a diatribe on orange food

Today I made Kraft macaroni & cheese (it comes in a blue box) for my late lunch, and as I was falling into a hypnotic trance from its Technicolor™ hue, I thought back to how when I was visiting with Megan a series of orange foods kept cropping up into my awareness, prompting me now to address the very oddity of said colored foods. First, a list of common garden-variety orange foods.

* Cheetos
* cheddar cheese
* macaroni & cheese
* orange soda
* pumpkins
* oranges and all of their products
* artificially flavored orange products, such as orange Jello, orange Tootsie roll pops, and orange slices
* Gatorade
* orange colored peppers

Unless I am missing an entire food group, the list of orange foods are primarily manufactured foods and are not naturally occurring. I suppose in certain circles the color of salmon could be classified as a type of orange, but since I find salmon to taste as if it lived in the water too long, I shall completely ignore it.

It should be noted that my temporary obsession with orange foods is dervied from the fact that out of all of the colors in the spectrum I despise the color orange. It is a color that makes me violent. I find nothing soothing about it, even when it is dulled as an earthtone. No other words rhyme with it, so even the poet must feel enraged by this wicked color! Hunters are required to suit up in orange simply because of the fact that nothing in nature is so obvious and vulgar (I mean the color and the hunters on this one, so score two for one thought here).

I just thought of something else that is orange: oompa-loompas! Though not a food, they were connected to food manufacturing, and so this gives them an honorable mention.