Blue Rice

[Chipchopper]

I bought a ready meal (sweet and sour chicken) from a well known leading super market on sunday 19th. anyway, i decided to have it tonight but was put of the rice due to some of the grains was blue.
Naturally I did not eat the rice and binned it.
When I checked on the best before date, it said b,b, 27th . Guess I should have checked the date before but i'm glad I dumped the rice, as it seems it may have been a bacteria that caused it, I discovered after some on line searching.

[andy-hughes]

For some reason, we are conditioned not to eat blue food - which is why plasters for kitchen personal are blue - they would stand out if they appeared in a dish, because nothing else on the plate would be blue.

I remember reading about a chef who cooked for the team on a weather station at the North Pole. They were cut off for months at a time, so he baked bread for the team, and one day, for a change, be added some blue vegetable dye to the dough, and produced blue bread.

Despite his assurances that the bread would taste exactly the same, none of the crew would touch it.

[douglas9401]

Sounds like he blue it.

[Buenchico]

Possibly relevant:
https://tinyurl.com/y3cfh4k9

However in Malaysia they seem to like their rice coloured blue ;-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasi_kerabu

[Old_Geezer]

I know someone who found a blue plaster in his work canteen meal one lunchtime. So colour coding doesn't always work.

[pastafreak]

Of course it worked...he saw it!!
;)

[andy-hughes]

Old_Geezer - // I know someone who found a blue plaster in his work canteen meal one lunchtime. So colour coding doesn't always work. //

As pasta pointed out, it worked perfectly. No-one should find anything blue in their food outside a Heston Blumenthal restaurant - that's why catering plasters are blue, if you see something blue in your food, that's what it's going to be.

[pastafreak]

The trouble with catering plasters is they never stay on longer than five minutes. Most of the time they are found before the food lands on someone's plate...;)

[DTCwordfan]

worth mentioning it to them......

[douglas9401]

" .....if you see something blue in your food, that's what it's going to be."

The blueberry and blue cheese trade bodies will be in touch. :-)

[douglas9401]

I'm off for a cup of tea and a Blue Riband now. x

[Old_Geezer]

I'd not consider, not seeing it until after it's been served up, as 'working'.

[roopower]

I made my son a birthday cake based on a FisherPrice toy spider once. It was bright colours red, yellow and blue. Not one of the children would eat the blue bits despite the fact it was just colouring and tasted just the same.