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2026-05-04 13:26 UTC
@KmacNessa@mastodon.social I have no idea. It also never got explained in the story itself. Perhaps the author just used three syllables that fit well together, or drank that stuff while writing.
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@m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net 2026-05-04 14:00
@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org @KmacNessa@mastodon.social Burgess' A Clockwork Orange had a drink named Moloko Plus that the protagonist often indulged himself in with his friends. The drink was basically milk spiked with stimulant drugs. I believe it inspired many real world drinks and cocktails not containing illicit substances. And the name "moloko" is transliteration of молоко — milk in Russian (and maybe other Slavic languages), A Clockwork Orange's NADSAT slang almost entirely consists of transliterated Russian words, even the word NADSAT itself means "teen" in Russian 😆