Suppose you had a Star Trek replicator that had some extra obvious features, like being able to interpolate between any existing items (e.g. "halfway between a strawberry and a blueberry").
What mashups of food or drink would you try first?
What if you knew it was shit, like you watched something defacate it. It still tastes like chocolate. Would you still eat that over a candy bar that you know is definitely factory produced and sanitary, but still tastes like shit?
Oh God I want a replicator. Not for novel foods, just so that we could be more of a closed system at home, not always throwing out trash and bringing in stuff, it's ridiculous. I just want to be able to throw out whatever, into the replicator, and get it rearranged into useful stuff.
My fusion food would be a cinnamon pineapple but really would probably go for the most basic and reliable model, not the one with all the extra features.
Explain more... do you mean, just something exactly intermediate between octopus and ice cream in every respect? Or like, octopus with the flavor of ice cream, or texture of ice cream inside?
I would ask for random combos. That seems like an obvious feature. I assume there would be a Lemmy community where I could post reviews on whatever monstrosities come out. If I feel like actual good food I'd put some restrictions like no mixing savoury and sweet in place.
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Sylver@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 3y
Pot brownies that actually taste like brownies
TubeTalkerX@kbin.social · 19 pts · 3y
A real Milk-steak.
Sylver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
And a side of jelly beans, raw please
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y
Boiled over hard
Hwopple@kbin.social · 19 pts · 3y
Rum ham.
ilovetacos@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3y
Greggroll. Halfway between an egg roll and Gregg.
smithjoe1@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
So egg and Bailey's in a shoe?
mosiacmango@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 3y
Gregg wrapped in a crispy crust with pork and cabbage?
Holy shit. Somehow you've made Gregg even more delicious. Next Greggs on me man!
Jarix@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Grouse egg? How do they compare to Deggs and Qeggs?
Drusas@kbin.social · 14 pts · 3y
Blackberry lime
HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org · 3 pts · 3y
Good one. I’d especially like this as a soda.
vim_b@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
Blackcurrant grapefruit
Sagethefolxhero@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 3y
Id use it to make foods look one way and taste another. Like program a pizza slice to taste like a peach cobbler milkshake
deleted@kbin.chat · 5 pts · 3y
That immediately reminds me of the age old question: would you eat chocolate that tastes like shit, or shit that tastes like chocolate?
vladmech@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Definitely the latter
Seasoned_Greetings@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
What if you knew it was shit, like you watched something defacate it. It still tastes like chocolate. Would you still eat that over a candy bar that you know is definitely factory produced and sanitary, but still tastes like shit?
Sylver@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Is eating chocolate simply not an answer?!
vladmech@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Blergh. If it’s taste only, I’d probably switch at that point, yeah. I wouldn’t be happy about it though!
ikapoz@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y
Maybe our guy is just a corpophage and that option is all upside.
dom@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3y
Which one looks like shit
dom@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3y
So is it cake x1000
RBWells@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
Oh God I want a replicator. Not for novel foods, just so that we could be more of a closed system at home, not always throwing out trash and bringing in stuff, it's ridiculous. I just want to be able to throw out whatever, into the replicator, and get it rearranged into useful stuff.
My fusion food would be a cinnamon pineapple but really would probably go for the most basic and reliable model, not the one with all the extra features.
atlasraven31@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 3y
Lemon-Lime
keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 3y
So just like a citrus fruit intermediate between lemon and lime?
atlasraven31@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
Yes, I call it Leme for short.
ilovetacos@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
The cool thing about fruit is that you can do it. It exists and is called a lemonime.
HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org · 2 pts · 3y
Oooooh. Good one. I’d like this as a soda.
forrgott@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y
You smart-ass. Take my upvote...
Senornomilkshake@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
Steak and mushroom
Draegur@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 3y
Baked Alaska / Empanada
Satiric_Weasel@beehaw.org · 3 pts · 3y
If you freeze ice cream deep enough, then wrap it in pastry dough and fry it, you could probably achieve this.
FistfulOfStars@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_ice_cream
Kempeth@feddit.de · 7 pts · 3y
Cherry sized seedless pommegranate
snowyday@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Jamaican blend coffee, Double strong, double sweet.
0x4E4F@lemmy.rollenspiel.monster · 6 pts · 3y
Octopus-icecream
keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 3y
Explain more... do you mean, just something exactly intermediate between octopus and ice cream in every respect? Or like, octopus with the flavor of ice cream, or texture of ice cream inside?
0x4E4F@lemmy.rollenspiel.monster · 3 pts · 3y
Like an ice cream that's octopus flavored. The texture is still ice cream. And the shape in which it's delivered should be octopus.
Satiric_Weasel@beehaw.org · 7 pts · 3y
Don't let your dreams be dreams, poach some octopus in milk and use the liquid to make a custard.
I dare you.
0x4E4F@lemmy.rollenspiel.monster · 1 pts · 3y
I'm not that motivated. Would just like to know how it tastes like.
ikapoz@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y
Like eating out a mermaid’s cloaca.
0x4E4F@lemmy.rollenspiel.monster · 1 pts · 3y
Damn, eating pussy and ass at the same time, that's not a bad deal.
xantoxis@lemmy.one · 2 pts · 3y
I think it's very much like regular ice cream, but a flavor an octopus would eat.
Crab, maybe.
x4740N@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
If I had a star trek replicator I'd use it to end capitalism and create post scarcity
vim_b@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 3y
I can see it now: using the replicator to make more replicators, distributing them freely, and watching monopolies collapse. 🤌🏽
kairo79@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 3y
I would order all the dishes that I no longer eat because animals have to die for them. Replicated would be morally okay with me
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 0 pts · 3y
Fish. I have yet to have good plant-based fish. Oooh, I could have normal sushi again.
intensely_human@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 3y
But how does the replicator work? Does it spawn a universe where your cow grows up and is slaughtered and cooked into a burger?
Would that result in a greater cow-to-burger ratio than real life?
kairo79@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
From my understanding, it works like a 3D Printer. So no Animal must die!
HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org · 6 pts · 3y
Milk chocolate and peach, with a creamy consistency. Then I’d try substituting other fruits, like kiwi, strawberry, cherry, and orange.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 3y
The replicator you need for this already exists. Its called a blender.
HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org · 1 pts · 3y
Not chocolate milk, but good milk chocolate. I’m not going to put a chocolate bar in a blender, and nobody else should try, either.
vezrien@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Black tar heroine.
grue@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
So like, a cross between Wonder Woman and Armus?
I think that's basically just Pam Grier, LOL.
snowyday@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
With chocolate sauce
platysalty@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
Dinosaur wings. Hey, it's worth a shot, right?
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 3y
Steak with Gorgonzola cheese
niktemadur@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
Halfway between a pizza and a pineapple!
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 4 pts · 3y
I wouldn't even be experimenting with food. Star Trek replicators can replicate so much more than food.
I'd replicate something halfway between a car and a spaceship.
boomer478@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
Time machine and a car.
Nioxic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
A fly and a bluewhale
Just to see what it'll do.
CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 3y
Can't replicate living beings.
Dinodicchellathicc@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
I just started replicating a catgirl. Is it going to come out dead?
jordanlund@lemmy.one · 3 pts · 3y
Grape/Lime soda.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 3y
I would ask for random combos. That seems like an obvious feature. I assume there would be a Lemmy community where I could post reviews on whatever monstrosities come out. If I feel like actual good food I'd put some restrictions like no mixing savoury and sweet in place.
Num10ck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
furry
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl · 2 pts · 3y
caviar suchi, why not?