FOOD FRIDAY: Cold brown
Indignity Vol. 4, No. 215
MAKES ME WANT A FROSTY REAL BAD DEP’T.
Pantone’s Color of the Year Is a Frozen Treat
A POST FROM CNN on Bluesky led us to this article about Pantone’s annual attention-getter, the announcement of Pantone Color of the Year 2025. Mocha Mousse!
Pantone has named an “evocative soft brown” its color of the year for 2025, continuing a tradition that has now run for more than a quarter of a century. In a statement published Thursday, the global color specialist said Mocha Mousse was “a mellow brown infused with a sensorial and comforting warmth.
Jack Guy
The name made me think of a brown moose!
A view of the color (PANTONE 17-1230), however, sent me in a different FOOD FRIDAY direction.
This slightly faded or chalky brown is not the color of a mousse or a mocha. It is the color of the classic Wendy’s hamburger chain dessert item, the Frosty! This is not “comforting warmth,” it’s comforting cold Frosty! Soft, yes, Frosty is soft on the plastic spoon. I don’t care if it’s 34 degrees, I need a Frosty!
And not the Salted Caramel color, I want the real one, Moose color!
Also, this looks like a butt.
RECAP DEP'T.
A Week of Indignity
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WEATHER REVIEWS
New York City, December 5, 2024
★★ What the weather app said had been snow in the night was a thin wet layer on everything in the cold, dim morning. The dry skin of the hands was sore with accumulated cuts and scrapes. The apartment was too hot, but with the window raised a crack, a cold draft came knifing through as soon as the front door opened. By midday the sun was on the scene, escorted by the wind and doing striking things in the few places it could reach. Dead leaves in branches flickered violently. The remaining clouds were still gray, with edges flaring white where they met the blue. Above the avenue in the deep early night, the dark share of a clean crescent moon was faintly lightened by earthshine.
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SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.
WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of a sandwich selected from Fruit Recipes: A Manual of the Food Values of Fruits and Nine Hundred Different Ways of Using Them, by Riley M. Fletcher Berry, published in 1919 and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.
ROSE SANDWICHES
Use thin-sliced bread. Spread with a very little butter (or none) adding a thin layer of cream cheese, then stiff raspberry jam. Cut the bread from each corner (diagonally) across, twice, forming triangles, or with cutters, in rounds.
If you decide to prepare and attempt to enjoy a sandwich inspired by this offering, be sure to send a picture to indignity@indignity.net.
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