We all have our favorite flavors. Some people like pink and some like purple. A few even like yellow.
That’s normal.
But I always wonder about what kind of people actually like the blue ones.
For the past year, my husband and I have been on a health kick. We’ve been exercising, eating right and taking a slew of vitamins. Every morning, I make us both a smoothie filled with protein. For lunch, we’re drinking fresh organic juices and for dinner, we are eating something sensible.
For the past year, we’ve been a little cranky and pretty darn hungry, but other than that, we feel great!
Having reached our health goals, we’ve both started to stray just a little. And it all started with the candy we found in our stockings Christmas morning.
Our guilty pleasures right now are jolly ranchers and sweet tarts.
I like the red jolly ranchers and pink sweet tarts. He likes the purple ones. And since Christmas, we’ve been eating them non-stop.
Basically, whenever my husband pumps gas, he goes inside and buys us bags or rolls of candy.
We will then proceed to eat healthy all day long and splurge on candy in the evening. And thus started our insane quest to figure out who the heck likes the blue ones? Seriously who are they? We don’t think they exist.
First off — what flavor is blue? Everyone knows that red or pink is obviously a strawberry or cherry flavor. Purple is always grape. But we have yet to determine what flavor is blue — other than it’s just awful!
But really, what actual flavor could it be? Both the blue sweet tarts and blue jolly ranchers just make us angry at this point. We reach into the bag of candy and if either of us pulls out a blue one — we immediately go down our rabbit hole of what type of person eats the blue ones and what flavor is this? Is it blueberry? It can’t be, because as noted above, blue is just an awful flavor. It’s a cross between sour and not good. And who would choose to eat the blue ones? Someone who lost their taste buds maybe? Someone who was starving and all they could find were the blue ones?
Every night there is a bowl of the discarded blues that neither of us will touch. And don’t even get us started on the fact that there appears to be an absurdly high number of blues in our rolls of sweet tarts.
It’s like a game of Russian Roulette, I peel the roll back and outwardly groan if its another blue one!
It even got so bad, we mentioned the issue to our children, who immediately missed the point.
“You guys are eating bags of candy nightly?” inquired our daughter, the nurse. “That’s not OK!”
And so the quest continues…
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