Things that are not actually pink

[beetiger]

1)Termination notices, aka "pink slips". They're just on normal white paper in manila envelopes. At least mine was. Amazingly, the company delivered it to me a full two and a half days before my actual end date, which is atypical of their disorganized administrative approach toward us generally.

2)Natural cherry flavor. It's clear. However, it smells just as artificial as artificial cherry flavor, when you knock a bottle of it off your lab bench and it cracks and goes all over the floor. Then you have to unpack boxes of expensive fragile equipment to get packing materials out of them, because you have no more packing materials otherwise, and you need to send packages of cherry flavor to people. Someone else will have to repack the fragile equipment. Or perhaps they won't. I should probably mark the beverage bottle I have with a ball of mercury from a broken thermometer in it more carefully. My reputation as a klutz is not undeserved.

3)On the other hand, newborn "pinkie" mice really are pink. Perhaps a tiny snake wandering around the house will be tempted by one if I leave it out overnight.

Comments

And that reminds me...

[shaterri.livejournal.com]

Maybe you can answer something I've always been curious about; who/what decides on the relationship between a fruit and its 'flavor color'? For most fruits there's a fairly obvious mapping (cherries are red, etc etc), but apple wound up green rather than red even though I would bet most of the apples people eat are red, and I've never understood how raspberries ended up blue...

Re: And that reminds me...

[fenton.livejournal.com]

If I recall correctly, "apple" being green is supposedly derived from "sour apple" being the origional flavor used - and sour/unripened apples are, in fact, greenish. Usually. Of course, this is from my memory, so take it with a grain of salt.

I'm not sure where the hell 'blue' came in for raspberries. Even black raspberries aren't a dark blue; they're a dark red.

However, I have seen red raspberry, as well - and blue raspberry has to fight it out with blueberry...