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The Fictional Foods We Wish Were Real
- robotixonic 8y agoScooby Snacks! (I'm sure they weren't graham crackers.)
- CapitalistCartr 8y agoUh huh; I'm pretty sure "Scooby Snacks" aren't fictional. They looked pretty familiar on the show. " . . . Shaggy and Scooby go crazy for this, and I have to wonder why." (NSFW?) https://www.leafly.com/hybrid/scooby-snack https://www.leafly.com/hybrid/scooby-snack
- grumblepeet 8y agoUm - metheglin, I’m pretty sure I’ve had that before. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/feb/15/how-to-make-metheglin https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/fe...
- floren 8y agoI've made it, it's just spiced mead. Mine was with cinnamon and clove, but I'm hoping to make another batch with rosemary and maybe thyme soon.
- TillE 8y agoI've never had metheglin, but I've tried a few different meads after reading about it and was deeply disappointed. As far as I'm concerned, that hyped version of mead is a fictional drink.
- KozmoNau7 8y agoWhat did you find disappointing about mead? I absolutely love the stuff, so I'm curious about your take on it.
- plink 8y agoTurkish Delight as preposterously described by C.S.Lewis: "Each piece was sweet and light to the very center and Edmund had never tasted anything more delicious."
- egjerlow 8y agoThis cracked me up - watching the Narnia TV series as a kid they were made out to be so good, I would try to imagine what those semi-transparent cubes could possibly taste like. However, my reaction when I finally tasted them I think was opposite to what it seems you're alluding to: I think the anticipation and the immense respect I had for Lewis and Narnia in general made it so that they tasted better to me than they otherwise would have!
- jacoblambda 8y agoI would actually argue that that is a pretty fair description of quality Turkish delights. I've had some rose and some mastic flavoured Turkish delights imported from Turkey and this is more or less exactly how I would describe them. They are simple confections but they are oh so good.
- atomical 8y agoI was extremely disappointed when I first tried Turkish Delight.
- rabboRubble 8y agoI read somewhere that Edmund's reaction to tasting turkish delight was a measure of the wartime deprivations he lived under. Sugar and fruit were rationed. Luxurious cuisine was a rarity. That, and the White Witch magic on the treats :-)
- Apocryphon 8y agoWe wanted Ambrosia, instead we got Soylent.
- ChuckMcM 8y agoI suppose you could add the soylent green crackers to the list. (not that I'd want to eat them :-)
- SpikeDad 8y agoDisappointed that knichi wasn't on the list. It sounds yummy in the move Barefoot in the Park when Victor Velasko described it during the cocktail party. I was really surprised when I found out it was fictional.
- atomical 8y agoSome background on Brian Jacques: > He is known for the very descriptive style of his novels, which emphasize sound, smell, taste, gravity, balance, temperature, touch, and kinesthetics, not just visual sensations. His work gained acclaim when Alan Durband, his former English teacher (who also taught Paul McCartney and George Harrison), showed it to his (Durband's) own publisher without telling Jacques. Durband told his publishers: "This is the finest children's tale I've ever read, and you'd be foolish not to publish it". Soon after, Jacques was summoned to London to meet with the publishers, who gave him a contract to write the next five books in the series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jacques https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jacques
- tootie 8y agoI have a strange craving for Strupo. The liquor derived from capers that they drink on Isla Verde in The Simpsons.
- ibn_ibid 8y agoI have a hankering for tomacco myself
- deadmetheny 8y agoAll we have here is Mountain Dew and crab juice.
- cpt1138 8y agoAnything on the Food Pyramid https://i.stack.imgur.com/RAOEu.jpg https://i.stack.imgur.com/RAOEu.jpg
- erichurkman 8y agoRelated, there's also Binging with Babish, a chef that recreates foods found in movies, tv shows, books, etc [0]. Including gems like Eggs Woodhouse (including the Iberico ham), Homer Simpson's Moon Waffles, and the English Trifle disaster from Friends. [0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJHA_jMfCvEnv-3kRjTCQXw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJHA_jMfCvEnv-3kRjTCQXw
- mikedilger 8y agoI was hoping to find dornish sour reds in the list. I imagine they taste like a fruity red wine, but sour and tart, perhaps like a Berliner weiss.
- colanderman 8y agoDon't forget Limonana, a fictional drink that became real. [1] It tastes exactly as its name, a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew, implies: a mixture of lemon and mint. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limonana#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limonana#History
- colanderman 8y agoA list of ficticious foods that mentions Deep Space 9 but not Yamok sauce [1]? It was a major plot point in at least one episode. I always imagined it to taste like some combination of Worcestershire sauce and tomatillo salsa. [1] http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Yamok_sauce http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Yamok_sauce
- Simulacra 8y agoSoylent Green.
- mockindignant 8y agoI want to try at least one Poppler. “They’re like sex, but I’m having them!”
- palad1n 8y agoFruit from the Tree of the Forgetting of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.