# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/81 "2004-06-29T14:03:30Z")
> [@wheelie](#): > > Don’t forget those culinary delights from Saturday Night Live: > **Okra Cola** > **Quarry** cereal “Tastes better 'cause it’s mined!” > **Colon Blow** cereal Actually Okra Cola was from _The New Show_, but I’m just picky. From the Simpsons’ freezer: **Much Ado About Stuffing Tubbb!** from _Ghostbusters_:\*\* Sta-Puft Marshmallows\*\* from _Pulp Fiction_: **Big Kahuna Burgers** ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/82 "2004-06-29T14:33:58Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > 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. Haggis actually exists in Scotland. They have the Ceremony of the Haggis, complete with singing, dancing and bagpipes. You’re right, it is a horror story to freak out the tourists, and they imply that it’s something like ground up sheep guts. It’s actually lamb ground with oatmeal, onions, and spices. I’ve had some, and it’s not bad. It tastes like taco meat. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/83 "2004-06-29T15:24:57Z")
Larry Niven invented a number of fictional food and drink items (plus some non-food intoxicants like _sparkers_ in one or other of his short stories about an alien bar) - Louis Wu can often be found tucking into some local delicacy. On the Turkish Delight thing; some people don’t like it because it is too sweet. I’ve seen it made without the gelatin at all - just rosewater, lemon, sugar and cornflour (in fact I think this may be the traditional recipe, although I’m not sure what would have been used before cornflour came on the scene). The best way to enjoy the stuff is alongside a cup of Turkish coffee - this stuff is served in tiny little cups like espresso, but is very much stronger (it isn’t filtered at all - you just stop drinking when the cup is about a quarter full) - the overpowering sweetness and fragrance of the Turkish delight sets off the intense aroma and bitterness of the coffee just perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/84 "2004-06-29T15:28:12Z")
> [@WonTon Sean](#): > > An hour inside the Wonka factory with a dumptruck. That’s all I ask. Yes!! I always fantasized about that fruity wallpaper, and that chocolate river, and the little land of candy. Mmm, Everlasting Gobstoppers and that gum that tastes like a whole meal!! I want to go to the Wonka Factory!!! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/85 "2004-06-29T15:32:55Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#): > > Yes!! I always fantasized about that fruity wallpaper, and that chocolate river, and the little land of candy. Mmm, Everlasting Gobstoppers and that gum that tastes like a whole meal!! I want to go to the Wonka Factory!!! The chocolate river is (in my opinion) the weakest element in the movie (I realise you may have been talking about the book) - it just looks like dirty water - maybe someone should digitally remaster it - I’m sure that could be done with today’s technology. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/86 "2004-06-29T15:44:16Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > The chocolate river is (in my opinion) the weakest element in the movie (I realise you may have been talking about the book) - it just looks like dirty water - maybe someone should digitally remaster it - I’m sure that could be done with today’s technology. Heh, I thought it looked like it might taste like Chocola. I love Chocola!! ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/87 "2004-06-29T15:53:54Z")
In _Journey to the West_, Son Wukon, while slacking on the job as some minor official of the Celestial Court (he’d been given the job as appeasement), crashes a party and promptly eats all of the Celestial Peaches, drinks all the Celestial Wine, and prescibes himself the entire stash of the Celestial Pills. (Well, okay, I fudged a bit on the translation, but you get the idea. :D) ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/88 "2004-06-29T17:04:44Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > **Lissla** – Old Peculiar is a real, live, actual beer (English of course, but I had it in the states) And if I remember right, not too bad, though it may not be your, uh, cup of tea. Pratchett’s beer is Turbot’s Really Odd, which plays off the “old peculiar” theme. There’s also a beer from XXXX called Funnelweb, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Rex\_Fenestrarum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rex_fenestrarum/32/7265_2.png) [@Rex\_Fenestrarum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Fenestrarum)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/89 "2004-06-29T17:42:36Z")
