My friend and I are hosting an alien-themed party in early September and I have been placed in charge of making the food.
I decided to mix up some bright blue Romulan ale, find some Invasion of the Body Snatchers pods and get some astronaut ice cream … and then my creativity petered out.
So I turn to The Dope for ideas. No reference is too geeky!
Breen. Or if you can’t find any, make Swedish meatballs instead; they’re practically the same thing.
Pasta dish with saucer-shaped pasta (oricchette or dischi volanti). Sliced starfruit. Star-shaped things like chicken fingers or tater tots. It should be relatively easy to get a cookie cutter and churn out star-shaped/UFO-shaped/etc. cookies. A mound of mashed potatoes sculpted into Devil’s Tower (obscure reference to a minor gag in the movie UHF referencing Close Encounters, but I’d laugh). Unusual presentations-- dry ice in punch bowls, food coloring to make things look weird…
Gagh - I mean the worms that Klingons like…ahahahahaha
or those jumping ticks from Galaxy Quest.
Aspic anything is probably a good bet.
Tell me thisdoesn’t look alien.
No alien soiree is complete if the menu doesn’t include a big bowl of gagh. 
Turkey (or a pre-cooked grocery store whole chicken) with a young Alien chest-burster thingie coming out.
How you get your hands on the Alien is still to be determined.
Lovecraftian is alien, right? Some of it anyway. So you could make:
The Collards from Outer Space
Eggs Sothoth
The Great Rice of Yith
etc
Reese’s Pieces
Food-color some saltines and you’ve got soylent green.
I’ve had that. You just get Chinese noodles and complain that you can only get the cheap stuff here on Earth.
Pickled date palm blooms, pacaya.
They look like infant cuthulus, however one spells it, or squid covered with polyps.
Calamari is a good option. They look like little facehuggers.
Not all SciFi = alien.
Party pooper.
Fine. Since we’ve got gagh, we’ll need some blood wine. I say mix up some sangria. It’s got the right name!
Something they had at the Faux Quarks at the Las Vegas Hilton that is easy and really effectively alien was triangular hamburgers (They called them Ham-Borgers…groan). It is surprising how just the strangness of the shape really throws you off and makes it feel like THE FUTURRRRE!
Do Swedish meatballs.
In an episode of Babylon 5 G’kar was hosting a fellow Narn for dinner, and the guest exclaimed “Breen! How did you get the ingredients?”
G’kar replied “I didn’t, but this is an Earth dish that is very similar, called Swedish meatballs.”
At a con in Oklahoma City I bought a “Klingon cookbook” One recipe was called “Andorian Brain matter” It was what we humans would call “Broken Glass Salad”, chunks of Jello in whipped cream, or Cool-Whip, using blue Jello.
But remember, gagh is best served live!
Hasperat Bajoran comfort food.
My version is a spicey sausage mix wraped with a flakey bisquick type crust.
Remember to include some Saurian Brandy.
