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What do you think of when you see the words "blue food"?

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...from the ocean? Although that's mainly to do with this book review this week.

Alternatively, blueberries in large, luscious piles.

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It's wrong. Blue food is wrong.
My immediate thought is of lurid blue-tinted cakes, and smurfs. There is blue cheese, but I don't like blue cheese (it's moldy!). Blueberries are purple ratehr than blue. The only real, edible blue food, as far as I'm concerned, is blue corn, which actually is blue.

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Some parrot fish are blue and quite tasty.

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The bread I made as a child with blue and green food colouring in, and the amusing reactions from my classmates :-D

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That blue food is poisonous and not to be eaten. Where did I get that? Peter Pan? Somewhere in children's fiction anyway.

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Percy Jackson! (From Rick Riordan's series Percy Jackson and the Olympians) -- Percy's mother makes blue foods as an ongoing in-joke between the two of them.

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Currently I think of *this*. And that H. is wrong :-)

In general though, it depends on the food. It is a little weird in anything except a smartie or cake...

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That was the first thing I thought of too! (Blueberries came second)

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My grandfather. He absolutely could not stand food that was unnaturally blue or green, and was convinced that it indicated arsenical poisoning. I think of him every time I frost a cupcake in blue.

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Smurf icecream. Don't laugh, it exists in Austria. Also I suppose more generaly, smurfs. I always liked Gargamel and Azrael more. ;-)

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something not natural.

even though there are obvioulsy blue foods like blue cheese.

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Mouldy bread.

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I expect them to be followed by the word 'colouring' - i.e. I don't really think of 'blue food' as a category at all. I assume that if food is blue, it must have been coloured artificially. It also made me think briefly of pretend 'food' made by children out of plasticine.

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It brings to mind a children's book about the quest for a blue banana.

Other than that... cake icing, passionfruit flavoured things, raspberry flavoured sweets (though I've never understood that logic), a particularly nice ice-cream flavour called Blue Moon. Almost all very sweet, and thus things I can hardly eat now. Hm... blue kale, some rare varieties of cabbage... rue and some varieties of lavender, if flavour ingredients count as food.

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The sort of thing we (i.e. middle class children) were never allowed to eat in the 1950s because there were no natural blue food colourings

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*blinks* Well, I made blue mashed potatoes once (food coloring). And there are blueberries.

But if I saw the phrase, I would probably think of food to be eaten when one is blue or depressed.

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Food which is sad. :(

Mackrel have an attractive blue-ish tint when fresh

As mentioned elsewhere parrot fish... also some grouper which are apparently tasty (never eaten one myself).

Bilberries? Not so often eaten any more.

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"Crap, better clean out the back of the fridge again..."

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I was once told that that meat unfit for human consumption was stained blue because people wouldn't eat blue food. And that is what I first thought of when I saw your question ...

Also, blue string pudding in the Clangers.

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I think of a children's poem, possibly by Michael Rosen, called 'Have You Ever Tried Explaining...?'. It's lovely but I can only remember fragments, like ' Have you ever tried explaining a sundial to a bat?' and part of it is, 'have you ever thought of a tomato that is blue?/A blue tomato is a food I'd certainly eschew'. And it concludes with the line

And if you ever (succeeded), then please explain to me
Why it's always sunny in school-time, and rainy after tea

I also think of blue food being the archetypal Do Not Want, apart, obviously, from blueberries. And the example above makes me think of Bridget Jones making blue soup.

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1950s science-fictiony future-food - possibly in pill form.

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The liquid that Luke Skywalker drinks in his home on Tatooine. And that blue food (not icing on cakes or cookies) is Just. Wrong.

Blueberries are right, but they are purple-y and come that color.

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bubblegum-flavoured things, like icecream etc

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Romulan ale. Also, more generally, colouring Earth-food blue to make it seem ~oooOOOoooHh~ alien.

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The blue ice cream you used to be able to get in Smurf Village at Canada's Wonderland.

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Also, Smurf soup. But not Smurf jerky, because it dries to a purple-ish grey.

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also, any artificially raspberry-flavoured food over here -- jello/jelly, kool-aid, popsicles (esp. Otter pops)

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