color play

I wound up with a bag of spice drops from the food pantry the other day.

Now, I'm not OCD, but I *do* like to sort hings like this. I'll sort candies by color or type, I'll sort snack mixes by type etc.

What I noticed with the spice drops was something I'd noticed before and forgotten.

There are six colors (all seem to be the same flavor).

Red, Orange, yellow, green, purple and white

under some sorts of artificial light, it can be hard to tell the difference between the yellow and the whit. not so important with the spice drops, but with some other gummy candies, it can be important because of the flavor differences.

If the drops aren't directly illuminated (shaded by the container, for example) it's easier to tell the yellow from the white.

But when shaded the orange and the red get harder to tell apart.

Odd bit of color trivia.

And for those who are curious, with the spice drops, I sort them into sets of one color each until I run out of one of the colors. The full color sets go into the bag or a baggie or whatever. then I make up five color sets until I run out of a color. Again, move to seperate container.Repeat until only one color is left.

I eat the limited color sets first and work my way up to the full sets. Silly, but it's amusing. It's more "important" to get it "right" when the different colors are different flavors.

With snack mix stuff I tend to eat all of one kind of ingredient (say pretzels) then all of another, etc until what's left is small mixed pieces.