Frankly, I don’t care when they’re served, I ain’t eatin’ 'em.
I really do not want to know how you got your Dopername.
Some more Larry Niven ones;
- Dole yeast* for the casualties of interstellar economics
weenie plant sausages on a bush
minch Ringworld condiment
shreem Kzin soup, indistinguishable from blood.
SF worldbuilding at
http://www.orionsarm.com/main.html
GINGOLD, the fabulous drink that gives Ralph Dibney the power to stretch and so he becomes The ELONGATED MAN. DC Comics
Then there’s the Stuff, from the movie of the same name. It is a naturally mined product that tastes great, and is less filling. It’s a wee bit addictive but you sure won’t gain any weight. Until it eats you from the inside out. (Oh, and it bears a striking resemblance to Marshmallow Fluff.)
What about the Spice from the Dune series? Not sure if that counts as a food.
The late, still-lamented Farscape put weirdzo foods on the table all the time: Crispy Grolak, Hynerian Marjules, Cholian Curd Salad, Terleum Molluscs…Crackers…
The Scarrans’ taste for Chrystherium flowers was their Achilles’ heel, of course, though we never found out why. They looked suspiciously like bird-of-paradise.
And if you couldn’t get any of these, you had to eat Food Cubes.
In the Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (an excellent children’s book, btw), there is a dish called Subtraction Stew, served in the city of Digitopolis. In short, one eats it when one is full and one gets hungrier the more he eats. When you’re famished you finish eating and wait to get full again.
Likewise, in Dictionopolis, people generally eat their words, literally.
Zev Steinhardt
See you at the Korova bar for a milkplus.
Weenie-tots! A great favorite of Al Bundy’s. Kelly was the spokesmodel for a while.
Don’t forget the cheeses. (Made from plants. Somehow.)
From D&D:
Rothe: A kind of oxen-like beast, used for meat.
Feywine: An elven wine.
Fermented mushroom wine: The Drow equivelant.
Dwarven Gutbuster: (Actually, I don’t know if that’s canon, or an invention of one of the DMs I’ve played under. It’s made it into my campaign.) Alcoholic beverage. Potent. That’s about the best you can say about it.
How about the Shmoos (spelling may vary) from Al Capp’s Lil Abner comic strip. The Schmoos (sp?) were wonderful creatures who were completely edible, delicious and happy to die for your dinner. Naturally, their availability would have solved world hunger - but ruined capitalism. So the goverment tried to kill them off. What a great comic strip.
Exactly what I had been thinking of when I saw this thread:
Shmoon (plural of Shmoo):
I’m not feeling morose enough, so I’d like to try some Achewater.
Don’t forget those culinary delights from Saturday Night Live:
Okra Cola
Quarry cereal “Tastes better 'cause it’s mined!”
Colon Blow cereal
Speaking of cereal,
from Animaniacs:
Branimaniacs cereal
“Eat Branimaniacs
nutritionally it lacks
but this cereal attacks
all of your digestive tracks…”
(i forget the rest)
More from Futurama:
Popplers “They’re like sex, except that I’m having them!” 
What? Two pages and no mention of green eggs and ham?
Or roast beast?
(Or did someone mention them and I missed it?)
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.
Crottled Greeps – from one of Larry Niven’s stories, a sort of small, wriggling crustacian that is eaten live with a “special sauce”. A winner for the name alone!
and three from The Masters:
Prime – from Isaac Asimov’s A Matter of Taste.
Ambrosia Plus – From Arthur Clarke’s Food of the Gods
Dinner Tree – From Robert Heinlein’s Methuselah’s Children
Orsh, from “Left Hand of Darkness” by Ursula LeGuin.
Fayelin, a “stimulating but non-intoxicating beverage” from the Lensman series.
And Star Tears, the description of whose collection is too nasty to post.
Regards,
Shodan
** The snozzberries taste like snozzberries. – Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory **
That line has been buzzing around my brain for * years. *
In real life, on store shelves today, you can get reduced sugar varieties of Frosted Flakes and Froot Loops. The problem is, they taste like they need to have some sugar added to them.
I think they’re going the wrong route. They should instead introduce pre-sweetened breakfast cereals that use artificial sweeteners instead. Like:[ul][li]Kellogg’s Aspartame Frosted Flakes (they’re Gr-r-r-r-rphenylketonuric!)[/li][li]Kellogg’s Sorbitol Loops[/li][li]Post Super Splenda Crisp[/li][li]Post Cyclamate Pebbles[/li][li]Sacchariney Charms (they’re magically rodent-carcinogenic!)[/li]Xylitol Puffs (I’m Cuckoo for Xylitol Puffs!)[/ul]
How about a brand that existed only in a series of commercials. Back in the late 1970s for several years…
It doesn’t take long to figure that “Schludwiller” is a coy amalgamation of SCHLitz, bUDWeiser and mILLER. One of my treasured possessions for a number of years was a Schludwiller t-shirt.