10 Fictional Universes We’d Like To Live in Based on Food Alone

So …you guys made me hungry.

That was what you were trying weren´t you >.<

*strikes a pose*
Of to the bat……..kitchen

OK A picture of Edmund eating turkish delight! page page page… no Narnia?

Discworld!

..no?  Anyone?

No Lord of the Rings? C’mon, even when Gollum is off eating living fish and rabbits, you can’t deny the food the Hobbits eat. Those are some people that know how to appreciate mushrooms (one of my favorite food groups).

I would have thrown a fit if Redwall hadn’t been included. Pretty sure those books are what turned me into a foodie in my teens.

Well, yes who knows who else licked the candy wall but since it was exclusive, “no one” is a pretty good guess. 

Oh, come now. No Candyland? You folks have even reported on the movie in the works!

You want the food from A Song of Ice and Fire? go to this blog http://innatthecrossroads.wordpress.com/

I’d like to try that diner in Eureka.

And the coffee place in Friends, as long as Rachel isn’t still working there.

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind for the mashed potatoes.

The pic I first saw on this needs to be in a “10 fictional universes We’d NOT like to live in based on food alone”… Temple of Doom….
That movie starts us off with:
Fly covered slop… (which mostly just looked bad due to the flies and such as it was probably just beans and corn.. but still is NOT dream food especially how it’s presented) and then moves onto:
Beetles, “snake surprise”, eyeball soup, and then ah-chilled ah-monkey brains….
The only thing appetizing in the whole film was the fruit Indy brought to Willie Scott to her room… and maybe the champagne in the chinese club in the beginning… :P

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On ASOIAF…anyone want a lamprey pie? Anyone?

Here’s a guy blogging about actually cooking the ASOIAF food: http://www.cookingiceandfire.com/

“Come to the Dark Side, we have Turkish Delight!” I’m thrilled to see how many childhood books/films got on this list for their rich details of tasty treats. Yeah, gumdrops and jellybeans sort of replaced Turkish Delight in America. But thank you for including the shortly-lived but charming series “Pushing Daisies”. I sympathize with Ned and also resort to baking therapy to relieve frustrations. (Though I do cookies and bars more often than pies.)
 
English food always sounded so hearty and nournishing to me in books like “The Secret Garden”: buttered scones, roasted potatoes, clotted cream, trifle, pudding…perfect for a picky eater who hated to eat her vegetables.
 
I remember in one episode of “Voyager” when the doctor/Seven of Nine nearly keels over from one bite of food-replicated slice of New York cheesecake. If there is ever a food created of pure awesomeness then it is NY cheesecake.

YES! I would love to be a guest at one of the Wizard’s Hogswatch Feasts. Ya know, the one that starts at midnight and lasts for at least 12 hours? I think I might do better as a spectator instead of a participant, I most likely would pass out half way through.

Sadly, the writers and editors of The Mary Sue do not seem familiar with Discworld (or only one or two of them know a small bit). It doesn’t get much attention. And it wonderfully geeky. And his female characters are often more balanced and 3-dimensional than many in that genre. 

The Mary Sue, you have some reading to do! 

The Redwall books used to make me insanely hungry and left me desperately shoving things around in my kitchen trying to find anything vaguely reminiscent of the food in the books. I often ended up with herby cheesey omelets and crunchy toast or the like. Harry Potter was less impossible and less mouthwatering but also popped into my mind right away. But here’s another book I thought of immediately.

A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones. There’s a crazy vending machine in the story that will produce delicacies from any period in all of earth’s history and one of the foods sounded like a just gotta try it kind of thing. Something or other century butter pie. It sounded to me like some kind of multi-temperature creme-brulee popsicle that’s custardy and icecreamy cold on the outside and has a molten creamy center. I’ve never forgotten the description or stopped wishing I could try one. Sadly they won’t be invented for another couple centuries at least.

Seriously! The Witches alone are utterly amazing. Granny Weatherwax is easily my favourite character in anything ever.

What’s taters, precious?

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I can get turkish delight at meijer. I’m doing that tomorrow. I’ve been considering for days now and you’ve pushed me over the edge!

I go one baking binges sometimes. I hardly ever eat the stuff, but everyone begs for more so my habit is functional with friends

The butter pies were from 42 century.  I always wondered if that was a Douglas Adams reference! I think you have the description about right.

Love that blog! Have to give it to them for creativity and making me actually consider eating certain things…

Though if you want a witch for food, you have to go with Nanny Ogg. The cookbook has some pretty tasty recipes. http://www.amazon.com/Nanny-Oggs-Cookbook-Information-Astonishing/dp/0552146730

If I ate a drumstick every time I read a description of grease dripping down someone’s chin in ASOIAF, I’d be fatter than George R.R. Martin.

I’d go to Middle Earth for the lembas bread alone. Could live off that for years.

Haha yep, as soon as I saw the topic I thought “Redwall.” My mouth is watering just thinking about Deeper’n'Ever Turnip’n'Tater’n'Beetroot Pie.

I tried Turkish Delight once, because of Narnia, and thought, “Really? Edmund sold out his siblings for this crap?” Even during war rationing, I’d like to think I would at least hold out for a caramel custard. On that note, it’s kind of odd that a witch who hadn’t seen humans since the creation of the world knew what a candy from Turkey was. 

you and me both, most of the time I just let my stomach rumble… though I will admit I’m now known for my lemon cakes.

I have yet to read the entire article, but I absolutely HAD to comment when reading the first fictional universe of Redwall. When I first began to read these books nearly 15 years ago (High School is where and when I discovered them), I remember loving how he Jacques wrote about the meals laid out at the abbey. It was always so descriptive, and he had a way of making animal food sound unbearably delicious. He’s an incredible story teller. Redwall is considered a series for YA readers, but I think they’re fantastic for everyone. Still, I’d love to see Jacques tackle a more adult oriented fantasy world. I think it would be absolutely amazing.
End of geeky line…

Actually, in Pushing Daisies it’s pear and Gruyere.  I feel like they actually say that at one point, but if nothing else, when Chuck’s making the first pie for her aunts there are definitely pears next to her to be used.

Wow, I thought I was weird cause I like to bake but don’t have much of a sweet tooth! I’ll make something, have a couple of pieces, and then I’ll have to unload the rest on my friends or eat the rest over the next two weeks and hope the last piece hasn’t gone off.