I always wanted a bite of that Troi cake. With mint frosting.
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Data no!
I'm convinced Data had been watching ancient Earth music videos right before this.
About time someone made the comparison! That shit always weirded me out.
First thing I thought of when I saw the episode way back when! Same, I was probably around 10 when I saw the video for the first time.
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Sure, I could have the 21st century natural version right now, but I want to compare and contrast the kind made from reconstituted waste products.
That is also something I wonder about. Most people don't seem to care if it's real or replicated, but the people who do care, are very adamant about something being different in replicated food.
I doubt I would notice. I mean, I don't find processed food disgusting compared to fresh all natural stuff. I'll pretty much eat anything other than broccoli and cauliflower. 🤷🏻♂️
My take is that the food is just a little too perfectly middle of the road preference wise. As if the foods were cooked with perfect heat so that no piece is burned a little more cooked a little less. Sure it tastes fine, but it doesn't taste authentic. Because authentic food isn't about perfection, it's a dynamic balance of happy accidents. Maybe also because replicated food is designed to be safe. Sometimes the best food isn't strictly safe. BBQ for instance would not taste the same is you removed all the carbonized carcinogenic bits. Coincidentally broccoli and cauliflower also taste fucking amazing if you add those crispy burnt bits by following a cold sear recipe. (America's Test Kitchen has a good short video on the process if you're feeling adventurous.)
I was going to say prune juice. Natural fruits and things - tastes, texture, cultivars, etc, change over time. "Peak" banana is the Cavendish, but peak banana taste was from the now extinct Big Mike cultivar. So it's curious to think how the current plum and pune has faired all the way out to Worf glass.
Bananas... https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/why-dont-banana-candies-taste-like-real-bananas/
I'd like to have Guinan recommend me a drink. She picked out prune juice for Worf, which was not only correct but also something I wouldn't have dared.
Also kinda curious to know what Riker's scrambled eggs tasted like in that one episode where nobody but Worf could tolerate his cooking.
Also kinda curious to know what Riker's scrambled eggs tasted like in that one episode where nobody but Worf could tolerate his cooking.
I think that was less "Riker can't cook" and more "hey I got some random eggs from an alien planet but surely they must be a suitable substitute for Earth chicken eggs and hey why are you all gagging on my omelette?"
Raktajino, I find most pre-prepared coffee to be horribly watered down and the coffee I make has been described as a war crime.
Have you ever had Turkish Coffee before? It's a lot more concentrated than drip.
Sign me up for gagh followed by Sisko's jambalaya to get the taste out. Also, Quark's warp core breach to wash it down.
Deltan Parsley. If it's good enough to risk poisoning your crew, I want to know what that tastes like lol
Also Raktajino
Jumja sticks. Those things look and sound great.
I kinda wonder if those were even just fully props, or are actually some kind of real fruit/treat thing. It kinda looks like a sugar cane type candy/treat I've seen pictures of, but big.
I imagined those as a dense fruit roll-up, but maybe a bit tangier.
I see no problems eating 1 pound of fruit roll up on a stick.
Any of Nelix’s cooking with Leola root. No matter how far Voyager traveled, it was the proper noun space vegetable they always had on hand.
I started to think maybe "leola" was just his word for "edible."
It makes you wonder ... once we get it to the point of synthesizing food and food tastes and content ... will replicators over time develop a certain taste or flavour that people will grow accustomed to depending on a previous version or change or setup.
It makes me think of this scene from the Matrix
I think people will experiment like crazy. Think about Miles and his scotch flavored gum. Now imagine that with any flavor. Someone like Deanna could make literally all of her food taste like chocolate if she prefers. The replicator could just add the right macro nutrients and vitamins and she'd be good to go.
There's some Japanese inventor/scientist that made a "taste-o-vision" thingy. It basically has synthetic flavors on some kind of medium that you lick. But not like "I put blue raspberry in mine;" it has "pixels" for lack of a better word that you can adjust electronically for the flavor you want to experience. IDK how it works exactly, but the concept sounds pretty rad. I'd want it for when watching cooking shows; get to taste what they make 🤤
I've also seen ads recently for a vape replacement that's just a tube with a piece of cotton wicked in some kind of flavor liquid, so you can inhale flavored air. That one seems weird to me, but also maybe I'll get one? 🤷🏻♂️
Plomeek soup and every wild menu item Neelix got to offer.
Talk about two polar opposite choices. Unless you're talking Neelix's plomeek soup that he jazzed up for Tuvok?
First the original Vulcan recipe, followed by Neelix's spiced up Tuvok special.
Raktajino, Andorian ale, hasperat, Tarkalean tea, plomeek soup, Saurian brandy, Tulaberry wine, synthale, kava juice, feline supplement #74, Jibalean fudge cake, icoberry torte, and anything cooked by Sisko.
I want to try a nice spicy Hasperat.
Might try this recipe: https://foodreplicator.tumblr.com/post/34323093533/hasperat/amp
Root-Beer
Please direct me to the ferengi food catalog.
Anything not from earth. I want something very alien but not dangerous to me.
Tzartak Aperitif
Specialty beverage served by Guinan in the Enterprise-D's Ten Forward lounge. The drink is adjusted so its vapor point is one half degree below the body temperature of the patron, causing it to immediately evaporate upon contact with the drinker's tongue
I once heard about this club called the Darwin Club (or something like that) where the goal was to have sciency discussions and eat one of every animal. I didn't live anywhere near them but it sounds fun.