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the personality trait that turns ordering a drink into a personality reveal.
means Describing something or someone as exuberantly flamboyant, eccentric, or full of lively character — though it literally means tasting or smelling of fruit.
from Straight from 'fruit,' which arrived in English from Old French 'fruit,' itself from Latin 'fructus' — meaning produce, profit, or enjoyment, related to 'frui,' to enjoy. So at its root, fruit is literally 'the thing you get to enjoy.' The sense 'tasting of fruit' came first, naturally; the figurative leaps — to mean rich and flavorful in manner, then eccentric or flamboyant, then in 20th-century slang a coded (and often derogatory) term — all grew from that same idea of something vivid, sweet, and a little too much.
- chemistry
- Most fruit flavors come from esters, not actual fruit
- old slang
- Meant insane before it ever meant flamboyant
- wine speak
- Sommeliers say it for sweetness that isn't really there
- banana truth
- Artificial banana tastes like an extinct variety
froot loops cereal — kellogg's breakfast cereal with fruity flavor, launched 1963
tropicana orange juice — florida-based juice brand, founded 1947, made from oranges
skittles candy — colorful fruity candy by mars, flavors include strawberry and grape
capri sun drink pouch — fruity juice drink pouches sold globally since 1969