This is genius. Like always, I try to pluck a name based on what I was doing at the time - so this was almost called the Jimmy Olsen, the Lewis Klahr, the Pony Glass, the Andy Hardy, even Cold Fusion considering the contents - but when I saw it's colour, a line jumped at me from Cold Fusion which I, er, no, haven't been reading when I should have been working. In the opening scene, there's a robot band singing about how "they'll always be together in electric dreams" Naturally a Blade Runner tribute, but this smoothie looks like an alien sunset and tastes like liquid joy.
The Electric Dream
Freeze six blocks of either cranberry or pomegranite juice in advance. I'm pretty sure it was pomegranate. It was red in any case.
Throw three of them into the blender, and cover them with pineapple juice. Blend till pink and frothy. Then add the other three blocks, followed by a compensating amount of pineapple.
The pink will rise to the top, and the orange to the bottom - so have a straw, stick, tentacle or laser spanner on hand to keep giving it a stir. Serve in a clear glass so you can see the pink clouds gather over the artificial, neon sky, as you wax lyrical about the nature of man.
Tell me how it goes if you try it.
I currently have more names than smoothies, though. In my head, there are several names which I'm waiting for the right candidate. These include The Smoothie of Truth and the Smoothie of Lies (have to be a pair), The Whole Shebang (should contain EVERYTHING) and Cold Fusion (should, like the book, be a icy clash between two entirely alien substances. Might contain WKD blue or Smirnoff ice, for the colour)
More outlandish ideas involve the smoothies themselves. Considering that my most recent Gallifreyan Sunset, I achieved a...well, brainlike effect, with layers and shadows, I know it'd be possible to make a proper Rorshach-mask smoothie. But I'd need the juices to be black and white. I could get black from coke, coffee, at a push blackcurrent. But it does still need to taste nice - and I don't know any white or black fruit at all. And in my mind, I'm trying to compose a rainbow. Red, then yellow, then orange, then green, then blue. Could be done. If the bottom three layers were decreasingly packed with slushie ice, green was an actual juice on top, and blue floated as a froth on top of that. But it's going to need a stroke of genius. I'll call it Paris is Burning if and when I achieve it, in tribute to that heroic movie.
The Electric Dream
Freeze six blocks of either cranberry or pomegranite juice in advance. I'm pretty sure it was pomegranate. It was red in any case.
Throw three of them into the blender, and cover them with pineapple juice. Blend till pink and frothy. Then add the other three blocks, followed by a compensating amount of pineapple.
The pink will rise to the top, and the orange to the bottom - so have a straw, stick, tentacle or laser spanner on hand to keep giving it a stir. Serve in a clear glass so you can see the pink clouds gather over the artificial, neon sky, as you wax lyrical about the nature of man.
Tell me how it goes if you try it.
I currently have more names than smoothies, though. In my head, there are several names which I'm waiting for the right candidate. These include The Smoothie of Truth and the Smoothie of Lies (have to be a pair), The Whole Shebang (should contain EVERYTHING) and Cold Fusion (should, like the book, be a icy clash between two entirely alien substances. Might contain WKD blue or Smirnoff ice, for the colour)
More outlandish ideas involve the smoothies themselves. Considering that my most recent Gallifreyan Sunset, I achieved a...well, brainlike effect, with layers and shadows, I know it'd be possible to make a proper Rorshach-mask smoothie. But I'd need the juices to be black and white. I could get black from coke, coffee, at a push blackcurrent. But it does still need to taste nice - and I don't know any white or black fruit at all. And in my mind, I'm trying to compose a rainbow. Red, then yellow, then orange, then green, then blue. Could be done. If the bottom three layers were decreasingly packed with slushie ice, green was an actual juice on top, and blue floated as a froth on top of that. But it's going to need a stroke of genius. I'll call it Paris is Burning if and when I achieve it, in tribute to that heroic movie.
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