# Lovecraftian Food Ideas
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 28, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968 "2009-05-28T20:53:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/1 "2009-05-28T20:53:42Z")
I stole the concept and the first item from Christopher Moore, of course, but I’m looking to develop an entire menu of Lovecraft/Mythos themed food, and strangely enough I think this is the place to look for help.
So far I have:
Eggs Sothoth
Mana-Yood-Sushi
a Shudde-M’elt
French Fries from Yuggoth
A seafood platter called The Haul of Cthullhu
The Bunwich Horror
Dagon and eggs
The Muesli of Erick Zann
and all of the drinks coming under the heading “At the Fountains of Madness”.
Really hideously appalling puns are, obviously, welcome.
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### Author:  [@nofloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nofloyd)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/2 "2009-05-28T21:10:23Z")
Deleted, Had the same one
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### Author:  [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/3 "2009-05-28T21:15:01Z")
[Lutefisk.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk) You don’t even need to give it a Lovecraftian themed name. It’s an unspeakable horror just as it is.
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### Author:  [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/4 "2009-05-28T21:21:35Z")
> [@NDP](#):
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> [Lutefisk.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk) You don’t even need to give it a Lovecraftian themed name. It’s an unspeakable horror just as it is.
That’s the second mention of gelatinous cod I’ve seen in an hour. They were talking about it on NPR on the way home from work. Few scarier foods have ever graced man’s lips.
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### Author:  [@tiltypig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiltypig)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/5 "2009-05-28T21:32:58Z")
Something with [HP Sauce.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Sauce) Maybe drizzled over fried calamari with the little tentacles?
There’s a cookbook called the Veganomicon, would that be appropriate?
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### Author:  [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2009, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/6 "2009-05-28T21:42:44Z")
the Dunwich gastric horror.
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### Author:  [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2009, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/7 "2009-05-28T21:51:11Z")
[Casu Marzu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_cheese), aka “Maggot Cheese”.
People who eat it often cover their faces to keep the maggots from jumping into their eyes. :eek:
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/8 "2009-05-28T21:52:39Z")
You know that little doohickey that makes a hotdog into an octopus? Get one of those.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/9 "2009-05-28T21:54:08Z")
> [@Zsofia](#):
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> You know that little doohickey that makes a hotdog into an octopus? Get one of those.
[Octo-dog.](http://www.octodog.net/)
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### Author:  [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/10 "2009-05-28T22:07:39Z")
Needed:
A dark, soundproof chamber.
A somewhat sane person.
Any food.
Take your [PERSON] and lock it in the solitary confinement room without food or contact for 5 days (and make sure they don’t sleep!).
Take them out, serve food while making strange noises.
Voila!
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### Author:  [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/11 "2009-05-28T22:33:55Z")
Killer Thread. Only a Doper Would Know!
I need to buy me an Octo-Dog and hook it up with a Chicago Dog. Fully loaded. And ready to breed.
Cthullhu RULES.
I am going to Bethel, AK (salmon RULES), Homer, AK (oysters RULE), and Belfast, ME (lobster !!!)
And where-the-hell is that Okra, that I am convinced that HP Lovecraft modeled his Antarctic horrors after???
The Deep-Fried SOUTH.
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### Author:  [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/12 "2009-05-28T22:37:57Z")
This: [Нетрадиционная Кулинария - M!ханя — ЖЖ](http://maraz-m-moroz.livejournal.com/255878.html)
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/13 "2009-05-29T02:56:23Z")
[Seaweed ice cream.](http://www.who-sucks.com/food/101-frightening-ice-cream-flavors-from-around-the-world) (Deep Sea Water ice cream also available.)
Good luck finding it outside of Japan, though.
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/14 "2009-05-29T03:18:05Z")
R’loaf - the bread that will rise from the tin.
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/15 "2009-05-29T03:24:39Z")
> [@3trew](#):
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> and all of the drinks coming under the heading “At the Fountains of Madness”.
Except the beers. The Great Cold Ones should be kept on ice
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### Author:  [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/16 "2009-05-29T03:36:52Z")
The beer must be Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar.
[Background info, and a pleasant waste of time.](http://www.neilgaiman.info/Shoggoth%27s_Old_Peculiar)
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/17 "2009-05-29T03:38:08Z")
Gin and Miskatonic. Hey, Arkham if they can’t take a joke!
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/18 "2009-05-29T03:39:53Z")
Txakoli Kalimotxo Sagardo’ Patxaran
Gerezi beltza arno gorriakin
Txipirone Biskotx
Marmitako Talau Chistorra
Cuajada
Sadly, that’s not an incantation to the Elder Gods, it’s a list of Basque food and drinks.
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### Author:  [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2009, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/19 "2009-05-29T04:14:48Z")
> [@Musky\_Moon](#):
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> That’s the second mention of gelatinous cod I’ve seen in an hour. They were talking about it on NPR on the way home from work. Few scarier foods have ever graced man’s lips.
> **[Century egg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg)**
>
> Century eggs (Chinese: 皮蛋; pinyin: pídàn; Jyutping: pei4 daan2), also known as alkalized or preserved eggs, are a Chinese dish made by preserving duck, chicken, or quail eggs in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, quicklime, and rice hulls for several weeks to several months, depending on the processing method.
> Through the process, the yolk becomes dark greenish-grey in color, with a creamy consistency and strong flavor due to the hydrogen sulfide and ammonia present, while the white becomes dark brow...
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2009, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-food-ideas/497968/20 "2009-05-29T05:35:56Z")
Don’t forget to try the Hastur browns. They’re unspeakably delicious.
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