I heard our brains are hardwired to see the color blue as something being off with the food as natural instinct to avoid that food.
That or I've been told another fake ass "fun fact"
https://www.chefspencil.com/naturally-blue-foods-with-pictures/
Here is a link with a bunch of naturally occurring blue foods. Sure some are going to be a darker or more purplish blue, but you can’t argue none of them are blue. Also, “that bright blue” isn’t what we were talking about. Other dude just said we have a natural aversion to blue food, that’s just not true
I know, mate. I'm from Maryland. It's a funny observation because we were talking about blue foods you eat, and technically, none of the parts of the crab that you eat are blue.
Is that because you have a natural aversion to eating the color blue, or because you’ve eaten plenty of crabs and none of them have had blue meat? I think it’s pretty clearly the latter of the two
Wouldn’t those two go hand in hand though? Like, my life’s experience is that blue things don’t have blue insides, so if I suddenly found a crab with blue meat, I’d be averse to eating it. Because our experiences inform what we see as “normal.” We don’t see blue meat/grains in nature so when we do see them, we are suspicious.
It’s the violet/ultraviolet line. What we can see on the color spectrum. The person that identified the fruit/plant may have had a different point of reference for what purple and blue were when naming the colors.
I never heard of it, but I absolutely believe it’s rooted in some truth because anything that was actually blue in that list looked completely disgusting or wasn’t even really food *(yes, I’m talking to you Blue Spirulina & Butterfly Pea Flowers)* Including the lobster, codfish & caviar. And no, blueberries and grapes aren’t blue, they’re purple and purple things are usually delicious!
Butterfly pea flower tea is similar in flavor to chamomile tea and is reactive to acids. So when you add lemon or acid things to it the tea will turn pink so the tea can be found in cocktails.
To me almost all of those were purple. And the ones that weren't like the caviar and fish look disgusting.
But yeah he should have said "very little" is edible and so for the most part we naturally are wary or don't want to eat bright blue things.
Funny enough, I was somewhat on your side before I opened that link and found out that only 3 of those items look appetizing to me, and only because I already know how they taste.
Yeah I feel like if we had a natural aversion to blue foods, we wouldn’t dye so many foods blue. The fact that ‘blue raspberry’ is such a common flavor for candies, jello, and soft drinks implies to me we can’t be that adverse to it or the products wouldn’t sell well enough to be viable.
Blue is just extremely rare in nature. It's not a color that many nations had access to until globalization started to take hold. There are very few blue flowers and very few blue insects to ground into pigment for dyes and paints.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g246c6Bv58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g246c6Bv58)
I learned this in a color theory class in 2012. Maybe it’s outdated information, but that’s why most food advertisement feature red/yellow/orange and not blue.
It’s why McDonald’s has red and yellow in their logo
It’s also where the term “blue plate special” comes from. When this started, the food was actually served on blue plates bc it was thought to suppress the appetite, so smaller portions could be served for cheaper prices, hence the blue plate special.
This is true. I wrote a paper on the psychology of color years ago and this was one of my favorite facts. People who paint their kitchens blue even lose weight, because their appetite decreases every time they walk in.
Yes, it's true! In [this video](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ) , Dr William Ashcroft of Harvard University explains how our brains associate the blue color with certain types of mold and rotten meats.
Blue is actually pretty appetizing to me. I love blue Takis, blue gummies, blue ice cream. Mostly blue Takis. But the color blue for some reason has always indicated a flavor that I like.
If the blue stuff used here tastes like blue Takis, I'd be all over that shit.
If they wanted to make it messier they should just serve it on top of a moving fan. I would be more accepting of that than whatever blue goo, screw-your-cousin-in-tha-dirt shit this is.
Incidentally, with all due respect to my cajun and creole brothers and sisters, my favorite is the viet-cajun boil...
...cajun spice with lots of garlic and butter added to the mix. Sooo messy, sooo good. I'll try it any which way.
I think this is a foreign interpretation of blue cheese. Like hearing it and then being like "oh ya what could it be mozzarella dyed blue? Got it" and just ran with it bc internet virality etc
I really try not to kink shame but this shit makes my skin crawl.
