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?
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Pot brownies that actually taste like brownies
Rum ham.
A real Milk-steak.
And a side of jelly beans, raw please
Boiled over hard
Greggroll. Halfway between an egg roll and Gregg.
So egg and Bailey's in a shoe?
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!
Grouse egg? How do they compare to Deggs and Qeggs?
Blackberry lime
Good one. I’d especially like this as a soda.
Blackcurrant grapefruit
Id use it to make foods look one way and taste another. Like program a pizza slice to taste like a peach cobbler milkshake
That immediately reminds me of the age old question: would you eat chocolate that tastes like shit, or shit that tastes like chocolate?
Definitely the latter
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?
Is eating chocolate simply not an answer?!
Maybe our guy is just a corpophage and that option is all upside.
Blergh. If it’s taste only, I’d probably switch at that point, yeah. I wouldn’t be happy about it though!
Which one looks like shit
So is it cake x1000
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.
Lemon-Lime
So just like a citrus fruit intermediate between lemon and lime?
Yes, I call it Leme for short.
Oooooh. Good one. I’d like this as a soda.
You smart-ass. Take my upvote...
The cool thing about fruit is that you can do it. It exists and is called a lemonime.
Baked Alaska / Empanada
If you freeze ice cream deep enough, then wrap it in pastry dough and fry it, you could probably achieve this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_ice_cream
Cherry sized seedless pommegranate
Steak and mushroom
Jamaican blend coffee, Double strong, double sweet.
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
Fish. I have yet to have good plant-based fish. Oooh, I could have normal sushi again.
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?
From my understanding, it works like a 3D Printer. So no Animal must die!
If I had a star trek replicator I'd use it to end capitalism and create post scarcity
I can see it now: using the replicator to make more replicators, distributing them freely, and watching monopolies collapse. 🤌🏽
Octopus-icecream
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?
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.
Don't let your dreams be dreams, poach some octopus in milk and use the liquid to make a custard.
I dare you.
I'm not that motivated. Would just like to know how it tastes like.
Like eating out a mermaid’s cloaca.
Damn, eating pussy and ass at the same time, that's not a bad deal.
I think it's very much like regular ice cream, but a flavor an octopus would eat.
Crab, maybe.
Black tar heroine.
So like, a cross between Wonder Woman and Armus?
I think that's basically just Pam Grier, LOL.
With chocolate sauce
Milk chocolate and peach, with a creamy consistency. Then I’d try substituting other fruits, like kiwi, strawberry, cherry, and orange.
The replicator you need for this already exists. Its called a blender.
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.
Dinosaur wings. Hey, it's worth a shot, right?
Halfway between a pizza and a pineapple!
Steak with Gorgonzola cheese
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.
Time machine and a car.
A fly and a bluewhale
Just to see what it'll do.
Can't replicate living beings.
I just started replicating a catgirl. Is it going to come out dead?
Grape/Lime soda.
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.
caviar suchi, why not?
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