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"David Harmon" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:44:25 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, James
> Silverton > wrote,
>>You can also get small *blue* potatoes and they taste quite good but I
>>can't get around my initial distaste for the color.

>
> I often wonder why there's no blue food. Every other color in
> well represented in the food kingdom. And don't bother me with
> blueberries; they're purple. The same is true with blue corn and
> blue potatoes. They're purple. Blue cheese? Nice try. It's actually
> white cheese with blue mold. Occasionally, you might run across some
> blue Jell-o in a cafeteria. Don't eat it. It wasn't supposed to be
> blue. Something went wrong.
> -- George Carlin


Stop me if you've heard this one ...

During WW2 when there was no butter around, margarine came with a yellow
coloring capsule to mush into it. My brother decided one day to use blue
food coloring. No one could eat it, Blue is NOT a food color!

Felice