If the thought of blue fries covered in purple ketchup makes you cringe, consider that Heinz decided on its potato flavors after a year of testing 50 of them.
The thought of eating blue cheese happens to make me queasy; it always has.
APPARENTLY my brain had a similar reaction at the thought of drinking Blue Nun from a box, which costs about $20 for a container that packs the equivalent of four 750-milliliter bottles of wine.
The mere thought of the blue skies, sandy beaches and all-you-can-swallow goat and tomato and aubergine and ouzo allows us to keep looking at you pasty Brits with pity, and it is also the only thing that keeps us warm in the winter once the petrol runs out.
When I go for a walk in the dunes, I imagine myself inside the cabins in the first row, sitting there in the late light of a Scandinavian summer evening, smoking (even though I'm a nonsmoker), drinking sundowners (gin and tonic) and thinking poetic thoughts with a hint of blue.
With sudsy thoughts of red, white and blue, the beer panel gathered to taste 20 American pale ales; a small sample of an abundant genre, to be sure, but, we hope, a representative one.
Blue Eyeshadow Banish thoughts of Barbara Cartland's peacock peepers; autumn's blue eyelids came in darker, vampier shades of teal and petrol that were at odds with some of the more restrained clothes on the catwalks.
My first thought was I never want another pair of blue gloves touching me again, and my second thought was I really need a shower.
Standing in front of the doors of Blue Beat, the thought of going "clubbing" intimidated me.
It's a relief to turn to more pleasant Christmas thoughts of artists such as the blues shouter J B Summers, whose message in "I Want a Present for Christmas", recorded in Philadelphia in 1949, is simple and direct.
