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ELI5: Why do so many foods have a ‘chicken’ flavour, when the flavour tastes nothing like chicken?
gpt
Chicken flavored spice packets in things like Ramen noodles are almost always made of actual chicken, so they do in fact taste like chicken.

That said, the reason there is a different flavor is essentially the same reason that orange juice taste different from oranges. Chicken itself is very quick to spoil, so it has to be processed in order to turn it into a shelf stable product. Which in the case of chicken flavoring packets, basically means boiling the fuck out of chicken, grinding up any of the organic material, and drying it out. That breaks up a lot of the larger proteins and other molecules and changes the flavor somewhat.