from chocolatl to soylent green

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So I'm finishing up my SF/F end of the world piece and am thinking that next week's is going to be on food from the sublime to the horrifying. This is one of my less well thought-through ideas, but strikes me as hillarious. Anyone got any thoughts?

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Re: why oh why do i remember these things?

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Bendan wine and klah (analogous to coffee) from Dragonriders of Pern. Spice from Dune? (Or are you saving that one for an essay on SF/F and drugs?) How about the silver apples that bring immortality/healing from C.S. Lewis's The Magician's Nephew? (Hmm, or getting back to the people-AS-food theme, in Lewis's The Silver Chair, the Gentle Giants invite the protagonists to their Autumn Feast, primarily so the protagonists can serve as one of the main delicacies that's traditional for that feast, man-pies.)

Hmm, in the Thomas Covenant series there's a healing berry called aliantha - he's always eating that stuff.