# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/41 "2003-06-30T03:46:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Askia \* > **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?** It is a gelatin based candy with a Mid-East origin. Flavored with various fruit juices, or rosewater, and it often has finely chopped nuts in it. [This](http://allrecipes.com/encyc/terms/T/8985.asp) is a brief entry about it. One recipe I have is a fairly simple one 1/2 cup water 2 cups sugar 2 1/2 Tablespoons gelatin 1/4 cup cold water 1/2 cup orange juice\* 1/4 cup lemon juice\* Food coloring as desired Confectioners sugar \*Using fresh squeezed juice is tastier, but bottled will do. Cook 1/2 cup water and sugar to 255 degrees Farenheit, remove from heat. Soften gelatin in 1/4 cup water for 5 minutes. Add gelatin mixture to cooked syrup. Add juices and food coloring(if used). Stir and strain through a fine sieve. Pour into a buttered 8-inch square pan. Let stand until firm. Turn out, cut into squares, and dust with confectioners sugar. [Here](http://www.world-recipes.info/turkey-turkish/turkish_delight.html) is another recipe, and when you google there are others. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/42 "2003-06-30T04:01:39Z")
Aaargh!!! **Baker** … You’re killing me! I’m just a single guy who doesn’t cook anything unless its needs frying, microwaving or barbequing. I was thinking about buying some [online.](http://www.turkishgrocery.com/newdesign/catalog_type.asp?ProductID=TurkishDelight) Have you tried this? Maybe then I’ll see what the big deal with **Edmund** scarfing that down that stuff from the **White Witch**. ---
**Author:** ![Hazel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Hazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazel)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/43 "2003-06-30T04:31:50Z")
I, too, would like to try a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster. Also, Romulan Ale. But, I’m not sure about a meal at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, where one “meets the meat”… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/44 "2003-06-30T04:31:51Z")
**Askia** , if you enter Turkish Delight into a search on Google you will find not only recipes but lots of places to buy it. I’ve never bought it commercially though, so I can’t vouch for any of them. Your site sounds good though, I think I may check it out! ---
**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/45 "2003-06-30T07:25:13Z")
A diablo sandwich, from SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/46 "2003-06-30T15:14:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WonTon Sean \* > \*\* > 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. \*\* That’s reannual wine. Very expensive, mostly because it’s very rare, but perhaps also because you can drink as much as you like and not get hungover later. That’s because you get hungover {i]before\* you drink it! ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/47 "2003-06-30T17:51:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miss Mapp \* > **Yamok Sauce - It seems like Cardassians pour this over everything.** When I was living in San Jose, another guy and I had the idea or relabeling bottles of Nuoc Mâm, Vietnamese fish sauce, as Yamok sauce, selling them at conventions. We got lazy and it stalled at the asking permisison of Paramount stage. Now it’s too late. Ah well. DD ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/48 "2003-06-30T19:09:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > _Quadrotriticalie_–a.k.a Tribble chow. Isn’t this supposed to be a real food? It’s just a strain of Earth wheat, right? And to continue the Discworld trend, I’ll toss in Nanny Ogg’s dishes: **Banana Soup Surprise, Spotted Dick,** and **Maids of Honour.** > [@](#): > > Goatberger: “You wait till you get to Spotted Dick.” > Cropper: “Well, my old granny used to make Spotted Dick–” > Goatberger: “Not to this recipe.” > [@](#): > > Granny Weatherwax: “What about this one? Maids of Honour?” > Nanny Ogg: “_Weeelll,_ they starts out as Maids of Honour, but they ends up Tarts.” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/49 "2003-06-30T19:20:31Z")
Maybe I’m telling you something you already know **rjung** , but _Maids of Honour_, and _Spotted Dick_, are real foods as well. I have recipes for them. MOH are small tarts, sorry to say. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/50 "2003-06-30T23:47:49Z")
