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why is blue tack blue, anyway

and why is it still called blue tack when it's white
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@Felthry "Originally Blu Tack was white, but consumer research showed fears that children may mistake it for chewing gum, so a blue colouring was added."

@Felthry The original form of the product was little rectangles that look a lot like a particular kind of gum that *is* usually white

@VoxSomniator canel's! i don't think there's a blue flavor of those, though there is a violet one (it's literally violet flavor, like the flower)
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@Felthry Woah, cool, I had some violet-flavored candies once.

@VoxSomniator we recently got a box of canel's gum because we realized you can just order that online and we hadn't had it in like, a decade

fond memories of getting a pack of that for a quarter at a mexican restaurant where we grew up
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@VoxSomniator it's not as good as we remember--the flavors are nice, but don't last very long
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