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Article: Purple reign
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- October 3, 2009
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The intriguing colour purple adds to the exotic mystique of
berries from China to Tasmania, writes JANE POWERS
WHEN I WAS a small child and living in the US, there was a kind
of bubble gum that I really liked. But my parents took a dim view of
gum-chewing. And as for bubble-blowing: that was the kind of thing
that nice little girls did not do. Therefore, sour-grape bubble-gum
balls - sweetly tart, chewily elastic and preternaturally purple -
always had to be obtained by subterfuge.
I haven't seen or tasted these forbidden non-fruits for 30 or 40
years. Nonetheless, whenever I encounter any shiny, deep-purple orb,
I feel the ghost of that rush when sight, smell and taste collided,
just as ...