>>Exactly. Even the blue and a few other colors were actually very unsaturated and grayish. Dang, even TV sets come in about two shades of metallic gray. I was surprised when I saw that someone dared try to make a cherry-red microwave (the others were b/w).
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>I have a cobalt blue KitchenAid mixer. <s>

Aaahhh... I wish. We bought all our appliances when we needed them, not necessarily when we could afford to choose better ones, so... they're all b/w. And everyone knows a color TV is more expensive than gray on, right? :)