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# I once
wondered if food was a different colour would it tast the same?

So I got a lot of different food colorings and got to work, In my excitedness about the experiment I invited some people round and they came.

they were treated to a starter of luminous green mussels in some kind of yellow sauce. everyone hated it. Ahem ok next. Pink Spagetti with Blue Bolgnase. Yuck, no one finished it, it looked wrong and tasted wrong. I have had my dad take the piss out of me for ten years for that.

No i didn't dye the ice cream black.

(, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 16:48, archived)
# My mum used to make us semolina
which I quite liked at the time - I was 4 or 5 I think. To make it more exciting, she said she could make it in any colour I could think of.

I spent ages trying to think of obscure colours, and she beat me every time. I was amazed at her cooking skills and ate my new semolina all excited about how this one would taste.

A few years later (and wiser) I discovered her cache of food colours in the cupboard and felt like a right chump.
(, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 17:04, archived)
# my grandparents kept chickens in the war
My uncle fed them everyday. He was rather fond of them and thought of them as pets.

He was 40 before he realised the true meaning of the phrase "the chickens are going to live in the country."
(, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 17:12, archived)
# it could be worse
my grandmother made my dad take his 'pet' rabbit to the butchers himself. he's still traumatised by it 60 years later
(, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 20:49, archived)
# I like
Blue yorkshire pud. Well it goes sort of spearmint green cos of the egg yolks. Have it with baked beans for a lovely contrast. But anyway, what's wrong with colouring food? I often put tomato puree in macaroni cheese and it turns it pink, you know.
(, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 14:45, archived)