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Funny you should say that. Went for a curry this evening and ordered an aubergine (sorry, eggplant) dish and found that it was mainly flavoured with cinnamon. Gutted! It's hideous stuff and totally ruined an otherwise lovely meal.

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I love the taste and smell of cinnamon... cinnamon rolls are YUMMY!

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Couldn;t jive with the stuff either until my mom introduced me to Eggos cinnamon french toast, tbh.

I also suppose it is also good for watching morons try the cinnamon challenge on youtube.

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Loveable mockney wanker Jamie Oliver has a great recipe for tuna 'meatballs' that are flavoured with cinnamon - served with tomato sauce over pasta. They're really nice!

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I don't mind cinnamon in moderation, but it's a bit much when the local supermarket wafts it around the "autumn" displays of pumpkins and Halloween goods. :confused: I don't know how they do it, but everything in that entryway area of the store reeks of cinnamon. I suppose they think it's attractive to shoppers, but it's the dead opposite for me - I always race through that section like mad holding my breath!

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The only things that should taste of cinnamon are things that have cinnamon in the name, eg cinnamon rolls, cinnamon toast. Everything else should taste as the name suggests, eg apple pie should taste of apples.

I love cinnamon rolls but I make my own apple pie.

I haven't got used to it being everywhere and in everything after 21 years, so let me know if you discover the secret.....

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Yes, America does smell of cinnamon - when I first visited I wondered how people who don't like it get on. I suppose you would eventually develop a tolerance of it.

This time of year is worst though because of it's association with the holidays. Hang on for the new year!

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I agree 100%. However, I've been here almost 10 years and it still makes me want to puke whenever I smell it. Which is often, especially around halloween, thanksgiving and christmas.

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After 25 years I don't notice the smell in shops quite as much but when I eat it I feel a bit sick. But not always so I wonder if it's cassia in some foods and not cinnamon, I still don't like the taste.

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I noticed that too when I first moved over. Cinnamon and peanut butter, the yanks are mad for them both. And everything is either very salty or very sugary. And people don't walk anywhere. You'll get used to it ;)

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A proper apple pie has cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and cheese.

Cinnamon is lovely, but as with all spices, in the right doses...and not on sweet potato with marshmellows :D

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It's cider because it's pressed...and it's hard cider for the boozy version. It's the same in the UK, though the emphasis is the other way around, where they'd say soft cider for the none booze version.

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Angry Orchard seems to be quite popular in Maine right now. Tastes like Strongbow with little to no carbonation. Apparently it is made by the Boston Beer Co.

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Yeah, that one ain't to bad....Trader Joes has one that's not to bad either for the money. Seem to find quite a lot of decent hard cider these days...

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Well lucky you. It took me a while but I eventually managed to find a dusty six pack of Hornsby cider in Stater Bros. It's even worse than Strongbow and Woodpecker but thankfully not too bad for cooking with. I've never seen anywhere else selling hard cider around here.

Oh for a natural farm cider with dubious hygiene, strange bits floating in the cider, and a nominal ABV that doesn't match what's inside.

Never heard of "soft" cider in the UK. It's called apple juice.