The world will never be the same.
A Reddit user has forever changed the course of Australian history after pointing out that everything is not always as it seems.
Allen’s Snakes Alive are a staple of growing up in Australia. We eat them on road trips, at birthday parties, at the cinema – really, anywhere we can get our hands on them.
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But as it turns out we may not have been eating what we thought we were.
Now, don’t panic, there’s not like some gross astonishing ingredient in your favourite lolly that we’re just now learning about. It’s actually something as small as the flavours.
See, we all associate certain colours of lolly with a certain flavour, and sometimes, that flavour is just a colour.
For example, does anyone actually know what flavour they’re tasting when they eat a red lolly? No, you don’t. It’s just red.
But, now thanks to Reddit, everything is different. Forever.
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A user has shared a picture of the back of a Snakes Alive packet – a packet that shows the colours and their corresponding flavour.
“The flavours of each snake of Allen’s Snakes Alive… I refuse to believe that these are the official flavours,” they wrote alongside the image.
Now, what you’ve all been dying to know: what flavour is that delicious red lolly?
Well, turns out that red is strawberry. Makes sense, I guess.
The darker, purplish red is blackberry. Yellow is pineapple, not lemon – because the green is actually lemon.
And if you’re confused now, just wait until you find out what flavour orange is.
No, the orange lolly is not orange flavour. That would be far too simple. Instead, it’s everyone’s grandmother’s favourite fruit, apricot.
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Now, if you’re anything like the commenters on this Reddit thread, you’re going to need some time to absorb this information.
So, now we’ve irreversibly changed the way you view the world forever, we wish you luck and hope you can still look at the orange snake in a bag of Snakes Alive the same.
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