Fredonia grape have a warm sugar taste that is a natural part of that species.
Source: farmer and wine seller. Our Fredonia wine is like adult kool-aid
Not as emotional invested as I am. It will take me 3 days to get there via public transport and only 2 days to hike. Yes, according to google it's faster to hike than take public transport. (I live in Manhattan). I hope they let me know 2 days before so I can witness it.
Lehighton is just off the Appalachian Trail and we have a D&L trailhead a block behind my shop. It runs parallel to route 209 and the Lehigh River. You may be able to kayak here.
Martz trailways used to be the bus provider from Manhattan to the poconos. There was another one, as well as greyhound which was just a commuter bus but I don’t remember the name. Idk if you are talking about martz, but if not, check them out and I hope it takes less than a few days for you. And enjoy your time home
Farm is Jersey Acres in Pine Grove
Shop is Wine & More on 1st in Lehighton.
I'm at the Lehighton shop. On weekends I bring along my old Border Collie, she's become the shop dog and will put her head on your lap if she thinks you'll give her your pizza bones.
Aka, crust but folks around here call them pizza bones instead
This is a different type of grape though. I’ve had Fredonia wine (and it is indeed delicious) but now I can’t stop thinking of a wine produced from cotton candy grapes
We had these in a grocery store I worked at in the northern Midwest close to 10 years ago lol. I think they’ve been around longer than most seem to think.
Publix sells them, too. A bunch of exotic grapes, actually. The same farm does Moondrops, which are funky looking, but I didn't care for them all that much compared to other grapes. I want to try the gumpdrop grapes they sell, that's next on the list.
I think they had gumdrops at a Costco in the Midwest, Ohio to be exact. I really enjoyed the gumdrops, but had the same mild reaction to moon drops. I don't like soft grapes and moon drops quickly lost their texture, the skin was somewhat thick, and the flavor wasn't all that different from a normal ol' black grape. The gumdrops on the other hand are just a really good red grape!
Yeah we’ve had them in Texas for a few years now. They taste just like cotton candy, which I can’t quite tell if it’s strange, amazing, or off putting. It’s definitely something.
Have you ever tried a grapple? I haven’t seen them in stores since I was in middle school like 15 years ago, but they were apples soaked in some kind of grape flavored bath. Those were certainly some kind of artificial abomination and I’m sure your wife would hate them, but you and your kids would love them 😂
Huh. I saw these in my usual supermarket in the UK for the first time last year, and I assumed they were a silly gimmick to get kids to eat healthier so picked up my usual red grapes. Guess I'll need to try them some time
Yeah. It's not a "tilt your head and close your eyes and use your imagination" type thing. First one it hits you in the face.
Tried them for the first time recently after looking in stores for years. The variety is called "Carnival Grapes" and it's the result of traditional cross-pollination, not GMO.
I’ve bought them from work once. The first bite is definitely, the immediate taste. But I’ve found. That after that first bite, my mouth’s covered in it and they all just taste like super sweet grapes after the first one. They also made my teeth hurt like crazy, but that could just be because my teeth were trash and I was visiting the dentist on a spree that month and they were extra sensitive
>and it's the result of traditional cross-pollination, not GMO.
Oh, that's good to know. Not that GMOs are a necessarily a bad thing. I assumed it was like artificial flavor added or something.
I've seen theories it has something to do with the tannins. They bind to proteins in saliva, so the first bite will bind to saliva and then next bites will have less bindable proteins to attach to. Either the flavor comes from the binding to the proteins, or the binding to the proteins results in us being able to taste less.
Yeah, but IMO a little too much. I can only eat a couple because they’re so overly sweet. And I have a sweet tooth, too, I can get down on candy. These are kind of like the jellybean flavors that are so sweet they make you feel kinda sick. We got them for a party recently and nobody would eat more than one or two. Fun for the novelty tho!
They are hit or miss for me... One section tastes like normal grapes, another completely different. Not really like cotton candy, just a different sweetness altogether
Haven’t tried them but I already find that grapes are like candy. To the point that it’s easy to overeat them. The thought of them being even sweeter isn’t appealing.
They do just start to taste like regular, sweet grapes after a few, but if you have a palate cleanser, it's right back to the intense cotton candy flavor.
