Blue Food
Last night at dinner I was devouring some blue Jell-o and thinking there aren’t many blue foods. In fact, we could think of only one naturally occuring blue food - blueberries. Blue cheese is kinda blue, but that’s the mold not the cheese. Are there any more? Why does food come naturally in every color except blue? Clearly there must be a government conspiracy in here somewhere.
December 7th, 2005 at 10:33 am
Blue corn? Blue curacao (liqueur), blue crab?
December 7th, 2005 at 3:01 pm
George Carlin does a bit on this, see http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75acarlin2.phtml
May 21st, 2007 at 2:06 am
dead man’s fingers is a plant with natural blue ‘fruit pods’ that can be eaten.
July 16th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Hey, acctually..blueberries are kinda purple…My friend and i are trying to discover blue food..can’t think of any yet though…if we do, i’ll keep you updated.
October 12th, 2007 at 10:18 am
I had a college prof ask this question to a class 17 yrs ago. We said blueberries - he said purple. We said blue crabs - but then when you cook them they turn orange. We could not come up with a natural blue food.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:17 pm
My husband is obsessed with planning a blue food meal and it all centers around Peruvian Blue potatoes that we buy at a local farm. They are more purplish than blue but we still call them blue.
November 13th, 2007 at 2:05 am
I attend culinary school and our chef asked this question in class and is giving extra credit to anyone who can come up with a naturally blue food. I have a few ideas such as coronation grapes, which are a blue black color. other than that my chef and i are stumped. please help me get extra credit!!!!! lol thanks
November 19th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Wow i love blue food! yummy!!!
December 14th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
My boss asked me this question…
certain edible flowers are blue
i must find the answer!!!
February 1st, 2008 at 8:02 am
Bilberry is the only blue food stuff that I know of. Even a trivial pursuit question said it was the only blue food. Not sure how true that is of course. But bilberry is offcially blue. Blueberry is purple.
February 11th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Blue corn and blueberries are the ones I can think of that are actually blue. I do disagree that ALL blueberries are purple… I have definitely seen blue ones.
I’m trying to work into eating a colorful diet and blue is just hard to come by.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:16 am
i heard that toucan meat is naturally blue!
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:12 am
I heard that blue smarties are coloured by the Blue Curango, a naturally occuring pepper like plant, known for its aphrodisiac qualities. Does this mean kids will be running around horny?
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:14 am
On world of Warcraft Bob Carolgees once told me that I could grow blue movies. He lied, I cried
April 13th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
There is a rare edible mushroom that is blue. It is the only naturally occurring food I know that is truly blue. These mushrooms have a texture similar to lobster mushrooms and are light/medium blue in color.
April 27th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Hate to tell you all, but, purple IS blue. red + blue = purple. Blue corn, blueberries, bleu cheese, blue potatoes, blue liquor. Purple subset = grapes, eggplant, etc. Manipulated subset = red cabbage chemically altered with soda, dye additives such as jello, m/m’s, sodas and sports drinks. Non-blue food such as blue crab, blue tuna. ALL these would make a fun party, but please leave out the blue eggs.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:39 am
Cynthia is a liar, I don’t even think there is such a colour as blue, or even such a name as Cynthia
Bob Carolgees told me that she was evil
I’m with Bob on this one!
June 9th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
got it guys, i found the only blue food in the world.
smurf meat.
July 1st, 2008 at 2:23 am
Can you get meat off a Smurf?
I thought they were all gristly
Once Osama Bin Martin Walker told me never to trust a man with numbers in his name. Kenny313, I stand by his vision of the future. Are you a cyborg?
September 28th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Hate to tell you, Cynthia, but by your logic green IS blue too. Yellow + blue = green.
But that doesn’t make any sense.