Blueberries are the favorite of blue foods and they have been touted in recent years for their health benefits.In fact, young British consumers now happily associate the color with raspberry flavored drinks. Despite our inherent aversion to blue food most people like blue when it is used in novelty foods such as blue M&Ms, popsicles, cotton candy or soft drinks.Blue foods are not often found in nature thus tend to give off warnings that something is unappetizing or unfit to eat. When the lights were turned on, they saw that the steak was blue and about half of them literally got sick. In a study people were given a steak to eat in a dark room.The color blue is the least common color in the foods we eat.The color can pre-determine how we perceive the taste and flavor of what we eat. However, we also send signals with our eyes before we take a bite and give our taste buds a chance to process the flavor. There are five basic groups of taste, which send signals to our brain to interpret flavor. The State of South Carolina - officially adopted Indigo Blue as their state color in 2008.She told New Yorker magazine, "Wearing blue for me is being in a dream all day." Valeria “ValBlu” McCulloch - this shoe designer living in New York City doesn't just wear blue but a very specific shade called Yves Klein Blue.Klaus Biesenbach - the MoMA PS1 director and art world Zelig chooses snug-fitting blue suits and shirts by Zara for his on-the-go Germanic minimalistic style.
Giorgio Armani - Fashion's patriarch uniform is a navy blue silk T-shirt, cashmere sweater, navy blue drawstring pants and white sneakers, all by Armani, naturally.Blue Man Group - Homer Simpson once called the Blue Man Group a rip-off of “The Smurfs.” On “Arrested Development,” hapless actor Tobias Funke, played by David Cross, dreamed of becoming a Blue Man and painted himself their signature shade.Barbara Bush - from her Scaasi inaugural ball gown in a shade of sapphire blue that became known as "Barbara Bush Blue" to the many blues - cobalt, navy, royal and baby blue - she has worn since, the former first lady is a true-blue fan of this hue.It is all in how you express yourself with a color and how consistently you wear it or surround yourself with the color that makes it your signature shade.
These laws have been used to ban sales of alcohol, gambling, and various retail and commercial activity.Ī signature color is different than a favorite color although for some people they many be one and the same. In fact, blue is an appetite suppressant! Think about it – as delicious as blue cheese may be, you know those veins of color come from mold.īlue laws were enacted to prohibit certain "morally objectionable" behaviors on Sundays. Other than blueberries, blue corn, and some blue-purple potatoes, blue is a color seldom found in natural food. Sony promised to paint the village back to traditional white following the promotional blitz however, the 221 citizens who call Juzcar home voted overwhelming (141, said yes!) to keep the town blue.īlue is the least commonly occurring color in food.
If you were around in the 1980's chances are you owned, played or watched the tiny blue gnomes knowns as The Smurfs. The world’s first “Smurf Village” was painted the color blue as part of the publicity campaign for the Sony film “The Smurfs in 3D,” which opened in July 2011. Research shows that mosquitoes most easily see dark colors, especially blue.īlue Moon ice cream is the name of a bright blue-colored flavor of ice cream, available almost exclusively in the mid-west United States. Mosquitoes are highly visual and their primary method of searching for human targets is through vision. The odds of a lobster being blue are slim indeed-one in two million according to National Geographic magazine-but thanks to a rare genetic mutation, the normally grayish-green American lobster does occasionally come in a beautiful blue too. In paintings, the Virgin Mary has long been portrayed wearing the color blue, partly because blue symbolizes fidelity and tranquility, but also because ultramarine blue was historically very expensive, so it made sense to clothe the Virgin Mother in costly colors. Blue-eyed people are more sun-sensitive–showing higher rates of melanoma–and are also more likely to be alcoholics than people of other eye colors. Why are there fewer blue-eyed folks? The gene for blue eyes is recessive. At the beginning of the 20th Century, nearly half of the population was blue-eyed. One in six Americans has blue eyes, and that number has declined over time.
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