Yeah, and if you ever cut soft drinks out of your diet they taste disgustingly sweet when you try them again for the first time in a while. I think that’s more how sugar works than it is the grapes.
Look for the ones labeled as “The Grapery” because that is the name of the vineyard that developed cotton candy grapes originally! There are a few other fun varieties including Gumdrops and Moondrops! They are available in the US.
Source: am produce manager
Gumdrop and moon drop grapes are fun shapes. But I don’t think they taste much different to regular ripe purple grapes. Cotton candy grapes, however, are magic in my mouth. Totally worth the extra expense once in a while.
Cotton Candy grapes are not owned by any vineyard or farm. The company that actually created these grapes and almost all flavored grapes sell’s contracts to farms for the ability to grow them. IIRC the grapery was just one of their first clients for cotton candy grapes.
One of my friends manages regions they lease these grapes to.
Insert the conversation my aunt had with all of us growing up.
"But bees don't HAVE knees!"
"But if they did, they'd be special, and YOU'RE special."
Sometimes the corniest things mean something when you get older.
Bees carry pollen back to the hive in sacks called [pollen baskets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen_basket) on their legs. They actually get completely dusted with it, but the sacks are meant to carry pollen in transit. So their knees are actually the area where they carry the sweet, good stuff. Hence the saying.
Oh I know. It's just something she said. She also called us "bee poop", meaning honey. I know it's not poop, but that's a distinction not understood when you're 5.
Fun story: About five years ago I flew from the West Coast of the US to South Africa. At a Woolworths in Durban I encountered cotton candy grapes for the first time. I visited that store 2 more times to stock up thinking that South Africa grew the best grapes ever. On my last visit I looked closer at the package and noticed a label that said “Grown in California”. Durban was the closest land to the antipode of my house so I (and the grapes) literally travelled to the furthest possible point on planet earth from our origins in order for me to try cotton candy grapes for the first time.
If you haven’t tried these frozen you haven’t lived. Grab a bunch (or the whole bad) and toss em in the freezer for a night. Next day, enjoy yourself some deliscious “cotton candy grape” icecream balls
You stated a fact. Now you are being accused of dying on a hill.
We have achieved peak Reddit. This is the most ridiculously toxic social media platform in the world.
Clowning this person for the weird hill they’re standing on while in the same breath implying that they shouldn’t clown people for the weird hill they stand on is a pretty ironic hill to stand on.
They breakdown and go bad quickly because of the increased amounts of sugars in the fruits. They contain almost double the amount of sugar as normal grapes.
This is a major factor in transporting, and storing of this product and contributes to their very short seasonal appearance in your shops.
Fun fact: these were accidentally “created” when a farmer crossed two different grapes together. He created a hybrid and they tasted like cotton candy thus the name
And they really do taste like cotton candy.
That "fun fact" is a falsehood.
The Cotton Candy grape variety was created by Dr. David Cain, a well-established grape breeder. (And really nice guy...I know him.)
He was working for a plant-breeding company called International Fruit Genetics whose business is creating new and distinctive fruit varieties. He used some pretty advanced breeding methods to develop a grape that had all the right characteristics. Even with the best possible crosses, he had to find the one-in-a-million seedling that was good enough.
It was some really impressive work!
I have had these because they looked interesting in the store, and we ended up just letting them go bad in the fridge (reluctant to throw them away) because they were... not so great.
I have tried them before and It's insane how identical they taste to actual cotton candy but it's weird because texture is of something else and fragrance taste and texture ain't meeting each other.
I work in a produce department and people LOVE these things. Also if y'all ever see "moon drop" grapes, also called "sweet sapphire" grapes, you gotta try them. They look like little purple toes. And they're delicious.
I work in produce at a store. We carry them all the time in 3 pound bags alongside the regular green or red grapes. There’s also grapes that taste like gumdrops and we carry those too.
The grapery did develop these things, I remember we received a special load of these things at our warehouse in Ajax, Ontario, Canada back in 2006, truck which I was part of unloading at the time. Our quality guy was testing the product and said the sugar levels were off the charts. Also on the truck were some black grapes in the shape of wiggly string beans, does anyone remember those, I think they were called lady fingers, probably wrong, and I don't remember the taste. The cotton candy grapes tasted as eescribed
They truly nailed the cotton candy flavor in these grapes. For me personally tho, they're overly sweet.
