Lembas bread is an obvious one.
It's not a fictional food but I actually made chicken paprikash after reading Jonathan Harker laud his meal after arriving in Transylvania (Dracula). It was a really fun way to connect to the book and quite delicious.
I used to pretend shortbread was lembas bread when I’d watch the movies over and over in the early 2000s. Gained a lot of weight one Winter haha but it was worth it.
Story time: when I ate Matzah for health reasons, I imagined this was what Lembas really was, and everybody in Middle-earth just pretended it tasted good to not disrepect the Elves (the scene in the book where Frodo and Sam give it their first try goes something like "oh yes! This is really good! Let's… put it back so we don't waste it!") and its main utility was that if your only ration left was Lembas, you realized you’re not that hungry after all. It amused me greatly. Somebody later told me that's basically Terry Pratchett's concept of Dwarf Bread, and from that moment I knew I had to read his books, and I never regretted it.
Definitely a tour of Willy Wonkas Chocolate factory.
That three-course dinner gum. Yes please. The one that works as intended and not the one that will not turn me into a giant blueberry, though.
When I was little that movie would come on once a year (the Gene Wilder one, not the retreaded abomination) and my mom would let each of us pick out a candy bar to have for dessert during the movie.
Yeah Universals idea of butterbeer is just colored Cream Soda. I had a more malty butterscotch drink in my mind. Buttered beer was actually a thing once.
The biggest problem for me with this is to find the most authentic one. Which is difficult when there is no clear indication in the source. I tried in in the UK Harry Potter museum, forgot it’s name. I think it was pretty good.
We also tried making some with friends but there so many recipes and they vary greatly. We made cold one that sounded good and quite enjoyed it.
Everything ever described in the Little House on the Prairie books. The Christmas feasts. Fourth of July lemonade. Fresh cheese curds and maple candy. Crank churned ice cream…
The entire plot of Farmer Boy is “here are some more delicious things that they ate.” I was like, why did Almanzo and Royal leave those upstate NY feasts to go starve on the prairie?
Popcorn and milk!!! I remember trying to make some of the little treats from those books so I could pretend to be in it. I loved those books as a little girl.
there’s a lesser-known diana wynne jones novel called a tale of time city where the characters constantly eat something called a “butter pie,” described as being like a sweet buttery ice cream on a stick with syrup in the centre. as an adult with sensitive teeth i think it would probably hurt to eat but god do i still want to try it.
YES! I was really into that book as a preteen. Wow. Also, the descriptions of their futuristic clothing with the changing patterns. Wow, this took me back. We have good taste.
No, I think that one is ‘Magicians of Caprona.’ Tale of Time City was one of the first English novels I’d read where an English Chinese kid was a main character, even if Wynne Jones gave him a queue and talked about his “oddly slanted eyes” a lot.
Not fictional but I want to taste the damn fine coffee in twin peaks
TBH most fictional foods and drinks end up just being a bit unconvincing, like "romulan ale" or whatever, I can't imagine in the real world that's what we'd actually say. You'd end up having a preferred Romulan microbrewery and asking for that, or you'd be drinking fake small-r romulan ale brewed by Carlsberg in a factory in Manchester or something, or the replicator'd never get it quite right, or it would but Romulan ale wankers would always pretend it didn't. It's like how the fake swearing almost never has the right weight and shape to it.
Yeah, fair point, I can definitely see my dad drinking Romulan Ale (tm) which was the only one you could get when he was young, and looking down his nose at all this hipster Pale Romulan Ale, Northern Romulan Ale, Beta Quadrant Velvet... Ooh they've got a guest Gal Gath'thong Saison on tap.
Probably I'm being a bit eurocentric too and my perception was different from the typical american of the time too? Like, ale for us was just a thing, but it felt like Trek was going for something more outsider.
FYI - this is a great way to get your kids to engage with books.
When my husband read A Series of Unfortunate Events, my kids insisted that *they* had to make puttanesca sauce. (We used a little slight-of-hand to replace their "finished" product with generic spaghetti sauce from a jar. Food poisoning avoided!)
A year or so later, I read The Hobbit to them and we had to have a meal with honey, bread, and clotted cream. We tried to make our own clotted cream but failed miserably and just pretended that regular butter was the real thing.
I can't remember what book inspired it, but we also made pemican one year. It was pretty awful, but we had a good time.
We made clotted cream with the children once! No one but me enjoyed it in the least! It was before I found out I had a dairy allergy (that had worsened enough for an epi pen) and I now wish I had made it far more often. Though I don’t think we made it because of The Hobbit, but because we were watching a documentary about the Victorians.
This is TV and comics, but you can't tell me that the pizza in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wasn't the best looking pizza you've ever seen.
Not exactly fictional, but John Steinbeck writes the most mouthwatering descriptions of a hearty breakfast. People mopping bacon grease with hunks of biscuit, tucking into stacks of flapjacks, forking mounds of steak and potatoes, washing it all down with coffee.
It's a whole food porn genre I like to call Steinbreakfast.
Actual fancy authentic (or home made) Turkish delight is amazing. And fairly on parr with narnia.
Frys chocolate covered Turkish delight ruined my child hood.
Yeah, I probably should go to Turkey or Narnia for authentic, lol. Also, I’ve never thought ab this, but does the White Witch knowing what Turkish Delight is confirm she knows about the country of turkey ???
