What smurfs and candy companies have in common

With halloween just past and we're all delving into our acquired candy hoardes, I'm sure some of have been pondering the thus-far unanswered question about blue raspberry flavored candy. The candy companies must have known that by now everyone has seen through their clever ruse: the blue raspberry is not a fruit! Certainly blackberries closely resemble raspberries and have slightly darker shade of violet-blue than blueberries, but nothing comes close to the electric blue of the so called "Blue Razzberry."

That's why The Best Part of Today #8 is

finding out what smurfs are good for.

You heard me right. Smurfs. Those tart little blue imps that are actually about the size of large blackberries. What do you think happened to them after the 80's (Boomerang reruns not included.) They had to go somewhere, as a friend of mine decided after my ingestion of a large blue razzberry lollipop that left my mouth "smurf blue."

Unfortunately, Smurfs fell under the protection of S.P.E.W and could no longer be used to make delicious blue treats, so candy companies had to resort to the use of Rubus Leucodermis, or the Whitebark Raspberrry, later known as the "Blue Raspberry" for its associations with the previously smurf-produced flavor.