With the subject of puke on my mind, I put this question to everyone: What color is your puke? We’ve all obviously heard of “puke green” before, but my puke has never been green. It’s typically red (although tonight’s was a little on the brownish side).
I guess it depends on the last thing you’ve eaten. The only time I’ve seen green puke was the time I threw up after eating pickles with a baloney sandwich. (For the record, that’s not what made me sick 
.)
I suppose bile would cause puke to turn green though.
My coolest puke ever was when I was in high school. I came home from a party, three sheets to the wind, and decided to have two salami and mayo sandwiches on Italian bread. I’m talking the bright red Oscar Meyer hard salami. Dig this stiuation, I woof down the sandwiches when all of a sudden the urge to dance overwhelms me. There I am in the basement, stereo cranked, hopping around like a nervous chihuahua with its tail on fire, when up comes my technicolor midnight snack.
It looked like a Jackson Pollack painting. I just had to admire it.
and started at 11PM losing her Thai dinner into a garbage pail beside the bed. She vomitted every hour for the next 24. The room was a pungent aroma of wonderful food and icky stomach acid.
At first, it was pinkish (Pad Thai), but as the contents of her stomach approached a vacuum, the colour was a light pasty green, that of bile. Only about Monday was she able to eat anything of any substance.
I don’t know why, but whenever I’ve seen the remnants of vomit, there seem to be nuts floating around in it…
One time I got way drunk and the puke was neon orange.
Had to throw away the comforter, though.
And the sheets. And the pillow. And wash the wall.
–Tim
when I was a wee young 'un (so… 9 years ago) I had some purple medicine (the cough expectorant stuff, I think) and I threw up purple… it was… well… different…
and I had a turkey sandwich beforehand, so I had turkey and pickle and bread-bits lodged in my sinuses for a week…
Golden brown mostly.
One night when I was but a wee laddie, we had spaghetti for dinner. I had some grape juice to go with it. Not long after, I got that feeling in my mouth, and I knew I was about to lose it. I ran to the bathroom, but just couldn’t quite make it to the toilet. I puked purple spaghetti all over the white linoleum.
My nastiest experience was when I puked up Campbell’s Vegetable Soup in the middle of the night. Dull orange with chunks, only partially digested. I still can’t touch the stuff.
It always seems reddish or orange, but it also seems to depend on what’s eaten beforehand.
My ex and I had a nice evening at home one night–candlelight and red wine–and, well, to show my appreciation, I swallowed. Next thing I know, I’m puking bright Pepto-Bismol pink stuff. Sure put a damper on the evening.
When I was a kid and had the flu. I was throwing up a lot, and coincidentally drinking Sunkist. Orange puke, that tasted not too different coming back out than when it went in.
I haven’t drunk Sunkist to this day.
I too have a “thing” against orange drink- in my case it was that icky bright orange carbonated stuff Orange Crush. I was on my uncle’s boat & got seasick. Too gross.
Green seems to be a bile thing, usually only on an empty stomach (or after Mexican food with lots of guacamole).