blue pancakes! (contains photos)
This is gonna take a while, so hear me out:
On Facebook, a cousin of mine likes to publish photos of stuff that is both surreal and awesome. For instance, she recently posted these on her page:
The following photo of hers is the most important for reasons that will soon be disclosed:
This photo inspired me. I decided to make Pancakes...with FOOD COLORING!!!!! Since it would be too messy and wasteful to make seven different pancake batters, I decided to do one color only: purple. I went to the grocery store and bought both food coloring and pancake mix. After mixing the pancake mix, my hunger set in and mixing two colors (blue and red to make purple) was not not time-efficient. So, I settled on making one color: blue. I put something like seven drops of blue food coloring in the pancake mix, sprayed Extra Virgin Olive Oil on the pan, poured the mix on, and made the pancakes.
And here they are:
They were G-E-W-D GEWD!!!!
That is all.
On Facebook, a cousin of mine likes to publish photos of stuff that is both surreal and awesome. For instance, she recently posted these on her page:
The following photo of hers is the most important for reasons that will soon be disclosed:
This photo inspired me. I decided to make Pancakes...with FOOD COLORING!!!!! Since it would be too messy and wasteful to make seven different pancake batters, I decided to do one color only: purple. I went to the grocery store and bought both food coloring and pancake mix. After mixing the pancake mix, my hunger set in and mixing two colors (blue and red to make purple) was not not time-efficient. So, I settled on making one color: blue. I put something like seven drops of blue food coloring in the pancake mix, sprayed Extra Virgin Olive Oil on the pan, poured the mix on, and made the pancakes.
And here they are:
They were G-E-W-D GEWD!!!!
That is all.
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I've had brown crepes before, but that's only because I put cocoa in the batter. (It's tasty, too, and you don't even need to fill them with anything!).
If I was going to make blue pancakes, I think I'd use blueberries.
Thank you! I'll take that as a compliment!
Well, Me no like blueberries. So there.
Oh well. To each one's own.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/
Edit: Here's the photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/49415677@N03/4530464443/
Oh and I commend your spirit of experimentation!
EDIT: If you wanted to try several different colours, just make one batch of batter, then separate small amounts out into a few different bowls and add a different colour to each one.
I'd doubt it, one image has a copyright stamp and no others do.
For valentines day last year we used red food colouring to make pink pamcakes. Or maybe that was St. Patty's day and green pamcakes, maybe both.
I don't know, but I highly doubt it. I think she shares her father's (i.e., my uncle's) sense of humor, though. He's a really wacky guy.
D'oh! Why didn't I think of that? Oh well. There's always tomorrow...
Same.
Those pancakes look tasty. Blue is the most unappetising colour, though (as well as black). The only blue foods in the world are blueberries and Hubba Bubba.
Blue's my favourite food colouring, though! Well in theory. What I mean is that blue stuff would always be raspberry (red being either cherry or strawberry) and that's my favourite flavour. I can remember buying a blue Mister Freeze on the way from home as a kid. It's a great memory.
And black, man, between black beans, blackberries, black currant, lentils, and for the meat-eaters red meat (once cooked), it's hard to think of black foods I don't like!
So I disagree with you. Blue and black for the win!
(And who could forget chocolate? And tea/coffee?)
You can't tell me this doesn't look unappetising, though:
If I had to choose only one colour it would be white, though. There are grains, legumes, meats (for some people), vegetables and fruit that are white. And nuts and seeds. As far as single-colour eating goes, that's probably the most balanced you can get.
I could... but I would be lying.
actually, I want some. it looks good
Well according to my SUPER RELIABLE SOURCES, blue and black are the least appetising colours. Red and yellow are apparently the most appetising (which is apparently why McDonalds' colour scheme is red and yellow).
At first I was like
I thought that was colours in drawings and stuff, not in the food itself. That is, for ads, commercials or the restaurant colours, you'd go with red and yellow and avoid black and blue. But I can't say it influences what I want to eat when I see the food itself. I could be wrong, but I'm not sure I'd want to try this thing better if the nori was red or yellow for instance.
