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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 02:19pm on 03/02/2010 under ,
What do you think of when you see the words "blue food"?
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posted by [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ at 04:15pm on 03/02/2010
The Clangers, mostly (blue string pudding).
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posted by [identity profile] seph-hazard.livejournal.com at 05:00pm on 03/02/2010
I'm so glad it's not just me who thought of The Clangers first! [laughs]

The second thing I thought of was about you, actually - putting blue curacao in my gin [grin]
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posted by [identity profile] jaxotea.livejournal.com at 08:33pm on 03/02/2010
me too :-)
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posted by [identity profile] coraa.livejournal.com at 04:29pm on 03/02/2010
Kid food, usually very sweet, of the highly-not-natural kind: blue raspberry candies, blue Airheads, blue slushies.
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posted by [identity profile] houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com at 04:41pm on 03/02/2010
1. I saw purple potatoes, which are actually closer to blue than to purple, and imagined other foods with blue cake coloring in them.

2. I thought of some restaurant that plays blues music and was naming their specialty 'blues food' (ie southern 'soul food' or cajun or something like that).
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posted by [identity profile] retsuko.livejournal.com at 04:42pm on 03/02/2010
I think of my mother dissuading me from asking for a blue birthday cake when I about 7 or 8, on the grounds that it wouldn't taste as good as I thought it would.

And, then, more recently, Percy Jackson's mom. I love that in-joke in the books. It's very sweet.
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posted by [identity profile] tammabanana.livejournal.com at 05:05pm on 03/02/2010
Well, first I thought of the Blue Man Group eating food, maybe with blue food coloring. Then I thought of mold. Then I thought of blueberries.
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posted by [identity profile] sioneva.livejournal.com at 05:17pm on 03/02/2010
Blue food - I think of blue ketchup. Wasn't there blue ketchup that was supposed to be cool for kids? Or blue jello.

I don't eat blue food, in all honesty, except for the few natural blue things (blueberries and blue cheese) because it screams of food coloring.
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posted by [identity profile] pfy.livejournal.com at 05:41pm on 03/02/2010
I thought "Is that anything like green eggs and ham?"

In the real world, I'm rather fond of blue Stilton.

Also, having read all through the comments, "blue" has stopped looking like a proper word.
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posted by [identity profile] pfy.livejournal.com at 05:43pm on 03/02/2010
Oh! Also, when I was a kid, I remember there were "blue raspberry" flavour ice lollies, soft drinks, and sweets. These were a lurid copper-sulphate-like colour, and tasted mostly of sugar and only very vaguely like raspberries.
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posted by [identity profile] labellementeuse.livejournal.com at 06:26pm on 03/02/2010
Sweets that turn your tongue blue, of which several were very popular for just that reason when I was a kid; this cake I made in my house colours in secondary which I iced bright blue; but mostly, there are a couple of scenes in two of the Young Wizards books where characters eat blue food (described as 'blue food', no other details) and take a serious liking to it, so every time they go off-world it becomes a thing, like 'Oh we might have to save the universe now, but on the plus side, I/my dog gets to eat blue food!' And then the dog says 'blue food! blue food!'

So I guess I think of it primarily as 'from science fiction/the future', and then as simply artificial. How odd that I don't really think about blueberries, although I suppose they're often purple rather than blue in effect.
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posted by [identity profile] darktouch.livejournal.com at 07:52pm on 03/02/2010
Crabs.
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posted by [identity profile] genibane.livejournal.com at 08:23pm on 03/02/2010
I think of that TV show, "Chef" where they had an episode on that, "Blue Food."
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posted by [identity profile] easterbunny.livejournal.com at 09:56pm on 03/02/2010
Fanny Cradock and blue mashed potatoes. I don't even remember if she's the blue mashed potatoes TV chef, but I think of her anyway.
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posted by [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com at 10:25pm on 03/02/2010
The history of the blue smartie is worthy a song.

Oh, and raspberry slush puppies. Why raspberry=blue I do not know. When cognitive dissonance meets brain freeze, it's not a pretty sight.
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posted by [identity profile] rosamicula.livejournal.com at 10:46pm on 03/02/2010
America. Blue corn, blueberries.
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posted by [identity profile] whatifoundthere.livejournal.com at 11:59pm on 03/02/2010
47 comments and no George Carlin?!! What is the matter with your friendslist?

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posted by [identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com at 01:10am on 04/02/2010
Thank you!

"Blue food must bestow immortality!"

Also I believe there was blue garlic in Daniel Pinkwater's Slaves of
Spiegel.
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posted by [identity profile] ellid.livejournal.com at 01:02am on 04/02/2010
Blueberries.
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posted by [identity profile] kashmera.livejournal.com at 03:00am on 04/02/2010
Raw steak
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posted by [identity profile] keira-online.livejournal.com at 09:33pm on 07/02/2010
The film version of 2001 (or was it 2010?), when Dave Bowman is stuck in that "hotel room" and all the contents of all the food boxes is some sort of blue food.

Also, a psychadelic party I went to whilst at uni, blue food colouring was added to everything.
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