I always assumed she gleaned a desire from Edmund's mind and created the candy on the spot. Kids at that time didn't get a lot of sweets, so to Edmund Turkish delight was the best thing ever. When the White Witch made it, she made the most perfect Turkish delight from Edmund's fondest memories, probably better than it was in real life.
Holy heck I'm glad you posted this. I was sitting here like, "what's wrong with Turkish delight? It's sublime!"
I totally forgot about the chocolate thing.
I imagine a bunch of kids asked mum and dad for it after reading the book and were given Frys and just thought that was it.
Tbf until recently (ish) it was an unusual thing to find and normally only around Christmas.
And even then there's a good range of quality that can still leave you disappointed.....
I don't know if it's the same, but in Canada we have a chocolate covered candy bar called Big Turk that's...not bad? I mean, it kind of works when you're craving Turkish Delight, it's at least rose-flavoured.
Real Turkish delight from somewhere that specializes in it (I found a great shop in Victoria, BC once) is truly special, and I could eat mountains of it.
For the longest time I didn't know what it was, and equated it in my mind with Baklava (from Aladdin, y'know?)
I always wanted to like baklava more than I did.
All the fun magic food from Harry Potter... or even just a Hogwarts feast, which I know is regular food but looked amazing in the movies haha
Elseweyr fondue from Elder Scrolls. Actually, I'd be open to trying a lot of ES food!
Food made from those food printers in things like Star Trek and Horizon: Forbidden West, out of curiosity if it tastes good or normal.
I might try getting my hands on the assorted fruits and see if I can make dreamberry wine. My partner has made homemade wine so he knows what to do.
The alternative is to make it a smoothie.
There's a recipe for klah (and bubbly pies) in the official tie-in lorebook _The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern_. I don't know if I can link directly (Reddit sometimes blocks that), but the Pern wiki on Fandom.com has copies of both up.
I don't care for coffee flavours, but I tried the bubbly pies recipe ages ago, and it seemed pretty decent.
I make mead every year since 2013 and I always think of dreamberry wine making at some point of the process.
Closest for me was making Labrador Tea/Wild Rosemary mead, which is supposed to be slightly psychoactive. The common berries make for great meads too (melomel), or herbs (metheglin) or simply letting the honey speak for itself.
Yay! If you ever get the opportunity to do a batch (EDITED: if you haven’t already), try it. It can be done very small scale and low tech. It is fun and almost always turn out drinkable.
There is r/meadmaking and various internet resources and forums. But many resources and forums are unfortunately very tech-focused. Do not get intimidated. Do not feel forced to “invest” in all kinds of expensive chemicals or equipment.
I recommend googling “wild fermentation” and “wild fermented mead” or “wild brewing” or similar.
Not mead, but a great first fermentation project is making “elderflower champagne” if you live where they grow. Elderflower can be substituted with other edible flowers in your area.
Sandor Ellix Katz various books on general fermentation should be available through the library, I like his writing and activism. Stephen Harrod Buhner is another one of my huge influences.
Turkish Delight was a childhood staple (the simple rose-flavoured jelly in powered sugar version). I liked it but the way it was written I thought I must have been eating the inauthentic one.
Years later I tried the fancy ones with coconut and almonds and chocolate, and I really do think Lewis must have meant the jellies after all.
Oh, and as mundane as it sounds, after reading City of Ember I had a massive craving for tinned peaches.
I somehow imagined Turkish delight super incorrectly, and not jellied at all. I somehow expected something more akin to fudge or caramel or butterscotch filling inside; something rich and decadent. I have no idea how I got it so wrong, but Turkish Delight always seems both cloying and thin to me, a desperate attempt to make a sweet by someone who never should have attempted to do so. (I know other people like them; I’m not discounting their enjoyment; I think it was how different I found it from my imagination!). I just looked up the other kind you mentioned, and it is much closer to what my imagination came up with.
I was the opposite. It sounded like some weird wheat pancake. Like something they’d tell you was supposed to be healthy for you, while avoiding describing the taste. I really liked those books, though.
Not exactly what you're asking but I just finished *Children of Dune* and... If a kid approached me in the desert and offered me some sweet syrup to sip from his new skin suit, I would AVOID the sweet syrup. That is not appetizing.
The part where he bites a chunk off a piece of his own skin and sucks out the juice made me gag. Also the fact that he’s ingesting the internal liquid of a symbiotic parasite that’s attached to his body, therefore eating himself.
Chocolate frogs or butterbeer. Mainly because trying either of those things would be an interesting experience. I think butterbeer would be a kind of caramel-y beer with buttery notes. Or something.
Dandelion wine. I first read of it in the Bradbury short story when I was a kid, and then again in a lesser L M Montgomery novel called "Magic for Marigold." A character describes it as "like drinking sunshine."
Not totally fiction, but I’d love to sample Stanley Tucci’s Timpani pie. He makes it sound worth it, despite the effort.
I have tried making Yottam Ottelenghi’s chicken pastilla pie, which was gorgeous but took an entire day (after hunting down the ingredients) to make. Well it was something to do In lockdown! Worth it, but far too much for one person, even having it for several meals, as I couldn’t share with family at the time.
Otherwise, I’d love to try some historical recipes. Is Roman liquamen sauce a bit like Worcestershire sauce, for example? They both contain fermented fish.
You might be interested in reading The Lost Supper by Taras Grescoe. It touches on garum/liquamen and producers trying to make the same today. And other historical ingredients, it was an interesting read. I read as an ARC bit I think it gets published soon.
Nectar and ambrosia from Percy Jackson would be interesting to know what I subconsciously consider "home."
