Astronaut ice-cream

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)

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Obtained From

Obsoleted Areas/Methods

The LAAAAME Observatory

Reward for every 100 adventures spent stargazing.

When Used

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.

You gain 8-10 Adventures.

(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

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