Author Topic: Favorite SF Consumables? (Read 11869 times)

shwankie · **on:** March 30, 2008, 11:39:56 PM

I am a Chef. Food is my life. Well, really Thaur is my life, but that--as previously debated--is possibly because he keeps me hopped up on carby-sugary baked goods that have more butter in them than I ever want to think about. So, naturally all the lists going around (robots, sweeteners, etc.) made me wonder about food in SF. The recent SF story "This. My Body" started it, and I've been dwelling on it since.

What have I tried to replicate? What do I think would be tasty? What do I wish I could taste? What foods stick in your memory for some reason? Here goes:

-Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans. I suppose they're like Jelly Bellies, only with more vile flavors.
-Klah (yeah, I read Pern when I was younger. I even have the compendium, which has an actual Klah recipe that I tried. Not bad, but I like coffee better).
-Fruity Oaty bars (or however you spell that)

Yours?

Chodon · **Reply #1 on:** March 31, 2008, 02:24:33 AM

I would love to try Lembas. I tried making a couple recipes online, but it wasn't like in LoTR. Romulan ale is a close second.

BTW, you can buy every flavor beans at Barnes and Nobles. Some of the delicious flavors include vomit, earwax, and black pepper. Yum. Yes, they are made by Jelly Belly.

Heradel · **Reply #2 on:** March 31, 2008, 02:26:36 AM

Quote from: Chodon on March 31, 2008, 02:24:33 AM

I would love to try Lembas. I tried making a couple recipes online, but it wasn't like in LoTR. Romulan ale is a close second.

BTW, you can buy every flavor beans at Barnes and Nobles. Some of the delicious flavors include vomit, earwax, and black pepper. Yum. Yes, they are made by Jelly Belly.

Also here. (Mods, feel free to escape podify link)

birdless · **Reply #3 on:** March 31, 2008, 05:46:56 PM

I would like to try:
The spice from Arrakis.
Mead (no, I've never had an opportunity to try it).
I'd have to put Lembas on my list, too.
A healing potion.
... I know I'm leaving out something....

Talia · **Reply #4 on:** March 31, 2008, 05:58:52 PM

Mead is awesome. You can get it at some liquor stores, or at a decent Renaissance Festival.

Chodon · **Reply #5 on:** March 31, 2008, 06:07:52 PM

Quote from: birdless on March 31, 2008, 05:46:56 PM

Mead (no, I've never had an opportunity to try it).

I'm in the process of making a ginger ale mead right now. It's more mead than ginger ale unfortunately. I plan on adding another pound of ginger before bottling. I want it to burn my eyebrows off!

Check out Chaucer's mead. It's the best I've found. Very sweet, but not a lot of off honey flavors. It's excellent with raspberry pie. Other types of mead can range from very dry like a white wine or a champagne to very, very sweet. Plus there are options like Melomel (fruit added to the mead) and Cyser (Apple cider added to the mead). A couple guys I work with have been making some cyser and it's been fermenting since early October and still isn't ready. When it's done right and aged enough it's fantastic.

I also noticed that the topic of this thread was "SF Consumables", so sorry for the Lembas addition. I just really, really want some. Maybe that belongs in Podcastle's territory.

stePH · **Reply #6 on:** March 31, 2008, 06:14:25 PM

Quote from: Talia on March 31, 2008, 05:58:52 PM

Mead is awesome. You can get it at some liquor stores, or at a decent Renaissance Festival.

Would mead count as SF? I wouldn't think anything you can get in the real world qualifies for this thread.

And birdless, if we use "SF" to mean "Speculative Fiction" then Lembas should be ok

Tango Alpha Delta · **Reply #7 on:** April 01, 2008, 01:34:25 AM

After EP150, I tried gluing salad to myself... the wife was not impressed.

But in all seriousness, the best I could come up with was a lame Star Trek reference to Raktajino. I'll try to get my lovely bride in here to come up with a good recipe... as soon as she's done flossing.

shwankie · **Reply #8 on:** April 01, 2008, 01:43:26 AM

SF = Speculative Fiction, including fantasy!

Mead is wonderful! I've had more than my fair share, and the good stuff is really good. I actually am not a huge fan of Chaucer's, but mostly because I've been spoiled by having too many friends as brewers. One friend made mead with Scharffen-Burger chocolate. *swoon* It was a medium-body mead, and the chocolate was all in the finish. The pumpkin mead and the fireweed honey mead were also amazing.

Chaucer's is, however, a great introduction, and I do still drink it when it's what's available.

And now I am thirsty. I was kind of hungry, but TAD's kinda taken care of that. Fortunately, Thaur hasn't gotten any ideas (yet).

CammoBlammo · **Reply #9 on:** April 01, 2008, 02:31:45 AM

Quote from: Tango Alpha Delta on April 01, 2008, 01:34:25 AM

After EP150, I tried gluing salad to myself... the wife was not impressed.

Hmm. If you're going to go down that track you might want to try the porn movie in the Futurama episode 'Spanish Fry' in which one alien applies 'human horn' to another and proceeds to consume it.

In deference to this thread, however, I'm not sure I'm in the mood for nose. My kids seem to enjoy it, though.

Planish · **Reply #10 on:** April 01, 2008, 04:51:08 AM

There are tales told of a concotion given the name "Tranya" at the SCA Pennsic Wars. It consisted of grain alcohol mixed with lime Kool-Aid, and is served from a semi-opaque plastic gallon jug into which has been dropped an activated green Glowstick, so that the whole jug glows an unearthly green.