> [@Lissla Lissar](#): > > 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. Yeah, [Old Peculier](http://www.bottledbeer.co.uk/index.html?beerid=294) is pretty good, but I like [Bishop’s Finger](http://www.bottledbeer.co.uk/index.html?beerid=17) better! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BoringDad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@BoringDad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoringDad)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/90 "2004-06-29T18:17:56Z")
> [@Knowed Out](#): > > Haggis actually exists in Scotland. They have the Ceremony of the Haggis, complete with singing, dancing and bagpipes. You’re right, it is a horror story to freak out the tourists, and they imply that it’s something like ground up sheep guts. It’s actually lamb ground with oatmeal, onions, and spices. I’ve had some, and it’s not bad. It tastes like taco meat. While Scots eat more lamb and mutton than we do in the US (fond memories of 20 years ago eating ground mutton pies topped with baked beans), haggis is NOT made of ground lamb. 2 lb. dry oatmeal 1 lb. chopped mutton suet 1 lb. lamb or venison liver, boiled and minced sheep heart, boiled and minced plus spices and onions, all stuffed into a lamb’s stomach to cook. You may have been told it was just lamb to get you to eat it. And really, liver and heart minced up is perfectly edible and many people actually like it. Now for fictional food, nothing can beat the cans of “Food” from Repo Man. Best consumed with cans of “Drink”. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/91 "2004-06-29T19:51:08Z")
I’ll submit Pervish food from Robert Asprin’s _Myth Adventures_ series–no specific dishes are ever named or shown, but we can draw certain conclusions from the context. Aahz: “I tell you, kid, the main problem with Pervish food is keeping the goo from crawling out of the bowl while you’re trying to eat it.” Then there’s the fact that the Bazaar at Deva had an ordinance requiring any place serving the stuff to move constantly from place to place to keep the smell from causing the collapse of the local economy. When Skeeve got lost he tried to track the place by smell, and wound up finding a big pile of dragon(?) dung instead. Also, here’s some [more on spoo](http://freespace.virgin.net/e.buchanan/b5.htm#spoo) from the Babylon 5 Encyclopedia–possibly the most amusing description of a food source I’ve ever read, notably the comment: “Spoo are the only creatures of which the Interstellar Animal Rights Protection League says, simply, 'Kill ‘em.’” ---
**Author:** ![Big\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@Big\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_G)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/92 "2004-06-29T20:12:16Z")
Another one from the Simpsons: **Tomacco** , the tomato / tobacco hybrid ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/93 "2004-06-29T21:57:45Z")
Razzleberry dressing from “Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol.” Saurian brandy from “Star Trek.” Manna from you-know-where. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/94 "2004-06-30T03:18:58Z")
Another one from The Simpsons, **Wadded Beef**. And from Futurama; **Admiral Crunch** and **Archduke Chocula**. **Ukulele Ike** , I’m pretty sure that **Tree Frog Beer** was a real beer back in the seventies. That’s probably where the comic got it from. ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/95 "2004-06-30T03:37:47Z")
> [@well he's back](#): > > The Schmoos (sp?) were wonderful creatures who were completely edible, delicious and happy to die for your dinner. I believe the plural of schmoo is “schmoon.” ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/96 "2004-06-30T05:47:05Z")
Who can forget lovely Aunt Beru’s blue milk from Star Wars? You can actually make it if you’re a chef in Star Wars Galaxies. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/97 "2004-06-30T08:18:53Z")
Oooh! I got one! Blue string pudding. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/98 "2004-07-01T02:41:28Z")
Personally, I’d like to try a good old-fashioned porcuswine burger like they make at McSwiney’s. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/99 "2004-07-01T03:59:56Z")
Don’t forget **New Shimmer**. It’s a floor wax _and_ a dessert topping! ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004/100 "2004-07-02T20:28:34Z")
In_2001: A Space Odessy_ (Arthur C. Clarke’s book, not Kubrick’s movie), when the astronaut first arrives on the alien world, he is fed a mysterious blue substance which has a completely neutral flavor, and sort of takes on whatever flavor you happen to be thinking about at the moment. In several different incarnations of _Star Trek_, a Regular Cast Member offers the Guest Star a bottle of a mysterious beverage. **Guest** : “What is it?” **Regular** : “It’s green!” In the Disney movie of _20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_, Captain Nemo offers his guests some oddities. I can’t remember most of them, but “flesh of unborn octopus” seems to stick in my memory. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-comprehensive-compendium-of-fictional-foods/185004.md?page=6)