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Fun fact - this is how blue raspberry was created as a flavor. Raspberry flavored things were purple, made from a combination of red and blue dye. The red dye (
by reverendsteveii 2y ago
Fun fact - this is how blue raspberry was created as a flavor. Raspberry flavored things were purple, made from a combination of red and blue dye. The red dye (red no 2) was banned. So companies making raspberry flavored stuff just left the red dye out and said "raspberry is blue now" and we all went "shit yeah it is, always has been! why would raspberry be anything other than blue?"
- bagels 2y agoDo raspberries not taste like raspberries? What product has "blue raspberry"? I can only think of one raspberry product I buy, and it doesn't have any dye, and is deep red colored (from the raspberries)
- thebigspacefuck 2y agoJolly rancher
- maerF0x0 2y agoGatorade cool blue used to be blue raspberry
- thatguy0900 2y agoBlue raspberry is a candy only flavor. It doesn't really taste like raspberry. Its pretty common as a flavor in the us at least, it's one of my favorite candy flavors.
- PolygonSheep 2y agoIf you eat a bowl of mixed blueberries and raspberries, it actually does taste like blue raspberry. It's a mixture of the two flavors.
- tuukkah 2y agoAlso known as the flavor of Queen's jam (from Sweden), which looks nicer as instead of blueberries, it uses bilberries (whose flesh is deep red).
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- anigbrowl 2y agoYou're thinking of snozzberries.
- Reason077 2y ago> "What product has "blue raspberry"? Blue raspberry is a standard slushie colour the world over, in my experience. https://www.7-eleven.com/products/slurpee/blue-raspberry https://www.7-eleven.com/products/slurpee/blue-raspberry
- riffraff 2y agoNever seen it as a slushie in Italy but we do have azure ice cream. It used to be called "puffo" (=Smurf) but smurfs aren't popular anymore, so now they usually sell it as "marshmallow" or "cotton candy". But it tastes nothing like raspberry?
- coldtea 2y ago>But it tastes nothing like raspberry? It's not like most ice-cream flavors taste anything like the real thing... Especially in the US (not Italian artisanal gelato)
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- vjk800 2y agoI have never seen this product or heard the term "blue raspberry" in my life, so probably not around the world.
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- abm53 2y agoIn the U.K. I remember it being a novelty flavour for a brief period in the 90s. I’ve not seen or heard of the idea since then, although this may reflect my own consumer preferences.
- Reason077 2y agoSurely no visit to a UK chain cinema (Odeon/Vue) in summer is complete without a refreshing and sugar-free Tango Ice Blast?! It's the "UK’S N0.1 FROZEN DRINK BRAND", according to their own marketing. And the two original, traditional flavours of Tango Ice Blast are Red (Cherry) and Blue (Raspberry). In fact, I can't remember ever seeing any other flavours, although according to their website there are others: https://www.lovetangoiceblast.com/flavours https://www.lovetangoiceblast.com/flavours
- nobody9999 2y ago>What product has "blue raspberry"? Berry Blue Jell-o[0]. There are a bunch of others as well, but that's the first one that came to mind. [0] https://www.kraftheinz.com/jell-o/products/00043000200407-berry-blue-gelatin-dessert-mix https://www.kraftheinz.com/jell-o/products/00043000200407-be...
- deathanatos 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_raspberry_flavor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_raspberry_flavor I guess you're one of today's 10,000: https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/ I feel like you might run into it at a carnival or theme park. It's found in things like candy, Kona ice, extremely artificially flavored drinks, etc. Junk food.
- Disruptive_Dave 2y agoJello.
- ariejan 2y agoAnd we have always been at war with Eurasia.
- HenryBemis 2y agoMy heart raced for a few seconds, thank you!!!
- sega_sai 2y agoEurasia -> Eastasia
- interludead 2y agoAnd it all started because a harmful dye was banned
- thih9 2y agoMindblowing. More details and photos: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_raspberry_flavor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_raspberry_flavor > Food products labeled as blue raspberry flavor are commonly dyed with a bright blue synthetic food coloring, such as brilliant blue FCF (also called Blue #1) having European food coloring number E133. The blue color was used to differentiate raspberry-flavored foods from cherry-, watermelon-, and strawberry-flavored foods, each of which is typically red. The use of blue dye also partially is due to the FDA's 1976 banning of amaranth-based Red Dye No. 2, which had previously been heavily used in raspberry-flavored products.
- mattclarkdotnet 2y agoGood god that’s awful. Like really? And people go along with this? Have they not ever had and actual raspberry?
- wiether 2y agoTwo things: - it's usually sold as "blue raspberry", not "raspberry"; so you know that it's nothing natural here - it's mostly used in soft-drinks or other foods that are ~~nothing~~ anything but natural So my guess is that nobody was thinking they were buying something made of actual rasperries; they knew that they were buying something 100% artificial like "mango madness" or "knockout fruit punch"
- actionfromafar 2y agoSo nothing but natural, eh? Maybe you meant anything but natural. :)
- wiether 2y agoOups, you're right; thanks for pointing out my mistake!
- stronglikedan 2y agoHave you had blue raspberry? It's better than actual raspberry, which is why people go along with it.
- crazygringo 2y agoI think your story is half-right. Common varieties of raspberries aren't purple, and I've never heard of raspberry flavor being purple. So they didn't remove the red to leave blue, because there was never blue in the first place -- they just switched from red to blue, as this lengthy history explains: https://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/pop-culture/article/what-is-blue-raspberry-flavor https://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/pop-culture/ar... And it was seen as a benefit because blue stood out more from the other red flavors -- cherry, strawberry, watermelon...
- reverendsteveii 2y agoI said "raspberry-flavored things" and I guess in the most inclusive sense raspberries are raspberry-flavored so well done there for making me put one finger in the air in outrage and then silently pull it back down while adopting a thoughtful expression. In a less-inclusive sense, raspberry-flavored things are flavored with "mostly esters of the banana, cherry, and pineapple variety" according to the article so it could be argued that there are a lot of raspberry flavored things (including a dust cloud in space, https://next.voxcreative.com/ad/20726659/space-taste-like-raspberry-titos-cocktail https://next.voxcreative.com/ad/20726659/space-taste-like-ra...) but funnily enough raspberries aren't one of them.