I guess it would be easy to find at night. Never mind that the "real" Tranya was orange, in ST:TOS.

wherethewild · **Reply #11 on:** April 02, 2008, 08:15:53 PM

Okay, it sticks in my mind, but only because I wish the script writers had done Yr 8 science... the single celled amino acids in The Matrix. I mean really, come on.

And nobody`s mentioned Soylent Green yet? This crowd has failed to go there?

Tango Alpha Delta · **Reply #12 on:** April 02, 2008, 09:00:49 PM

Quote from: wherethewild on April 02, 2008, 08:15:53 PM

Okay, it sticks in my mind, but only because I wish the script writers had done Yr 8 science... the single celled amino acids in The Matrix. I mean really, come on.

And nobody`s mentioned Soylent Green yet? This crowd has failed to go there?

That is strange... no one has asked for a nice, tasty Feng Burger either...

stePH · **Reply #13 on:** April 03, 2008, 05:41:14 PM

Quote from: Tango Alpha Delta on April 02, 2008, 09:00:49 PM

That is strange... no one has asked for a nice, tasty Feng Burger either...

There was nothing particularly SFnal about the burgers themselves, but rather the structures that the burgers were sold out of.

wintermute · **Reply #14 on:** April 03, 2008, 06:16:02 PM

How about a spoo sandwich washed down with a glass of Slug-o Cola? Maybe an Apollo bar for dessert...

Tango Alpha Delta · **Reply #15 on:** April 04, 2008, 02:38:34 AM

Quote from: wintermute on April 03, 2008, 06:16:02 PM

... Maybe an Apollo bar for dessert...

... no, but I wouldn't mind a bit o' Starbuck!

Chodon · **Reply #16 on:** April 04, 2008, 03:23:35 PM

I have always wondered about the blue milk at the beginning of "A New Hope". I wonder if it tastes like normal milk.

Also, what would Taun-Taun meat taste like? We covered this somewhat in the "free Range Meat" thread, but there isn't much meat I wouldn't try. Is there some SF creature that would make an especially tasty burger? Tribbles anyone?

wintermute · **Reply #17 on:** April 04, 2008, 04:52:35 PM

Man, tribbles are all reproductive tract. An ovary sandwich doesn't sound too delicious to me.

Targs, on the other hand...

stePH · **Reply #18 on:** April 04, 2008, 07:00:49 PM

How about the drugs mentioned in the first chapter of A Clockwork Orange? Vellocet, Synthemesc, and Drencrom?

Vellocet sounds like some kind of stimulant, and Synthemesc must be a hallucinogen (synthetic mescaline?). By process of elimination, I'm guessing Drencrom is some kind of depressant or narcotic.

Chodon · **Reply #19 on:** April 04, 2008, 07:21:49 PM

Quote from: stePH on April 04, 2008, 07:00:49 PM

How about the drugs mentioned in the first chapter of A Clockwork Orange? Vellocet, Synthemesc, and Drencrom?

Vellocet sounds like some kind of stimulant, and Synthemesc must be a hallucinogen (synthetic mescaline?). By process of elimination, I'm guessing Drencrom is some kind of depressant or narcotic.

Vellocet sounds like Darvocet to me, which is a pain killer (or is it a muscle relaxer?). Either way, they all sound like fun.

stePH · **Reply #20 on:** April 04, 2008, 08:04:33 PM

Quote from: Chodon on April 04, 2008, 07:21:49 PM

Vellocet sounds like Darvocet to me, which is a pain killer (or is it a muscle relaxer?). Either way, they all sound like fun.

I was guessing stimulant because I thought "Vellocet" would have "velocity" as the root word.

And what sort of drugs were the "knives" that Alex and his droogs were having in their "milk plus"?

wherethewild · **Reply #21 on:** April 04, 2008, 08:23:26 PM

Quote from: stePH on April 04, 2008, 07:00:49 PM

How about the drugs mentioned in the first chapter of A Clockwork Orange? Vellocet, Synthemesc, and Drencrom?

Did anyone else notice that Drencrom is morcnerd backwards? Maybe a drug engineered to specifically target geeks? Or perhaps if you just play it backwards on a turntable really fast it will be a chant to Cthulhu.

stePH · **Reply #22 on:** April 04, 2008, 08:35:50 PM

Quote from: wherethewild on April 04, 2008, 08:23:26 PM

Did anyone else notice that Drencrom is morcnerd backwards?

Probably not

Tango Alpha Delta · **Reply #23 on:** April 05, 2008, 03:36:28 AM

Quote from: wherethewild on April 04, 2008, 08:23:26 PM

Did anyone else notice that Drencrom is morcnerd backwards?

Na-Nu Na-Nu!

Thaurismunths · **Reply #24 on:** April 05, 2008, 05:47:27 PM

Quote from: wherethewild on April 02, 2008, 08:15:53 PM

Okay, it sticks in my mind, but only because I wish the script writers had done Yr 8 science... the single celled amino acids in The Matrix. I mean really, come on.

And nobody`s mentioned Soylent Green yet? This crowd has failed to go there?

I dunno, I think we've already been there: http://forum.escapeartists.info/index.php?topic=1314.0

Author Topic: Favorite SF Consumables? (Read 11869 times)

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