Below you will find the last six of my list of Top Fifteen Fantasy Foods. Be sure to view some of our other “Top Lists” related to Science Fiction and Fantasy here.
10) Silflay
In Watership Down, the world’s best book about bunnies, “silflay” (both a noun and a
verb) is defined as “food above ground” and “the act of eating food above ground.” That may seem too general to get your salivary glands working, but when you put it in the context of the food the rabbits in Watership Down eat, it’s strangely appealing.
Imagine this: you’re a bunny out for a midnight silflay…the grass is moist with dew…you eat your fill of the tender green shoots of grass while smelling the intoxicatingly fresh night breezes rustling the trees across the silent hillside.
Silflay is a comforting, peaceful thing…like going to your fridge whenever you want and pouring a glass of lemonade to drink on the porch and watch the world go by. I don’t care if it’s just grass, I want it!
11) Elf food
According to Buddy the Elf, “elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup,” so it makes sense then that Buddy’s favorite meal to cook is spaghetti with sugared maple syrup, sprinkles, mini-marshmallows, Hershey’s chocolate syrup, M&M’s, and Frosted Chocolate Fudge Pop-Tarts. It’s kind of nauseating if you’re expecting spaghetti with marinara sauce, but if you think of it more like kugel, it’s not so abhorrent. I especially like his plating method of choice: ziploc baggie. I don’t think Tom Colicchio and Padma from Top Chef would approve, but I’d give it a try.
12) Crystallized Rose Petals
Redwall Author Brian Jacques always came up with the most scrumptious sounding foods like “Otter’s hotroot soup” and “deeper n’ ever pie,” but nothing fascinated me
more than the descriptions of crystallized rose petals. Sugared flower petals used for decorations on the desserts and eaten like candy, crystallized rose petals sounded like the most beautiful and dainty comestibles imaginable. If you’re so inclined, there is a whole website devoted to recreating the foods of Redwall, and yes, I will be making them all and serving them on a first come first serve basis….but only to guests who promise to talk the whole time in molespeak.
13) The food in Hook
Simultaneously unappetizing but infinitely whimsical, the pasty, play-doh-esque goo in Hook is perfect food for those who “want always to be a little boy and have fun.” While its color and consistency is icky to people with reasonable adult expectations of what food should look like, it’s exactly in line with the weird colorful=tasty expectations of
children. Have you ever seen the ungodly colors Baskin Robbins pumps into its flavors marketed at children? The unnatural brightness is exactly what Peter Pan’s credo for Neverland demands.
14) Slurm
Not all that different from Melange, Slurm from Futurama is another addictive product from a worm’s behind. Fry loves the carbonated beverage so much that even after learning how it’s created he’s willing to chug it straight from the source. That must mean it’s pretty worth it.
15) The Vomiting Drink from The Hunger Games
After all this talk about food, wouldn’t it be nice to cleanse your palate and refresh your appetite from all the conflicting flavors and indigestion-causing ingredients? If you lived in the Capitol described in The Hunger Games you could! All you’d have to do is take a sip of the glass filled with a liquid designed to induce vomiting. Then you could go back
and eat your fill all over again. The best part is, though things like this exist in real life, the Capitol makes it classy. Those crazy hedonists pour it in nice crystal glasses at fancy parties for anyone to partake of as desired. I see this being most marketable around Christmastime or at fancy banquets. Instead of something being called a “black tie event” we could start calling it a “vomit juice event” and everyone would know it would be a fancy shindig.
What’s your favorite? Any other fantasy foods I’m missing? Sound off below.
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“Hurr’m, Oi shore be pleased to see deeper’n ever pie an’ other Redwall delicacies on the list. Redwall feasts be’m the best!”
There is a shortage of Redwall love on the Internet. I’m trying to right a wrong!
You forgot Turkish Delight D:
The bugs from Lion King might also be fitting
My unannounced rule for this was to stick to food that was more or less invented by the fantasy story. Turkish delight is a real thing that was made famous (for me) by a famous book, but Lembas doesn’t actually exist (for example). I admit I’m not quite sure if some of those multicolored bugs in Lion King exist though, so maybe on that count!
By that measure, candied petals should not be on the list, since it’s a real thing that is produced and sold in some places (although definitely not common).
Krabby Patties!
Yes, Krabby Patties are a fictional food I’d like to try! I didn’t include them on the top 15 list because I figured they were pretty much regular hamburgers with a special name, but there is that secret recipe in Mr. Krab’s safe, so I suppose we can’t be too sure there isn’t some awesome fantasy element involved like with the gummiberries.
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I’d prefer the lickable wall paper from willy wonka, less chance of turning into a giant blueberry. I have a book, Revolting Recipes (I think that was the title) it had recipes for dishes that featured in Roald Dahl books, including bird pie from the twits, doughnuts, candy coated pencils for sucking in class and lickable wallpaper, made with fruit and rice paper. No luck on the three course meal gum. There was hair toffee though!
With you on the Ambrosia, though I’d also like to try Nectar.
I’d probably add Ossquai from WoT to that list.
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