Top 5 Science Fiction and Fantasy Foods that Sound Good Enough to Eat
By Marcy Kennedy (@MarcyKennedy)
One of the things I love most is when the creator of another world makes me crave a food or drink that doesn’t exist. For fun, I thought I’d make a list of the top 5 I’m desperate to try.
Klingon Raktajino from Star Trek
My husband frequently jokes that he’s going to buy me a shirt that reads “Instant human. Just add coffee.” So, as you might imagine, a coffee was going to make this list.
Raktajino is a strong, dark coffee introduced to Federation citizens by the Klingons. Barely an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine goes by when someone doesn’t order one. I’ll take mine extra sweet, thank you.
Butterbeer from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series
I want to go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios in Orlando just so I can try a butterbeer. Based on the Harry Potter movies, it looks thick and creamy, and it’s topped with foam. I’ve heard talk that it tastes like butterscotch.
EAT ME Cakes and DRINK ME Bottles from Lewis Carol’s Alice in Wonderland
I’d only want to try these in a controlled environment (after all, I don’t want to be eaten by my own cats or crash through the roof of my house), but it’d be a lot of fun to be giant or tiny for a little while.
Turkish Delights from C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Turkish Delights exist in our world. They’re basically flavored gelatin coated in powdered sugar or covered in chocolate. They’re a bit like a giant jelly bean center really.
The Turkish Delights in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe are enchanted so that once you eat one, you desperately want another and will keep eating them until someone stops you or you die. I don’t like that aspect of it, but my theory is that means they’re the most delicious thing you’ve ever tasted. I’d just need to make sure to eat them with someone trustworthy around to stop me.
Fizzy Lifting Drinks from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
I read all Roald Dahl’s books multiple times as a kid. While I would also love to drink from the chocolate river and try the gum that tastes like a whole meal (as long as I didn’t end up as a giant blueberry), the treat that appealed to me most were the drinks that would make you float. I’ve always wanted to fly 🙂
Your turn—what imaginary food or drink would you love to try?
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May 10, 2013 @ 11:15:13
Hmm, I don’t read a lot of fantasy, so I can’t think of anything that you haven’t mentioned. I, too, would like to try the coffee drink. And I think your husband should get you the t-shirt. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory really makes me want to eat more chocolate. I remember the Cadbury vending machines in England that had more varieties than I had ever seen. That is what I’d like to try. 🙂
May 10, 2013 @ 12:46:07
Now I want to go see those vending machines. I do love chocolate 🙂
May 10, 2013 @ 11:37:06
Butterbeer is fantastic. I tried both the regular and frozen, and strongly preferred the regular. Pumpkin juice was pretty great, too.
None if the other fantasy I’ve read has particularly appetizing food (I don’t want anything in A Song of Ice and Fire, for instance). Lots of the treats in Harry Potter (chocolate cauldrons…). Maybe lembas from LOTR?
May 10, 2013 @ 12:41:49
I’ll add pumpkin juice to my list. I’ve tried the version of every flavor beans (made by jelly belly), and one try of those was enough. I managed earthworm and soap fairly well, but vomit and rotten egg…*shudder*
I wouldn’t mind trying lembas bread, even though Sam grew tired of it.
May 11, 2013 @ 23:09:11
Yes! I want to try klah, too. 🙂
May 10, 2013 @ 15:29:39
I’d have to say klah from the Dragonriders of Pern 🙂
May 10, 2013 @ 15:38:50
Ooo, good one. I think anything that’s supposed to taste similar to coffee and chocolate together is a win in my book 🙂
May 10, 2013 @ 20:15:41
Yes, please! I always wondered what klah was like 🙂
May 10, 2013 @ 19:55:53
Delicious choices. I’d love to try out butterbeer too and I’m curious about what lembas would taste like. We’re lucky to have something as fantastic as chocolate in the real world.
May 10, 2013 @ 20:34:43
So true! It’s hard to image a world where there would be something more delicious than chocolate.
May 10, 2013 @ 20:15:28
Love this post. Butterbeer has always intrigued me. Right now it all sounds good to me. I must be hungry. This is a timely post. You have my wheels of imagination turning. Fun stuff.
May 10, 2013 @ 20:35:22
Looking at the way food and drink are used in other stories always gets my imagination turning too. I start to think about how I can include food in my own writing.
May 10, 2013 @ 23:19:53
My vote’s for lembas!
May 11, 2013 @ 11:08:39
As an ice cream addict, I think I’d like to try an *ice planet* but I hear they can be problematic.
May 11, 2013 @ 21:47:08
Yum! Whatever that punk stuff is in that photo (Turkish Delights?), I want some. I’d love to try most of the goodies from Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, except maybe the blueberry treat that turns the eater blue. 😉
May 11, 2013 @ 21:53:24
Although I live in Florida, I’ve been to busy to go to The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter. I do plan on checking out Butterbeer, too, though I’ve been told that’s a drink best served cold.
May 11, 2013 @ 23:11:09
So my comment up there when to the wrong place. 🙂
I got to try butterbeer and pumpkin juice last summer. Yummy! I liked the frozen better, but that’s probably because it was insanely hot that day.
Fun post, Marcy!
Jun 04, 2013 @ 20:57:16
Hey Marcy, happy to make your acquaintance, I heard about the butter beer from watching a J.K Rowling interview. I can only imagine how good it taste, It’s on my bucket list to get some. I have been browsing your website and blog for the last 20 minutes I am now a fan. I also am a fellow writer just getting started, trying to decide on a genre. I am passionate about sci-fi and fantasy so we will see. In addition to that I am a poet which I am a lot more confident about, Marcy you make it all look so easy. I will stay connected here and on google+.