Sour Patch Kids colors: A berry blue conspiracy

Everyone agrees that Sour Patch Kids ("SPK') are awesome. After sharing them with friends and family for years I always noted what colors people tend to reach for.

From my casual observation, it really seemed like most liked red, then orange, then green, then yellow.

Then they released blue and that took over the lead spot (allegedly) based on publicity media.

Yet in my interpersonal interactions…

No one picking a few kids from a palm or small bowl ever picks blue. Like never.

People who take a handful indiscriminately, well they get a mix and don't seem to be really care what they got.

You also have those who eat one by one and those who shove a mixed group in their mouth. Obviously one can't take exception to a certain taste if you mix fruit bowl things.

Therefore I challenge the claims of blue dominance.

I think there is some sort of coke/classic coke switch from sugar to corn syrup switcheroo at foot.

Like the blue are cheaper to produce, so they try to convince the world that everyone likes them. Because blue was added later.

The producers know that they suck, but because 50% of population won't even notice how bad they are because the net impact on the mixed bunch eaters is negligible.

Ie as long as people don't reject them, then the producer can get away with the insertion of a disgusting flavor.

I mean what other mixed fruit candy product is the berry flavor the number 1 favorite? Not Jolly Ranchers, not Sprees or Sweattarts, not Flavor Ice ice pops, not cotton candy, can't really think of any other berry candy among mixed fruit. Which sort of proves the point that berry sucks — theu don't even seem it worthy of inclusion.

Yet why they do not just stop at convincing the world they are ok. Why go for "the favorite" when trying to convince the public to accept blue?

That's when I realized that the proportion of blue seemed to outweigh any other color. In fact in some bags I thought it was nearly half.

So I tested this by buying a 5lb bag of SPC. Sorting blue from all other. And weighing the batches.

Blue 21.55oz

Other 54.16oz

Note this is less than 5lb.

28.47% blue to 71.53% other

So now the producer can even further lower costs by stretching the % ratio as far as can be tolerable. Not just the equal 20% you would expect among the 5 fruit flavors in the mix.

So instead of forcing an equal amount of blue…they ram an extra 8.47% down ours throats.

Am I crazy?

PS: yes I find blue flavor disgusting to the point of revulsion.