing-up liquid, kiwis are fiddly and nothingy and pineapple is only nice if really, really fresh, but to me is one of life's more downmarket fruits - its appearance on both gammon and Hawaiian pizzas does nothing for its image. Apples generally bore me and I HATE the melon family, especially water. Peaches and apricot skin makes me gag, but if I HAD to choose a pie, they would be in it. With ice cream. Grapes can be eaten only with cheese.
So that's that dispensed with.
So as far as fake flavours go, here are my Top 10 favourites in order of preference:
1. Cherry (only tinned cherries taste like this. Real ones taste of nothing)
2. Banana
3. Lime (the Wimpy used to do a lovely lime milkshake)
4. Blueberry
5. Pear
6. Apricot
7. Blackcurrant
8. Peach
9. Raspberry
10. Grape (very American)
And yours?