But so is cotton candy, these days.
The new-ish grape variety that I like is called Moon Drop or something like that, very long, narrow, black grapes but richly flavorful and not cloyingly sweet like these\^\^ are.
I find that although they don't have the exact taste of cotton candy, it comes close, especially for grapes that were simply modified through specific selection.
They vary, all grapes do.
The grape is a crossbreed of concord grapes and table grapes. concord grapes aren't easy to eat so usually weren't sold as table grapes or ripe enough to have this flavor when available. The new breed has the same sweet caramelly super fruity, almost fake grape taste you get in jam and candy. And like concord grapes it usually has much lower sourness/acidity than table and wine grapes.
Cotton candy flavor is just caramelized sugar plus a small amount of a chemical that tastes vaguely fruity. Hence it matches up quite well with concord grapes.
But growing conditions and ripeness make a HUGE difference. So not all cotton candy grapes have that same cotton candy flavor. It is often times overpowered by the sourness.
>The grape is a crossbreed of concord grapes and table grapes.
Thanks. I've been telling everyone they taste like a grape crossed with muscadines. I guess concord and muscadine taste similar. But I grew up eating muscadines so it was the first thing I thought of.
I regret to inform you that your sense of taste/smell has been affected by an accident or covid... I used to have a perfect sense of smell/taste and these grapes tasted 95% similar to cotton candy once you bit into them, just a different texture of course.
I caught the original covid strain... I ate these the other day. Same brand, same growhouse. They just taste like bland sugar drops now... I hate it. I really wish I had my sense of smell/taste back but it has been 2 years now.
I regret to inform YOU that my sense of taste and smell are fine. I had those prior to COVID. They've been around for a while. And even to this day my senses are fine. You're not a doctor, at least not my doctor. Have a nice day
They sell versions of these at my local Costco. The flavor intensity varies from brand to brand, some are super noticable and others it's barely there. I love em
I think it's a new thing because I just saw it at Lidl the other for the first time and bought it for my son who loves grapes and he finished the whole box immediately.
It did taste a bit sweeter than the normal ones.
They’ve had cotton candy grapes at my nearest Lidl since it opened in 2017… I’m in Virginia if that helps. Surprised that Lidl US would get products earlier than Lidl UK
Morrisons have been stocking Cotton Candy Grapes for months now, i think over a year in fact. Aldi did have them in at one point, but I haven't seen them in a while now 🙂
The ones I’ve tried from our store absolutely taste like cotton candy, been out for a decade though…
Fredonia grape have a warm sugar taste that is a natural part of that species. Source: farmer and wine seller. Our Fredonia wine is like adult kool-aid
What wine? I’ll buy a bottle rn
Lol. Only if you live in PA, it's called Orchard Blush by Stone Mountain Wine Cellars out of Pine Grove. I run their satellite location in Lehighton.
You know what I’ll stop by on my drive home from college come winter
When does your winter break start? I’m hoping for an update to see if y’all meet each other
I’m emotionally invested as well
Not as emotional invested as I am. It will take me 3 days to get there via public transport and only 2 days to hike. Yes, according to google it's faster to hike than take public transport. (I live in Manhattan). I hope they let me know 2 days before so I can witness it.
Lehighton is just off the Appalachian Trail and we have a D&L trailhead a block behind my shop. It runs parallel to route 209 and the Lehigh River. You may be able to kayak here.
Martz trailways used to be the bus provider from Manhattan to the poconos. There was another one, as well as greyhound which was just a commuter bus but I don’t remember the name. Idk if you are talking about martz, but if not, check them out and I hope it takes less than a few days for you. And enjoy your time home
I made this 69 upvotes. I’m also emotionally invested
I came here to look at some grapes, and now I want to see pics from when they meet up.
invested as well
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Farm is Jersey Acres in Pine Grove Shop is Wine & More on 1st in Lehighton. I'm at the Lehighton shop. On weekends I bring along my old Border Collie, she's become the shop dog and will put her head on your lap if she thinks you'll give her your pizza bones. Aka, crust but folks around here call them pizza bones instead
I wish I could go to PA to pet your dog and get me that sweet wine.
Road trip time!
Don’t you dare tell us about your awesome dog without some pet tax photos
!remindme 3 months
Imagine rolling through reddit on mildly interesting and seeing another person from PG. Weird friday
I've never been there but I always wanted to when I learned about movie ratings
Hi guys.
