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{{quote|''It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and felt Paisley. It smelled like a total eclipse of the moon. Of course, nearer to the tower it got really weird.''
|''[[Sourcery]]''}}
Momentary tasting colors/
Doesn't cover characters just speaking metaphorically.<ref>A key difference between this trope and [[Tastes Like Feet]] is that normally it would be impossible for people to taste or hear colors, but it is quite possible for people to taste things like feet and motor oil. The exception of course is those with the condition synesthesia. And most of the color examples at [[Tastes Like Feet]] are metaphors: a food with color X is described as tasting like color X. Those don't belong here. Only include examples where a character is made to taste (or hear or see, but taste is most common) something which rightfully does not have a taste at all.</ref> The character tastes something which rightfully does not have a taste at all, or experiences other synesthetic weirdness. May be related to [[Insubstantial Ingredients]], where whatever they're eating actually ''contains'' abstract concepts.
Not to be confused with [[Editorial Synesthesia]] where the characters sense things normally, it's just things have to be displayed differently for the viewer. For the conventional taste of unconventional things see [[Tastes Like Feet]]. See also [[When Is Purple?]].
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== Comic Books ==
* Happens in a strip of ''[[Hsu and Chan]]'', where the game they make ends up being [[Nintendo Hard|so hard, the console ejects the disc at high velocity into their test player's skull.]]
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* In ''[[
* In the ongoing ''[[Batgirl]]'' series, Batgirl has helped Klarion the Witch-Boy ([[Insistent Terminology|dum, dum, dum]]) reclaim his cat [[Familiar]], Teekl, and now the two of them are strolling through a Valentine's Day festival (''Completely'' platonically, trust me on this one). When Jordanna, [[Alpha Bitch|a "friend" of Stephanie's from school]], begins to mock Klarion, [["Shut Up" Kiss|Stephanie forcibly kisses him to keep him from turning Jordanna into a frog]].
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'''Stephanie:''' "You say that like it's a bad thing." }}
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
== Music ==▼
* Practically the whole song by Chris Rice, "Smell The Color Nine".▼
** "Cuz' Nine's not a color... And if it were, you can't smell a color, no... That's my point exactly."▼
▲== Fan Fiction ==
▲* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality]]'', Comed-Tea "somehow (tastes) green and fizzy".
* In ''[[In Flight]]'', Shirou's ability to sense magical phenomena is interpreted by his brain in terms of smells. Normally when trying to identify the various Sekirei's powers, this is pretty straightforward, however in [[Lady of War|Miya's]] case, one aspect of her aura, he can only describe as smelling like "remorse".
* In ''[[My Immortal]]'', Ebony says something "indigoally" at one point.
* Nightmare from ''[[
* Shows up in ''[[
== Film ==
* ''[[History of the World Part One]]'': "Everything's so ''green''!"
* ''[[Tangled (2010 film)|Tangled]]'': "I don't know why, but overall it just smells like the color brown."
* One of the [[
* In ''[[Hudson Hawk]]'', while pretending to be crazy, Anna intones: "What does the color blue taste like? Bobo knows!"
== Literature ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
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** Also in [[Discworld]]: {{smallcaps|Infinity is blue. Trust me}}.
** There also exists a cult of monks who are determined to find out what the creation of the universe sounded like. In order to become an member, one has to listen to a coin being flipped 50 miles away and correctly identify if it landed heads or tails. In order to become a master, one has to also be able to identify the color of the coin.
* ''[[Neuromancer]]'': Molly suffers this due to the side effects of some painkillers 3Jane gives her. Case, being jacked into her senses, gets to "enjoy" it too.
* An ''[[
* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[The Golden Oecumene
* In the book ''[[Last Dragon]]'', someone comments that a fruit tastes like moonlight.
* In ''
▲== Live Action TV ==
*
▲* ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'', where everything goes bendy for Jayne.
▲* ''[[House (TV)|House]]'': Dr. Gregory House takes a hit of LSD to cure his chronic headaches and experiences synesthesia.
* ''[[Ugly Betty]]'': This trope is said word-for-word by Betty, who at the time was accidentally drugged by perfume. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].
* ''[[
* ''[[Snipets]]'': Said word-for-word by a child in one of the series of [[PSA
* ''[[Survivor]]'': The final 4 tie vote in Survivor: Marquesas was decided by a random drawing of rocks. Whoever gets the purple rock goes home. One of the contestants said "Oh, it feels like purple" when he picked his rock. Guess who got sent home?
* ''[[Greg the Bunny]]'': In the first episode, Tardy the Turtle is eating crayons and says "Crayons taste like purple"
* ''[[Glee]]'': In "Blame it on the Alcohol", Rachel declares that the wine cooler "tastes like pink!"
▲== Music ==
▲* Practically the whole song by Chris Rice, "Smell The Color Nine".
▲** "Cuz' Nine's not a color... And if it were, you can't smell a color, no... That's my point exactly."
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons
* ''[[Dungeons
* ''[[Eberron]]'' 's Dal Quor is the region of dreams, and the kalashtar are descended from refugees. The "Races of Eberron" [[Splatbook|supplement]] mentions that they may have memories of "tasting colors or smelling sounds."
