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Definitely the butterbeer from Harry Potter.

I always wanted to live in the world from "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs"!

And every time I watch "Arrested Development", I wonder if the frozen bananas are any good, or what anything from the cornballer would taste like.

Yum Yum fish from The Simpsons on the island where Marge used to vacation as a kid.

Apollo Bars, Krusty Brand Partially Gelatinated Non-Dairy Gum Based Beverages, The Shrabster, and Leg of Unicorn.

(Although right now, I wish I had said, "Nipples of Venus.")

As a kid, I always wanted to eat the pizza from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoons. Michaelangelo made it look so oozy-good!

ham gum and slurm from futurama

the chain McMeaty's from Invader Zim

seconded on the beans that tasted like wholes means with the blueberry pie from Willy Wonka

every food ever mentioned in Harry Potter

I am sure there are others I jut can't think of.

The Ent-draught (Lord of the Rings) sounds fascinating:
"The drink was like water... yet there was some scent or savour in it which they could not describe: it was faint, but it reminded them of the smell of a distant wood borne from afar by a cool breeze a night."

It has invigorating effects and most curiously, it made the hobbits taller (I could benefit from a few extra inches in height myself :) ).

I'd like to sample (just a nibble) some lembas, too...

snozzberries :)

Don't lie, you just want to drink Frobscottle so you can fart so hard you get lifted off the ground.

I always wondered as a kid where the BFG got the Frobscottle *from*, considering that he lived in what was pretty much a wasteland and the other giants were mean to him.

The Flaming Moe

From Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD (Wikipedia entry):

All members of society are conditioned in childhood to hold the values that the World State idealizes. Constant consumption is the bedrock of stability for the World State. Everyone is encouraged to consume the ubiquitous drug, soma, which is probably a historical allusion to a mythical drink of the ancient Aryans. Soma is a hallucinogen that takes users on enjoyable, hangover-free "vacations".

soylent green!

Mr. Krab's Krabby Patty

Wonka Bars, Scrumdidiliumptious Bars, and all other candy bars in the candy shop from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

In Enid Blyton's Magic Faraway Tree books there are some interesting foods, but the one I always wanted to try was a toffee that expands and expands and goes from hot to cold to hot to cold until it just suddenly vanishes.

Lard Lad Donuts, Homer's donut of choice.

jrmanor & veggieout: Bananarchy, a frozen banana stand, just opened in Austin. Your Arrested Development dreams are coming true.

Truffula fruits from "The Lorax." But I'd just eat one.

As a child I always wanted Willy Wonka's lickable wallpaper, although in retrospect that's pretty gross

Soylent Green, huh? That's awesome.

My choice would be Turkish Delight from the Chronicles of Narnia. I KNOW ITS REAL. But the way C.S. Lewis wrote about it always made me think of it as some otherworldly confection. The White Witch used it almost as if it was a magic potion. I want candy that's going to hypnotize me like that!!

The Fatty Melt. It's still hard for me to believe it's real.

I was going to say Soylent Green as well, but then I remembered, Soylent Green IS real... it's people! IT'S PEOPLE!!!

@kevster - What about snozzberries??

Everything that's described by Laura Ingalls in the book about Almanzo's childhood - Farmer Boy. Even as a kid who wasn't particularly interested in food those pages made my mouth water!!

Any pie from the movie Waitress - some of them have recipes but others are briefly described and have no recipe. I want them all!

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@kristygarr - I also want to eat the beans from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory that tastes like an entire meal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-A Flaming Moe, slurm, a box of Bertie Botts, also from Harry Potter one of those acid pops that burned a hole through Ron's tongue (i love sour stuff), and a leaf full of Lembas.

@juniper77, I totally agree! There wasn't a single morsel of food in that book that I didn't want to eat.

I always wanted to eat Popeye's spinach. I love me some spinach, but I just don't seem to get that same energy boost- and there are defnitely days I could use that!

Damn, Roald Dahl has certainly cast a long shadow over today's foodies.

Anyway, here's a few:

1) The sushi from the Marianas Trench that the Michael Eisner-like mogul serves in Christopher Buckley's Thank You For Smoking.

2) Apparently not mythical (people have published cookbooks of them), but certainly used for a touch of the exotic: all those old English dishes in the Patrick O'Brian books, like Boiled Baby and Spotted Dick. I've had a touch of the marthambles lately and that would fix it right up.

3) Ugly chicken for Thanksgiving. (See: Waldrop, Howard.)

from Alec Baldwin's SNL skit.. his famous Schweddy Balls.

And the gingerbread house from Hansel & Gretel. Minus the occupant.

For everyone pining for Bertie Bott's every flavour beans, the Jelly Belly company made an officially licensed version from 2005-2007. Sorry you missed it.

I still laugh at the thought of my nephew running for the the garbage can to spit out the Rotten Egg flavoured bean I gave him, and the impish look in his eye as he tried to convince my dad to try one not 30 seconds later.

Honey onion pie, from Robert McCloskey's "Centerburg Tales". The honey onion was developed by the uncle of one of the characters. It looked like a regular onion, but was as sweet as honey.

where was I? Oh yes--Jeeves' hangover cure usually shows up at least once in any of P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie and Jeeves novels.

really? I can't believe nobody's mentioned turkish delight from the lion, the witch and the wardrobe. none of that processed turkish delight that you get for $5 at Christmas, but the kind that was so good it made edward turn evil! Also, the green soup from Are you Afraid of the Dark--it was so delicious that people got addicted (it was made of the souls of people).

@dead_brontes - Turkish delight was mentioned in the comments of the original HoustonPress article!
Turkish delight never lived up to my expectations. Maybe I've never had any 'good' ones? Ehhh...

Oh, and Brontosaurus ribs from the Flintstones....Mmmmmm

You know for all the snozzcumber and Frobscottle fans, Roald Dahl published a book of recipes for all the different foods mentioned in his books. My favorite was the chocolate cake that the Trunchbull force fed Bruce Bogtrotter in Matilda. Once or twice a year (usually thanksgiving) we'll make the Matilda cake. But it's really rich.

I wonder if JK Rowling would ever make a Harry Potter cook book.

Scrumdidiliumptious bars. My sister and I have had discussions about the ingredients that would make up a scrumdidili... bar. We think it's gooey, crunchy, and chocolaty. My mom shared an idea, but we both knew that she simply just didn't get it. We have talked about what real chocolate bar comes closest. For not "getting" it, our mom once made something that came closer than any store-bought candy.

Speaking of the brilliance of Roald Dahl and food, at least from Willy Wonka (the original movie), the big bouncy balls that break open for chocolate. I've always wanted to bite into one of the teacups, but I imagine butterscotch and that doesn't appeal to me so much.

Also - Mystic Pizza, from the movie. Though I'm not sure it wasn't based on a real place. A small mom & pop pizza place in Connecticut that can win over a snooty critic with its mysterious ingredients... Yum!

@renzata - I'd like to try a krabby patty too...

...I'd DIE to try Ratatoullie's ...ratatoullie (it looks good!)