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Oddly coloured foods
« on: 10 June, 2023, 08:36:03 pm »
Prompted by the Orange Food thread, and my supper this evening (cheese and crackers) I remembered that Dairylea Cheese triangles not only had a reddish tomato flavoured segment, but that the Gruyère triangle was, for reasons unknown other than to some marketing person, a kind of muddy green.
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Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #1 on: 10 June, 2023, 10:08:00 pm »
Prompted by the Orange Food thread, and my supper this evening (cheese and crackers) I remembered that Dairylea Cheese triangles not only had a reddish tomato flavoured segment, but that the Gruyère triangle was, for reasons unknown other than to some marketing person, a kind of muddy green.

I once bought some green Baby Bel cheeses. The case not the cheese. For a picnic in Butte Chaumont. Turned out they were goat cheese which is my fromagey nemesis. In my dramatic display of choking on the offending item I rolled down a steep hill and split my head open on a stone wall. There so much blood that I had be taken to hospital and treated with French medicine. My wife likes to remind me of this event should my behaviour ever trend toward what calls the theatrical.

Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #2 on: 10 June, 2023, 10:29:45 pm »
Hang on - Dairylea triangles had different flavours? :o

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Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #3 on: 10 June, 2023, 10:37:52 pm »
Who knew  ??? Maybe it's a southern thing.

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Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #4 on: 10 June, 2023, 11:13:33 pm »
I definitely remember cheese-like triangles with different colour contents. I didn't realize the green one was gruyere, I probably thought it was some sort of herb thing. And I'm not sure if it was Dairylea – might have been Laughing Cow? Are Dairylea and Laughing Cow distinguishable in a blind taste test?
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Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #5 on: 10 June, 2023, 11:14:30 pm »
If we can include drinks, I nominate the blue "daisy flavour" Pepsi.
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Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #6 on: 11 June, 2023, 09:38:08 am »
I definitely remember cheese-like triangles with different colour contents. I didn't realize the green one was gruyere, I probably thought it was some sort of herb thing. And I'm not sure if it was Dairylea – might have been Laughing Cow? Are Dairylea and Laughing Cow distinguishable in a blind taste test?

You may be right re Laughing Cow.
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Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #7 on: 11 June, 2023, 09:50:48 am »
Are Dairylea and Laughing Cow distinguishable in a blind taste test?

It is decades since I have eaten either, but yes, they are slightly different versions of cheesy horror.

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Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #8 on: 11 June, 2023, 10:10:40 am »
Pourquoi la vache rit-elle ? Parce qu'elle a l'ESB.
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Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #9 on: 11 June, 2023, 01:45:54 pm »
My mum won a Grand National sweepstake with ESB in 1956.
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Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #10 on: 11 June, 2023, 03:10:29 pm »

I was at a place recently that had Smurf icecream. It was bright BLUE.

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Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #11 on: 11 June, 2023, 03:34:42 pm »
I had violet ice cream a few years ago. Colour and aroma of Parma violets.
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« Reply #12 on: 11 June, 2023, 03:51:57 pm »

I was at a place recently that had Smurf icecream. It was bright BLUE.

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Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #13 on: 11 June, 2023, 06:04:05 pm »
Are Dairylea and Laughing Cow distinguishable in a blind taste test?

It is decades since I have eaten either, but yes, they are slightly different versions of cheesy horror.
I will gladly take your word for this rather than find out for myself.
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Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #14 on: 11 June, 2023, 06:11:02 pm »
'Raspberry' flavour Slush Puppie is blue, I understand…

That shade is one of the few that are absent n most foods.

Anthocyanins in red cabbage and blackcurrant are pH sensitive, so turn entertaining when alkalinised...

Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #15 on: 11 June, 2023, 08:16:41 pm »

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Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #16 on: 11 June, 2023, 08:56:28 pm »
Discontinued in 2006. Would give some of my 'expired' foods a run for the money...

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Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #17 on: 11 June, 2023, 10:26:47 pm »


Dear Dog, that is so Wrong not even Sir Ranulph Fiennes could find his way to Right from there :sick:
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Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #18 on: 11 June, 2023, 10:47:36 pm »
How have I never even heard of purple ketchup before? ???

Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #19 on: 11 June, 2023, 11:01:29 pm »
Looks like something that would be used to represent futuristic food or condiments (or alien gore) in a 1980s-1990s sci-fi film or TV series.
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Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #20 on: 12 June, 2023, 02:50:33 am »
How have I never even heard of purple ketchup before? ???

It wasn't aimed at your niche of the market.
I had to Google for it as I hadn't heard of it.

I don't know if it was sold in the UK either...

Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #21 on: 12 June, 2023, 03:16:34 pm »
I don't know if it was sold in the UK either...
Definitely was. Same as green.

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« Reply #22 on: 12 June, 2023, 04:41:18 pm »
I don't know if it was sold in the UK either...
Definitely was. Same as green.

Fair enough! I'm hardly one of the target consumers...

Re: Oddly coloured foods
« Reply #23 on: 15 June, 2023, 06:04:30 pm »
I don't know if it was sold in the UK either...
Definitely was. Same as green.

Fair enough! I'm hardly one of the target consumers...

Are you speaking of the poors?