# Why are there no BLUE food **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 30, 1999, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079 "1999-11-30T01:23:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4bbf92/32.png) [@Frazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazer)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 1999, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/1 "1999-11-30T01:23:00Z")
Why are there no blue food? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 1999, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/2 "1999-11-30T01:26:00Z")
I’m sorry, too busy eating my blue corn chips to answer. * * * La franchise ne consiste pas à dire tout ce que l’on pense, mais à penser tout ce que l’on dit. H. de Livry ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 1999, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/3 "1999-11-30T01:28:00Z")
Fresh blueberries are quite definitely blue. Carlin was wrong. * * * “East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx Read “Sundials” in the new issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 1999, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/4 "1999-11-30T01:32:00Z")
Mmm. Firsts: A salad liberally sprinkled with crumbly blue cheese. Main Course: Grilled Bluefish. Afters: Blueberry Pie. * * * Elmer J. Fudd, Millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht. ---
**Author:** ![Cactus\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Cactus\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cactus_Rose)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 1999, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/5 "1999-11-30T01:50:00Z")
Coconut flavored sno-cones are blue. * * * - A rose by any other name would still have thorns - ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 1999, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/6 "1999-11-30T01:55:00Z")
Blue popsicles. ---
**Author:** ![Sake\_Samurai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sake\_Samurai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sake_Samurai)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 1999, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/7 "1999-11-30T01:59:00Z")
The finest delicacy to the considerably advanced tastes of the Cannibals of West Madagascar is blue balls, thus proving your theory null and void. * * * Hell is Other People. ---
**Author:** ![Lawrence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@Lawrence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lawrence)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 1999, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/8 "1999-11-30T02:05:00Z")
The purpose of this message board is not to pass on old George Carlin jokes. Many foods are blue, more or less. Give it a rest until you have a real question. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 1999, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/9 "1999-11-30T02:50:00Z")
I eat blue corn flakes for breakfast. They,and other “blue” foods are really purpleish. I think its a law that only the sky and ocean can be blue. Something about reflection. Food doesn’t reflect. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 1999, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/10 "1999-11-30T12:06:00Z")
_orangecakes: I eat blue corn flakes for breakfast. They,and other “blue” foods are really purpleish. I think its a law that only the sky and ocean can be blue. Something about reflection. Food doesn’t reflect._ Then what’s the stuff I’ve been eating for 35 years? If food doesn’t reflect, it’d all be pitch black. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 1999, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/11 "1999-11-30T14:13:00Z")
So I’m not a scientist! It just won’t reflect the blue spectrum! And thats probably wrong too! ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 1999, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/12 "1999-11-30T14:54:00Z")
You obviously haven’t looked in a bachelor’s refrigerator; there’s a whole lot of blue “food” in mine. * * * **Dopeler effect:** The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. ---
**Author:** ![Beruang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@Beruang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beruang)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 1999, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/13 "1999-11-30T15:01:00Z")
Back in my college days, I recall hearing about a marketing study. Subjects were seated at a table and shown a variety of food. The lights in the room were altered to change the food’s color. Subjects rated food least appetizing when it appeared blue – though I was never clear on whether that was due to the “blueness” itself, or to the fact that blue was the color furtherst removed from these food’s natural hue. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 1999, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/14 "1999-11-30T15:20:00Z")
Man is color blind, sees no blue. Thus no blue food. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 1999, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/15 "1999-11-30T16:28:00Z")
Alfred Hitchcock once, in an interview, mentioned the idea of having an all blue dinner… through liberal use of food colouring. Blue chicken soup, blue mashed potatoes, blue ice cream for desert, etc. He said he never did it because he was afraid someone might hit him. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 1999, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/16 "1999-12-01T01:10:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Coconut flavored sno-cones are blue. Where are you buying those, Rose? Around here blue sno-cones are raspberry flavored. ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 1999, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/17 "1999-12-01T01:26:00Z")
What Lawrence said. * * * This space for rent. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 1999, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/18 "1999-12-01T02:10:00Z")
Blueberries are not blue, they are purple. Duh. right? ---
**Author:** ![NanoByte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@NanoByte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NanoByte)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 1999, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/19 "1999-12-01T05:42:00Z")
Can you live on ultraviolet and infrared foods? ---
**Author:** ![Momotaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Momotaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Momotaro)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 1999, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079/20 "1999-12-01T10:43:00Z")
If you had read The Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy you would know that the colour blue is uncommonly intelligent. There isn’t a predator smart enough to catch it yet. Now, seriously, I’ve just eaten blue pickles. There’re common in my region of Japan and they taste good too. * * * Only humans commit inhuman acts. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-blue-food/5079.md?page=2)