# Where's the Blue Food? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-blue-food/276535 "2004-11-24T21:21:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-blue-food/276535/21 "2004-11-25T05:45:37Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > There’s something about blue food that’s psychologically damaging. I read, years ago, an anecdote about a dinner party Alfred Hitchcock threw. He had all the food dyed blue. No one ate anything, as I recall. It could be more cultural than psychological. People weren’t used to blue food until recently when blue became the “hot” color for snacks and candies (e.g., blue M&M’s). I think if you were to duplicate the same experiment with people who were born after, say, 1985, I think they would be more likely to eat the food. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-blue-food/276535/22 "2004-11-29T19:16:25Z")
Blue is one of the intermittently fashionable colors in \ _culinary art_. Blue and purple food was really fashionable in 16th century Germany, for example. I’d agree that a modern audience accustomed to eating foods of weird colors might fare better than Sir Alfred’s poor guests, but you’d be surprised on how weird people get about oddly colored food. Give a friend a blood orange and watch the reaction. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-blue-food/276535/23 "2004-11-29T19:30:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Navy blue through and through. Actually, blueberries are sort of clear/whitish on the inside - only the skins are blue. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-blue-food/276535/24 "2004-11-29T20:53:11Z")
You could always bring a Blue Plate Special. ---
**Author:** ![Bean\_Counter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@Bean\_Counter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bean_Counter)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-blue-food/276535/25 "2004-11-29T21:02:59Z")
_Poi_? If I remember correctly from my trip to Hawaii, it was blue-ish to purple-ish. Everyone I was with thought it was terrible but I like it. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-blue-food/276535/26 "2004-11-29T21:11:21Z")
I don’t think they’re still available, but these [Dorito chips](http://www.fritolay.com/fl/flstore/cgi-bin/ProdDetEv_Cat_304_SubCat_352003_NavRoot_303_ProdID_352998.htm) would have been an interesting way to go. > [@](#): > > Doritos 3D’S “Monster Colorz” offer the same great Doritos 3D’S Nacho Cheesier taste and now, through food technology, turn your mouth blue when eaten. A safe, FDA-approved, water-soluble color-changing additive coats the new 3D’S snack. The additive is activated by moisture and turns blue in your mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-blue-food/276535/27 "2004-11-29T21:30:31Z")
Just a thought, but if the group you are feasting with likes risque humour. Maybe a couple of ‘blue’ rude foods (sausages o dip into cheese and mustard sauce, Jello’s with cherrys on top, that sort of thing) ? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-blue-food/276535.md?page=1)