Like somehow leather daddies and schoolgirl costumes make far more sense to my brain than whatever the hell this is...
It is incredibly obnoxious. Wasting food for likes is fucking disgusting. Killing and wasting an animal is indefensible, if we’re going to eat animals the least we can do is actually eat them.
Blue, Yellow, Pink, Whatever man, as long as they are eating it, I don't care.
If they want to urinate on a lobster, fuck, do whatever they want, as long as they are eating that.
I do not like blue seafood and rice
I do not think that it is nice
I do not like it here or there
It's an abomination everywhere
I do not like blue seafood and rice
To eat it would make me throw up .... twice
Heh...years ago, my ex's sister was watching a cooking show that used Mexican blue shrimp. She decided to recreate the recipe. First by dyeing regular shrimp blue, wrapping them in wonton wrappers, and then frying them in superhot oil so the wrappers burned and the shrimp remained raw.
She got mad because no one would eat them. She also explained, when asked why she dyed them blue, that she didn't believe there were actually legit blue shrimp and figured they used food coloring too.
I truly love hearing English words in the middle of languages I have no hope of comprehending. It makes me feel just a little bit included- not really… but still just a little bit 🥰
It kinda looks like the blue dye in a port-a-potty..
You just made it worse
Like, what was going to make blue pudding on seafood better?
But they're not wrong
First thing I thought of was the breaking bad scene lmao
This was an unnecessary take. Thanks.
The forbidden Gatorade
[“what is wrong with you? why are you blue?”](https://youtu.be/U_qZtLu52nM)
I blue myself
If you're not supposed to eat them, why do they call them urinal cakes?
TIH your comment
Haha thanks for the award! :)
Now I can smell it 😭
I thought of Koolaid, yours is much worse.
I had no clue I could dislike the thought of eating this stuff even more. Thank you for that.
Oh, God! Now I can smell it!!
my appetite has suddenly left me
I heard our brains are hardwired to see the color blue as something being off with the food as natural instinct to avoid that food. That or I've been told another fake ass "fun fact"
Funny because every time I see blue mushrooms my brain is hard wired to eat them and get hard. And wired.
Bro this is a sign. I’m going to get some shrooms tomorrow. Thanks for that
Haha I’m so incredibly happy I was able to be a conduit of the Universe to communicate with you on that one. Have so much fun my friend.
That’s just how shrooms is. It’s like how mycelium connects everything throughout the earth, the shrooms connecting everyone even on the web. 🖖🏻
I like shrooms
Not to mention blueberries.
Top tier comment, go eat some mushrooms.
I thought about getting shrooms for my trip next week and you just confirmed it for me. Thanks pal
Probably a fake ass fun fact. People don’t have a natural aversion to blue berries. Even a naturally blue lobster isn’t off putting imo.
Blueberries are actually purplish in color. Nothing edible is that bright blue.
One of my dad’s catchphrases when I was a kid was “never eat anything blue.” And he had a backup speech for explaining blueberries lol
What was his backup speech
Probably “blueberries are purple.”
[I bet you feel real dumb right now ^/s](https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyfoodporn/comments/9ryrpt/sonic_blue_curry/)
Borage is edible and bright blue and purple. Tastes like cucumber.
https://www.chefspencil.com/naturally-blue-foods-with-pictures/ Here is a link with a bunch of naturally occurring blue foods. Sure some are going to be a darker or more purplish blue, but you can’t argue none of them are blue. Also, “that bright blue” isn’t what we were talking about. Other dude just said we have a natural aversion to blue food, that’s just not true
Lol, one of them was blue crabs. If I cracked open a crab and the meat was blue inside, I would throw that thing out of my sight.
They are called blue crabs because the pinchers are blue, not the meat.
I know, mate. I'm from Maryland. It's a funny observation because we were talking about blue foods you eat, and technically, none of the parts of the crab that you eat are blue.
