Could be confirmation bias. You have a preconceived notion, you take notice of all the instances that support the notion and ignore the ones that don’t. Confirmation bias happens to the best of us.
Yes Blue raspberry popsicles were a thing when I was a kid. They called them “Sky Blue”, and it was a while before I realized that the flavor was actually raspberry,
I’ve also seen vanilla ice cream colored blue in order to jazz it up.
There is a type of dark blue, almost purple raspberry, called ‘whitebark’ or ‘blackcap’ raspberries. Or sometimes even called ‘blue raspberries’, but they’re darker than the electric blue of popsicles and other advertised ‘blue raspberry’ flavors. As a kid I used to pick them and blackberries growing wild in a wooded area behind our house. When ripe they look a lot like blackberries, but they’re blunter in shape, not as conical as blackberries.
There’s always Blue Corn, and the corn chips, nachos, and taco shells made from them
I would call both of those things purple.
I agree. Just as blueberries also aren’t really blue, more of a purple (especially their juice), there really isn’t any natural food that is truly blue in color.
Black raspberries look even more like blackberries. They’re most easily distinguished after they’re picked: Raspberries (of any color) have a deep indentation where the stem attached.
And even beyond food, blue pigments are quite rare in nature. Most things that look blue, like bird feathers, are due to diffraction or other optical processes, not pigments.
Yeah, I’ve noticed that.
That’s not true. When I was a kid in the 1970s, you could buy Marino’s Italian Ices from the ice cream trucks. Once of my favorite flavors was called “blue gelato” and was essentially the same flavor as all the blue raspberry stuff out today and had the same bright blue color. I was eating those as early as 1976, maybe sooner.
Heck, the “blue raspberry” popsicles I bought were available in the 1960s. And not just the late 1960s
There’s an ice cream variety in many (Italian-)German ice cream parlors called “Schlumpfeis” (smurf ice cream) which has the color of a smurf, but I don’t know how it tastes because I never could get myself into trying it.
Quoting for truth. Blue Jay feathers, the sky on a summer afternoon … it’s not real!!
Okay, that was funny as hell. Well played.
I don’t know if it’s been mentioned here: “Sugar makes kids hyperactive”. It is not and never has been true. All my kids’ teachers through elementary school believed and repeated this nonsense. I had an English teacher in college who described he and his wife’s herculean efforts to raise their kids sugar free. The study claiming this was debunked shortly after coming out. Yet this silly claim lives on.
So, why do kids get loud, excited, “hyper” when they “have sugar”? Because sugary treats corralate to holidays, and parties, fun and exciting activies.
I’ve got a half-remembered memory from the 20th century that meat that was not for human consumption would be dyed blue. Is that the case, or was it just a myth?
Heh, I just spent the whole of last week taking biological measurements and getting all excited because I thought I could see the impact I predicted.
Today I did the analysis. The ‘bias’ I could see was different in every replicate, just an artifact of the methodology, and there’s no evidence of an effect at all.
Our Fearless Leader addressed this in 2002
As a kid, back when I believed all this, I thought the Star was hovering over Bethlehem. So you’d walk to the east, to see our glorious savior’s birth, and when it was right overhead, you’d know when you got there. Even as a kid, I knew no astronomical phenomenon would hover. Comets, supernovae, bright stars, would eventually set. In the west. And they knew it even 2000 years ago. So the Star had to be divinely miraculous in nature. Duh! (later, I ‘learned’ it could have been an alien spacecraft with a bright light. They told us the most strange stuff when I was young!)
I like Clarke’s short story, but it’s just as much happy hooey scientifically as divine light.
I still have mine, One year they said I “needed to use time wisely”. And you know what? It’s still true!
Yeah, back in grade school I got a similar criticism. I was given some exercises to work on to try to improve on it. One of these days I’ll get around to doing them…
And also because kids get loud, excited, and hyper when they don’t have sugar, too. That’s how kids are.
A food myth I still hear pretty often on cooking and recipe shows and videos: searing the outside of a cut of meat seals in the juices. No, searing meat adds flavor, but nothing more.