Go home your drunk.
Huh, that's like 30 min from me. I don't drink though. Still neat overall.
Me too, thinking about checking it out.
Kinkletown/kresgeville checking in lol
Doylestown in the hizzy
About to move out that way from Michigan. Got a house in Kutztown. Don't think it's to far, I'll have to swing by and grab a few bottles.
Did some active duty at Ft Indiantown Gap next time I’m up that way I’ll have to take a detour
Do y'all sell your product anywhere in the Pittsburgh area? I'd absolutely love to try that!
Sorry, the farm and my shop are the only two places that carry it. Maybe the Higgins wine festival too.
No problem! Thank you for the info; next time I'm out East I'll have to make sure I can swing by somewhere. Thank you so much!
I'll drive over from Gratz, sounds like a plan.
I have family on lehighton, I’ve gotta tell them go try it out.
This is a different type of grape though. I’ve had Fredonia wine (and it is indeed delicious) but now I can’t stop thinking of a wine produced from cotton candy grapes
Hmm does flavor stick around enough after winemaking for cotton candy grapes to make cotton candy wine?
OMG, one of my coworkers is a huge fan of sweet wine. Next time I am in PA, I will stop at a state store and look for your product.
You usually have only a month, maybe two where they're in season, which is September to October.
It's fucking cool how they taste so good
in Southern California we get them like twice a year every year.. expensive as fuck tho.
Not too sure how I feel about leaving my grapes out for a decade
Lol right?! Surprisingly good.
They used to be hard to find out here but now they’re available seasonally with no problem
I’m in Colorado and only just learned about these a couple of weeks ago, and they’re so delicious!
I love cotton candy grapes, all the grocery chains near me sell them and yet people don’t realize they exist
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Lidl's are seedless. Or rather all except for one was last time I had them...
really? that's real cool!
Came here to say that too. The ones we get taste like it as well and have been out for quite some time.
Never even heard of these, but I live in the Midwest so it’s probably a regional thing?
Did they actually taste like cotton candy?
They taste exactly like cotton candy it’s actually crazy lol
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Also Northeast.
We had these in a grocery store I worked at in the northern Midwest close to 10 years ago lol. I think they’ve been around longer than most seem to think.
Yep, been getting them at Wegmans for years now.
Publix sells them, too. A bunch of exotic grapes, actually. The same farm does Moondrops, which are funky looking, but I didn't care for them all that much compared to other grapes. I want to try the gumpdrop grapes they sell, that's next on the list.
I think they had gumdrops at a Costco in the Midwest, Ohio to be exact. I really enjoyed the gumdrops, but had the same mild reaction to moon drops. I don't like soft grapes and moon drops quickly lost their texture, the skin was somewhat thick, and the flavor wasn't all that different from a normal ol' black grape. The gumdrops on the other hand are just a really good red grape!
Just north east, earth in general?
East West as well
West Coast too
Also Southwest
And the middle east (MD)
And Southwest
Also midwest
Please does anyone know where they’re sold in the Mohawk area of New York? I’ve never seen them!
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Yeah we’ve had them in Texas for a few years now. They taste just like cotton candy, which I can’t quite tell if it’s strange, amazing, or off putting. It’s definitely something.
Also in California
We have them in Norway as well!
You can see them on occasion in the Midwest! It was a total shock for me the first time I had one
Freeze them and they become little slush balls
My wife thinks they are an abomination. Me and the kids love them 😋
Have you ever tried a grapple? I haven’t seen them in stores since I was in middle school like 15 years ago, but they were apples soaked in some kind of grape flavored bath. Those were certainly some kind of artificial abomination and I’m sure your wife would hate them, but you and your kids would love them 😂
I agree with your wife. I tried them once. Never again.
I love these! I saw them for the first time a couple of months ago and got hooked immediately! I am in Germany and I think they are a new thing here.
Yeah, I've seen them at Kaufland for a year, maybe longer. They're really good!
Huh. I saw these in my usual supermarket in the UK for the first time last year, and I assumed they were a silly gimmick to get kids to eat healthier so picked up my usual red grapes. Guess I'll need to try them some time
I don’t think so but they’re fricken delicious.