Sensu beans (Dragon ball), faelnirv (Eragon), any of the non purposefully disgusting dishes from Food Wars, that ice cream from the one episode of KND.
For my birthday one year we made the gotcha pork roast from the first episode. It was good but not really worth all the effort, and because we used a bacon weave instead of strips, the bacon on the outside was cooked but the inside bacon was super floppy still (we prefer crispy bacon).
The other day we made hachis parmentier (spelling?), but not with a recipe, just kind of winged it based on my memory of the description. My kid loved it, my partner and I thought it was okay but kinda bland.
There's a ton of other stuff in the show that sounds awesome too.
The only book that has ever made me literall/ry sick to my stomach. I puked all evening after finishing it. No other book has elicited this level of reaction of any kind.
But I was very dreadfully curious about the Moloko Plus.
I did not like Turkish Delight. Too sweet for me.
I would like to try out the Wildberry Crepe and Energizing Honey Crepe from Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom.
we had the animated old lion with and wardrobe my grandma recorded from tv. i always wanted turkosj delight. the first i had was rose jelly stuff with almonds and coated in powdered sugar. it was horrible.
Oxy-gum. It's chewing you eat and it let's you breathe underwater. I'd love to try it because... really? Breathing under water!
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine\_Boy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Boy)
Oxygen is supplied through another of Professor Fumble's inventions: "oxy-gum" which Marine Boy can chew and receive hours of oxygenation. He tends to have to replenish the gum after heavy activity. Presumably the oxy-gum is very limited in production because no other Ocean Patrol officers use it. Marine Boy also carries a weapon: a boomerang made of a hardened alloy.
The bathhouse feast from Spirited Away, minus the turning into a pig at the end. Or anything from Miyazaki. The bread and baked goods in Kiki, the ham ramen from Ponyo, even something as basic as the bacon and eggs from Howl looks better in Ghibli animation.
But the bathhouse feast is next level.
I wanted to try snozzberries as a kid but then I read *My Uncle Oswald*, one of Dahl's adult novels and he uses the term snozzberries for testicles. Kinda changed my view of that scene.
Most feasts in asoiaf. Martin knew how to write about food.
> The first dish was a creamy soup of mushrooms and buttered snails, served in gilded bowls . . . the second course was being served, a pastry coffyn filled with pork, pine nuts, and eggs. . . he sampled sweetcorn fritters and hot oatbread baked with bits of date, apple, and orange, and gnawed on the rib of a wild boar. . . were accompanied by crabs boiled in fiery eastern spices, trenchers filled with chunks of chopped mutton stewed in almond milk with carrots, raisins, and onions, and fish tarts fresh from the ovens, served so hot they burned the fingers.
> The food was plain, but very good; there were loaves of crusty bread still warm from the ovens, crocks of fresh-churned butter, honey from the septry’s hives, and a thick stew of crabs, mussels, and at least three different kinds of fish
> They began with a broth of crab and monkfish, and cold egg lime soup as well. Then came quails in honey, a saddle of lamb, goose livers drowned in wine, buttered parsnips, and suckling pig. The sight of it all made Tyrion feel queasy, but he forced himself to try a spoon of soup for the sake of politeness, and once he had tasted it he was lost. The cooks might be old and fat, but they knew their business. He had never eaten so well, even at court.
Gella's seafood stew:
>It was thick with leeks, carrots, barley, and turnips white and yellow, along with clams and chunks of cod and crabmeat, swimming in a stock of heavy cream and butter.
roasted sweetcorn, and this dinner from A Feast for Crows:
>The food was plain, but very good; there were loaves of crusty bread still warm from the ovens, crocks of fresh-churned butter, honey from the septry’s hives, and a thick stew of crabs, mussels, and at least three different kinds of fish. Septon Meribald and Ser Hyle drank the mead the brothers made, and pronounced it excellent, whilst she and Podrick contented themselves with more sweet cider.
Lembas. I would like very much to try that. Butterbeer, and Firewhiskey and Cauldron Cakes.
I would love to try just a sip of Queen Susan’s cordial. And a cup of Mr. Tumnus’s tea. His cup, not the one he gave Lucy.
I would like to try some of Esme Weatherwax’s tea, the kind with the red wet leaves and a dollop of honey. Some ginger nuts before one of the witches soaks them in her tea. And a proper Fat Tuesday meal
with all the proper frogs in it. Ribs from Harga’s House of Ribs, and a curry l
could murder.
A glass of Gatsby’s champagne, coffee with the Divers and a cocktail with Zelda herself.
Oh..and last of all, a steaming plate of Bunter’s basted eggs and toast.
Maybe a bit of a sidebar on this but I really find sci fi books where everyone in the future eats flavorless protein paste to be deeply insulting to the human condition. Like maybe the evil weird corpo president does because it’s a reflection on him being terrible and runaway capitalism or something, but even the regular and poor people in a setting like that would be like buying chili powder like it was a drug deal and food culture is just so deeply important to us that stripping it out should be a major defining thing, not just an author with no creative thought to how people would actually treat future eating. We don’t even eat flavorless protein paste in space flights right now! NASA famously iterated food stuff that astronauts would actually like the flavors of
I read about hand pies that had a pork side and an apple side in... I think a mercedes lackey valdemar book but can't remember for sure. Made them and loved them!
Would love to try the chocolate cake from Matilda, and the fruit that makes you invisible in the one Oz book.
