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

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

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!

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.

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

@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...

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.)

@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!

-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.