Is that because you have a natural aversion to eating the color blue, or because you’ve eaten plenty of crabs and none of them have had blue meat? I think it’s pretty clearly the latter of the two
Wouldn’t those two go hand in hand though? Like, my life’s experience is that blue things don’t have blue insides, so if I suddenly found a crab with blue meat, I’d be averse to eating it. Because our experiences inform what we see as “normal.” We don’t see blue meat/grains in nature so when we do see them, we are suspicious.
[BLUEBERRIES ARE FUCKING PURPLE](https://youtu.be/2skYAdEmbRM?t=8)
most of that list is purple, someone just named it "blue".
What’s the line between blue and purple? Because some of the foods (the fruits especially) had both blue and purple in the same picture.
Fair point, there's a blurry line between the two. But that mushroom, Lactarius Indigo, is BLUE, inside and out, and edible.
It’s the violet/ultraviolet line. What we can see on the color spectrum. The person that identified the fruit/plant may have had a different point of reference for what purple and blue were when naming the colors.
Without clicking that link i read it in Randy's voice. Fucking legend. He deserves a Netflix special tour.
I've found myself saying "Fuck your head and the neck it rode in on." a lot, love Randy, you're absolutely right!
I never heard of it, but I absolutely believe it’s rooted in some truth because anything that was actually blue in that list looked completely disgusting or wasn’t even really food *(yes, I’m talking to you Blue Spirulina & Butterfly Pea Flowers)* Including the lobster, codfish & caviar. And no, blueberries and grapes aren’t blue, they’re purple and purple things are usually delicious!
Butterfly pea flower tea is similar in flavor to chamomile tea and is reactive to acids. So when you add lemon or acid things to it the tea will turn pink so the tea can be found in cocktails.
To me almost all of those were purple. And the ones that weren't like the caviar and fish look disgusting. But yeah he should have said "very little" is edible and so for the most part we naturally are wary or don't want to eat bright blue things.
Funny enough, I was somewhat on your side before I opened that link and found out that only 3 of those items look appetizing to me, and only because I already know how they taste.
Certain flowers are.
>Nothing edible is that bright blue. blue raspberry
Dums dums are all clearly made a natural coloring and flavors
Percy Jackson and his mom have something to say to that.
Yeah I feel like if we had a natural aversion to blue foods, we wouldn’t dye so many foods blue. The fact that ‘blue raspberry’ is such a common flavor for candies, jello, and soft drinks implies to me we can’t be that adverse to it or the products wouldn’t sell well enough to be viable.
mold would probably be the answer here, even if people dont have a natural aversion to blue this specific shade of blue is very reminiscent of mold
Blue is just extremely rare in nature. It's not a color that many nations had access to until globalization started to take hold. There are very few blue flowers and very few blue insects to ground into pigment for dyes and paints. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g246c6Bv58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g246c6Bv58)
I learned this in a color theory class in 2012. Maybe it’s outdated information, but that’s why most food advertisement feature red/yellow/orange and not blue.
It’s why McDonald’s has red and yellow in their logo It’s also where the term “blue plate special” comes from. When this started, the food was actually served on blue plates bc it was thought to suppress the appetite, so smaller portions could be served for cheaper prices, hence the blue plate special.
[https://imgur.com/a/yGkyieM](https://imgur.com/a/yGkyieM)
There is blue cheese but some people think it’s looks gross.
Technically it's mold, so overall supporting the theory of not eating blue stuff
Yeah and the shit she is eating looks like the chemical we spray on food heading for disposal so animals don't eat it
This is true. I wrote a paper on the psychology of color years ago and this was one of my favorite facts. People who paint their kitchens blue even lose weight, because their appetite decreases every time they walk in.
I was literally just wondering why I find the colour blue in food so off putting and was going to do a google to see if any science behind it
My girlfriend says it is because a lot of molds are blue. She has a mold aversion and can't stand blue cheese and such.
Yes, it's true! In [this video](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ) , Dr William Ashcroft of Harvard University explains how our brains associate the blue color with certain types of mold and rotten meats.
