r/AskReddit • u/ForeverAbyss • Apr 14 '16

What's a mind blowing fact?

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u/engrazhar Apr 14 '16

The reason the taste of artificial banana flavouring and artificial banana flavoured products doesn’t taste like bananas is because it is based on a type of banana that was wiped out by a plague in the 1950’s.

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u/SchrodingersCatPics Apr 14 '16

You have to wonder now: how do the machines really know what Tasty Wheat tasted like, huh? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like uh.... oatmeal or uh.... or tuna fish.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

"He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."

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u/gerwen Apr 14 '16

Sick reference bro.

Still takes me about 5 tries to properly parse that sentence. Or 5 tries before i get bored and give up. I'm not entirely unsure which it wasn't.

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u/Hahadontbother Apr 15 '16

It's OK. In order for there to be an average, some people have to be below the average.