# A Comprehensive Compendium of Fictional Foods **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 28, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004 "2003-06-28T18:21:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/21 "2003-06-29T04:23:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RealityChuck \* > \*\*[Filboid Studge](http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/rgs/mosaic/sk-studge.html) – still the best name ever for a fictional product. \*\* Oh wonderful! Another Saki fan! There ought to be a thread about him! I named my cat Tobermory, for my favorite Saki story. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/22 "2003-06-29T04:34:27Z")
I want to try the toffee fruits from **The Magician’s Nephew**. I always thought they’d make lovely jam. I never want to try breadapple or gichy-michy from Le Guin’s **The Left Hand Of Darkness**. Add **Discworld** scumble, Wow-Wow Sauce, and (someone’s) Old Peculiar and Very Odd ales to the list of things I never want to try. ---
**Author:** ![Theobroma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@Theobroma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theobroma)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/23 "2003-06-29T05:38:00Z")
How about the deep-fried giant slugs in “Love & Rockets”? mmmmm…babosas!! _gag_ ---
**Author:** ![ElJeffe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@ElJeffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElJeffe)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/24 "2003-06-29T05:52:31Z")
> [@](#): > > The dish of the day from Hitchhiker’s Guide Also from Hitchhiker’s, there is a machine that reads your mind and analyzes your sense of taste to determine the one flavor that you would like over any other. It then dispenses a drink that tastes almost, but not exactly, entirely unlike tea. I’ve always wondered what the opposite of tea was. Jeff ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/25 "2003-06-29T06:03:35Z")
The Discworld’s Curious Squid (from _Jingo_). A skilled chef can prepare a dish containing no trace whatever of the squid . . . ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/26 "2003-06-29T07:02:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Little Nemo \* > \*\*Eric Cartman’s favorite snack-food **Cheezy Poofs**. \*\* I’ve actually seen those for sale. MediaPlay used to carry them. ---
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/27 "2003-06-29T07:14:44Z")
I also saw Cheezy Poofs for sale once. I think the same company sold Scooby Snacks, too. (I thought they were a one-time joke product…) I bought a box of each at the local comic shop. They were generic cheese curls and generic (va)nilla wafers, respectively. (The Cheezy Poofs were disgustingly inedible. The Scooby Snacks were…addicting…) I kept the (empty) box of Cheezy Poofs on my desk in the classroom for a few months. It was worth it for the double-takes I’d get. How about the McDonald’s meal that Woody Allen picks up in “Sleeper?” It consisted entirely of small, colored capsules, IIRC. And then, there’s “WeenieBurgers,” from Tiny Toon Adventures. They even had a commercial: {Animated meat(?) patties leap from buns and start singing} “WeenieBurgers, they’re so much fun to eat, If you look real hard, you might even find the meat! WeenieBurgers!” {They leap back into the buns} {Hands pick them up and offscreen} {SFX: patties screaming} ---
**Author:** ![raygirvan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@raygirvan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raygirvan)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/28 "2003-06-29T11:18:10Z")
**Tree of Life** : in the Larry Niven SF mythos, the tuberous plant that causes hominids to change to Protectors. **Chlora-Fillies** : the green horsemeat sausage in Harry Harrison’s _Bill, the Galactic Hero_ (“the equine wurst of distinction” … “sunshine in every link”). ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/29 "2003-06-29T11:27:52Z")
From _Discworld_ we get Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler’s Sausage Inna Bun. Although, purists may not regard it as strictly _food_, it is _intended_ to be eaten, even if it is not exactly edible. Granny Clampett’s White Lightning. Is seem to recall Jeannie (from _I Dream Of Jeannie_) serving enchanted couscous. They transform you into a monkey. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/30 "2003-06-29T12:15:21Z")
