There’s a few for me. Yamok sauce. Various synthohols. The desserts Troi’s always eating (or being). But most especially gagh. I wouldn’t let the fact it’s some kind of living worm distract me from the way all the cool people describe it. If Riker likes it, I think I would too and I certainly wouldn’t want to look like a p’taQ in front of Riker.
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.
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.)
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
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? 🤷🏻♂️
