On 3/4/2011 1:02 PM, Felice wrote:
> "David > wrote in message
> m...
>> On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:44:25 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, James
>> > 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
>
>
I'm not going to Google for the actual citation but I remember a long
ago experiment that got people to eat quite appetizing food in a room
illuminated by pure red light. About a third of the people suffered
gastric distress.

I also remember my high school cafeteria where they used to frequently
serve one of the cook's favorites, a jello type mold, colored mauve and
flavored with almond. The number of takers was small.

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James Silverton, Potomac

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