It is patently unnatural. But delicious. As long as it's a decent blue. Otherwise I can taste it. And then blech.
I don't know when it got started. When I was little I remember raspberry candies being this pretty maroon-purpley color that I liked just because—well, because I liked the color. I hated actual raspberries but I loved the candies because they had that color.
Then, around the time I turned seven, I bought a bag of my favorite candy and—
"Aaaah!"
All the raspberry candies were blue! BLUE! HORROR!
It took me a few years to get used to that association, especially when mom would hand me a piece of toast with raspberry preserves and let's face it: those were NOT purple.
Now it's stranger to see raspberry-colored raspberry candy than it is the blue stuff. Call me strange, but I want my vibrant magenta-purpley candy back. It just looks tastier.
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Date: 2011-11-11 11:14 pm (UTC)The only thing I've ever seen it in is brand lollipops (though it's so hard to find them in my part of the woods nowadays) and slushies.
I DO NOT KNOW WHY BLUE = RASPBERRY HERE.
Date: 2011-11-12 05:28 am (UTC)As long as it's a decent blue. Otherwise I can taste it. And then blech.
I don't know when it got started. When I was little I remember raspberry candies being this pretty maroon-purpley color that I liked just because—well, because I liked the color. I hated actual raspberries but I loved the candies because they had that color.
Then, around the time I turned seven, I bought a bag of my favorite candy and—
"Aaaah!"
All the raspberry candies were blue! BLUE! HORROR!
It took me a few years to get used to that association, especially when mom would hand me a piece of toast with raspberry preserves and let's face it: those were NOT purple.
Now it's stranger to see raspberry-colored raspberry candy than it is the blue stuff. Call me strange, but I want my vibrant magenta-purpley candy back. It just looks tastier.