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I took a trip out to Sam’s Club this week to pick up a rotisserie chicken and a carton of strawberries. I scoped out produce to see if Cotton Candy grapes were still in stock. Previously, the sweet green globes were only available in the late summer from Grapery, but at least one other company has started producing them as well.

While Cotton Candy grapes were temporarily gone, they were replaced with Bahama Burst grapes, a black seedless grape variant. Aside from my carnival-reminiscent fruit spheres, black grapes are my favorite, leaps and bounds over red and green. My interest was piqued and it was all aboard my cart with a one-way ticket to a “Juicy Taste of Paradise.”

I was anticipating each grape to explode my mouth with flavors of a tropical smoothie, and inspire daydreams of hammocks, beaches, and tanned, sleek cabana boys. I was mentally reeling at the possibilities of more flavored grapes. Grape aisles in the grocery with flavor selections that put Pop-Tarts and Oreos to shame. Or heck, why not Oreo flavored grapes? Oreos flavored like grapes that are flavored like Cotton Candy?

The grapes did have the juicy factor correct, but I wasn’t getting the “tropical” feel I was hoping from a grape called Bahama Burst that was boasting to take me to paradise. It was a reasonably good grape, not having too thick of a skin and a decent sweetness factor. It really did well in fruit salad.

Maybe one day I can get all the flavors of fruit salad with mixed flavored grapes alone.

Oooh. Fruit salad flavored grapes!