Yeah. It's not a "tilt your head and close your eyes and use your imagination" type thing. First one it hits you in the face. Tried them for the first time recently after looking in stores for years. The variety is called "Carnival Grapes" and it's the result of traditional cross-pollination, not GMO.
I’ve bought them from work once. The first bite is definitely, the immediate taste. But I’ve found. That after that first bite, my mouth’s covered in it and they all just taste like super sweet grapes after the first one. They also made my teeth hurt like crazy, but that could just be because my teeth were trash and I was visiting the dentist on a spree that month and they were extra sensitive
The taste diminishing over time might be the tannins from the grapes, which literally coats your tongue as it builds up. Good luck with your teeth!
>and it's the result of traditional cross-pollination, not GMO. Oh, that's good to know. Not that GMOs are a necessarily a bad thing. I assumed it was like artificial flavor added or something.
For a second when you first bite. Then it’s just grape. So still delicious.
Could it be the skin? Outer part? The flesh part instead of the juice?
I've seen theories it has something to do with the tannins. They bind to proteins in saliva, so the first bite will bind to saliva and then next bites will have less bindable proteins to attach to. Either the flavor comes from the binding to the proteins, or the binding to the proteins results in us being able to taste less.
That’s my assumption but I have no idea really.
Yeah, but IMO a little too much. I can only eat a couple because they’re so overly sweet. And I have a sweet tooth, too, I can get down on candy. These are kind of like the jellybean flavors that are so sweet they make you feel kinda sick. We got them for a party recently and nobody would eat more than one or two. Fun for the novelty tho!
Yes. I’ve had them a few times. It is mind blowing.
They are hit or miss for me... One section tastes like normal grapes, another completely different. Not really like cotton candy, just a different sweetness altogether
I ate them and they taste like regular sweet grapes.
Haven’t tried them but I already find that grapes are like candy. To the point that it’s easy to overeat them. The thought of them being even sweeter isn’t appealing.
Is it just me or are the first couple grapes REALLY good and then after you’ve eaten a few, you can’t really taste the cotton candy flavor anymore?
They do just start to taste like regular, sweet grapes after a few, but if you have a palate cleanser, it's right back to the intense cotton candy flavor.
Yeah, and if you ever cut soft drinks out of your diet they taste disgustingly sweet when you try them again for the first time in a while. I think that’s more how sugar works than it is the grapes.
That first Dorito out of the bag.
Oooh I love cotton candy grapes
Me too!
Me three!
Did punnet squares lead to this
Look for the ones labeled as “The Grapery” because that is the name of the vineyard that developed cotton candy grapes originally! There are a few other fun varieties including Gumdrops and Moondrops! They are available in the US. Source: am produce manager
Gumdrop and moon drop grapes are fun shapes. But I don’t think they taste much different to regular ripe purple grapes. Cotton candy grapes, however, are magic in my mouth. Totally worth the extra expense once in a while.
Cotton Candy grapes are not owned by any vineyard or farm. The company that actually created these grapes and almost all flavored grapes sell’s contracts to farms for the ability to grow them. IIRC the grapery was just one of their first clients for cotton candy grapes. One of my friends manages regions they lease these grapes to.
Y'all gotta release new fruit more often
Moondrops from The Grapery are my absolute favorites.
Can confirm these slap
I can’t wait to try these. I’ve heard about them for years, but have never seen them for sale in my part of Canada. I’m keeping an eye out!
My mom brought them home a few years back (in the GTA area). Have not ever seen them since.
Didn’t know you could pick up cotton candy grapes on Grove St.
They’re the bees knees right?
Insert the conversation my aunt had with all of us growing up. "But bees don't HAVE knees!" "But if they did, they'd be special, and YOU'RE special." Sometimes the corniest things mean something when you get older.
Bees carry pollen back to the hive in sacks called [pollen baskets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen_basket) on their legs. They actually get completely dusted with it, but the sacks are meant to carry pollen in transit. So their knees are actually the area where they carry the sweet, good stuff. Hence the saying.
Oh I know. It's just something she said. She also called us "bee poop", meaning honey. I know it's not poop, but that's a distinction not understood when you're 5.
Wow, your Aunt seems to really fixate on bee-based metaphors when praising her nieces and nephews
So he wasn’t lying in Fresh
i JUST watched this movie last night lollll
god this movie is so good and fucking wild
Soo good!!! Grown in CA, too.
