It's the word "pretzel", honestly. I can cover breath freezing pink by the standards of the era, no problem. Took a shot to the lungs & helmet and left to die on the ice planet. I doubt that would "really" produce frozen pink breath but what we would now consider "hard" sci-fi that would care about that sort of thing generally didn't travel with this sort of purple prose so that's not really an issue.
But pretzels? Why is your breath freezing in pretzels? Even pretzel "rods", let alone twists?
But pretzels? Why is your breath freezing in pretzels? Even pretzel "rods", let alone twists?