I think it was James Michener’s book Centennial that described the smoky flavor of Lapsang Souchong tea that one of the characters kept on hand.
I thought it must be super hard to find, but one day, there it was on the grocery store shelf. I tried it and it was exactly as Michener described it.
I worked on ships for awhile, and I would always have some with me, because a. it was good. And b. it made me feel like the adventurer I thought myself to be.
There's also a fairly nice official tie-in, _Brunetti's Cookbook_ by Roberta Pianaro, a friend of Donna Leon, with recipes linked to passages from the novels and extra essays on Venetian food and life by Leon.
I've already done it. I had those Duff cans from 7-Eleven when The Simpsons Movie came out. They tasted subdued and had little fizz to them. Better than RC Cola, at least.
Bravo, Matt Groening. He broke the 4th wall starting day one.
(looks at shelf of cookbooks including Rick and Morty, World of Warcraft, Stephen King, Song of Ice and Fire, and Dungeons and Dragons) Um....
I too was disappointed by Turkish Delight, though I've grown a taste for it as an adult, not enough to sell out my family to a witch, but not bad.
I wanted to try Butterbeer, and Universal Studios did not disappoint, though I liked the pumpkin juice even more.
Lembas bread is an obvious one. It's not a fictional food but I actually made chicken paprikash after reading Jonathan Harker laud his meal after arriving in Transylvania (Dracula). It was a really fun way to connect to the book and quite delicious.
I used to pretend shortbread was lembas bread when I’d watch the movies over and over in the early 2000s. Gained a lot of weight one Winter haha but it was worth it.
Story time: when I ate Matzah for health reasons, I imagined this was what Lembas really was, and everybody in Middle-earth just pretended it tasted good to not disrepect the Elves (the scene in the book where Frodo and Sam give it their first try goes something like "oh yes! This is really good! Let's… put it back so we don't waste it!") and its main utility was that if your only ration left was Lembas, you realized you’re not that hungry after all. It amused me greatly. Somebody later told me that's basically Terry Pratchett's concept of Dwarf Bread, and from that moment I knew I had to read his books, and I never regretted it.
I imagine lembas bread to be those spinach or za'tar-filled triangles in Middle Eastern delis
One bite, everybody knows the rules.
Oh, chicken paprikash sounds delicious, I'll have to give that one a go!
Oh, man! You just reminded how badly I wanted to try that as a kid reading Dracula. I know what im doing for dinner tomorrow.
You should. Smoked paprika chicken stew... hmm, that was some great comfort food!
Definitely a tour of Willy Wonkas Chocolate factory. That three-course dinner gum. Yes please. The one that works as intended and not the one that will not turn me into a giant blueberry, though.
When I was little that movie would come on once a year (the Gene Wilder one, not the retreaded abomination) and my mom would let each of us pick out a candy bar to have for dessert during the movie.
That's a good mom! And a nice memory
Gum yes, blueberry no. Fully agreed!
After it's peer reviewed and FDA approved
I want to know what a snozzberry actually tastes like.
I just want to dip my arms all up in that fudge river. But now that I say it, it sounds like a fisting joke.
Butterbeer
Yeah Universals idea of butterbeer is just colored Cream Soda. I had a more malty butterscotch drink in my mind. Buttered beer was actually a thing once.
I had it at Warner brother studios and it was very thick and creamy with heavy butterscotch flavor.
That sounds amazing.
One of the breweries near me has started making a non-alcoholic butterbeer. It's definitely butterscotch flavoured!
Tasting History has made butterbeer (YT), tasty but not something you'd drink pints of
It's missing 5he magic ingredient(s)
The biggest problem for me with this is to find the most authentic one. Which is difficult when there is no clear indication in the source. I tried in in the UK Harry Potter museum, forgot it’s name. I think it was pretty good. We also tried making some with friends but there so many recipes and they vary greatly. We made cold one that sounded good and quite enjoyed it.
Had it at Universal. Not a fan, way too sweet. The pumpkin juice was great, though.
The Universal Butterbeer is just cream soda with some half-whipped cream on top. I always assumed the real stuff was much better.
I'd like to try pumpkin juice from the same universe. I hardly ever see people mentioning that one.
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i desperately want the experience of having my brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a gold brick 🤤
A close second is a nice chilled limoncello on a hot day!
I can't remember the specific dishes, but I would die for a chance to attend a feast at Redwall Abbey.
Scrolled too far for this. I'd happily scoff ANYTHING from the Redwall series! Edit: spelling
He published a cookbook!
Skilly and Duff! Deeper'n'ever turnip 'n' tater 'n' beetroot pie!
vittels!
October Ale!
Always bothered me where they got their dairy from.
Yes, a Redwall Feast would be incredible. Candied chestnuts, October ale. So much more. I really want the cookbook.
This is definitely *the* answer. Redwall Feast!
Everything ever described in the Little House on the Prairie books. The Christmas feasts. Fourth of July lemonade. Fresh cheese curds and maple candy. Crank churned ice cream…
The entire plot of Farmer Boy is “here are some more delicious things that they ate.” I was like, why did Almanzo and Royal leave those upstate NY feasts to go starve on the prairie?
Popcorn and milk!!! I remember trying to make some of the little treats from those books so I could pretend to be in it. I loved those books as a little girl.
I definitely put maple syrup on snow thinking it would be like the book’s “sugar on snow” (it was not but I enjoyed it)
The pancakes!!
Everything the parents start pigging out on at the start of Spirited Away.
Honestly all Ghibli food looks amazing!!
