Spice of Life: Difference between revisions

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* The 1984 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "The Caves of Androzani" featured a textbook example ("spectrox", a life-prolonging substance), with the added twist that the unrefined stuff was extremely toxic.

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[Spore]]'', most of the stuff you trade for sporebucks in the space stage is Spice, in various colors and ranks of rarity. The homage to Dune is obvious, down to the spice blows, although [[All There in the Manual|the Sporepedia]] states that most of the spices are used for food.

** Additionally, the different colors of Spice from different worlds change the speech of the colonist's you put there, and although none of the creatures actually say anything identifiable, the tone and the accent is different. For example: Blue Spice, which is described as a sleep aid, results in colonist with a sort of smooth and relaxed tone. The sour Yellow Spice colonists sound somewhat high strung, and as for Pink Spice... Well, let's just say they sound ..."happy".

* Quafe can be said to be ''[[Eve Online]]'' drug, despite it being a soda.

* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', Spices are some of the most values mundane items. They are rather hard to come by unless you are farming for them, and they are a necessary ingredient for most high-quality foods. The only way to reliably get them is if you are a Pasatamancer with one of the two spirits that can give them.

** On the Commonwealth side, we have Stott Spices and Massom Powder.

*** Between the 3 major spice selling powers however, Terran Spices are the most valuable of the flavorings. And the Split and Boron are at war with one to compete as the other dominant spice selling group.