Although red rice is tasty, and yellow rice would make me think "mmmmh, curry!" so maybe. On the other hand, I really want to try the blue rice just to figure out if it tastes different.
But the colour thing I think is more a psychological and mood thing. Like how they use specific colors to label detergent because they make us think about clean things, so we think they work better. Once Tropicana changed their packaging for orange juice and the sales plummeted, they changed it back lol (neither package had red or yellow though).
The wrongest thing in both old and new packagings is the "no pulp/pulp-free" part, though
Yeah, you could be right that it's just in package design/logos etc. where it counts, although I definitely find blue foods less appealing than warm-coloured ones.
Also, detergents are often in white packaging, so you're probably right about that part. I never thought about that. That's the same reason doctors wear white, I believe.
The one on the right doesn't look too bad, although something about it reminds me of medicine
I personally find white food boring to look at, but that doesn't prevent some of my favourite foods to be white. And although red is my favourite colour, it's not going to make me like red meat (even when I was still eating meat, I wouldn't eat red meat if, cutting through it, you could see some pink. I only ate it 100% black, or as my mother would say, carbonised. Otherwise I could taste the blood and it made me throw up.)
So I guess if I see something in a fluo colour, I'm going to think "sugar" (because it's usually chemical, and often used in candy and stuff) and steer away from it.
That doesn't apply to fruit and vegetables of course, which can be bright coloured naturally. Although the less bright ones always look healthier and more natural to me. I think they breed them to look all bright and forget to bread them to taste like something.
Eggs are the opposite, in here (North America) the yolks almost look white. I like my yolks orange, dammit! Only have them free-range or organic, at least it's the right colour (and, more importantly, taste).
I take it from this post that you're an ovo- or an ovo-lacto-vegetarian. Is that right? If you are one of the latter, you can eat Baconnaise (which actually contains no bacon and has less fat and calories than regular mayonnaise).
I'm an ovo-vegetarian, yes (allergic to milk). Thanks for the advice, although I've always made my own mayonnaise. I was actually confused the first time I saw mayonnaise and dressing in a store in Canada lol I was all "wait, there are people who don't make their own?"
I'm assuming baconnaise contains bacon bits, then? My husband (who isn't vegetarian at all) likes bacon bits and recently told me he'd just realised they were vegetarian. Made with soy or something.
Before I was vegetarian I had a lot of what you might call "fake meat", because I liked the taste better and it seemed healthier. But now that I've stopped meat, I've stopped the fake meat too quite naturally. It's only recently that I had a "oh, wow, it's true, I can still have fake meat".
Since then I've had some "chicken" one made of chick peas and seitan, and they're nice, but I still prefer legumes. And I try to avoid soy because I think it's overused, and lots of fake meat is made with soy. Also, I like more "natural" things, and these tend to seem a bit chemical. I'd rather have tofu or make my own seitan, or just have beans.
I found a picture illustrating what I was saying earlier with the produce being bred to look less natural:
It was part of an article that's now offline (but I found the picture in a video). They were comparing the two. Not only did the consumer rate the taste of the organic ones much, much higher than the other ones, but (and that actually surprised me) they also rated their aspect better.
Apparently it felt more like eating from your grandfather's garden and less like eating some factory-produced plastic stuff.
I wish I could afford organic food. The little I have had before tastes so much better. And I think they look much better, too. I didn't expect most people to feel the same way though. I thought they'd go all "they're all bumpy" or "they're not regular enough" or "I need to wash the dirt off" or something.
No, there aren't any bacon bits in Baconnaise, but the flavoring process for both is similar.
Considering that you just told me that you're allergic to milk, I'd suggest not eating any Baconnaise, because it contains milk (Baconnaise contains milk and eggs; just not any bacon). That's why I asked if you were an ovo-lacto-vegetarian and not just an ovo-vegetarian.