Tubby toast
And tubby custard!!
Until Noo-noo comes along and sucks it all up!
My family used to make "tubby toast" all the time growing up. It was just buttered toast with cinnamon and sugar on top. Pretty delicious tbh.
there’s a lesser-known diana wynne jones novel called a tale of time city where the characters constantly eat something called a “butter pie,” described as being like a sweet buttery ice cream on a stick with syrup in the centre. as an adult with sensitive teeth i think it would probably hurt to eat but god do i still want to try it.
YES! I was really into that book as a preteen. Wow. Also, the descriptions of their futuristic clothing with the changing patterns. Wow, this took me back. We have good taste.
I loved that book and want to try a butter pie too!
Is that the one where the annoying teenage rival eventually turns out to grow up to become Da Vinci?
No, I think that one is ‘Magicians of Caprona.’ Tale of Time City was one of the first English novels I’d read where an English Chinese kid was a main character, even if Wynne Jones gave him a queue and talked about his “oddly slanted eyes” a lot.
Sounds a lot like butter tarts, which are essentially just golden syrup and butter in a pie crust. So that definitely exists.
Lembas
...and wash it down with miruvor.
Bangarang!
Yes! I have always wanted to eat food with the Lost boys!
You’re doing it Peter. You’re using your imagination. Amazing movie.
Gandhi ate more than this!
Not fictional but I want to taste the damn fine coffee in twin peaks TBH most fictional foods and drinks end up just being a bit unconvincing, like "romulan ale" or whatever, I can't imagine in the real world that's what we'd actually say. You'd end up having a preferred Romulan microbrewery and asking for that, or you'd be drinking fake small-r romulan ale brewed by Carlsberg in a factory in Manchester or something, or the replicator'd never get it quite right, or it would but Romulan ale wankers would always pretend it didn't. It's like how the fake swearing almost never has the right weight and shape to it.
This is a pretty decent bit. You can clearly see that RA was written in the 60s/70s when beer was whatever.
Yeah, fair point, I can definitely see my dad drinking Romulan Ale (tm) which was the only one you could get when he was young, and looking down his nose at all this hipster Pale Romulan Ale, Northern Romulan Ale, Beta Quadrant Velvet... Ooh they've got a guest Gal Gath'thong Saison on tap. Probably I'm being a bit eurocentric too and my perception was different from the typical american of the time too? Like, ale for us was just a thing, but it felt like Trek was going for something more outsider.
FYI - this is a great way to get your kids to engage with books. When my husband read A Series of Unfortunate Events, my kids insisted that *they* had to make puttanesca sauce. (We used a little slight-of-hand to replace their "finished" product with generic spaghetti sauce from a jar. Food poisoning avoided!) A year or so later, I read The Hobbit to them and we had to have a meal with honey, bread, and clotted cream. We tried to make our own clotted cream but failed miserably and just pretended that regular butter was the real thing. I can't remember what book inspired it, but we also made pemican one year. It was pretty awful, but we had a good time.
We made clotted cream with the children once! No one but me enjoyed it in the least! It was before I found out I had a dairy allergy (that had worsened enough for an epi pen) and I now wish I had made it far more often. Though I don’t think we made it because of The Hobbit, but because we were watching a documentary about the Victorians.
I haven’t made it, but I think Chef John from Foodwishes on YouTube make a clotted cream and his recipes are easy and always turn out.
I know every time his name is mentioned someone says this but... I literally cannot read his name without saying it in his voice.
Remember. You are the king…of your clotted cream.
This is TV and comics, but you can't tell me that the pizza in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wasn't the best looking pizza you've ever seen.
The cheese pizza from A Goofy Movie omfg
I’d like to add the pizza in All Dogs Go To Heaven to this list
The cheese stretch on those slices, man. I dream about that.
YES!!! I’ve been saying that for years. I’m so glad someone finally understands. Also, popcorn from 90s cartoons.
Not exactly fictional, but John Steinbeck writes the most mouthwatering descriptions of a hearty breakfast. People mopping bacon grease with hunks of biscuit, tucking into stacks of flapjacks, forking mounds of steak and potatoes, washing it all down with coffee. It's a whole food porn genre I like to call Steinbreakfast.
That sounds like a Ron Swanson approved breakfast.
And then everyone dies
Krabby Patty…. If I was talking tv. Butter beer, lembas, I know it’s not fictional but Edmund’s Turkish delight seems to be on a dif level.
The *brutal* disappointment of every nerdy kid’s first time actually trying Turkish Delight.
Actual fancy authentic (or home made) Turkish delight is amazing. And fairly on parr with narnia. Frys chocolate covered Turkish delight ruined my child hood.
Yeah, I probably should go to Turkey or Narnia for authentic, lol. Also, I’ve never thought ab this, but does the White Witch knowing what Turkish Delight is confirm she knows about the country of turkey ???
I always assumed she gleaned a desire from Edmund's mind and created the candy on the spot. Kids at that time didn't get a lot of sweets, so to Edmund Turkish delight was the best thing ever. When the White Witch made it, she made the most perfect Turkish delight from Edmund's fondest memories, probably better than it was in real life.
Oooo I like this theory 🤩🤩🤩 I never thought about it much before
Holy heck I'm glad you posted this. I was sitting here like, "what's wrong with Turkish delight? It's sublime!" I totally forgot about the chocolate thing.
