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I think this may just be another instance of the coconut affect. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCoconutEffect http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.
by sopooneo 9y ago
I think this may just be another instance of the coconut affect.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCoconutEffect http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCoconutEffect
- knice 9y agoI once had a job making ice cream and it bothered me that I had to add yellow food coloring to the banana ice cream. We used real bananas and didn't add banana flavor. But I was told to add yellow color anyway.
- compiler-guy 9y agoThere is an old cooking adage that, "You eat with your eyes first." Making food aesthetically pleasing does add flavor to that first sample.
- jimmaswell 9y agoI saw something about a restaurant where the food is served in the dark a while ago, so that this can't happen.
- nocman 9y agoWow, I'm not sure I'd want to eat in a restaurant that purposefully prevented me from seeing what I was eating! xD
- FreeFull 9y agoThinking about it, it's weird that people expect the ice cream to be yellow anyway, since I can't say I've ever seen a banana with yellow flesh.
- jacobolus 9y agoHere are the bananas that were used when all of these recipes were originally written: http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/images/may/musa/TARS17155-fruit.jpg http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/images/may/musa/TARS17155-fruit... Banana flavoring is also based on the flavor of Gros Michel bananas, which is why it doesn’t taste like the Cavendish bananas commonly available today. If you want to see a very yellow inside of a banana, get a very ripe plantain (completely black peel) and fry slices.
- asciimo 9y agoThanks for the term. I can now compress a nebula of irritation into two words.
- ChristianGeek 9y agoEffect.
- ouid 9y agoIn defense of leaving statues unpainted, what is the point of using marble if you're going to paint over it? It's a beautiful rock. Painting the statues originally was the wrong choice. Also, the reproduction paintings were very unlikely to be faithful reproductions of anything but the base coat, and the base coat of any painting is going to look like crap.
- zanny 9y agoA lot of the reasons old structures and sculptures were painted was to highlight wealth. Most building materials were common wherever you used them, so you could imagine the marble mine used that led to the statue was probably not more than several hundred miles away. The paint, however, may be very exotic. Certain colors and tones were infamous in the old world for being extremely expensive, be they hard to make or find, and often had to travel thousands of miles. When you painted your stuff, it was to show off that you were not only locally rich, but you had the connections internationally to get the really care stuff. Not sure if that was the case with the Augustus statue in question, but it is common throughout Greek and Roman architecture.
- mrob 9y agoThe point of using marble is that it's soft enough to be easy to work and still tough enough that it won't break easily.
- marcosdumay 9y agoHorses running in a city do sound like that. And old movies were not that long after cars took over the scene (most urban people would see horses around, even if only rarely). The sound of horses running over dirty would probably be unnatural... Although the lower frequency parts would sound just great in a movie. Also, nature is loud if you don't disturb if.