Foods you wish existed

A zero-calorie sweetener that didn’t taste like complete ass. I’ve changed my diet (and lost 25 pounds, tyvm) and really want to reduce my sugar intake even more than I have, but I just can’t stand the taste of any artificial sweeteners. I don’t care what it is or how much they promise that it tastes like real sugar, it doesn’t and it’s disgusting. My life would change with such a thing- it would open up a whole new world. Sigh.

Well, you do know that chocolate is a vegetable, right? It comes from beans. Beans are a vegetable. The same is true of coffee.

The Lemba people, an African ethnic group in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa who have links to ancient Jewish communities?

Funistrada.
Buttered ermal.
Braised trake.

Please check the citation. To fight the ignorance of future generations. I wrote that Wiki entry and it was killed by whomever kills articles, and I pleaded with them to keep it.

They said it wasn’t noteworthy! They still do! Well, it’s noted here, goddammit!

Lembas bread, from Lord of the Rings. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Middle-earth_food_and_drink#Lembas

Sugar-free milk.

Thanks.

I submit: Soma.

Oops. I just answered the cookie thing over in that other post because I didn’t see this thread. I start at The Pit and work my way up.

Uh, chocolate chip cookies CAME from a recipe WITHOUT the chocolate… So they did exist; it’s just that most people don’t make them anymore.

My brothers still refer to my first baking attempt (which involved all the necessary items except the yoghurt leavening, because the person who gave me the recipe didn’t think of including it) as “the day Nava made lembas”. So I respectfully submit that they do exist, they’re just rare.

The unrisen, cooked non-cake probably wouldn’t have lasted for months but it did travel well and last a couple of weeks, not because my brothers weren’t willing to make it last less but because it was rationed.

I don’t have an oven, just a microwave: so I want microwavable fish-fingers :slight_smile:

They make lactose free cheese slices and shredded cheese, but how about a lactose free cheese sauce?
I want nachos dammit!

How much actual cheese and/or lactose could there possibly be in nacho cheez? I suppose someone will be along presently to tell me I’m wrong but I’ve never considered it a dairy product. I see it sitting open in giant cans at the gas station all the time. I’m lactose intolerant and don’t eat nacho cheez but it wouldn’t occur to me that it might make me sick.

Soma aka Carisprodol.

A “muscle relaxer” with great abuse potential, it’s metabolized into meprobamate, a famous minor tranquilizer (think Miltown). It also potentiates the effects of opioids.

And the world-famous Moon Waffle.

And khlav kalash.

*“Meester Simpson, you just made that one up!”

*(I actually ran across a soda with suspended candies in it some years ago in Canada. As gross as it sounds.)

When I was in the Georgian SSR, people (not me, I was 10, but a lot of the adult couples without children) had sparkling white wine with breakfast, and when they had it at breakfast, it was served with a stick of chocolate in it, like the Cadbury “flakes” of chocolate you can get in your ice cream in the UK (something at that point, when I was in Georgia, I had not yet experienced, because I was still about six months away from my first visit to London).

As far as foods I wish existed, pretty much anything I want, I make. I suppose I wish there was chocolate that you could make a complete, nutritionally sound meal out of.

I wish there was Indian food that didn’t need to be diluted with so much rice and yogurt in order not to burn my mouth. I haven’t learned to make Indian food myself.

From reading labels in the store, most cheese sauces contain whey or whey powder as a primary ingredient, which is like a lactose bomb for people like me.

You might find that combining two different types of artificial sweeteners helps with the taste (it’s like they cancel each other out or something :p). I use one packet of Splenda and one packet of Truvia in my morning tea, and I can’t detect the chemical aftertaste of either one when they’re combined.

And congratulations on the weight loss!

Zero calorie [insert any delicious junk food here].
A hybrid of watermelons and grapes would be magical.
Oatmeal with the milk/yogurt already seamlessly integrated into it, so that it doesn’t get runny/lumpy (it would have a more pudding-like consistency, I guess).