This is where I'm supposed to do an acceptance speech, right?

Well, fuck an acceptance speech! And I'm supposed to thank /u/Apexified for the nomination? Fuck him, too. He knows what he did. He just wanted to break my streak of nominating the recipe of the year every year and have it be a recipe that has my name on it that he knew I couldn't take credit for, to extra piss me off. He succeeded and he's so damned proud of himself and now he's going to gloat about it for at least a year.

Congratulations, /u/alfredpudding for creating the Recipe of the Year for the second year in a row!!! Truly there has been no greater achievement in the history of this subreddit. But you're a dick, too, though, for your part in this. I wouldn't even be surprised if I found out this was your plan all along, from the first message about Hawaiian Punch. Some kind of Machiavelli-ass plan just to try to make me flip my shit so you could have a goddamn giggle over how irate I would get.

Watch, he'll again say I deserve all the credit publicly while he's goating about it in PMs. AlfredPudding and Apexified, two scheming fucking gloaty serpentine bastards. Why don't you do just go get a room and gloat to each other and giggle like two little fucking short skirt pink panty schoolgirls at each other and leave me the fuck alone?

Counter Punch is not is not my fucking recipe, for the last time. Not really. This is how it went down:

1. Alfred created Cherry Bomb.

2. I tried Cherry Bomb and told him thought it was about 5% INW Pineapple shy of Hawaiian Punch.

3. He sent me back a recipe he called "Counter Point" that did indeed have 5% INW Pineapple, but also had more INW Cherries, less CAP Sweet Guava, FA Forest Fruit instead of CAP Rainbow Candy, and CAP Yellow Peach instead of TFA Jackfruit.

4. So mixed that up gave it a try and responded with "Counter Counter Point," a recipe that I thought would correct some of the issues I had with it. A little less Pineapple, a little less Peach, a little more Sweet Guava, and some TFA Smooth to blend it together, as well as a bunch of sweetener that it seemed to be crying out for. These were very minor adjustments and fairly obvious additions to try to get closer to Hawaiian Punch.

5. I got back a Counter Counter Counter Point recipe from Alfred, with a hair less Apricot and no more Forest Fruit. This was Hawaiian Punch.... but yet... not. It was too soft.

6. I made one final change which was using half as much Smooth as the Counter Counter Counter Point, which still provides the necessary blending without over-softening its punch.

7. Alfred INSISTED that I share this recipe. After I told him "omg you did it! You made Hawaiian Punch!" He insisted it was "WE" (as you can see it was not, not really), and that I should get to writing the description for "my" recipe post. He's even admitted it in private he just did that because he knew how much it aggravates me.

This whole thing is fucking bullshit. Fuck all of you who even voted for this recipe unless you did it in complete ignorance of these facts, in which case that's ok, you're ok, but just know you were used as an unwitting pawn in a bit of heinous fuckery. If I were you, I'd be madder than a cat gettin baptised. I know I am.

I made a recipe last year that's better than this one. I nominated a recipe created last year that was even better than that. It's just some room temp Hawaiian punch like they might serve you in a paper cup at vacation bible school along with some dry ass butter cookies, the kind with a hole in the middle. It shouldn't be the fucking recipe of the year. This is bullshit. I will get you back for this. Go to hell. Fuckers.

Omg Dave is gonna hate that XD Alfred Pudding truly is a tormented genius...and its cherry fotw this is truly a living nightmare for him

Poor Dave , they got you good an proper. Can’t wait to see your fury taken out on CHERRIES this week on NOTED. I imagine you physically fizzing and spitting while writing that “acceptance “ speech ha ha aha aha aha. But PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do us all a big favour and maybe enjoy your moment in the sun no matter how it came about because the kingmaker is now the KING !!! P.S if you and the gang could somehow come up with a solid cherry this week I will forever be in your debt.

Congratulations to /u/ID10-T, truly a well deserved win. I'm proud that one of my recipes was even nominated, let alone receiving an honorable mention.

That said, Dave: I missed out on the opportunity to make you talk about it tonight on Noted, and you know I've reviewed the recipe. Take the win, take the compliment. You have an amazing ability to pull more from a flavor or a recipe than many of us ever will. Where Cherry bomb existed, you saw an entirely different recipe and you brought it to fruition. You've done great. The changes were yours, the recipe is yours, and the credit is yours.

Seriously, the recipe is top notch in a lot of ways, and I should have made sure that we could properly memorialize this moment on the cherry episode of Noted tonight. You deserve far more credit than you'll ever willingly accept. Absolutely, great work. No amount of humility can make this anything but your accomplishment.

And just like that, flat Pepsi Cola was dethroned.

Congratulations to all involved!!

That’s got to be one of the best fucking acceptance speech’s I’ve ever read. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone so furious about winning before. Never keep winning! Such talent, such passion, a true artist! As some intellectual said about art “good artist borrow, great artist STEAL!”

I'm super pumped to see people still participating in this sub I forgot my old login stuff on a different account and had to check in