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*CONCERNING THE “FOOD FAUX PAS” STRIP:

Oscar wrote:

I bought cherry-flavored Craisins thinking they’d taste good – what
was I thinking?

What’s even stranger is grape-flavored apples – I swear I’m not making this up:
http://www.grapplefruits.com/index.cfm

Alan D. wrote:

In your grousing about fruit flavored like other fruit, I thought
you might be amused (or perhaps horrified) by this:

http://www.grapplefruits.com/index.cfm

“Looks like an apple. Tastes like a grape”TM

At my girlfriends insistance, we gave them a whirl when they
appeared my local supermarket. Indeed, they taste like apples
with a hint of grape. But why bother? Grapes are tasty on their
own. Apples are tasty on their own. If I want both I’ll make a
fruit salad.

(And this entirely ignores the marketting faux pas of “grapple”
being so close to “crap-ple”. Maybe not such a good idea for
something you’re targetting at kids.)

Anyway, I thought you might be amused that your “apple flavored
oranges” weren’t quite as insane as you might hope.

gideon wrote:

i’m a long time reader, really enjoy your strip. just wanted to
pipe in with another bizarre fake food: grapple. grape flavored
apples. when we bought them (on a whim), i imagined a new breed of
genetically modified fruit, but from reading the packaging label,
somehow people have injected grape flavoring (essentially fructose)
into apples. maybe it isn’t that bothersome since, the process of
flavor injection, while new to whole fruits, has been going on for
quite a long time in fruit juices — nearly every fruit juice has been
pumped with flavors from other fruits (mostly grape which is sugary
and i presume cheap), in an effort to increase sugar content while
retaining a patina of health.

in any event, keep up the good work!

gideon

Brad wrote:

Hey- Just wanted to say I feel your pain on the cranberries (I was subjected
to orange-flavored ones) and point you in the direction of an even greater
horror, the gra-pple. That’s right, an apple injected with “grape flavor”.
That’s the grape-soda-style flavor, lest we think there’s some sort of natural
plant-breeding magic goin’ on here. Not only are they disgusting (sampled out
of morbid curiousity), they’re also something like $5 for 4.

damn.

(http://www.grapplefruits.com/index.cfm)

b

(jiminy-crickets!! i’ve never heard of these “grapples”, but their marketing folks must be doing an okay job considering all the emails i’m getting!! – k)