/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19045125
almonds taste nothing like cherries retard this activates my almonds

>>19045125
they kind of do actually, wtf

your brain might just be associating that a lot of cherry desserts are flavored with amaretto or almond extract. they are made for each other and i can see how a particularly good (raw) almond might invoke that flavor memory.

>>19045125
As I recall both almonds and cherries contain trace amounts of cyanide, so maybe that's what you're tasting.
That or you've had a stroke.

the other anons are right to an extent, but also almonds are the center of a stone fruit, similar to peaches and apricots (which is why almond-free marzipan is often made of the aforementioned fruits' kernels)
as cherries are stone fruits, too, they probably are genetically very similar to almonds.

>>19045289
Correct, it’s the aromatic compounds in the pits that makes that smell,

>>19045125
It definitely comes through in almond extract for me, if you can taste it in regular almonds you might be a super taster.

>>19045125
activating the almonds brings out the cherry and oaky afterbirth

The specific chemical is amygdalin.

>>19045294
I must have aromatic compounds in my pits.

>>19045125
There's cyanide in cherry pits, which is poisonous. Cyanide tastes like almond. If you can taste this then you're sucking them too hard, you can actually die from cherry pit poisoning.

>>19046945
This is a common misconception. Amygdalin is one of the byproducts made when your body breaks down the actual chemical in the almonds, which is more accurately called amygdeez.

>>19045125
wait a minute, they do. what the hell

What you are tasting is benzaldehyde.

>>19046945
That was a boss in Bloodborne, stupid

>>19045125
my heart goes nuclear whenever I eat cherries

no idea why

>>19047214
try not chewing up the pits like a caveman

Like another anon said, Amaretto and Dr. Pepper both have cherry/almond extracts so you may be thinking of them

>>19045289
Yes. This kind of liqueur called Kirschwasser is made from whole cherries, including the pits. It has a distinctive cherry and almond flavor.