{"id":1658,"date":"2012-07-28T15:47:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T05:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2012-07-28T15:47:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T05:47:46","slug":"deaths-from-almond-to-zaffre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2012\/07\/28\/deaths-from-almond-to-zaffre\/","title":{"rendered":"Deaths from Almond to Zaffre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend referred to sugar as &#8220;the white death&#8221;. That made me wonder what other colours there were.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the resulting reference chart. Where there were choices to make, I made them.<\/p>\n<table class=\"simple\">\n<tr>\n<th>Colour<\/th>\n<th>Death<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Black<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Death\" title=\"Wikipedia definition of Black_Death\" class=\"wikipedia\">Bubonic Plague<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>White<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4\" title=\"Wikipedia definition of Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4\" class=\"wikipedia\">Simo H\u00c3\u00a4yh\u00c3\u00a4, Finnish sniper<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.culinate.com\/articles\/sift\/sugar_toxicity\">White Sugar<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Red<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webtender.com\/db\/drink\/4346\">Cocktail<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Orange<\/td>\n<td>This spot available.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Yellow<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=yellow%20death\">Macaroni and Cheese<\/a>  (unreliable)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Green<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Green_Death\" title=\"Wikipedia definition of The_Green_Death\" class=\"wikipedia\">Story arc of 1973 Dr Who series<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Blue<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Green_Death\" title=\"Wikipedia definition of The_Green_Death\" class=\"wikipedia\">Cyanosis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/4corners\/stories\/2011\/08\/08\/3288499.htm\">Asbestos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluedeath.org.uk\/\">Antifreeze<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Indigo<\/td>\n<td>This spot available<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Violet<\/td>\n<td>This spot available<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Purple<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yvonnelorkin.com\/2011\/12\/is-purple-death-the-worst-wine-in-the-world\/\">Wine brand<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetzoa.com\/Purple_Death_Paly_p\/z018.htm\">Polyp<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brown<\/td>\n<td>This spot available<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pink<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/313\/5794\/1724.summary\">Mass die-off of flamingos<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Grey<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grey_(manga)\" title=\"Wikipedia definition of Grey_(manga)\" class=\"wikipedia\">Character from manga<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend referred to sugar as &#8220;the white death&#8221;. That made me wonder what other colours there were. Here is the resulting reference chart. Where there were choices to make, I made them. Colour Death Black Bubonic Plague White Simo H\u00c3\u00a4yh\u00c3\u00a4, Finnish sniper,White Sugar Red Cocktail Orange This spot available. Yellow Macaroni and Cheese (unreliable) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}