[Sca-cooks] OT/OOP: Wazzup with "Red Velvet Cake"

[Sue Clemenger]

You know, *that* could explain a fascination with Things of an Orange 
Tincture! (lainie, corrupted at an early age by carrots! oh, the horror!)
And I remember the licorice ice cream...it was a weird greeny-black 
color.  Not something I ever ate (I don't care for "licorice" as a 
sweet, although I will enjoy small amounts of related flavors from anise 
in, say, Italian food), but my brother loved it!
(and those slice-and-bake holiday cookies can do the same thing...at 
least, the "ghost" ones from Halloween did, a few years ago!)
--maire

Laura C. Minnick wrote:

> Two food color stories, one natural, one not.
> 
> This happened sometime in '65, because I was born in Nov. '64. My mom 
> took me to the doctor, convinced that I had some terrible liver disease, 
> because I had turned orange! Well no, as it turned out he was a good 
> doctor and first asked about my habits and what did I like to eat... 
> well, apparently I loved carrots, so my mom fed me lots of carrots. LOTS 
> of carrots. It was the carotene that was turning me orange. She quit 
> feeding me carrots all the time and in about two weeks I was pink again!
> 
> Second one was in the early '70s. We'd gone to Baskin Robbins for a 
> treat. I had a hard time choosing, but I finally did and enjoyed the ice 
> cream. The next day though, I came screaming out of the bathroom, 
> yelling that I had been poisoned! Well, apparently they had put LARGE 
> quantities of greenish blue dye in the licorice ice cream to make it 
> look black.