Truthful Tuesday Volume Three

• Posted on May 5, 2015
• by Jamie Stahl
• in Truthful Tuesday
• 3 Comments.

This Week’s Truthful Tuesday: Everything, Jellybean, Rainbow, Candy

“Jamie, what’s your favorite color?”  If you ask me that today, I’d tell you it was Pink.  If you asked me that when I was ten years old, I’d tell you it was Teal.  If you asked me that when I was a toddler, I’d tell you Everything, Jellybean, Rainbow, Candy.  Yes, you read that correctly.  My favorite color at one time was called, “Everything, Jellybean, Rainbow, Candy.”  Though science was never my best subject, I don’t recall ever talking about E.J.R.C when learning about Prisms and “ROY-G-BIV.” Yet, I found myself inclined to inform others that E.J.R.C was, in fact, not just a group of nouns I liked, but specifically a color.

Going back to my earliest memories, my favorite parts of life involved bright colors and food.  I remember scenes from movies and TV shows based on the food!  I used to like reading specific books because of the food pictures and descriptions.  I think that this love of food and color is where E.J.R.C stemmed from and I can more or less make sense of the J.R.C components.  It’s the “everything” part that is a bit odd.  Being an introspective person, I can assume that I didn’t want to leave anything out when describing what I liked, so I added the word “everything” to make sure all of my favorites were included.  My favorite what, I don’t know.  Seems like a lot of over thinking for a toddler to be doing if you ask me!

I don’t really know at what age E.J.R.C lost it’s major appeal and was no longer my favorite color, but I never forgot about it!  Truth be told, I’ve never even been a huge candy lover.  I love candy stores and the colors of candy and the happiness that candy represents.  However; I’d prefer to eat a chocolate bar over a gummy or sugary candy any day of the week.  And I do like jellybeans, but I am selective about the flavors.  I enjoy a nice container of jellybeans more for aesthetic purposes than anything else.

So, there you have it.  A mediocre explanation of the history of my favorite color, “Everything, Jellybean, Rainbow, Candy.”  The following is a list of some movies, books, and TV shows that I watched when I was young and the “food scenes” I specifically remember.

• Wee Sing: Grandpa’s Magical Toys

  • The scene where they sing “do you know the muffin man?” and everyone gets a huge slice of muffin.

• Disney: Beauty and the Beast

  • “Be our guest” song and dance.

• Wee Sing: Big Rock Candy Mountain

  • The scene where everyone is having a picnic.

• Pat Hutchins: Which Witch is Which?

  • The illustrations of the food at the witches birthday party

• Disney: Sleeping Beauty

  • The scene where Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather bake Briar-Rose a birthday cake.

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