Talk:Blackcurrant production in the United States

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Food and drink, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of food and drink related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Food and drinkWikipedia:WikiProject Food and drinkTemplate:WikiProject Food and drinkFood and drink articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Food and Drink task list:

To edit this page, select here

Here are some tasks you can do for WikiProject Food and drink:

Help bring these Top Importance articles currently B Status or below up to GA status: Agaricus bisporus (i.e. mushroom), Beef, Bread, Curry, Drink, Food, Ham and eggs, Soy sauce, Sushi, Yogurt
Bring these Top Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Beer, French cuisine, Sugar
Bring these High Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Apple, Burger King, Fish
Participate in project-related deletion discussions.
Delete unrelated trivia sections found in articles. Please review WP:Trivia and WP:Handling trivia to learn how to do this.
Add the {{WikiProject Food and drink}} project banner to food and drink related articles and content to help bring them to the attention of members. For a complete list of banners for WikiProject Food and drink and its child projects, select here.
Provide photographs and images for Category:Wikipedia requested images of food
Consider joining this project's Assessment task force. List any project ideas in this section

Note: These lists are transcluded from the project's tasks pages.

Agriculture Low‑importance

	Agriculture portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Agriculture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of agriculture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AgricultureWikipedia:WikiProject AgricultureTemplate:WikiProject AgricultureAgriculture articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

United States Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

A fact from Blackcurrant production in the United States appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 June 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that purple Skittles (assortment pictured) are grape-flavored in the United States because of a long-standing ban on blackcurrant production?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Blackcurrant production in the United States.

Wikipedia

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 11:51, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

Fruits of the blackcurrant

Skittles

... that blackcurrant production in the United States was banned for more than 50 years? "The federal government had banned the growing of black and red currants in 1911 ... in 1966 the government left it up to the states to lift the ban" from McGlynn, Patricia (July 26, 2006). "Welcome back black currants: Forbidden fruit making a comeback in New York". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 1 June 2020. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
- ALT1:... that by one estimate fewer than 0.1% of Americans have eaten a blackcurrant? "'A large majority [of Americans] have never eaten one — probably less than 0.1%,' Marvin Pritts, a professor of horticulture at Cornell University, told Business Insider." from: Spector, Dina (October 14, 2016). "There's an intriguing reason why 99.9% of Americans have never tasted blackcurrant but Europeans love it". Business Insider. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
- ALT2:... that purple Skittles are grape-flavored in the United States because of a long-standing ban on blackcurrant production?"It also explains why purple Skittles (and other purple hard candies) are synonymous with grape flavor in the US, but taste like blackcurrant in other countries, including the UK and Australia" from: Spector, Dina (October 14, 2016). "There's an intriguing reason why 99.9% of Americans have never tasted blackcurrant but Europeans love it". Business Insider. Retrieved 1 June 2020.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Southern plains gray langur

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 05:00, 2 June 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Reviewing...new enough, long enough, no copyvio issues. Hooks interesting, QPQ done. Will complete soon. Whispyhistory (talk) 13:32, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(ec) I'll let you finish this one, Whispyhistory, but we must promote ALT2 with the image! Yoninah (talk) 13:36, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Skittles was may favourite too. Whispyhistory (talk) 13:37, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

to ALT2 and associated image, which is by far the most interesting hook. Image free, hook in article followed by inline citation. It would be good to find out if the skittles producers mention the grape/current flavour. Whispyhistory (talk) 19:08, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]