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* The book ''Good Morning, Miss Dove'' had a flashback sequence in which the title character, teaching about the habits of a species of bear, mentioned that they liked to eat red ants, which taste like cinnamon. A smart-alecky student asked how the textbook's writer '''knew''' how they tasted. "Did he taste some? Or did he ask a bear?" (Miss Dove reprimanded her; raising a legitimate question was fine, but the "ask a bear" part was going too far.) In the story's present day, it's revealed that the student later actually ate some red ants as an experiment and found that they '''do''' taste like cinnamon. |
* The book ''Good Morning, Miss Dove'' had a flashback sequence in which the title character, teaching about the habits of a species of bear, mentioned that they liked to eat red ants, which taste like cinnamon. A smart-alecky student asked how the textbook's writer '''knew''' how they tasted. "Did he taste some? Or did he ask a bear?" (Miss Dove reprimanded her; raising a legitimate question was fine, but the "ask a bear" part was going too far.) In the story's present day, it's revealed that the student later actually ate some red ants as an experiment and found that they '''do''' taste like cinnamon. |
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* A character in Tom Wolfe's novel ''[[The Bonfire of the Vanities]]'' says that Chinese wine tastes like dead mouse. In this case the phrase probably comes to him because The Dead Mouse is his nickname for his boss. |
* A character in Tom Wolfe's novel ''[[The Bonfire of the Vanities]]'' says that Chinese wine tastes like dead mouse. In this case the phrase probably comes to him because The Dead Mouse is his nickname for his boss. |
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** [http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science//item/weird_science_baby_mouse_wine You wouldn't believe me if I told you...] |
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131025120550/http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science//item/weird_science_baby_mouse_wine You wouldn't believe me if I told you...] |
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* One of the stories in one of the ''[[Clue (game)|Clue]]'' books revolves around the characters' favorite soda flavors. Most of them are innocuous, albeit strange flavors for soda: mouthwash, yams, grape jam, chicken, and squash. Mrs. White's favorite, however, tastes like ''floor wax'' (as in, that's what it's actually ''supposed'' to taste like). |
* One of the stories in one of the ''[[Clue (game)|Clue]]'' books revolves around the characters' favorite soda flavors. Most of them are innocuous, albeit strange flavors for soda: mouthwash, yams, grape jam, chicken, and squash. Mrs. White's favorite, however, tastes like ''floor wax'' (as in, that's what it's actually ''supposed'' to taste like). |
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** Maybe she thinks of it more as a [http://www.hulu.com/watch/61320/saturday-night-live-shimmer-floor-wax dessert topping]? |
** Maybe she thinks of it more as a [http://www.hulu.com/watch/61320/saturday-night-live-shimmer-floor-wax dessert topping]? |
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