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> Son: まずいよ、このクッキー。
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> Mother: やっぱりまずい？ニンニク味だから。

The above excerpt is part of a dialogue in which a mother gave her son a
garlic-flavored cookie because he asked for a cookie. After tasting it he says
it tastes bad and the mother says "やっぱりまずい？" I thought やっぱり meant "I knew it"
so I thought the mother was trying to say "I knew it would taste bad." What is
confusing me is why is "やっぱりまずい？" a question. It sounds like she is saying
instead "I knew it would taste bad?" which doesn't make sense.
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Meaning of やっぱり in this context?
This やっぱり is being used to express to the son that the mother either had a
hunch or the expectation that he wasn't going to like the cookie.

It doesn't really translate well, but if I were to try to capture the same
feeling in English I might say:

> まずい？ → "Is it bad?"

and

> やっぱりまずい？ → "Is it bad? I thought/knew it might/would be."
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