Saffron
- “Choppy bubby YUMMMM!! Put it in your TUMMMMM! Wait one second and...”
- —Saffron, Super Paper Mario
Saffron is a character in Super Paper Mario. She is a chef who runs Sweet Smiles, a restaurant located on the first floor of Flipside. She can cook Mario and the other heroes various recipes if they bring her items.
Saffron, like all other Flipside residents, has a doppelgänger who lives in Flopside; her name is Dyllis. The main difference between the two is that Saffron will only cook recipes that require one ingredient, while Dyllis cooks recipes that require two. During the game, Saffron comes to Mario's aid by cooking him a Spicy Soup in order to revive Princess Peach after she unexpectedly falls into Flipside.
Her name comes from a spice of the same name that is grown mostly in southern Asia and is primarily used as an ingredient in various dishes. Its taste is recognized as "metallic honey" by some, which may parallel Saffron's sweet personality. Saffron's benevolence may also reflect that of Tayce T., the cook in the original Paper Mario.
Saffron's Dishes
(Dish - Item needed to make dish - The effect)
- Block Meal - Block Block - Makes the character invincible for a short time
- Dangerous Delight - Poison Shroom - Character receives Multiple Stats
- Dayzee Syrup - Dayzee Tear - Doubles the player's attack and slowly heals HP
- Electro Pop - Thunder Rage - Hurts enemies with an electrical attack if they touch you
- Fried Egg - Big Egg - Heals 15 HP and neutralizes Poison
- Fried Shroom Plate - Shroom Shake - Heals 15 HP and neutralizes Poison
- Golden Meal - Gold Bar - Heals 1 HP and neutralizes Poison
- Hamburger - Power Steak - Heals 20 HP and neutralizes Poison
- Healthy Salad - Fresh Veggie - Heals 15 HP and neutralizes poison
- Herb Tea - Smelly Herb - Heals 7 HP and neutralizes poison
- Honey Candy - Honey Jar - Heals 12 HP and neutralizes Poison
- Inky Soup - Inky Sauce - Heals 15 HP and neutralizes Poison
- Koopa Tea - Turtley Leaf - Half damage is taken for a small period of time
- Mango Juice - Keel Mango - Heals 10 HP and neutralizes Poison
- Megaton Dinner - POW Block - Shakes the ground and hurts nearby enemies
- Meteor Meal - Shooting Star - Damages all enemies
- Miracle Dinner - Mystery Box - Heals 1 HP and neutralizes Poison
- Mistake (1) - (Wrong Ingredient Used) - Heals 1 HP and neutralizes Poison
- Mistake (2) - Sleepy Sheep - Multiple enemies fall asleep
- Peach Juice - Peachy Peach - Heals 12 HP and neutralizes Poison
- Roast Horsetail - Horsetail - Heals 15 HP and neutralizes Poison
- Roast Shroom Dish - Super Shroom Shake - Heals 30 HP and neutralizes Poison
- Roast Whacka Bump - Whacka Bump - Heals 5 HP and neutralizes Poison
- Sap Syrup - Sap Soup - Half damage is taken and it slowly heals HP
- Shroom Steak - Ultra Shroom Shake - Heals 70 HP and neutralizes Poison
- Sky Juice - Any Apple except Black- Heals 15 HP and neutralizes Poison
- Slimy Extract - Slimy Shroom - Diminishes curse and neutralizes poison
- Snow Cone - Ice Storm - Freezes and damages enemies
- Spaghetti Plate - Fresh Pasta Bunch - Heals 15 HP and neutralizes Poison
- Spicy Soup - Fire Burst - Heals 8 HP and neutralizes Poison (Also used to revive Peach)
- Spit Roast - Bone-In Cut - Double your attack breifly
- Sweet Cookie Snack - Cake Mix - Heals 10 HP and neutralizes Poison
- Town Special - Primordial Fruit - Heals 5 HP and neutralizes Poison
- Warm Cocoa - Mild Cocoa Bean - Heals 10 HP and neutralizes Poison
Trivia
- According to Carson, Merlon was once in love with Saffron. She told him she would go out with him if he could finish a Saffron Special Galactic Meal, an enormous meal to behold. Merlon had finished all but a pit of parsley when he heard that an injured girl had appeared in Flipside. He rushed off to take care of her, and the parsley was left ever since.
- Saffron is fairly similar to Tayce T. from Toad Town in Paper Mario on the Nintendo 64.