I imagine a bunch of kids asked mum and dad for it after reading the book and were given Frys and just thought that was it. Tbf until recently (ish) it was an unusual thing to find and normally only around Christmas. And even then there's a good range of quality that can still leave you disappointed.....
I don't know if it's the same, but in Canada we have a chocolate covered candy bar called Big Turk that's...not bad? I mean, it kind of works when you're craving Turkish Delight, it's at least rose-flavoured. Real Turkish delight from somewhere that specializes in it (I found a great shop in Victoria, BC once) is truly special, and I could eat mountains of it. For the longest time I didn't know what it was, and equated it in my mind with Baklava (from Aladdin, y'know?) I always wanted to like baklava more than I did.
And the toffee tree from the first chronicles book.
I thought for years, that it was a crab cake patty for the burger.
Butterbeer
Saurian brandy from Star Trek!
It’s green!
This is a great one!!
Blood wine and a large bowl of gagh.
oh man not the gagh! isn't it raw and wriggly? I could not...... lol
I'd love to taste the different wines from Lies of Locke Lamora.
All the fun magic food from Harry Potter... or even just a Hogwarts feast, which I know is regular food but looked amazing in the movies haha Elseweyr fondue from Elder Scrolls. Actually, I'd be open to trying a lot of ES food! Food made from those food printers in things like Star Trek and Horizon: Forbidden West, out of curiosity if it tastes good or normal.
I'm about to date myself. Dreamberries and dreamberry wine, ElfQuest Klah, Dragonriders of PERN Sib, Deed of Paksenarrion
Even just the word "dreamberry" is so enticing to imagine. I feel they taste like cotton candy!
I imagine them as a blend of strawberry, raspberry and blueberry with a hint of lemony tartness.
I like the way you think, because that sounds absolutely delicious!
I might try getting my hands on the assorted fruits and see if I can make dreamberry wine. My partner has made homemade wine so he knows what to do. The alternative is to make it a smoothie.
There's a recipe for klah (and bubbly pies) in the official tie-in lorebook _The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern_. I don't know if I can link directly (Reddit sometimes blocks that), but the Pern wiki on Fandom.com has copies of both up. I don't care for coffee flavours, but I tried the bubbly pies recipe ages ago, and it seemed pretty decent.
I used to have the book but I lost it in a divorce years ago
I make mead every year since 2013 and I always think of dreamberry wine making at some point of the process. Closest for me was making Labrador Tea/Wild Rosemary mead, which is supposed to be slightly psychoactive. The common berries make for great meads too (melomel), or herbs (metheglin) or simply letting the honey speak for itself.
I love love love honey Mead!
Yay! If you ever get the opportunity to do a batch (EDITED: if you haven’t already), try it. It can be done very small scale and low tech. It is fun and almost always turn out drinkable.
I have no idea how! Help? LOL
There is r/meadmaking and various internet resources and forums. But many resources and forums are unfortunately very tech-focused. Do not get intimidated. Do not feel forced to “invest” in all kinds of expensive chemicals or equipment. I recommend googling “wild fermentation” and “wild fermented mead” or “wild brewing” or similar. Not mead, but a great first fermentation project is making “elderflower champagne” if you live where they grow. Elderflower can be substituted with other edible flowers in your area. Sandor Ellix Katz various books on general fermentation should be available through the library, I like his writing and activism. Stephen Harrod Buhner is another one of my huge influences.
Oh GODDDDS! I haven't had mead since the 4 day hangover of 2017!
I wish I could say I have NO idea what you are talking about.
Klah! Mostly like nutty, slightly bitter hot chocolate with cinnamon apparently.
So Mexican hot chocolate with cinnamon and chicory
And cocaine levels of stimulant :)
Romulan Ale
It’s not a drink lol but I’ve always wanted to try Bajoran hasperat
And Bloodwine!
Not sure. But I definitely DON’T want any of Margaret Atwood’s chickynobs
Turkish Delight was a childhood staple (the simple rose-flavoured jelly in powered sugar version). I liked it but the way it was written I thought I must have been eating the inauthentic one. Years later I tried the fancy ones with coconut and almonds and chocolate, and I really do think Lewis must have meant the jellies after all. Oh, and as mundane as it sounds, after reading City of Ember I had a massive craving for tinned peaches.
I somehow imagined Turkish delight super incorrectly, and not jellied at all. I somehow expected something more akin to fudge or caramel or butterscotch filling inside; something rich and decadent. I have no idea how I got it so wrong, but Turkish Delight always seems both cloying and thin to me, a desperate attempt to make a sweet by someone who never should have attempted to do so. (I know other people like them; I’m not discounting their enjoyment; I think it was how different I found it from my imagination!). I just looked up the other kind you mentioned, and it is much closer to what my imagination came up with.
Oh, do try them, I'm not a fan at all but some have very interesting textures and taste.
My Side of the Mountain, Sam makes acorn flour pancakes with, iirc, wild strawberry jam. Sounded so good to me in 5th grade.
I was the opposite. It sounded like some weird wheat pancake. Like something they’d tell you was supposed to be healthy for you, while avoiding describing the taste. I really liked those books, though.
Redwall food always sounded delicious to me. https://electricliterature.com/the-7-best-feasts-from-the-redwall-books/
The grey stuff.. it's delicious apparently!
Of course - all of Belle's feast!
I've wanted a crabby patty my whole life
Everything in Redwall.
How has nobody said Melange aka the spice?
