# Fictional Food, and You **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 21, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190 "2010-03-21T01:44:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/21 "2010-03-21T13:13:28Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > The first thing I thought of when I saw “mystery book with recipes” is [Diane Mott Davidson](http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/diane-mott-davidson/), who writes books about a caterer who solves mysteries and includes recipes for most of the dishes mentioned in it. This is a trope that’s been picked up by [Tamar Myers](http://www.tamarmyers.com/) in her Pennsylvania Dutch stories, which feature all sorts of recipes, not just Amish specialities, as well as the [Hannah Swenson mysteries](http://www.murdershebaked.com/) by Joanne Fluke. I’ve never tried any of Myers’s recipes, but I’ve made several of the cookies from Fluke’s books, and they’ve all been winners, especially the Cherry Winks. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/22 "2010-03-21T15:39:51Z")
Looks like it was called “Our Lady of Sorrow Cake,” but my wife doesn’t know what book it was from and the goog isn’t helping. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/23 "2010-03-21T16:13:11Z")
I really want a Krabby Patty. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/24 "2010-03-21T21:49:59Z")
I was reading an Ellery Queen mystery once where Queen described how tuna salad was made. I tried the recipe and it became my favorite. Though I did change it slightly – I left out the poison. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/25 "2010-03-21T22:01:30Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > I really want a Krabby Patty. Oh hell yeah. And I just remembered another . . . In The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear, there’s a recipe for spaghetti that is basically just noodles, a raw egg, salt, pepper, and butter, IIRC. I haven’t tried it yet, but it sounds good. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/26 "2010-03-21T22:09:46Z")
Rex Stout described a lot of great food in the Nero Wolfe books. Sometimes Wolfe would eagerly wait for something to come into season. Archie would pick it up, and Wolfe and Fritz would spend the whole day cooking. I tried a few of the dishes at fancy restaurants. Found out gourmet food isn’t my thing. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/27 "2010-03-22T02:27:35Z")
My daughter bugged me to make her spaghetti tacos (basically, spaghetti put in a taco shell) after seeing them on an episode of _iCarly_. I finally made them for her a couple of weeks ago. They were OK. When my niece was a baby, I took care of her a couple of days a week after my sis went back to work. We watched _Teletubbies_, and she started asking for Tubby Custard as soon as she could talk. I made vanilla pudding with a couple drops of red food coloring to color it pink, and she was satisfied with it. She’s 12 now and still remembers it. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/28 "2010-03-22T02:35:42Z")
Just once I would like to sample a Durpee Dooner Honey Onion, as described in McCloskey’s _Centerburg Tales._ ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/29 "2010-03-22T02:55:52Z")
My mother rarely cooked Italian food, so the first time I ever heard of lasagna was in the _Garfield_ comic strip. Oscar the Grouch, on _Sesame Street_, introduced me to the peanut-butter-and-pickle sandwich. (If you use sweet pickles, it’s actually pretty good.) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/30 "2010-03-22T15:51:23Z")
Food got mentioned on Babylon 5 a lot, and I once hosted a dinner party based on food mentioned on the show. I made _breen_(aka Swedish meatballs), bagna cauda, fruit(oranges, plums and grapes), fried tubeworns(mini doughnuts), and so on. I became very fond of the bagna cauda, and could see why Garibaldi liked it so much, but the flavor of the garlic and the anchovies is so strong that it could be an acquired taste. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/31 "2010-03-22T16:52:47Z")
The dish they make at the end of “Big Night.” It’s apparently fictional in that there’s no real recipe for it but you can certainly do what they did (egg and pasta quiche kind of thing baked in a dome dish.) but you’d be making up the ingredients and the hows on your own. It loosk declious and is known to haunt foodies’ dreams. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/32 "2010-03-22T17:13:04Z")
During outdoor activities like hiking and camping, my snack of choice is the Honey and Oats Granola Bar. To make it even sweeter, I pretend it’s Lembas bread. 😃 I know the two are nothing alike but it’s all I have to work with. Actually, there’s recipes for the bread online. I wonder if I should actually try to make it. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/33 "2010-03-22T18:58:32Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Well, I was always sad as a kid that I couldn’t have manna, which I envisioned as fluffy white Sugar Pops drifting down from the sky. I was afraid to taste collard greens until I was an adult because of a Beverly Hillbillies episode where the smell of Granny’s collards cooking was practically taking out the whole neighborhood. I was shocked to find out they didn’t smell bad at all. Then you cooked them wrong. They smell like death. Bad death. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/34 "2010-03-22T20:14:42Z")
Does drinking milk and Pepsi from _Laverne & Shirley_ count? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/35 "2010-03-22T20:17:08Z")
> [@](#): > > During outdoor activities like hiking and camping, my snack of choice is the Honey and Oats Granola Bar. To make it even sweeter, I pretend it’s Lembas bread. I was on a Boy Scout canoeing-camping trip once, where our lunch was always some sort of canned meat spread on pilot biscuits. Except that we all referred to it as “Cram and cat food”, which really was a pretty close approximation. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/36 "2010-03-22T20:58:31Z")
Ever since I saw [Tampopo](http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19870911/REVIEWS/709110301/1023), I’ve been in search of the perfect bowl of noodles. I’ve probably been to 15 different places in NYC, but only about 4 in Japan. I’m tempted to try to make hand made noodles, but it looks like a pain in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/37 "2010-03-22T21:11:07Z")
_“Fruity Oaty Bars Make a man out of a mouse Fruity Oaty Bars Make you bust out of your blouse Eat them all the time They will blow your mind Blow your little mind…”_ ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/38 "2010-03-22T23:09:07Z")
I’ve never heard of the Sten Chronicles before reading this thread, but Angelo stew sounds tasty to me. (If i’m not mistaken, it’s basically a hybrid of beef bourguignon and Texas-style chili.) I’m going to have to try and make a batch. I once attempted to make a batch of khlav kalash based on a recipe I found online. It came out… tasting better than Homer Simpson described it. ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/39 "2010-03-22T23:45:05Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > _“Fruity Oaty Bars > Make a man out of a mouse > Fruity Oaty Bars > Make you bust out of your blouse > Eat them all the time > They will blow your mind > Blow your little mind…”_ I bought a Fruity Oaty Bar from a bake sale at an SF con once (Boskone, I think). It was a bit gooey for my taste. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190/40 "2010-03-22T23:55:19Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Have you ever had a fictional food…one you’ve read about/seen in a movie/seen in an artwork/heard in a song…actually impact your life in any way, however minor? I used to put ketchup on my chips (french fries). After seeing Pulp Fiction, I now use mayonnaise. Ian Flemming’s book Chitty Chitty Bang Band contains a recipe for fudge. I made some once when I was a kid. It was good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-food-and-you/533190.md?page=3)