Bitter Almonds: Difference between revisions

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''There's a smell of peach blossom and bitter almond..."''|'''[[Genesis (band)|Genesis]]''', "[[The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway]]".}}

* ''[[Detective Conan]]'':

** In manga file #757 of ''[[Detective Conan]]'', Conan points out that there's an element of [[Fingertip Drug Analysis]] to this: he smells an almond scent coming from a corpse's lips, but [http://dctp.ws/V72-Reader/V72-6Read/A3.html cautions one of the others on the scene against sniffing] because he's an "amateur".

'''Everybody Else:''' [[Visible Silence|...]]<br />

'''Conan:''' <[[Sweat Drop]]> At least, [[Obfuscating Stupidity|that's what they said in the detective drama]]... }}

== Music ==

* Referenced in [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]]'s ''[[The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway]]'':

There's a smell of peach blossom and bitter almond }}

* [[Kate Bush]]'s "Coffee Homeground," which seems to resemble the Roald Dahl story "The Landlady," has the singer-as-protagonist rejecting kindly offers of tea and sweets out of a conviction that it's a plot against them:

It's a no-no to your coffee homeground. }}

* Used as the punchline of [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp03172010.shtml this] ''[[Something Positive]]'' strip.

* [[The Rant]] in [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0463.html this strip] of ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' talks about how [[Dungeon Master|Dungeon Masters]] could instill paranoia in certain types of players by narrating things a certain way. One of the examples he gives makes a perfectly safe offering of honeyed wine sound a lot more sinister by invoking this trope:

* ''[[Chopping Block]]'' screwed this up, making the standard "almonds" reference with no mention of bitterness.