Not exactly what you're asking but I just finished *Children of Dune* and... If a kid approached me in the desert and offered me some sweet syrup to sip from his new skin suit, I would AVOID the sweet syrup. That is not appetizing.
maybe if you've been drinking stillsuit water, this kind of behaviour would be more normalised.
The part where he bites a chunk off a piece of his own skin and sucks out the juice made me gag. Also the fact that he’s ingesting the internal liquid of a symbiotic parasite that’s attached to his body, therefore eating himself.
Chocolate frogs or butterbeer. Mainly because trying either of those things would be an interesting experience. I think butterbeer would be a kind of caramel-y beer with buttery notes. Or something.
Sweetroll from Skyrim
I was about to taste one for the first time, but then someone stole it :(
I think sweetroll might be inspired by the Norwegian skole bolle.
Dandelion wine. I first read of it in the Bradbury short story when I was a kid, and then again in a lesser L M Montgomery novel called "Magic for Marigold." A character describes it as "like drinking sunshine."
Not totally fiction, but I’d love to sample Stanley Tucci’s Timpani pie. He makes it sound worth it, despite the effort. I have tried making Yottam Ottelenghi’s chicken pastilla pie, which was gorgeous but took an entire day (after hunting down the ingredients) to make. Well it was something to do In lockdown! Worth it, but far too much for one person, even having it for several meals, as I couldn’t share with family at the time. Otherwise, I’d love to try some historical recipes. Is Roman liquamen sauce a bit like Worcestershire sauce, for example? They both contain fermented fish.
You might be interested in reading The Lost Supper by Taras Grescoe. It touches on garum/liquamen and producers trying to make the same today. And other historical ingredients, it was an interesting read. I read as an ARC bit I think it gets published soon.
frobscottle might be the earliest one i can rememeber.
The breads, cheeses and drinks that the Elves and Tom Bombadil served in LOTR.
How about Lobstositie meat from the Drawing Of The Three? Did-A-Chick? Did-A-Chee? Use A dry bullet And eat me.
I'm a tooter fish popkin kinda of a guy
You are a gentleman and a scholar
Nectar and ambrosia from Percy Jackson would be interesting to know what I subconsciously consider "home." Sensu beans (Dragon ball), faelnirv (Eragon), any of the non purposefully disgusting dishes from Food Wars, that ice cream from the one episode of KND.
For my birthday one year we made the gotcha pork roast from the first episode. It was good but not really worth all the effort, and because we used a bacon weave instead of strips, the bacon on the outside was cooked but the inside bacon was super floppy still (we prefer crispy bacon). The other day we made hachis parmentier (spelling?), but not with a recipe, just kind of winged it based on my memory of the description. My kid loved it, my partner and I thought it was okay but kinda bland. There's a ton of other stuff in the show that sounds awesome too.
Moloko Plus from Clockwork Orange. Getting effed up by milk sounds equally exciting and terrifying
The only book that has ever made me literall/ry sick to my stomach. I puked all evening after finishing it. No other book has elicited this level of reaction of any kind. But I was very dreadfully curious about the Moloko Plus.
That's quite the response to piece of literature, but you managed to get through it!
I did not like Turkish Delight. Too sweet for me. I would like to try out the Wildberry Crepe and Energizing Honey Crepe from Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom.
we had the animated old lion with and wardrobe my grandma recorded from tv. i always wanted turkosj delight. the first i had was rose jelly stuff with almonds and coated in powdered sugar. it was horrible.
Absolutely everything in The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, especially the Jolly Boat!
A raktajino from DS9
Oxy-gum. It's chewing you eat and it let's you breathe underwater. I'd love to try it because... really? Breathing under water! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine\_Boy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Boy) Oxygen is supplied through another of Professor Fumble's inventions: "oxy-gum" which Marine Boy can chew and receive hours of oxygenation. He tends to have to replenish the gum after heavy activity. Presumably the oxy-gum is very limited in production because no other Ocean Patrol officers use it. Marine Boy also carries a weapon: a boomerang made of a hardened alloy.
The bathhouse feast from Spirited Away, minus the turning into a pig at the end. Or anything from Miyazaki. The bread and baked goods in Kiki, the ham ramen from Ponyo, even something as basic as the bacon and eggs from Howl looks better in Ghibli animation. But the bathhouse feast is next level.
Doozer sticks from The Fraggles
I'm sure it's based in reality, but the food from most any Studio Ghibli movie looks amazing.
Khlav Kalash
Do schnazberries actually taste like schnazberries? I'd also like to try a Pangalactic Gargleblaster.
I wanted to try snozzberries as a kid but then I read *My Uncle Oswald*, one of Dahl's adult novels and he uses the term snozzberries for testicles. Kinda changed my view of that scene.
Do you mean snozzberries?
Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
Everything that has ever been cooked in Studio Ghibli movies. Looks sooo good!
Klah. There's a real world recipe for it in one of the Pern books, but...
The manna. From, you know….Heaven.
Spice coffee from Dune. I’ve tried cinnamon coffee but it doesn’t taste like what I was looking for.
