Blue food, why isn't there more of it?

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Well, why?

Most other shades seem to be quite well represented. Perhaps it's the colour of decay or something and we just instinctively don't find it appetizing. Remember the blue chocolate layer on the silver jubilee ice-creams in the uk in '77?

― noel i (noel_immitz), Thursday, 26 September 2002 09:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Is there a way of extracting the yellow from greens to make them blue?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 09:48 (twenty-three years ago)

It is all about the blue smarties and anyway why is water blue and transparent at the same time and also do not forget blue cheese!

Today I am going to be incoherent!!!

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 26 September 2002 09:51 (twenty-three years ago)

there are relatively few blue plants and animals to make it out of. Most blue living things are moulds and as Noel has already hinted, there is limited scope for making these appetizing (blue cheeses being the obv. exception).

But blue is associated with coolness, freshness and cleanliness. Water is only blue when it reflects the sky, but the fact that the sea is blue on a sunny day prolly inspires us to make the connection with the things mentioned above. So we use blue a lot for things like toothpaste, mouthwash and so forth. I suspect that the minty Slush Puppy was only made blue so ppl wouldn't think it was lime flavour. There was green coloured mint slush for sale in Venice when I was there a few weeks ago.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 26 September 2002 10:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I have never had a blue minty Slush Puppy. Blue slush puppies were raspberry flavour. And still are, in the Glasgow UGC at least.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 10:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought it had been proven by science that foods which only even have blue *packaging* sell less well than....er, the same foods in non-blue.
I don't think this applies to all foodstuffs though - more chiller cabinet dairy products and fishy-things especially seem to have blue packaging.

(Oceanic associations? A 'cool' colour for refrigerated food being reassuring?)

― Ray M (rdmanston), Thursday, 26 September 2002 10:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought it had been proven by science that foods which only even have blue *packaging* sell less well than....er, the same foods in non-blue.

But Walker cheese and Onion are their most popular snack (I just checked!) and they are in Blue packets.
Don't eat blue crisps by the way, they are made of paper and full of salt. Or money.

― Simeon (Simeon), Thursday, 26 September 2002 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

are you off the money then simeon?

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 26 September 2002 10:55 (twenty-three years ago)

There's not much blue in nature at all. Blue feathers, a few blue fish and flowers - a few blue eyes as well. There's no blue fur or hair or skin.

Blue looks kind of dead and poisonous.

I recall reading that some blue food colouring (maybe an old fashioned one) was a bit toxic.

― toraneko (toraneko), Thursday, 26 September 2002 10:55 (twenty-three years ago)

You wouldn't say "blue looks dead and poisonous" if you were a baboon.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:09 (twenty-three years ago)

a) you wouldn't say anything if you were a baboon
b) how do you know toraneko is not a baboon?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:11 (twenty-three years ago)

1) Baboons bark, which can be considered speech of a sort.
2) Toraneko is not a baboon, or she would be impressed by patches of blue to be found on the face or rump and not consider them to be dead-looking.

So ner.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

It would make me think I was eating mashed smurfs, and while I admire the concept of dead smurfs I certainly don't want to eat them.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:15 (twenty-three years ago)

c) how do you know that baboons are not impressed by things that look dead and poisonous?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Mashed Smurfs?! You are EVIL!

― Anonymous (Anonymous), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I am sure that the blue icecream sold at the beach near Montpellier had been given some made up name which translated as Smurf flavour to disguise the fact that its flavour was basically artificial sweeties. However I cannot remember the French for Smurf. All that money spent on my education etc. etc.

― Emma, Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

a1) how do you know that smurfs don't taste of artifical sweeties?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:21 (twenty-three years ago)

c), a1): N, your whole life is mentalism run rampant.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

a1) Cos they ARE NOT REAL. Also I am really just trying to get someone to tell me what the French for Smurf is as I'm sure it was a good word...

― Emma, Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:23 (twenty-three years ago)

And anyway I don't want to eat pretty girls' faces.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Where is Dan Perry when you need him?

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:26 (twenty-three years ago)

(I think it is Schtroumpf but that doesn't sound right now.... hmmm)

― Emma, Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I think German for Smurf was Schlump, not that that's especially relevant.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:28 (twenty-three years ago)

It is Schtroumpf.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Neither of them are very appetising names for icecream flavours. Especially blue icecream which needs all the help it can get being poisonous / made from baboons' arses / dead / mouldy etc.

