Fuck TFA dragonfruit. It is, far and away, the worst kind of flavor. It isn't that it's truly offensive in a mix it's perfectly useful for a fairly particular purpose.
My gripe lies squarely with this. It isn't dragonfruit. What it is however is the very last piece of bazooka joe in the bucket. You remember when you were a kid and you went to the hardware store to pick something up for a project with Dad? That big bucket of gum they had on the counter? It's the last piece in that bucket. The one that got put there last year and is just now being widdled down to the last few pieces. The stalest piece of gum in a bucket full of stale gum. TFA doesn't even have the decency to give you a shitty comic with it.
Now, maybe that's not what shows up when you mix it with strawberries or when you use it as an emulsifier, but those aren't cases where you're using it as dragonfruit. You're using it to muddle the distinction between the layers in a recipe. That is, in and of itself, a boring reason to introduce a flavor to a mix but it isn't the problem. Honestly though, why just mash all the unique ingredients into one amalgamation without distinction?
What really irks me though, is how it seems to be collectively accepted to just throw the word dragon into your mix's title once you've used the least accurate and least interesting "dragonfruit" flavor. Mother of dragons' milk might sound great as a recipe name, certainly better than "Gum I found under a picnic table at a little league game & milk" but it sure as shit doesn't make it a dragonfruit recipe. Quite frankly, I expect more from you u/ID10-T. It's this blindly accepted lie that using TFA's "put it behind the headboard so I can chew it again tomorrow" bubblegum flavor makes a recipe a "dragonfruit" recipe or that "dragon" is somehow acceptable to use as part of your recipe's title. Why lie? It's fucking strawberries and cream u/Zany1337 not "Dragon milk". You both know you can do better, and we all know you're not the only guilty parties.
^^^^Thank ^^^^you ^^^^for ^^^^both ^^^^being ^^^^good ^^^^sports ^^^^about ^^^^this ^^^^hypocritical ^^^^rant ^^^^about ^^^^recipe ^^^^names ^^^^and ^^^^TFA ^^^^dragonfruit. ^^^^It's ^^^^not ^^^^like ^^^^anyone ^^^^should ^^^^take ^^^^this ^^^^shit ^^^^seriously ^^^^from ^^^^the ^^^^guy ^^^^that ^^^^released ^^^^a ^^^^recipe ^^^^called ^^^^the ^^^^demogorgon
I use it in a gum recipe with cactus, raspberry and hibiscus and it's the shit. As a main profile? Hell no. Can agree with this post almost 100%