Why do I always get so many red lifesavers in a multi-pack

Factual Questions
1

I just bought a bag of lifesavers. The final count was:
red: 18
yellow: 14
green: 7
pineapple: 6
orange: 5

and it always seems to be in this ratio. Why teh glut of red all the time?? I hate the cherry ones, makes me feel like I’m sucking on a cough drop. Why can’t there be more of the green ones, which are my favorites. Why can’t it be somewhat proportional.

2

I think red/cherry is probably the most popular flavor. It seems to me you’re probably in the minority there, prefering the green to the red. Maybe you should poll the Dopers over in IMHO

3

You could box up all the red ones and send 'em to me… :slight_smile:

4

I hate cherry flavor.

Cherry flavor is used the most, in candy and medicines. (Or so it seems.)

I have no proof yet, but I think that Cherry flavor is the cheapest of the artificial flavors. It has to be. It’s the only logical explanation for everything being cherry flavored.

I hate cherry flavor.

5

The cherry lifesavers are the only flavor that’s unafraid of the lifesaver rolling machine. If you buy a bag of free-range lifesavers, you will notice no disparity.

6

But these ARE the free-range lifesavers, individually wrapped and then dropped into a bag. 6.25 oz bag for $1.19. The red/‘cherry’ flavor has run amok, they just take over. Maybe they’re breeding in there or something. Very disturbing…

I think in the roll they take turns and it’s more even, I’ve never noticed it there.

It must be the Red #40 is cheaper than the Yellow 5 and the Blue 1.

Don’t even get me started on the ‘tropical’ ones. Coconut, yechh!

7

Sorry, I didn’t notice that you had a bag of lifesavers. But my explation about the mindless bravado of the red lifesavers still holds.

According to my sources, there has been a revolution in lifesaver rolling technology in the last few years. The awful machine that in the past, crushed the life out of many a nice, god-fearing confection, has been replaced by a new technology. The new roller is as gentle as a breeze, and is no longer feared by the meeker colors.

At the same time, the wrapping/bagging machine is getting a bit long in the tooth. The accident rate is increasing on the wrapping/bagging line. It is now all too common that a lifesaver gets its crystaline lattice disrupted in an untimely fashion within the pistons and gears of the poorly maintained wrapper/bagger.

But those bold red lifesavers, some say driven by red #40, which has structural similarities to testosterone, are unfazed.