Random Chaos

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.