Suppose you had a Star Trek replicator that had some extra obvious features, like being able to interpolate between any existing items (e.g. "halfway between a strawberry and a blueberry").

keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 109 points –

What mashups of food or drink would you try first?

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Pot brownies that actually taste like brownies

Greggroll. Halfway between an egg roll and Gregg.

Gregg wrapped in a crispy crust with pork and cabbage?

Holy shit. Somehow you've made Gregg even more delicious. Next Greggs on me man!

Grouse egg? How do they compare to Deggs and Qeggs?

Id use it to make foods look one way and taste another. Like program a pizza slice to taste like a peach cobbler milkshake

That immediately reminds me of the age old question: would you eat chocolate that tastes like shit, or shit that tastes like chocolate?

Definitely the latter

What if you knew it was shit, like you watched something defacate it. It still tastes like chocolate. Would you still eat that over a candy bar that you know is definitely factory produced and sanitary, but still tastes like shit?

Is eating chocolate simply not an answer?!

Maybe our guy is just a corpophage and that option is all upside.

Blergh. If it’s taste only, I’d probably switch at that point, yeah. I wouldn’t be happy about it though!

Which one looks like shit

So is it cake x1000

Oh God I want a replicator. Not for novel foods, just so that we could be more of a closed system at home, not always throwing out trash and bringing in stuff, it's ridiculous. I just want to be able to throw out whatever, into the replicator, and get it rearranged into useful stuff.

My fusion food would be a cinnamon pineapple but really would probably go for the most basic and reliable model, not the one with all the extra features.

Lemon-Lime

The cool thing about fruit is that you can do it. It exists and is called a lemonime.

I would order all the dishes that I no longer eat because animals have to die for them. Replicated would be morally okay with me

Fish. I have yet to have good plant-based fish. Oooh, I could have normal sushi again.

But how does the replicator work? Does it spawn a universe where your cow grows up and is slaughtered and cooked into a burger?

Would that result in a greater cow-to-burger ratio than real life?

From my understanding, it works like a 3D Printer. So no Animal must die!

Jamaican blend coffee, Double strong, double sweet.

If I had a star trek replicator I'd use it to end capitalism and create post scarcity

I can see it now: using the replicator to make more replicators, distributing them freely, and watching monopolies collapse. 🤌🏽

Octopus-icecream

Explain more... do you mean, just something exactly intermediate between octopus and ice cream in every respect? Or like, octopus with the flavor of ice cream, or texture of ice cream inside?

Like an ice cream that's octopus flavored. The texture is still ice cream. And the shape in which it's delivered should be octopus.

Don't let your dreams be dreams, poach some octopus in milk and use the liquid to make a custard.

I dare you.

I think it's very much like regular ice cream, but a flavor an octopus would eat.

Crab, maybe.

Milk chocolate and peach, with a creamy consistency. Then I’d try substituting other fruits, like kiwi, strawberry, cherry, and orange.

The replicator you need for this already exists. Its called a blender.

Not chocolate milk, but good milk chocolate. I’m not going to put chocolate in a blender.

I would ask for random combos. That seems like an obvious feature. I assume there would be a Lemmy community where I could post reviews on whatever monstrosities come out. If I feel like actual good food I'd put some restrictions like no mixing savoury and sweet in place.

@keenanpepper @asklemmy
>extra obvious features
The feature you listed is such uncomprehensible bullshit that I cannot even begin to explain how. Clearly, Reddit isn't sending their best.

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The fuck is this bot on about? The more I interact with Lemmy the more I think it's going to be a net drain on the fediverse. It's use of gamified comments taken form Reddit are bad enough, but the way it federates seems all sorts of wonky and half-fictional.