* ''[[Warhammer
== Theatre ==
* R.C Sherriff's ''[[
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''[[Chef of Iron|Mason]]'': Its yellow soup sir
''Osborne'': Its got a very deep yellow flavour }}
** Of course, [[World War
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the [[Interactive Fiction]] game ''[[So Far]]'', the green crystal rod found under the tree is described as smelling "blue", among other things.
* In ''[[
* When consuming a tiny bottle of absinthe in ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', the resulting message says the absinthe "tastes like licorice, pain, and green.
* In ''[[Dragon Age
* In ''[[League of Legends]]'' the champion Lulu the Fae Sorceress is a young Yordle girl who went off with [[The Fair Folk|a fairy]] for a few centuries to learn their magic and became total [[Cloudcuckoolander]] as a result. One of her lines is "Yup! That tasted purple!"
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Dan and
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* [[
* The result of a [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1126.html bar fight concussion], in ''[[
* In one ''[[
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'''Greg:''' ''Pink''. Very, ''very'' pink. }}
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090103173822/http://malfunctionjunction.net/?p=261 Malfunction Junction]'': "I just found out what the worst Chinese food in the world tastes like. ... It tasted like ''communism.'' Like a Maoist army oppressed my tongue, then moved south to commit human rights violations against my gastrointestinal system. I'm pretty sure this stuff violates UN rules."
* Terezi from ''[[
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
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* ''[[
* ''[[
== Web Original ==
* [[Playing
* In one ''[[Ask That Guy With
** "...That, or... die."
* In web radio drama ''[[OrgLIX]]'', after having eating [[Bitter Almonds|almond-flavoured jelly-beans]], Demyx pauses to wonder whether "real almonds would make you hear colours too?"
* One edit of the infamous ''Sonic Joke Book'' features a Buzzbomber recommending some medication to a friend. When asked about them it responds "I can hear colors."
* ''[[Salad Fingers]]'': The famous line from episode 2: Marjorie Stewart-Baxter, you taste like sunshine dust!
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** Which was a reference to an earlier cartoon where, after waking up on the couch one day, he mentions that his mouth tastes like email.
* In ''[[A Very Potter Musical|A Very Potter Sequel]]'' Ron and Harry share Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. Harry winds up with broken computer while Ron gets defeat.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* When ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'':
** In "Selma's Choice" Selma takes Bart and Lisa to Duff Gardens, and Lisa drinks the water from the boat ride on a dare: "Ooh, I can see the music!"
** In "Homer and Apu" Lisa has a similar quote on eating a [[Dune|Spice]] heavy meal: "I can see through time".
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* An episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' has Peter's toy company taken over by a tobacco company. They produce a line of smoking babies that puff a cigarette and giddily announce "Tastes like happy!"
* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'': Jimmy once broke the citizens of Retroville out of their addiction to his super-delicious home-made candies by giving then treats that shock them. [[The Ditz|Sheen]], however, enjoyed the sensation, and continued shocking himself until ''"Everything's bluuuuue!"''
* Inverted in ''[[My Little Pony
== Real Life ==
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** People with synesthesia effectively have wires crossed in their brain, causing signals sent to one of the senses, eg hearing, to be interpreted by other senses as well. Such people may literally ''see'' sounds, or taste or hear colors. Synesthesia can also be temporarily induced by psychedelic drugs.
** Or numbers have a colour. for example: five could be blue.
** [
** It's well-known that our [[Tastes Like Feet|sense of taste is heavily influenced by our sense of smell]]. But other senses can influence the way we taste things, too: try putting blue food colouring in a glass of lemonade and asking a friend to guess what flavour they're drinking.<ref>Bonus points if they say purple.</ref>
*** Some cheap artificial colors have very distinct tastes. A lot of purple candy is functionally inedible due to the incredibly rancid aftertaste conferred by that coloring agent.
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* Comedian Lewis Black remarked that NyQuil comes in two flavors: Red and Green. And they're the only substances on Earth that actually taste like ''Red'' and ''Green''.
* People regularly assign temperatures to flavors, regardless of the temperature of the substance itself. For example, mint tastes cold while cinnamon tastes hot and chocolate tastes warm. Chefs must keep this in mind with combining ingredients.
** Molecules like menthol (found in mint) and capsaicin (the molecule that give chili peppers their bite) found in ingredients cause temperature sensation by bonding to the temperature receptors in the tongue thus causing a food to taste "hot" or "cold".
* Some artificial flavors have become heavily associated to the artificial colors they're usually paired with. Thus, "bubble gum" flavor is commonly called "pink" flavor, and the stuff that used to be laughingly called "cherry" in soft drinks is increasingly just being sold as "red."
** This is best seen in the weird phenomenon known as "Blue Raspberry." The only real way to describe the flavor is... "blue."
*** Blue raspberries do [[Aluminum Christmas Trees|really exist in nature]], but they taste very little like the candy flavor.
** Some people say that the grape flavoring used in candy and soda is so unlike the actual flavor of grapes that they call it "what the color purple must taste".
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ychWp4dRHSM Yellow Chocolate].
* There is a certain fruit, native to South America: the ''Acca sellowiana'', or feijoa. It is commonly described as tasting like the color purple.
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