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"Yes, I thought it would be something like seaweed," agreed Rincewind. "They certainly taste like seaweed would taste if anyone was masochistic enough to eat seaweed."
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
A sly joke about awful food. Something tastes just like seaweed would, but only if anyone were masochistic enough to eat seaweed. The speaker treats seaweed itself as the ultimate unpleasant meal, so the comparison becomes a double insult to the dish.
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