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Taking a quick break from our birthday celebrations this week, I saw this in the paper this morning and just had to write about it. The other week I wrote about Screwball Ice Creams, and as part of that post I had a little rant about the prevalence of raspberry flavoured foods being coloured blue for some bizarre reason. Raspberries are a dark pinkish red, I argued, not blue!
Shows how much I know!
Apparently Sainsbury’s have started selling Golden Raspberries. Yep, you read it correctly. Presumably by meddling with raspberry genes (do raspberries have genes – is it called that in plants?) scientists have created yellow raspberries. And the primary reason for all this scientific tomfoolery? So they won’t cause stains. Lame excuse guys. I must say I’m with the anti-GM foods brigade on this one – what a waste of effort. Just be more careful when eating them!
I must admit when reading this in the newspaper this morning I figured I must have fallen asleep for several months and woken up on April Fool’s Day. Can anybody confirm a sighting of these abominations of nature in their local Sainsbury’s?
August 13th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Prescient me.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Has anybody come across these yet? I’m still not sure whether to believe it.
I remember a few years back something about one of the major supermarkets getting ready to sell cube shaped watermelons, but I never saw them. At least with these they were cube shaped because they had been grown inside a cube, there was any Frankenstein like genetic manipulation going on.