/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18122162
>cake-flavored
HARD pass.

It always suckers me in, because I love crazy-colored foods and sweets, usually because it looks like it would be a zesty fruit punch flavor or something. But no. Not anymore. Now it's always "birthday cake omg yassss", which is weird, because if you ask literally anyone, they can all agree that generic birthday cakes tend to taste gross and way too sweet.

So now I fucking hate "cake" flavor, because "cake flavor" is literally just the taste of a shitty generic grocery store birthday cake, i.e: mild vanilla cake (a.k.a the taste of normal vanilla ice cream, cookies, etc.), and insanely plasticky sugar frosting. The result is just generic vanilla-ish flavor but with WAY more sugar, and a weird butter-y background taste. The problem is that they rarely even call it "birthday cake" anymore, as if they're trying to sneak it past us, so I have to stay on my toes to watch for all the red flag words associated with "cake" flavored trash:
>confetti
>sprinkle
>sparkle
>celebration
>explosion
>unicorn/mermaid
>glitter
>dazzle
>party
>fun
>rainbow
Yes, they are literally even claiming the word "rainbow" (or at least "rainbow something" or "something rainbow"), which used to always be the flavor of a bunch of different fruits. Now it just tastes like buttery vanilla sugar.