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.
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
https://youtu.be/zuUtAPUZP0Q
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? 🤷🏻♂️