I have no idea why, and I'm not even sure if my grandparents know, but they had a random double stacked oven built into the wall in their basement when I was a kid.

Now, let me preface this by saying that my grandparents were and still are anything but typical. I didn't grow up visiting a home decked out in plastic covered furniture and shag carpeting. My grandparents have always been very progressive and on top of current fashion and home décor. So, why there was a vomit colored oven in their basement when they had a new chrome one (before everyone was into the chrome hype, no less) upstairs is baffling.

I feel like maybe the oven had been in the kitchen, probably surrounded by some hideous 60s floral wallpaper and when the kitchen was updated, the previous owners moved the oven to the basement as a backup.

But I digress.

Do you remember when the fad was to outfit a kitchen with dried corn yellow, rusty brown and avocado green colored appliances? This happened in the 1970s, so if you're a child of the 80s like I am, you've probably spotted some of these appliances in your lifetime and if you have, you most likely remember them because they were just putrid.

You probably know that different colors can alter a person's mood. For instance, red is supposed to evoke feelings of energy and blue is supposed to be calming.

Well, the Australian government is jumping on the color bandwagon and is hoping that by using the most awful color they can find, it'll deter people from smoking cigarettes.

Australian officials hired researchers to determine the ugliest of ugly colors, and have named “Opaque Couché,” (which has an uncanny resemblence of a faded avocado green kitchen appliance) in the Pantone color library as the most visually offensive color to people of all ages.

The Australian government now requires all smoking packaging and materials to be sold in this avocado-half-gone-bad color with the hope that the ugly color will make people less likely to purchase cigarettes.

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