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Jipowap von Angband's avatar

I'm leaning towards marketing by association. They landed on a good flavor, and called it a sister of the next closest thing. Later taste technicians left it all to marketing, and so we get the infamous Baha Blast.

Makes me wonder though, could they have been associating *other* less known fruit to a familiar name? I've never had straight boison berry, bilberry, huckleberry, service berry or such to compare.

Completely aside, I recommend trying the fruit of dogwood trees. Looks like a raspberry, but its practically a small persimmon. Close relative, and needs the same long ripening for maximum flavor.

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Evelyn Fox's avatar

What a wonderfully delightful and surprising read! I have often wondered about this dubious blue raspberry business and I've decided (for no reasons other than it pleases me) to accept your hypothesis wholeheartedly.

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Stace Dumoski's avatar

This was a fun diversion for my lunch hour. My mom used to talk about picking while black raspberries in Oregon, and how they were far better than their red cousins or blackberries, but that was before I was born so I e never tasted them.

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Étienne Fortier-Dubois's avatar

That would most likely be R. leucodermis. If you ever end up trying them, let us all know how they taste!

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ab's avatar

Quand les expériences scientifiques prospectives échoues, on doit se tourner vers les journalistes et les historiens. On doit remonter dans la généalogie de tous les employers des compagnies, particulièrement les patrons et les développeurs de saveurs, et voir si leurs grand-parents avaient une tale de framboises noires dans leur jardin!

Sinon, Étienne, je crois que tu dois écrire l’encyclopédie des Fruits Fun Facts!🍍🫐🥑

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Étienne Fortier-Dubois's avatar

Peut-être que c'est ce projet que je devrais soumettre à mon agent... 🤔

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ab's avatar

Ou L’histoire de la framboise bleu: comment un peuple apprend à aimer ne pas savoir d’où vient leur bouffe

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ab's avatar

FFFE (Fruits Fun Facts Encyclopedia) by EFD

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davidestevens's avatar

Maybe they should be renamed to ‘blue,”raspberries”’

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Étienne Fortier-Dubois's avatar

Since it likely neither tastes like raspberries nor has any causal association with raspberries whatsoever, maybe it should just be called "blue"!

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Susan Linehan's avatar

No idea how old you are but when I was a kid blue popsicles were licorice flavored. Or was that supposed to be raspberry? Who knew?

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Étienne Fortier-Dubois's avatar

Huh, when and where was that?

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Susan Linehan's avatar

50s. seattle

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Étienne Fortier-Dubois's avatar

So, older than blue raspberry then! And also brilliant blue FCF. I'd be curious to know what that looked like.

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