Nostalgic Blue's Clues Food I Remember Eating

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[Originally posted to Lavender-Sprinkles on PF]

This post is inspired by the fact that I was visited by the visceral taste of foods gone by after I saw my partner doodling popsicles and particularly, a push pop with the paper wrapper.




1. Blue's Clues Gummies

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Blue's Clues gummies were these creamy-style fruit gummies. The most nostalgic thing I remember about them was the opaque color to them. They looked like matte finish nail polish and tasted like creme fruit candies.

2. Blue's Clues Ice Cream

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Blue's Clues ice cream was a flavor created by Blue Bunny back in 2003 and was discontinued pretty soon after. It was a vanilla ice cream with a blue color to it and the pawprint treats in the ice cream were actually sugar cookies. I remember eating the ice cream and loving the taste and texture of the cookies even though I had no idea that the cookies were in fact, cookies. I used to think they were giant sprinkles similar to the round flat confetti ones and was always disappointed that regular sprinkles didn't taste as good as the "sprinkles" in my favorite ice cream. The ice cream by itself was really good too, it was vanilla, but it tasted like, well... vaguely like the happiness that Blue's Clues gave me. It was very creamy, it didn't taste artificial despite the high amounts of blue food coloring, and it was very sweet and comforting.

3. Blue's Clues Applesauce

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Blue's Clues applesauce, the bluest tasting applesauce you will ever love eating. Technically, it also had berries mashed into it like blueberry and raspberry and such (as you can see on the package), but like tto me as a 5-year-old kid, it was just blue applesauce, I couldn't even distinguish the fact that they were other flavors that are in fact not apple and not blue. As an adult, I find the mere fact that I ate blue applesauce as a child appalling, but at the same time, I'm nostalgic for it and would eat it in a heartbeat if it existed again ignoring my repulsion.

 

4. Blue's Clues Teddy Grahams.

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These graham crackers tasted about the same as all graham crackers, you know, graham-y which is what I said the flavor was because I couldn't really read yet. I had three particular ways I liked to eat these cookies. Either I would eat around the edges over and over until there was only a square left. Or, I would eat the outside of the design first leaving just the actual character or shape for last. Or finally, I would find two graham crackers with the same design and pop them BOTH in my mouth at once. If I ate them this way, I got a little sad when one design didn't have a match and always saved it the single one to eat for last. How did my parents not guess I was autistic between my obsessive special interest in Blue's Clues and my particularness for eating blue food and Blue's Clues themed food in particular ways?

5. Blue's Clues Cool Tubes

Unfortunately for this one, I don't have a visual image to show you because even though we still had cameras back in 2003 no one thought to take a picture of their blue-faced blue-tongued Blue's Clues obsessed child monster for their scrapbooks //coughs. Anyways, these were also distributed by Blue Bunny as indicated by this outdated article I found which was the ONLY evidence I could find of these delicious blue raspberry sherbet push popsicles that I was beginning to feel only existed in my dreams when I started on this blue food littered memory lane. These popsicles were good and the only way you would ever get me to eat and enjoy sherbet.

6. Blue's Clues Kraft Mac & Cheese

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So most people will probably know that Kraft has made a lot of different boxes of character shaped mac&cheese that if you liked and got mac&cheese, you always desperately wanted to try one out, but your mom probably only let you do it once, if at all. I was one of those lucky children and I was gifted with Blue's Clues mac&cheese to feed my special interest, metaphorically and literally. Thankfully, I didn't quite have ARFID at the time or the random blue noodles would've squicked me away from this holy grail food. Again, despite my odd relationship with any "weird food" if this came back, I would desire to eat it because of nostalgia alone.

7. Blue's Clues Edible Cake Sticker

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For my tenth birthday party, I asked for a Blue's Clues cake, but my mom didn't exactly have time to make one and we couldn't really find the ability to ask for a custom one. Luckily though, my mom found this cake sticker being sold at Walmart by the wayside and bought it and then we ordered a BLUE vanilla cake with white frosting and blue piping on the edges. Then when we brought the cake home, my mom put the sticker on it. The cake was really good, but it was very, very blue. It was so blue that the skin around my mouth was strained blue for hours after and my tongue even longer than that. I hadn't quite reached the chronically awkward and embarrassed prepubescent teen years yet so I thought this was hilarious.

EDIT: Honorable Mention: Blue (not Blue's Clues) Ketchup

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Did I already mention how obsessed I was with blue food because I had an obsessive special interest in Blue's Clues (it's almost weird that blue never became my favorite color)? I knew that this blue ketchup wasn't Blue's Clues ketchup, but I made believe it was and I thought it was cool. Of course, 2019 ARFID me looks back at 6-year-old 2003 me with horror at my blue-enriched diet. This ketchup tasted just like normal red tomato ketchup, but the blue tint was dazzlingly garish. Ahhh, the 90s-early 2000s were a special time of lots of experimentation and it was actually COOL to be as weird and wacky as possible

 

 

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What are some nostalgic 90s-2000s era food you remember eating? Tell me in the comments below!