Since when?
Since when is blue raspberry a “classic” Jolly Rancher flavor? I’m pleased that they stopped including the yucky lemon flavor, and the other flavors make sense: cherry, watermelon, apple, grape. I used to really like the raspberry flavor, but its new, blue color is off-putting. Perhaps they thought that two red flavors in one bag were two many, so they turned raspberries blue and left out the quite nice strawberry, which I’d much prefer to grape.
I wrote recently about nostalgic food. I always think of Jolly Ranchers as pool food. When we were little, my mom would take me and my sisters to the public pool and give us a little money to spend at the snack bar. The big Jolly Rancher bars were a favorite treat. Not as good as the chocolate scooter crunch ice cream bars, but cheaper and really good.
July 27th, 2005 at 6:03 am
blue is indeed off-putting, but I recall scrutinizing the reds to discern raspberry (my favorite and darker red) from cherry or strawberry