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The Fictional Foods We Wish Were Real

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Turkish Delight as preposterously described by C.S.Lewis: "Each piece was sweet and light to the very center and Edmund had never tasted anything more delicious."

This cracked me up - watching the Narnia TV series as a kid they were made out to be so good, I would try to imagine what those semi-transparent cubes could possibly taste like. However, my reaction when I finally tasted them I think was opposite to what it seems you're alluding to: I think the anticipation and the immense respect I had for Lewis and Narnia in general made it so that they tasted better to me than they otherwise would have!

I would actually argue that that is a pretty fair description of quality Turkish delights. I've had some rose and some mastic flavoured Turkish delights imported from Turkey and this is more or less exactly how I would describe them.

They are simple confections but they are oh so good.

I was extremely disappointed when I first tried Turkish Delight.

I read somewhere that Edmund's reaction to tasting turkish delight was a measure of the wartime deprivations he lived under. Sugar and fruit were rationed. Luxurious cuisine was a rarity. That, and the White Witch magic on the treats :-)

Um - metheglin, I’m pretty sure I’ve had that before. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/fe...

I've made it, it's just spiced mead. Mine was with cinnamon and clove, but I'm hoping to make another batch with rosemary and maybe thyme soon.

I've never had metheglin, but I've tried a few different meads after reading about it and was deeply disappointed. As far as I'm concerned, that hyped version of mead is a fictional drink.

What did you find disappointing about mead?

I absolutely love the stuff, so I'm curious about your take on it.

Related, there's also Binging with Babish, a chef that recreates foods found in movies, tv shows, books, etc [0]. Including gems like Eggs Woodhouse (including the Iberico ham), Homer Simpson's Moon Waffles, and the English Trifle disaster from Friends.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJHA_jMfCvEnv-3kRjTCQXw

We wanted Ambrosia, instead we got Soylent.

I suppose you could add the soylent green crackers to the list. (not that I'd want to eat them :-)

Anything on the Food Pyramid

https://i.stack.imgur.com/RAOEu.jpg

A list of ficticious foods that mentions Deep Space 9 but not Yamok sauce [1]? It was a major plot point in at least one episode.

I always imagined it to taste like some combination of Worcestershire sauce and tomatillo salsa.

[1] http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Yamok_sauce

Don't forget Limonana, a fictional drink that became real. [1] It tastes exactly as its name, a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew, implies: a mixture of lemon and mint.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limonana#History

Disappointed that knichi wasn't on the list. It sounds yummy in the move Barefoot in the Park when Victor Velasko described it during the cocktail party.

I was really surprised when I found out it was fictional.

Scooby Snacks! (I'm sure they weren't graham crackers.)

Uh huh; I'm pretty sure "Scooby Snacks" aren't fictional. They looked pretty familiar on the show.

" . . . Shaggy and Scooby go crazy for this, and I have to wonder why."

(NSFW?) https://www.leafly.com/hybrid/scooby-snack

I want to try at least one Poppler.

“They’re like sex, but I’m having them!”

I was hoping to find dornish sour reds in the list. I imagine they taste like a fruity red wine, but sour and tart, perhaps like a Berliner weiss.

I have a strange craving for Strupo. The liquor derived from capers that they drink on Isla Verde in The Simpsons.

All we have here is Mountain Dew and crab juice.

Fruit from the Tree of the Forgetting of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Soylent Green.

Some background on Brian Jacques:

> He is known for the very descriptive style of his novels, which emphasize sound, smell, taste, gravity, balance, temperature, touch, and kinesthetics, not just visual sensations. His work gained acclaim when Alan Durband, his former English teacher (who also taught Paul McCartney and George Harrison), showed it to his (Durband's) own publisher without telling Jacques. Durband told his publishers: "This is the finest children's tale I've ever read, and you'd be foolish not to publish it". Soon after, Jacques was summoned to London to meet with the publishers, who gave him a contract to write the next five books in the series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jacques

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