So what flavor is blue, anyway?

Lately I've been drinking a lot of Powerade Mountain Blast flavor. I love it. But what is it?

According to Wikipedia, it's "berry" flavored. Wow. That tells me a lot.

I remember as a child eating those little plastic tube thingies which are filled with juice and put into the freezer. Well, I didn't eat the plastic but the ice which later resulted. My favorite flavor was blue. But what was it?

I vaguely remember in the 80s hearing someone say that the blue stuff is actually something called "blue raspberry". But Wikipedia tells me that blue raspberry is actually an artificial flavor based on a real fruit called "whitebark raspberry", so I'm skeptical. This blue stuff can't be based on a real fruit, can it?

And since they don't sell Gatorade around here, I can't try out their "cool blue" flavor to see if it is at all similar to "mountain blast".

So, what flavor is blue? Can you buy other blue stuff? Is there blue Jello? What flavor is Matt Colman? Does anyone know anything about this? Is there a conspiracy afoot?

Just in case the mods are ready to click the delete button, let me reassure everyone that I'm quite serious. I'm not being silly. I really want to know more than what Wikipedia can tell me, and I think some people here might have the answers.

I vote for berry flavored....of undetermined origin.

Blue tastes like either blueberrys or smurfs depending on the additives.

Definitely smurf flavor. My grandfather was a chemist. He told me about some of the chemical combinations they went through to get it to taste smurfy.

Matt Colman tastes like chicken.

Boysenberry. mmm mmm mmm

They're Roddenberries.

Anyone tasted a Russian Blue? I sure hope not as I have one!

I often see blue described as bubblegum flavoured.
Most bubblegum in the UK is Matt Colman flavoured.
Matt Colmann tastes like a Russian Blue.
Russian Blues taste like chicken with a mouse stuffing.

Which is ironic. Mouse stuffing tastes like chicken.

But seriously, the ocean is blue. The ocean is where Bass and other delicious seafood poop. Therefore "Blue" tastes like "Poop".

Which is also delicious and tastes like chicken.

George Carlin pointed out years ago that there is no blue food. Even blueberries, are not really blue, they are more or less purple. If there were a blue food it would probably confer immortality.

Romulan ale is blue... Geeze I'm a geek!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_wine#Romulan

Lyndel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL2UsAbI1hg

Blue Cheese

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXvQ94Z1oDM
for harder blue cheese

The milk served in the Lars household in Star Wars was blue.

I remember when I was a kid some artificial blue stuff was supposed to be coconut flavored.

Oh, and thanks, Josh... I'll never be able to eat chicken again.

B.

In defense of George Carlin back then there really was no blue foods or drinks. We always wanted the blue but were disadvantaged.

I can confirm after a night of product tasting I taste like sex and cider.

http://www.colormatters.com/appmatters.html