I know there is a big thing about bacon, but to me it's always only tasted like salty fat
Sorry! I know I must have lost lots of credit for not liking bacon like any normal human being apparently should
I'm with you on that one! I used to work weekends in a cafe, and although I was already vegetarian, I definitely lost all taste for bacon there. Sunday mornings the hungover hordes would come in demanding bacon rolls and full fried breakfasts... often I'd be frying bacon for several hours at a stretch. Not fun. I'd end up covered in bacon grease, my Dad would come to drive me home at the end of the day and say "you smell great!" Ugh, no, I don't... :rolleyes:
So yeah, bacon doesn't have pleasant connotations for me.
Oh, I've had blue corn chips, I loved them! Aren't some carrots blue, too? Or was it purple? But I think they're either extinct or close to because the orange ones were favoured.
I had the same thing with coffee! Now, I've always been more of a tea drinker, but when I worked in MacDonald's, they put e in charge of cleaning the McCafé (where cake, pastries, viennoiseries and coffee are served. I can never remember if you have that in other countries).
The McCafé closed at midnight and our restaurant closed at 2, so they basically had nobody starting or ending their shift between the two. Since I mostly worked in "accounting" (I don't know the real name for it. I counted each employee's till when they started and when they finished their shift, entered all data in the computer, put the money in the safe, etc) I was the most logical choice because I had nothing to do then.
So every night, I'd clean the whole thing, there were I think 4 machines, I'd get rid of the old coffee grounds and stuff, the smell was so strong, ugh. My hair and uniform smelled like coffee even more than they smelled like McDonald's food lol.
So yeah, the smell of coffee has bad connotations for me as a result :P
There are blue potatoes:
Haha, I wonder how many other people have permanent psychological scars from their teenage jobs?
I kind of liked cleaning the coffee machine, in a weird way. I just got a kick out of standing back and seeing it look all lovely and shiny, ready to "go to sleep" for the night and start all over again the next day.
Oh, I think I've seen these before, too!
Well, smell-wise this is bad, but I liked working at McDonald's much better than grape-picking. I couldn't walk straight at the end of the day, from being crouched all day. And I got cuts. And walking up hills was tiring! Especially while crouching.
Plus I got hurt with the... that:
And it was super-hot some of the days. Some others we got rained on pretty bad.
I'll never forget the feeling of looking at your watch, thinking it's been at least 30 minutes since you last looked, and realising it's been a minute only.
All that for 50 bucks a day. Working the whole day. Of course, we were fed and housed on top of that so technically it paid better, but... I hated that job!
...yet I'd still do it if offered. It's only two weeks, and even though you don't get a day off you don't really need one for such a short time. And I'd be doing something.
What the...? What is that thing? It looks like an implement of torture. Did they use those to make you go faster?
The way it goes, you're crouches, with a bucket. You use this thing to cut the grapes off the bush as fast as possible. Once your bucket is full you empty it in a big container that someone is carrying on their back (that's another grape-picking job that's reserved for stronger people than me lol). This think looks like santa's bag that he has on his back, but made out of plastic.
When that person's container is full, they go empty it in a truck, then come back walking up and down the hill to get everyone's buckets.
When a truck is full it leaves for the place where they make wine. We usually filled 7 trucks in one day, which is over one truck per 2 pickers.
When you're at the top of the hill, you go back down and start over again next to where you used to be.
EDIT: here, two pictures I found on google to give you an idea what the vineyards look like, and a picture of us taking our break (we had a five minute break in the morning and one in the afternoon).
(It's the guy's pants. He's not that happy to be on break).
The stuff you see in the background are part of what we had to pick, too, if you're wondering.
And that's before it even starts being made! lol
Ahahahaha oh dear... we could count on avistew to bring something sexual to a discussion about grape-picking.
I actually know about this. This morning, I was going for artificial blue rather than natural blue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l04dn8Msm-Y
I don't know whether to run away or salivate uncontrollably (I'm currently doing both)
Only weird coloured food I ever had was a bottle of cheapo green cola one time
Okay. I want to eat the fries of THAT.