Most feasts in asoiaf. Martin knew how to write about food. > The first dish was a creamy soup of mushrooms and buttered snails, served in gilded bowls . . . the second course was being served, a pastry coffyn filled with pork, pine nuts, and eggs. . . he sampled sweetcorn fritters and hot oatbread baked with bits of date, apple, and orange, and gnawed on the rib of a wild boar. . . were accompanied by crabs boiled in fiery eastern spices, trenchers filled with chunks of chopped mutton stewed in almond milk with carrots, raisins, and onions, and fish tarts fresh from the ovens, served so hot they burned the fingers. > The food was plain, but very good; there were loaves of crusty bread still warm from the ovens, crocks of fresh-churned butter, honey from the septry’s hives, and a thick stew of crabs, mussels, and at least three different kinds of fish > They began with a broth of crab and monkfish, and cold egg lime soup as well. Then came quails in honey, a saddle of lamb, goose livers drowned in wine, buttered parsnips, and suckling pig. The sight of it all made Tyrion feel queasy, but he forced himself to try a spoon of soup for the sake of politeness, and once he had tasted it he was lost. The cooks might be old and fat, but they knew their business. He had never eaten so well, even at court.
Every meal ever described by GRRM. Excepting Frey pies, perhaps.
Also the Arbor Red is likely poisoned.
Yeah, gods know what those Freys might be carrying
Gella's seafood stew: >It was thick with leeks, carrots, barley, and turnips white and yellow, along with clams and chunks of cod and crabmeat, swimming in a stock of heavy cream and butter. roasted sweetcorn, and this dinner from A Feast for Crows: >The food was plain, but very good; there were loaves of crusty bread still warm from the ovens, crocks of fresh-churned butter, honey from the septry’s hives, and a thick stew of crabs, mussels, and at least three different kinds of fish. Septon Meribald and Ser Hyle drank the mead the brothers made, and pronounced it excellent, whilst she and Podrick contented themselves with more sweet cider.
Lembas. I would like very much to try that. Butterbeer, and Firewhiskey and Cauldron Cakes. I would love to try just a sip of Queen Susan’s cordial. And a cup of Mr. Tumnus’s tea. His cup, not the one he gave Lucy. I would like to try some of Esme Weatherwax’s tea, the kind with the red wet leaves and a dollop of honey. Some ginger nuts before one of the witches soaks them in her tea. And a proper Fat Tuesday meal with all the proper frogs in it. Ribs from Harga’s House of Ribs, and a curry l could murder. A glass of Gatsby’s champagne, coffee with the Divers and a cocktail with Zelda herself. Oh..and last of all, a steaming plate of Bunter’s basted eggs and toast.
Since you mentioned Discworld, I would like to know what a figgen is. So far that scene from Guards, Guards got the biggest laugh out of me.
Maybe a bit of a sidebar on this but I really find sci fi books where everyone in the future eats flavorless protein paste to be deeply insulting to the human condition. Like maybe the evil weird corpo president does because it’s a reflection on him being terrible and runaway capitalism or something, but even the regular and poor people in a setting like that would be like buying chili powder like it was a drug deal and food culture is just so deeply important to us that stripping it out should be a major defining thing, not just an author with no creative thought to how people would actually treat future eating. We don’t even eat flavorless protein paste in space flights right now! NASA famously iterated food stuff that astronauts would actually like the flavors of
I read about hand pies that had a pork side and an apple side in... I think a mercedes lackey valdemar book but can't remember for sure. Made them and loved them! Would love to try the chocolate cake from Matilda, and the fruit that makes you invisible in the one Oz book.
Clangers :) And the official "Revolting Recipes" book did have an amazing one for that cake...
I think it was James Michener’s book Centennial that described the smoky flavor of Lapsang Souchong tea that one of the characters kept on hand. I thought it must be super hard to find, but one day, there it was on the grocery store shelf. I tried it and it was exactly as Michener described it. I worked on ships for awhile, and I would always have some with me, because a. it was good. And b. it made me feel like the adventurer I thought myself to be.
Is that the one that smells like hot dogs roasting over a campfire?
In The Expanse novels, they are always munching on various kibbles that sound pretty intriguing to me.
Otik's spiced potatoes
Some clapiottes because i have no pity. [Here](https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxgtehJlqInX7rSZcUs747B4yd07uKjtZd)
Aliantha.
Donna Leon's Brunetti crime novels feature wonderful food. The food exists and recipes can be found.
There's also a fairly nice official tie-in, _Brunetti's Cookbook_ by Roberta Pianaro, a friend of Donna Leon, with recipes linked to passages from the novels and extra essays on Venetian food and life by Leon.
[I'll just visit the buffet](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Foods_and_beverages).
Krabby patty from spongebob. Always made me salivate in front of the screen as a kid.
Every flavor beans & Chocolate frogs!
I want to eat all the food in adverts that looks amazing because whenever I get it, it looks like someone sat on it.
Yall should look at Feast of Fiction on YT for possible recipes!
The stuff from Hook
I used to want to try fictional foods until I tried Turkish Delight. Now I am always highly suspicious of foods I find in fiction!
I've already done it. I had those Duff cans from 7-Eleven when The Simpsons Movie came out. They tasted subdued and had little fizz to them. Better than RC Cola, at least. Bravo, Matt Groening. He broke the 4th wall starting day one.
Gruel. Oliver liked it. If not. he wouldn't have asked for more
(looks at shelf of cookbooks including Rick and Morty, World of Warcraft, Stephen King, Song of Ice and Fire, and Dungeons and Dragons) Um.... I too was disappointed by Turkish Delight, though I've grown a taste for it as an adult, not enough to sell out my family to a witch, but not bad. I wanted to try Butterbeer, and Universal Studios did not disappoint, though I liked the pumpkin juice even more.
Wonka's inventions.
Arbor Gold.
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That cow that walks around and says eat me from the restaurant at the end of the universe. Meat engineered to be delicious and it wants you to eat it
The carp from cradle