Things that are not actually pink
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beetiger1)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.
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.
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Date: 2002-09-28 04:50 am (UTC)As far a "natural" flavors go, it is a sourcing thing. Natural flavors are extracted entirely from the named component(s), whereas artificial flavors are synthesized. This is US law, European law also has a category called "nature identical" which describes synthesized flavor containing only chemicals you could have extracted from nature. Most flavors are clear, but brownish or reddish is also common.
Cherry flavor is relatively simple. The classic lollipop cherry is mainly a single component - I can't remember the exact chemical now, but I think you are right about it being an ester.
Flavors aren't "sweet" in the sense that they don't contain added sugar. But a lot of flavors give a "sweet" impression anyway. Flavored seltzers are the obvious example for this.