Oh wonderful! Another Saki fan! There ought to be a thread about him! I named my cat Tobermory, for my favorite Saki story.
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.
How about the deep-fried giant slugs in “Love & Rockets”?
mmmmm…babosas!!
gag
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
The Discworld’s Curious Squid (from Jingo). A skilled chef can prepare a dish containing no trace whatever of the squid . . .
I’ve actually seen those for sale. MediaPlay used to carry them.
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}
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”).
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.
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.
Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs from “Calvin and Hobbes.”
Turkish Delight from The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe
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!)
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.
Snozcumbers - the horrible uneatable cucumber things in “The BFG”
And also the drink that makes you whizzpop, Frabscuttle(?)
Actually, Turkish Delight is a real food/candy. I have several recipes for it in different cookbooks, and have made it myself.
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.
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.
Crunchy Frog.
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.
Also from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
The Pan-Galactic Gargleblaster.
Think I’m gonna mosey on down to the pub and see what happens if I ask for one.