My Lunch Box trivia question today hit a chord with listeners who fondly remember hours spent coloring inside and outside the lines with Crayola Crayons.  The question had to do with the re-naming of a few of the colors.  Apparently, Crayola has only done this three times in its history.  In 1959, they changed Prussian Blue to Midnight Blue because nobody remembered what “Prussian” meant, especially not children.
For reasons that seem obvious to me, “Indian Red” became “Chestnut” but shockingly not until 1999. And my question today had to do with the color formally known as “Flesh”.  What was it changed to in 1962 when the company acknowledged that not everyone had the same skin tone?

The answer coming up but first some thoughts on crayons.  My winner today, Jenine Betshart, waxed poetic about the smell of crayons, “Like opening a box of spring”.  I got a call from a listener who has a magnet on her fridge which reads, “Every morning is like a new box of crayons.”   Remember that feeling?  All the points of the crayons nice and sharp!  Just yesterday I was attempting to describe the color of a new dress and I said, “Purple. Not lavender or magenta but real purple, the purple of a purple crayon.” 

Did you guess the name of the crayon formally known as flesh? 

Peach.