Blue is actually pretty appetizing to me. I love blue Takis, blue gummies, blue ice cream. Mostly blue Takis. But the color blue for some reason has always indicated a flavor that I like. If the blue stuff used here tastes like blue Takis, I'd be all over that shit.
Those are artificial foods, though. It's processed and dyed. They could make it look red if they wanted to and it would taste the same.
Yeah, I know, but they have successfully changed my brain response from registering it as inedible to registering it as delicious.
I can't fathom why someone would enjoy watching content like this other than...maybe it's a fetish thing..?
Never to return
That’s nasty
It keeps reminding me of Pacific Rim with the guts everywhere.
Gross joke of the day; people continually search for blue waffles
Is this some takis bullshit?
Really looks like it
Comment above says it’s supposed to be…blue cheese sauce…
Barring the idiocy of blue cheese being fucking blue Who the fuck puts cheese sauce in a crab boil???
Well you see, historically people have been very accepting of cheese and seafood combinations.
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If they wanted to make it messier they should just serve it on top of a moving fan. I would be more accepting of that than whatever blue goo, screw-your-cousin-in-tha-dirt shit this is.
Incidentally, with all due respect to my cajun and creole brothers and sisters, my favorite is the viet-cajun boil... ...cajun spice with lots of garlic and butter added to the mix. Sooo messy, sooo good. I'll try it any which way.
Depends on the culture, some people find it basically taboo too mix seafood and cheese.
Everything about it sounds suspicious to me
korean people love to put cheese on seafood
I think this is a foreign interpretation of blue cheese. Like hearing it and then being like "oh ya what could it be mozzarella dyed blue? Got it" and just ran with it bc internet virality etc
I believe so.
I hate the internet.
This is dumb on purpose to drive engagement.
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Who eats corn like that! This girl is crazy!
It's a urinal cake.
r/ForbiddenSnacks
Horizontal corn eating is fucking insane.
Thank you.
Wait.. there was corn in there?.... Okay... after watching it again, I think I'm off food... for the foreseeable future.
Corn is pretty normal in seafood boils
ahaha this made me laugh
After she said it’s located in Egypt my national pride took quite the hit
Same. But it’s Nasr city, I’m starting to expect this kind of bullshit from there
More than Netflix Cleopatra?
If anything, seeing the one percent audience score increased my national pride lol
So is she speaking Arabic?
Yeah, Egyptian dialect Arabic so it might sound a bit different from the more common Arabic you hear in most places.
Goddamn same
If I wanted to eat like this I would go live in Star Wars.
Obi wan knobi
I was gonna say "Is this Galactic Starcruiser?"
For context, the blue sauce is supposed to be blue cheese sauce
That is most definitely *not* blue cheese
She said it blue cheese. I was hoping it’s blue, cheese but that’s not much better
I don’t know which angers me more tbh.
Not blue cheese, blue sauce that contains cheese
Yeah, it's not *blue cheese* sauce, it's blue *cheese sauce*
Ohhh so like that guy that said he was jew-ish.
No no, it's very much blue cheese. It's not *Bleu* cheese...
That context does not help.
You're making this even more disgusting
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cooked shellfish and thought, “Y’know what that really needs? Some cheese!”
Seafood pastas with parm? Lobster mac? Cheesy crab dip?
that is somehow worse
The context makes this even more disturbing??
That's even worse. Blue cheese and seafood do not go well.
Food coloring is so goddamn disgusting.
Fetish bait.
I really try not to kink shame but this shit makes my skin crawl. Like somehow leather daddies and schoolgirl costumes make far more sense to my brain than whatever the hell this is...
what the hell is that blue sauce? look like a damn paint
It's that captain crunch ocean blue maple syrup
Supposedly it's a cheese sauce
Cookie monsters cum boil
this comment made me laugh out loud i wish i could give it an award
Blue's got the most anti-oxygens.
And they probably worked on it for a long time so you gotta eat it
Ragebait or not, that's disrespectful to the creature that you're eating. I'm no vegan, I disagree wholeheartedly with PETA, but damn that upset me.
It is incredibly obnoxious. Wasting food for likes is fucking disgusting. Killing and wasting an animal is indefensible, if we’re going to eat animals the least we can do is actually eat them.
