Astronaut ice-cream
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astronaut ice-cream
This is a hard, freeze-dried brick of what the astronomers claim was originally ice-cream, but really, who knows? Neither man nor astro-man could tell you. The label reads: "Three Out-Of-This-World Flavors: Mango, Bacon, and Sadness!"
In space, no one can hear you scream for this.
Type: spleen item (EPIC)
Toxicity: 1
Level required: 7
Selling Price: 42 Meat.
Cannot be traded
(In-game plural: astronaut ice-creams)
Obtained From
- Obsoleted Areas/Methods
- The LAAAAME Observatory
- Reward for every 100 adventures spent stargazing.
When Used
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| You chew up the brick of astronaut ice-cream. It makes your teeth all sticky, and the inside of your mouth taste like the world's most depressing and least kosher chutney. | ||
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| (You gain 1 Spleen.) |
Notes
- The second spleen item that gives adventures made in the Kingdom of Loathing.
- With the destruction of the observatory this item is currently unobtainable.
References
- Freeze-dried "astronaut ice-cream" is often sold in science museum gift shops.
- "Neither man nor astro-man" is a reference to the surf-rock band Man or Astro-man?.
- "In space, no one can hear you scream for this." is a mix of the tag line from Alien, "In space no one can hear you scream" and "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream", a line from an old song, famously quoted in the Jim Jarmusch movie Down By Law.
- The autosell price, 42, is the answer to the "Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" in the book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Collection
- 🥇: Crawly (#239502), Rev Noodlyson (#281506) - 47
- 🥉: justhappytobehere (#226404), pcentella (#271770) - 46
- #5: Biblio1 (#401660) - 43
- #6: TheNice1 (#434493) - 42
- #7: pinkocommie (#385392) - 39
- #8: Tortica (#422344) - 38
- #9: Baltar (#218444) - 34
- #10: Kartok (#457692) - 33
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