Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 17, 2023

Good thinking, because all adults were responsible for the flavor of your beverage.

Yeah. Seems a pretty small pebble to trip over when there are all those bigger ones. Even the one that’s called “artificial cherry” is (for me) a worse flavor than the vaguely lemon-like lime-deficient flavor he’s complaining about. (I call that flavor “pink” since it tastes nothing like any fruit.)

This is just a case of the child not being properly informed. “Lemon-Lime” has nothing to do with those two fruits. It is actually a flavor developed by newscaster Don Lemon based on the pioneering work of the late Harry Lime, a one-time resident of Vienna. I suspect that his misapprehension might also explain his choice of wearing a lemon-colored shirt while drinking from a lime-green container.

A reminder: the flavors of fresh fruit comes from the configurations of naturally produced molecules in those plants. We know the different varieties can have subtle taste differences … apples, lemons, limes, etc. That’s caused by subtle differences in those molecules.

It’s simple to extract these flavors from actual fruit; but you need to have actual fresh fruit— expensive. Large chemical plants can create cheap chemicals that are SIMILAR; as in “close but no cigar”. Obviously, some come out closer than others; and some people are just not that fussy … that’s why we have BUD Lite.

This is what sipped him over the edge.

Probably served to you by a minor at a fast food restaurant who wasn’t paying attention.

You’d think it would have been the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny and Santa Claus that led one to stop trusting adults… but as long as those three give you stuff you have to keep believing!

You never should trust adults in the FIRST place!! None of we adults DO!!

True story- I grew up hating cherries because in the 60’s, every cough syrup was ‘cherry flavored’ and I hated it. I also hated cherries on any ice cream treats. Then I learned that the cough syrup and the maraschino cherries on ice cream are not what cherries taste like. I was around 25 when I learned I really do like cherries.

Not that you’ll have any better luck trusting kids, though.

A push mower! That Frazz…

For me, it was realizing that my parents lied about Santa Claus.

And then I found out pookas don’t exist so I had to say good-bye to my invisible friend.

Push mower? A rather dated concept…..

Might as well enjoy that soda for its moisture if not its taste, kid. Lots of life is gonna seem like that as you grow older. Just find the bits that mean something to you and forget the rest.

Do you ever wonder what those past hippies who said, "Never trust anyone over 30 said, after they turned 30? Things that make you go, hm.

What about Santa, the Easter Bunny, Halloween being a good holiday, Cupid, and all the other holiday characters that have no basis in fact.

I bought mouthwash that claimed to be “blue mint” flavored. It tastes like medicine and burning.

Next time you shop for groceries, read the label on Sunny Delight. In micron print along the edge it says something like “2% juice.” (My information may be off a little, I haven’t touched SD in years.)

Okay, then enjoy drinking your lemon juice and lime juice mixed together. Let us normal people enjoy tasty beverages. And don’t trust Frazz.

You got to draw the line somewhere.

OK, so that’s stretching truth in advertising a bit, but how many people do you suppose would buy a product labelled “urine flavored”?

Just wait until he discovers Grape Nuts. No grapes, no nuts.

I never gave that much thought to the claims on the 7-up and Sprite bottles. They mostly taste of carbon and sugar

Mint flavoring tastes and smells nothing like actual mint. Either the cultivar is different now, or the chief chemist had a head cold .

Just buy the “Cheery Cherry!!”

Would anybody want to drink something that really tastes like lemon-lime? After all, does anybody drink lemon juice or lime juice straight?

I agree. Where did they get lemon or lime?

I went to Dairy Queen and asked for a lime drink. I was asked if I meant lemon-lime. I ended up with lemon. It’s the lemon-lime that is still sold that tastes so good.

The Washington Post recently had a disturbing tale of the invention of pink lemonade.

Nothing worse than the fake pina colada flavor of the famous colonoscopy prep liquid.

You seem to trust Frazz.

He is drinking from a paper or plastic cup. Where did he notice the flavor description such a cup?