Tom Smith’s 307 Ale! You can read about it here: [http://www.tomsmithonline.com/lyrics/307ale.htm](http://www.tomsmithonline.com/lyrics/307ale.htm) What was the name of that extra-hot, multi-colored chili pepper in that episode of _The Simpsons?_ The one that Chief Wiggum used in his chili, and that gave Homer a bad trip/vision quest? Gottagemmesummadat! Another very interesting fictional food is haggis. Brits insist it’s a **real** food, but I’m convinced they just made it up to freak out the tourists and make themselves look macho enough to eat anything. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/51 "2003-07-01T00:12:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baker \* > Maybe I’m telling you something you already know **rjung** , but _Maids of Honour_, and _Spotted Dick_, are real foods as well. I have recipes for them. I daresay your recipies don’t come out the way Nanny Ogg’s do. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/52 "2003-07-01T01:54:26Z")
Do you think I could wangle Archie Goodwin into inviting me to a dinner cooked by Fritz Brenner at Nero Wolfe’s residence? Anything on the menu would be fine, although I’d like to try Saussise Minuit or those blueberry-fed grouse. Or maybe he’d take me out to Rusterman’s for steak and dancing at the Flamingo afterwards? Please. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/53 "2003-07-01T02:05:51Z")
**Rjung** triticale (sp?) is a real grain, a hybrid of wheat and something else. **BrainGlutton** , the chilis were described as "The merciless peppers of Quetzlzacatenango! Grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum. " They were spotted like mushrooms and glowed fluorescent green. No such I’m afraid, although maybe they could genesplice a chili with the same genes they used to make the glow in the dark mice 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Quantum\_Butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e79b87/32.png) [@Quantum\_Butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quantum_Butterfly)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/54 "2003-07-01T03:19:37Z")
I found some Turkish Delight at a little British imports store, and having read my Narnia set until it’s practically falling apart, I had to buy some and try it. The store only had the rose-flavored kind, so that’s what I got. It was… interesting. Basically a strongly rose-flavored jelly candy covered in chocolate. Rather nice when nibbled slowly, but my sister took a big bite and just about choked 😃 Proper spelling of the Klingon worm delicacy: _gagh_. Best when fresh and wiggly! Somebody earlier in the thread asked about Redwall meadowcream. IIRC, one of the more recent books explained this. Apparently they make a ‘milk’ from some sort of tuber, sort of like soy milk. If I could drink alcohol (I have med issues), I’d want to try Recluce green brandy. Mmm, mmm! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/55 "2003-07-01T04:15:54Z")
The kids and I brewed a batch of Butterbeer (beverage of choice in the tavern at Hogsmeade – H. Potter books). Our recipe included lots of vanilla, butter, caramel, butterscotch and a secret ingredient (okay, it was a Butter Rum LifeSaver). Simmered most of a snowy afternoon and served warm in pewter flagons. Mmm… ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/56 "2003-07-01T07:35:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Quantum Butterfly \* > \*\*I found some Turkish Delight at a little British imports store, and having read my Narnia set until it’s practically falling apart, I had to buy some and try it. The store only had the rose-flavored kind, so that’s what I got. It was… interesting. Basically a strongly rose-flavored jelly candy covered in chocolate. Rather nice when nibbled slowly, but my sister took a big bite and just about choked 😃 > \*\* Wrong - that’s just so wrong! - that’s the nestle or rowntree or somesuch candified version - real Delight isn’t chocolate-covered. You’re better off finding the nearest **Greek** delicatessen, and buying it there - it goes by the name of loucoms or somesuch, though (don’t call it _Turkish_ delight in a Greek deli), and it should just be covered in cornstarch and sugar. Bergamot and lemon are my favourites. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/57 "2003-07-01T22:44:59Z")
Posted by **Reality Chuck:** > [@](#): > > I assume several of the dishes in the banquet scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom are fictional. Such as? I think Cecil did a column once on whether Southeast Asians really eat monkey brains . . . but I forget what conclusion he reached. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/58 "2003-07-01T23:00:00Z")
[MMM-mmm.](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010309.html) Monkey brains. ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/59 "2003-07-01T23:51:34Z")
triticale is real; quadrotriticale is not. Yet. * * * SF worldbuilding at [http://www.orionsarm.com/main.html](http://www.orionsarm.com/main.html) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/60 "2003-07-01T23:52:48Z")
So, according to The Cecil, eating monkey brains is now illegal but “the Chinese still eat them whenever they can get away with it.” So it’s not implausible, really, that they might have been served at an Indian’ rajah’s banquet in the 1930s, when _IJ&TDOT_ was set. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004.md?page=4)