― Emma, Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:30 (twenty-three years ago)

http://clubdo.free.fr/disco/45T_vla.jpg

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/~erikt/comics/smurfs.html

Overjoyed to see that the Smurfette's French name is Schtroumpfette, presumably pronounced 'strumpet'.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:34 (twenty-three years ago)

How come there's a green smurf in that picture? It's creepy and sinister.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Baby smurf wil een beer (Baby smurf wants a bear)

Has this definitely been correctly translated?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Nicole is a strong advocate of Smurf racial separatism.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, didn't anyone see that episode with the Gnaps?!?!

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I find all smurfs creepy and sinister.

(I am a strong advocate of Smurf genocide)

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Green = it has syphillis.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Smurfillis, surely?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)

He got it from Gargamel - he loves smurfs the way Richard Gere loves hamsters.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I find this thread creepy and sinister.

Wouldn't it have been nicer to talk about blue cheese for a bit?

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes. Last night for dinner I had pasta with dolcelatte crumbled all over it and melting and mmmmm. The vast calorie intake was justified by the extra walking I had to do cos of the MONEY GRABBING tube drivers grr.

― Emma, Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Oceanic associations? A 'cool' colour for refrigerated food being reassuring?

Probably a blue = mold assocation. At any rate, apart from blueberries and blue cheese, I don't believe there are any foods that are naturally blue when they are in an edible condition.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Blueberries, dur.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Smurf Genocide, why? What did Smurfs ever do to you (apart from suck the helium out of balloons and then sing really annoying songs)?

― Anonymous (Anonymous), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I dare not explore this site too much at work: www.BlueFood.cc
(But you can bet your ass I'll be having a good look when I get home)

― Simeon (Simeon), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.colormatters.com/images/bluerice.jpg

The pink stuff, apparently, is spam.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:21 (twenty-three years ago)

aaah! i'm honest-to-god frightened of blue food. even smarties - i pick the blue ones out and at the movies avoid them altogether (even if i've inspected them prior to lights-out they all start looking suspicious in the dark). that sushi will now feature in my nightmares for weeks.

― the actual mr. jones (actual), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

That sushi almost made me cry.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Quickfire responses

1)"There's not much blue in nature at all. Blue feathers, a few blue fish and flowers - a few blue eyes as well. There's no blue fur or hair or skin."

There is a very rare condition that can give humans blue skin. There is also a fetish for women with blue skin. I don't know how rare the fetish is, but I think the numebr of people who have it is lower than the numebr of people who watch farscape.

Not that eating disordered human skin isn't kinda icky

2)That sushi is made of maggots

3) The smurf is green because it is going to throw up. Look at it's face. It probably just saw some maggot sushi

― Sofa King Alternative (Sofa King Alternative), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

jerry is that spam and blue maggots sushi?

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey hey, I was going to start a thread on this yesterday! Because I think about it all the time!

Blueberries don't count, as they're clearly indigo.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

and purple inside. i'm not scared of those.

― the actual mr. jones (actual), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I had blue fudge the other day, it was mixed together with liqourice all sorts, it was very nice.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Blue hair, why isn't there more of it?
Back in the punk 70's, most dyers either had bright red or lime green - blue wasn't a common choice.
Still isn't, unless you're one of the Tory 'blue-rinse' brigade (like Gary Numan during his 'Berserker' phase).

I think 'Chianna' with the grey skin in Farscape looks nicer than the blue one. That can't be a good sign either though.

― Ray M (rdmanston), Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

the licorice allsorts with the blue beaded coating is v. v. v. good. v. good.

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Those are my least favourite licquorice allsorts. I usually just chuck them away, but I will now save them up and post them to anthony.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 26 September 2002 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Why is there no blue food? I can't find blue food - I can't find the flavor of blue! I mean, green is lime; yellow is lemon; orange is orange; red is cherry; what's blue? There's no blue! Oh, they say, "Blueberries!" Uh-uh; blue on the vine, purple on the plate. There's no blue food! Where is the blue food? We want the blue food! Probably at the stores in mortality! They're keeping it from us!

-George Carlin

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 26 September 2002 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

this is a george carlin routine from the 70's!

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 27 September 2002 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Blue hair, why isn't there more of it?

Precisely because of the 'blue rinse' mentioned. People take the piss out you more if you have blue hair than if the colour matche sthe contents of your nose. Nobody wants to be called "Mrs Slocombe" (other than female married memebrs of the Slocombe family, ofc)

― Sofa King Alternative (Sofa King Alternative), Friday, 27 September 2002 07:44 (twenty-three years ago)

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