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What's pink?

• madaxe_again 10y ago
  Blamange. I'm trying desperately to remember the bit, it was Doug Adams or someone, the gist was: He glared balefully down at his pressed aluminium tray. Upon it sat a cube of pink. He didn't know what it was called, but it was coloured pink, it tasted pink (if indeed pink could be ascribed a behaviour), and it was, therefore, simply, pink. I paraphrase grotesquely but I can't recall the source and google fails me.
  • david-given 10y ago
    "Anyone want some of this" --- he prodded a dish vaguely, not sure of what was in it --- "stuff?" The others shook their heads. The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it, and in some strange way it managed to look like something you wouldn't eat even if it was pushed onto your plate after a week's starvation diet. "What does it taste like?" said Masklin, after Gurder had chewed a mouthful. "Tastes like pink," said Gurder. (Little dishes of strange wobbly stuff tasting like pink turn up in nearly every meal on all airplanes. No one knows why. There's probably some sort of special religious reason.) -- Terry Pratchett, Wings
    • madaxe_again 10y ago
      thank you I haven't read that in twenty-five years - it evidently stuck somewhere up in the mental attic. I think I keep the Adams and Pratchett piles next to each other, under T for Turtles and Towels.
  • throwaway1892 10y ago
    Thank you. I was missing the cultural reference.