From Deep Space 9. Some popular Bajoran dishes: Hasperat - A spicy-hot pastry. Jumja - A sticky sweet product of tree-sap (rather like maple syrup?), served as “glop” on a stick. Moba - Fruit that looks a lot like grapes. Veklivar - No idea, but it was on the buffet table in “Rejoined.” Larish Pie - I think a fluffy dessert-type pie. Tuwalli Pie - This sounds more like a hearty Cornish-pasty-type pie. Retamba Stew. All washed down with some Spring Wine! Cardassian foods: Taspar Egg - First seen on TNG. It looks like you break open the egg and eat the half-formed embryo raw. Rokassa Juice - I suspect this is fish juice. When Garak drinks it in an early episode, Bashir says it smells rather strong. In a later show, someone says that Cardassians drink fish juice for breakfast; putting the two statements together, I wonder if this isn’t the same thing. Yamok Sauce - It seems like Cardassians pour this over everything. Pipas claw. Kanar - An alcoholic beverage. The stuff Dukat drinks is thick and syrypy like molasses and comes in tall, twisty bottles. The kanar Garak drinks is a clear, bright blue liquid. Also: Tulaberry wine - The Ferengi were trying to sell a lot of this to the Gamma Quadrant. Slug-o-Cola - Another Ferengi drink. Makes your teeth green! Raktajino - Klingon coffee. Tarkelean tea. ---
**Author:** ![Dizzy\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/31 "2003-06-29T16:30:30Z")
**Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs** from “Calvin and Hobbes.” ---
**Author:** ![HopeSL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5fc32e/32.png) [@HopeSL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HopeSL)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/32 "2003-06-29T16:43:46Z")
Turkish Delight from The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/33 "2003-06-29T17:20:47Z")
> [@](#): > > From Discworld we get Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler’s Sausage Inna Bun. > > Although, purists may not regard it as strictly food, it is intended to be eaten, even if it is not exactly edible. They recently put out a book of recipes collected by Nanna Ogg (not to be confused with _The Joy of Snacks_), which included the perfectly wholesome recipe that Dibbler _ **claims** _ is how he makes his Sausage Inna Bun. And of course there’s always Dwarf Bread (you never run out of it!) > [@](#): > > Lembas, way-bread of the elves in Lord of the Rings. Also, there’s **cram** , the Middle Earth equivalent of C rations for travelers. H.G. Wells had _The Food of the Gods_, a super-nutrient that caused anything that ate it to grow gigantic. The Norm prefers Frosty the Oat Man cereal for breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![big\_alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@big\_alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_alex)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/34 "2003-06-29T19:18:44Z")
Snozcumbers - the horrible uneatable cucumber things in “The BFG” And also the drink that makes you whizzpop, Frabscuttle(?) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/35 "2003-06-29T19:24:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HopeSL \* > \*\*Turkish Delight from The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe \*\* Actually, Turkish Delight is a real food/candy. I have several recipes for it in different cookbooks, and have made it myself. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/36 "2003-06-29T20:24:09Z")
I used to think Turkish Delight was fictional myself – it’s one of the reasons I started this thread. What does it taste like, **Baker**? I don’t believe anyone’s mentioned **Lucy Van Pelt** ’s “Goop” or a **Dagwood** sandwich yet. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/37 "2003-06-29T20:24:09Z")
Oh, and Dwarvish Rock Wine, from various D&D campaigns. It’ll give a dwarf a minor buzz… Which means that it’s prone to knock any other race unconscious just from opening the bottle. ---
**Author:** ![AndrewL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@AndrewL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndrewL)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/38 "2003-06-29T21:43:37Z")
Crunchy Frog. ---
**Author:** ![WonTon\_Sean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WonTon\_Sean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WonTon_Sean)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/39 "2003-06-30T01:22:57Z")
An hour inside the Wonka factory with a dumptruck. That’s all I ask. In some of the Discworld novels, refrences are made to a wine which, due to the strange behavior of time in a magic infused disc shaped planet, was made the season before the grapes were planted. That sounds … interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Engywook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bc8723/32.png) [@Engywook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engywook)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/40 "2003-06-30T01:38:22Z")
Also from _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_: The [Pan-Galactic Gargleblaster](http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Galactic_Gargleblaster). Think I’m gonna mosey on down to the pub and see what happens if I ask for one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004.md?page=3)