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Weird Junk 8

>Weird Crap That Freaks Amanda Out – Volume 4

By Amanda @AmandaMBast · On December 4, 2010


> Things that taste like grape freak me out. I hesitate to even call this “grape” flavour. Grapes, I like. Grape juice, I also like. Artificial grape flavoured stuff, I most definitely do not. Let’s not call them grape flavoured, ok? They are purple flavoured things.

I have this extremely vivid memory from when I was maybe 5 or 6. I was sitting on my bunk in the back room of our trailer*. I had some ailment that required Tylenol. There were two Childrens’ chewable Tylenol tablets sitting on the table in front of me. I remember staring at them hoping they would either shrink or just go directly through my bellybutton and into my stomach. I nibbled one and gagged. Purple flavour.

That night I learned to swallow pills.

Ever since then, the taste and even the smell of purple things make my stomach turn. If I’m at a function and someone has been drinking grape Crush I find it difficult to talk to them. I can smell it on their breath and it sends shivers down my spine. Worse than knowingly ingesting purple flavour is ingesting it thinking it will taste like something else. I find Starburst jellybeans incredibly deceiving. There are black jellybeans in that bag but they taste like PURPLE. I go for black, and I taste PURPLE.  This is terrifying. This is also why I don’t eat Skittles in the dark. I don’t trust candy that has purple mixed into it.

If I find that I have purple flavour in my mouth, you will either see me spit it out (if appropriate) or chew, swallow and chase it with anything other than purple. There will also be gagging and possibly yelling involved (it will most likely be supremely girly in nature “ew ew ew ew!”). I’m telling you, it’s traumatic and I most definitely cause a scene. If I weed out the purple beforehand, it will either be thrown at someone (again, if appropriate) or given to a purple-loving friend (who of course is not sitting right beside me breathing purple-breath into my face).

A list of purple things to avoid: Skittles**, gumdrops, jellybeans, bubble gum, Jell-o, Kool Aid, grape Crush, suckers, medicine, freezies, popsicles, Nerds, and grape drink (grape juice is to grape drink as orange juice is to Sunny D***),

Yes, I know this is strange and like always, I have come to terms with it. I am comfortable with letting my freak flag fly. My name is Amanda, and I don’t like purple things. I hope we can still be friends. If you eat all the purple Skittles, we can be best friends. Just don’t breathe on me afterward, mmkay?

*Like, the summer vacation kind of trailer, not the plastic-flamingos-tacky-lights-really-thick-glasses-on-a-guy-named-Bubbles-tornado-through-the-trailer-park kind of trailer. Just to clarify.
 **Original Fruit only. Tropical is safe.
***Fun Sunny D fact: it contains vegetable oil! Yay!

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8 Comments

  • G Fresh says: December 4, 2010 at 5:47 am

    >Somewhere, Barney the Dinosaur is weeping silently and whispering, "Why God? Why? Why is there so much hate in the world…or at least Canada?".

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  • Mandie says: December 4, 2010 at 5:51 am

    >No no no, I loved Barney. We even measured time in Barneys (that's another post entirely). I'm sure he didn't smell like grape, though.

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  • G Fresh says: December 4, 2010 at 5:59 am

    >Are you sure? He sure looked like grape…of course he was a bit after my time (80s first run Reading Rainbow and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood FTW) so I didn't pay that much attention to him. When I did…well let's just say that my feelings about him would have to go into a comment titled Weird Crap That Freaks Matt Out.

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  • guidetowomen says: December 4, 2010 at 1:48 pm

    >note to self: return the 2 pound purple gummy worm i bought for mandie.

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  • Candice says: December 4, 2010 at 5:25 pm

    >I've actually eaten grapes that have that "grape flavour" taste! Right off the vine. It was the weirdest thing ever. Totally confusing to the senses.I wonder how you feel about "banana flavour"? It tastes nothing like a real banana, but I love it. You'd never catch me eating a banana, but the banana flavoured Runts are my favourite!

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  • Mandie says: December 4, 2010 at 6:02 pm

    >I like real bananas and banana Runts, but no other banana flavoured things. It tastes like penicillin. I think I was too medicated as a child.

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  • Kristi says: December 4, 2010 at 10:33 pm

    >We CAN be best friends, I HATE black jelly beans, especially when I'm expecting them to be purple!Side note: Reading Rainbow = awesome.Side note 2: my word verification is Mingsti. That's what I like to call myself when I'm mingling.

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  • Brentnappiesarecoolmorgan says: December 4, 2010 at 11:16 pm

    >But grape is sooo tasty! Except grape crush, & orange crush too that stuff is nasty! Makes me gag every time. Also certain types of cherry flavoring too, reminds me of cough medicine I had forced down my throat as a kid. But not all cherry flavoring, which makes all cherry a real gamble… ok so maybe I should cut you some slack on the grape thing 😉

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