I was recently discussing the Heinz blue ketchep with a friend, and why most people seem to find it disgusting.
Anyway, we speculated that the reason for the failure is a noted lack of blue food in nature. Try as I might, I really can’t think of any naturally occuring, bright blue foods.
I suppose blueberries count, but they’re not exactly brightly colored.
I can think of a hundred foods in any other colors, why not blue?
Is your question in regards to the entire product line of Heinz’s colored ketchup or just the blue?
What I’d really like to know is if I’m right about a lack of blue food in nature.
If I’m right about that, I’d like to know the reason for it.
I don’t think that’s the reason.
We all (or most of us at least) eat blue candy without finding it disgusting.
This is a blue-food related thread from a couple years back. If I remember right, the only blue food that really counted (gum and Great Bluedini Kool-Aid being blue food that doesn’t count), were blueberries.
i don’t think candy is quite the same as “food”. maybe he means cooked food.
Alfred Hitchcock noticed this decades ago. One time as a joke he held a banquet where all the food was dyed blue with food coloring. As the story goes, even though the meal was otherwise perfectly delicious, since the food coloring was completely tasteless, none of the guests felt like eating much of anything. For whatever reason, people just don’t like blue food!
—As I see the other thread has already mentioned. Ahem.
I joke with friends, when ever they ask about my food prefferences, I tell them I don’t eat blue foods.
Why yes I am fat.
Life’s funney that way.