# \[IDEA\] A pen that draws edible food; thoughts?ideas? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 9, 2016, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046 "2016-10-09T12:16:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eats\_sushi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@eats\_sushi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eats_sushi)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/1 "2016-10-09T12:16:57Z")
This idea can be speculative and imaginative as possible, don’t worry about the technology behind it, just the concept itself and how it can be improved/changed. I was sweeping around the internet trying to find a similar concept, yet I failed (if you have heard of something similar please tell me). Anyway I was speculating some shit in my spare time and came up with the ‘FEDEN’ (FEED+PEN… yeah… I’m still working on that…:c ). This pen, allows the user to draw out the food they want to eat. If I were to draw an apple, than it would materialise and would be edible. Please write down any thoughts/ideas/extensions (anything useful). Thanks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/2 "2016-10-09T13:31:02Z")
I like magic, too. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/3 "2016-10-09T13:34:58Z")
I’d starve. Should this be in Cafe Society? It _is_ about art and food. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/4 "2016-10-09T14:07:05Z")
Maybe it could draw flour in circles, building up on one another until you’ve got a noodle shaped like a tube. You could call it Pen a Pasta. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/5 "2016-10-09T14:17:53Z")
_smacks LHoD with a wet noodle._ ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/6 "2016-10-09T14:21:00Z")
You mean edible ink. Right? Can I use alphabet noodles to write out “chocolate cake”? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/7 "2016-10-09T14:21:24Z")
Finally, the blue food! (George Carlin reference) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/8 "2016-10-09T14:21:53Z")
Even though the OP’s idea requires magic, not engineering, I thought I’d point out that 3-D printed food is an actual [thing](https://3dprintingindustry.com/food/). ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/9 "2016-10-09T16:27:31Z")
Awesome This pen would resolve the world’s hunger problem – as long as everyone could afford a pen. But why restrict such a great idea to food? Make it so that whatever you draw materializes. Everyone in the world could have everything they wanted – provided they could afford a pen. How much do you think this pen will cost? P.S. Welcome to the SDMB, eats\_sushi. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/10 "2016-10-09T16:31:29Z")
[Dr. Evil]One Hundred BILLION Dollars mmm-hmmm-muuuaahh hahahahahahaha[/Dr. Evil] also what ioioio said, with the addition of … 'ware the ice cream ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/11 "2016-10-09T16:47:32Z")
I’ll bet old Sneelock could make it. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/12 "2016-10-09T19:17:03Z")
“The strawberries taste like strawberries! The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!” ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/13 "2016-10-10T03:22:49Z")
I’m bad at drawrings. If I draw a bad looking apple, does it taste like a bad apple? Or maybe it kinda looks like a heart, so would it be like an apple-heart flavour? ---
**Author:** ![eats\_sushi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@eats\_sushi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eats_sushi)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/14 "2016-10-10T03:25:08Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > I’m bad at drawrings. If I draw a bad looking apple, does it taste like a bad apple? Or maybe it kinda looks like a heart, so would it be like an apple-heart flavour? an idea could be to draw a food item and the closest match of that item can match a food item in a database what would teleport that item to the relative location of the pen drawing example: draw an apple, closest match is an apple apple from one area that is connected to the pen materializes at that lcoation it was drawn at ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/15 "2016-10-10T03:25:21Z")
But what if you want Reese’s peanut butter sticks, and you can’t draw them very well? You might end up with asparagus. Or you want a Diet Coke and you’re not very good with logos? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/16 "2016-10-10T03:33:06Z")
> [@eats\_sushi](#): > > an idea could be to draw a food item and the closest match of that item can match a food item in a database what would teleport that item to the relative location of the pen drawing > > example: draw an apple, closest match is an apple > > apple from one area that is connected to the pen materializes at that lcoation it was drawn at It seems like, to me at least, that it would be easier to just write, or better yet, type the word for the food you want and have it appear. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/17 "2016-10-10T06:09:43Z")
NM ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/18 "2016-10-10T07:07:18Z")
I like the idea more than a pen that draws inedible food. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/19 "2016-10-10T15:50:18Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > I’m bad at drawrings. If I draw a bad looking apple, does it taste like a bad apple? Or maybe it kinda looks like a heart, so would it be like an apple-heart flavour? This idea penalizes the poor artist. “I didn’t want a shoe! I wanted a steak!” Or the non-representational one. Pablo Picasso would wind up with mostly [oddly-colored boxes and cardboard cutouts of things](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism). Probably not edible. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046/20 "2016-10-10T16:04:29Z")
> [@eats\_sushi](#): > > an idea could be to draw a food item and the closest match of that item can match a food item in a database what would teleport that item to the relative location of the pen drawing > > example: draw an apple, closest match is an apple > > apple from one area that is connected to the pen materializes at that lcoation it was drawn at Search wikipedia for “Clyde Crashcup.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-a-pen-that-draws-edible-food-thoughts-ideas/768046.md?page=2)