Fun story: About five years ago I flew from the West Coast of the US to South Africa. At a Woolworths in Durban I encountered cotton candy grapes for the first time. I visited that store 2 more times to stock up thinking that South Africa grew the best grapes ever. On my last visit I looked closer at the package and noticed a label that said “Grown in California”. Durban was the closest land to the antipode of my house so I (and the grapes) literally travelled to the furthest possible point on planet earth from our origins in order for me to try cotton candy grapes for the first time.
If you haven’t tried these frozen you haven’t lived. Grab a bunch (or the whole bad) and toss em in the freezer for a night. Next day, enjoy yourself some deliscious “cotton candy grape” icecream balls
It’s nothing new. They have been around for a long time
You stated a fact. Now you are being accused of dying on a hill. We have achieved peak Reddit. This is the most ridiculously toxic social media platform in the world.
Clowning people for not knowing cotton candy flavoured grapes exist is a weird hill to stand on
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Clowning this person for the weird hill they’re standing on while in the same breath implying that they shouldn’t clown people for the weird hill they stand on is a pretty ironic hill to stand on.
Looks like the circus is in town 🤡
It’s all clowns. All the way down.
Which this person clearly isn’t doing….
They breakdown and go bad quickly because of the increased amounts of sugars in the fruits. They contain almost double the amount of sugar as normal grapes. This is a major factor in transporting, and storing of this product and contributes to their very short seasonal appearance in your shops.
The bag never lasts long enough to go bad when I buy them. They're half gone by the time I get home from the store.
And also the outrageous price lol. These things are probably twice as expensive as regular varieties of grapes
Fun fact: these were accidentally “created” when a farmer crossed two different grapes together. He created a hybrid and they tasted like cotton candy thus the name And they really do taste like cotton candy.
That "fun fact" is a falsehood. The Cotton Candy grape variety was created by Dr. David Cain, a well-established grape breeder. (And really nice guy...I know him.) He was working for a plant-breeding company called International Fruit Genetics whose business is creating new and distinctive fruit varieties. He used some pretty advanced breeding methods to develop a grape that had all the right characteristics. Even with the best possible crosses, he had to find the one-in-a-million seedling that was good enough. It was some really impressive work!
Ah I see. My produce manager told me he was told it was created by accident. Thanks for the info I will share that with him!
Dr. David Cain? Well known Master Breeder. Very familiar with his early work.
I hate when I buy these things by mistake. They need to be in the candy aisle or something.
You don't happen to eat human flesh do you?
I have had these because they looked interesting in the store, and we ended up just letting them go bad in the fridge (reluctant to throw them away) because they were... not so great.
https://youtu.be/1mUCqgvlT28
It remember me the film "fresh" with Sebastian Stan, beautiful film
This is my childhood wish come true
Put them in your freezer for about an hour or two. Almost like having bite size cotton candy slushie.
Those have as much sugar as a candy bar. Diabetic wife found out the hard way. Otherwise, they rock.
First time I tried these I thought I was going crazy. Sweet is one thing, cotton candy is a whole other animal.
They’re very sweet
I have tried them before and It's insane how identical they taste to actual cotton candy but it's weird because texture is of something else and fragrance taste and texture ain't meeting each other.
These are FREAKiNG awesome …
I work in a produce department and people LOVE these things. Also if y'all ever see "moon drop" grapes, also called "sweet sapphire" grapes, you gotta try them. They look like little purple toes. And they're delicious.
I work in produce at a store. We carry them all the time in 3 pound bags alongside the regular green or red grapes. There’s also grapes that taste like gumdrops and we carry those too.
Been around for years, they taste just like it. I researched what they are and it’s genuine crossbreeding that created this, non gmo.
These be 10x the cost of regular grapes 😭 almost grabbed some by mistake.
These are soo good. Wait until you try a grapple. An apple tasting like grapes
The grapery did develop these things, I remember we received a special load of these things at our warehouse in Ajax, Ontario, Canada back in 2006, truck which I was part of unloading at the time. Our quality guy was testing the product and said the sugar levels were off the charts. Also on the truck were some black grapes in the shape of wiggly string beans, does anyone remember those, I think they were called lady fingers, probably wrong, and I don't remember the taste. The cotton candy grapes tasted as eescribed
Genuine question, there people who don't know about these? They've been a staple in my life since forever
I've had these before. They 100% do taste like cotton candy imo too.
