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, started by Wulf on Aug 14th 2012 at 2:53:04 PM
Which is this trope?
- 1. A description of something that doesn't strictly involve consumption in terms of an adjective. i.e. A purple drink tastes like purple.
- 2. A character's sensory input has been messed around with, and upon recovering experiences sensory input that can only be described by an adjective. i.e. After electrocution your mouth tastes like burning.
At minimum we need a soft split. But if these are two different tropes only category 1 should be called Tastes Like Purple, and a bunch of tropes from Tastes Like Feet should be moved over. And then category 2 should be called something else.
Edited by NateTheGreat
Quite a few examples were just people speaking metaphorically and hence not the trope.
Typically something like:
- Futurama
- "Attack of the Killer App": “What smells like bloody sinuses?”
A character has a bloody nose and is speaking metaphorically as a gag.
Putting 'em here for reference.
- Pepsi Blue was theoretically a mixed berry-flavored cola. "It tastes like blue"
- Skittles' slogan: Taste The Rainbow.
- Lewis Black once said this:
NyQuil comes in two colors: red and green. It's the only stuff in the world that tastes like [beat] red and green.
- Denis Leary once reminisces about how when he was a kid, Ny Quil only came in "green fucking death" flavor.
- It was originally a reference to a cologne, but surely ''Smells Like Teen Spirit'' rates a mention?
- Tastes Like Diabetes and Tastes Like Friendship on this very wiki!
- Itzred! sodapop was marketed with the tagline "And it tastes red!" Dissapointingly similar to synthetic cherry flavour.
- Simpsons
- There's also Das Bus: "How are [those berries], Ralph?" "...Tastes like...burning..."
A chub from the Grant Corporation
There was a series of short children's films made in the 70s and airing well into the 80s on Field Communications/Kaiser Broadcasting stations called Snipets. In one of these, a bunch of kids on a school playground are eating different flavours of yogurt and commenting on it. One of them (eating what is presumably blueberry or blackberry yogurt) actually says, "Tastes like purple!"
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883!
A webcomic called peter and company, the link to the comic in question is here
> Or numbers have a color. For example: five could be blue.
No; I've known since I was three years old that four is blue. Five is orange.