Beige is sometimes used as a metaphor for something which is bland, boring or conventional. Like repetitive work, relationships that become bland and monotonous are undesirable. Cosmo was widely known as a "bland" and boring magazine by critics. The young leaves are edible raw or cooked as a somewhat bland leaf vegetable. It has a slightly bland and starchy flavor. Also dungeon textures are bland and repetitive. Stein played similarly bland and unemotional characters. The diet he imposed consisted entirely of bland foods. Rogers turned it down because she considered it "too bland". RKO executives were unimpressed with the bland title. Loss of the sense of smell can result in food tasting bland. Treatment includes drinking fluids and a bland diet. Tennessee-born Bobby "Blue" Bland, like B. B. King, also straddled the blues and R&B genres. This ended up as "Robin Bland". He recorded and performed as a drummer for Bobby "Blue" Bland in the 1960s.