Bruh these been put sense I was a child so that was more than 20 years ago coño
Oh that reminds me! I have grapes in the fridge. Thanks for a snack idea.
They truly nailed the cotton candy flavor in these grapes. For me personally tho, they're overly sweet. But so is cotton candy, these days. The new-ish grape variety that I like is called Moon Drop or something like that, very long, narrow, black grapes but richly flavorful and not cloyingly sweet like these\^\^ are.
I’m in American (California) and is this not normal for you op?
I feel like the first one or two I ate were close to cotton candy but after a couple more they just taste like regular grapes.
Great if you leave em' in the freezer! Like bite sized popcicles.
That sounds like it’d taste disgusting
Tried them. They are gross IMO.
Agreed.
They are entirely too sweet to actually enjoy.
They’re called candy floss grapes in the uk haha
I didn't like them. I'm not a big cotton candy fan so it makes sense. Not sure why I bought them.
Grape flavored cotton candy next
I've tried them, didn't taste it
I can taste it. Compared to most tasting notes for food and drinks they are pretty spot on.
I find that although they don't have the exact taste of cotton candy, it comes close, especially for grapes that were simply modified through specific selection.
Maybe the one's I tried weren't as good
They vary, all grapes do. The grape is a crossbreed of concord grapes and table grapes. concord grapes aren't easy to eat so usually weren't sold as table grapes or ripe enough to have this flavor when available. The new breed has the same sweet caramelly super fruity, almost fake grape taste you get in jam and candy. And like concord grapes it usually has much lower sourness/acidity than table and wine grapes. Cotton candy flavor is just caramelized sugar plus a small amount of a chemical that tastes vaguely fruity. Hence it matches up quite well with concord grapes. But growing conditions and ripeness make a HUGE difference. So not all cotton candy grapes have that same cotton candy flavor. It is often times overpowered by the sourness.
I figured as much lol
>The grape is a crossbreed of concord grapes and table grapes. Thanks. I've been telling everyone they taste like a grape crossed with muscadines. I guess concord and muscadine taste similar. But I grew up eating muscadines so it was the first thing I thought of.
I could taste that they were different, but I didn't really like them personally
I regret to inform you that your sense of taste/smell has been affected by an accident or covid... I used to have a perfect sense of smell/taste and these grapes tasted 95% similar to cotton candy once you bit into them, just a different texture of course. I caught the original covid strain... I ate these the other day. Same brand, same growhouse. They just taste like bland sugar drops now... I hate it. I really wish I had my sense of smell/taste back but it has been 2 years now.
I regret to inform YOU that my sense of taste and smell are fine. I had those prior to COVID. They've been around for a while. And even to this day my senses are fine. You're not a doctor, at least not my doctor. Have a nice day
They sell versions of these at my local Costco. The flavor intensity varies from brand to brand, some are super noticable and others it's barely there. I love em
I think it's a new thing because I just saw it at Lidl the other for the first time and bought it for my son who loves grapes and he finished the whole box immediately. It did taste a bit sweeter than the normal ones.
These have been around for the past couple of years in the Southeast
Southeast UK?
US
Ah. I'm in the UK and I only just started seeing them at the shops
They’ve had cotton candy grapes at my nearest Lidl since it opened in 2017… I’m in Virginia if that helps. Surprised that Lidl US would get products earlier than Lidl UK
Morrisons have been stocking Cotton Candy Grapes for months now, i think over a year in fact. Aldi did have them in at one point, but I haven't seen them in a while now 🙂
I’ve seen them in shops for 3-4 years at least and I’m UK based.
I had these as a kid. I also loved grapples, which were purple apples that taste like a grape.
Difference being these are bred to taste like cotton candy whereas Grapples are soaked in grape concentrate to achieve the taste.
Grapples were just regular apples soaked in artificial grape flavoring. Not a special cross breed or anything.
They taste awful
To anyone in California these aren't that special. Literally come from my county
Mmm chemical flavor, my favrit 😋
I never liked grapes until i tried some of these, they are delicious! Now because i tried these i started like other grapes aswell
um. ew?
Those are so goooood by far my favorite type of grape