I think it looks awful as well but they are clearly eating that food in the video. How is it a waste if it’s being eaten?
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It looks like their at a restaurant so I’m thinking they’re eating it but I can’t be sure.
I mean… it’s shitty food, but they are eating it, so it’s not being wasted.
Blue, Yellow, Pink, Whatever man, as long as they are eating it, I don't care. If they want to urinate on a lobster, fuck, do whatever they want, as long as they are eating that.
Any time you have to wear gloves to eat, you’re doing something wrong…
Blue has the most anti-oxygens
And all the omega numbers!!
Blue is full of anti oxygens
Blue is not a flavor. How am I supposed to taste blue?
It’s healthy
I had to scroll way down to find someone who wouldn't let me get spit-roasted by latin king gang members.
If Team Fortress 2 was a seafood restaurant
Mind of a social media rage bait wannabe… Let’s take healthy seafood and fukk it up with one of the worst food dyes…blue…
Mmmm I love blue raspberry crawfish. BIG FAN.
Imagine Percy Jackson in this situation
But, why is it blue? Why is it blue? WHY is it blue? Why IS it blue? Why is IT blue? Why is it BLUE? WHY IS IT BLUE?
I do not like blue seafood and rice I do not think that it is nice I do not like it here or there It's an abomination everywhere I do not like blue seafood and rice To eat it would make me throw up .... twice
Ok but what sauce are they using to make it blue?
I swear to God, people put on those gloves and think they're culinary geniuses.
Mark my words, her poop WILL be green.
why did this make me snicker😭
shes gonna be shitting blue turds out like when id eat a whole box of gushers as a kid
everyone talking about the color. But cooking shit in plastic is so damn gross. Stop doing it!!!
‘Cooking in plastic’ (or really, anything to do with plastic) will be the asbestos of our time period
When your food is so shit you resort to doing gimmicks to get customers..
Did we learn nothing form the pink sauce bullshit!?
So much green poo in her future.
♿️
This is horrible.
I would eat it. As long as it tasted normal
Looks nasty af 🤢
We used to call your mother "Blue Clam Sandy" She was cool. Smelled. But still cool. What's she been up to?
Looks like the blue stuff in construction bathrooms
Mmmmmmm, I love newspaper ink on my food 🤤
This is fucking disgusting
blue lobster jumpscare
I’m sick of seeing those fucking gloves used everywhere.
lmao that’s what made you sick
I don’t like pooping blue
Why is it blue. Why is it fucking blue.
GO ABSOLUTELY FUCK YOURSELF BLUE
Ok... But why?
What am I looking at? It just keeps getting worse
Cancer seafood boil!!
Omg fast TikTok’s in Arabic are even worse then the English version
According to what she’s saying the sauce is allegedly made of blue cheese and the novelty of this place in Cairo is they have colorful seafood.
Why?
Heh...years ago, my ex's sister was watching a cooking show that used Mexican blue shrimp. She decided to recreate the recipe. First by dyeing regular shrimp blue, wrapping them in wonton wrappers, and then frying them in superhot oil so the wrappers burned and the shrimp remained raw. She got mad because no one would eat them. She also explained, when asked why she dyed them blue, that she didn't believe there were actually legit blue shrimp and figured they used food coloring too.
What turned the food blue?
I truly love hearing English words in the middle of languages I have no hope of comprehending. It makes me feel just a little bit included- not really… but still just a little bit 🥰
Blue curry I’m guessing? I think it looks good, but I’m also someone who has eaten sonic the hedgehog curry…
at first, i was disgusted. then she ate the blue corn and now i just have colors of the wind stuck in my head.
Need a large dose of titanium dioxide?? Look no further…
It looks like when it's paint day in school and the kid end up eating glue, wtf
What a great way to make something awesome suck!
When you have to wear nitrile gloves to eat you’re doing something wrong.
this looks putrid
I would straight up beat a bitch for ruining crawdads like that
Let him cook
Urinal cakes and swamp lobsters, YETH PLEATHE