History Main / ImpossiblyDeliciousFood

---> '''Bertie:''' Good old Anatole, God's gift to the gastric juices. Many's the time that I have regretted I have but one stomach with which to enjoy his offerings.

* In ''[[http://www.potionsandsnitches.net/fanfiction/viewstory.php?sid=1555 The Heir to Prince Manor]]'' Harry developed a craving for merlinnas, an incredibly delicious faery fruit - but only if you picked it at dawn; any other time and it would be hard and bitter.

* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoh0tHRXOvE Snapple]] ad, where the people of the company are all talking about the "stuff" in their new drink. Their only description of ingredients is green and black tea.

* A notable Avocado ad gives us these lyrics:
--> "Oh Avocado...
--> So soft and green and Ripe-Uh!
--> I'm gonna lay you down...
--> On a bed of Greens tonight."
--> ''Chorus'':
--> (Oh Avocado so green, Best fruit I've ever seen)
--> Ohhhhhhh..."

'''Kirito:''' My God... ''we Literature/FlowersforAlgernon'd our '''TASTEBUDS?!'''''

* ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'' amplifies the example from ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'''s episode 8, and [[SupremeChef Asuna's]] meal made from an S-ranked ingredient comes out of the oven with an [[PowerGlows overwhelming golden aura.]] But it also shows the downside of this sort of food when afterward, Kirito and Asuna find that even her sandwiches now taste like she "dipped a dog turd in Cool Ranch."

'''Kirito:''' My God... ''we Literature/{{Flowers for Algernon}}'d our taste buds?!''

** Happens again in "Time Sandwich" where Jake creates the most delicious sandwich ever made, with tears, eggs from a bird outside the window, and a lobster's soul among the sandwich's ingredients. However, the Magic Man steals it away before Jake gets a chance to bite into it. Defeated, Jake tries to make it again but since he's no longer in "the zone", it's nowhere near as good. Luckily, he gets it back in the end (with [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty punching Magic Man]] as a bonus).

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* In the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' {{Gamebook|s}} ''Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter'', the protagonist finds a mysterious purple substance in a refrigerator that smells like the best PB&J sandwich ever with chocolate on top and tastes just as delicious. Too bad that choosing to eat it causes you to gradually [[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrink down]].

* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Demons And Angels", Lister and Kryten build a matter duplicator with the aim of solving food shortages on the ship. It extracts the very best qualities of an object in one copy, and the very worst in another. When trying out an example of the former, the ultimate test is a food that Lister normally hates:
--> '''Lister:''' I tell you one thing. I’ve been to a parallel universe, I’ve seen time running backwards, I’ve played pool with planets, and I’ve [[MrSeahorse given birth to twins]], but I never thought in my entire life I’d taste an edible [[NutritionalNightmare Pot Noodle]].

* ''Film/GodOfCookery'' has two dishes that qualify: Pissing Beef Balls and Sorrowful Rice. Both cause people to drift off into [[ImagineSpot their imaginations]] while [[OrgasmicallyDelicious writhing about]]. (For those wondering, the former is a meat ball with juicy shrimp inside that squirts when bit into. The latter is just a well-made BBQ pork rice bowl.)
** Sorrowful rice makes the judge burst into tears, as she knows that there will soon come a time when she ''won't'' be tasting this food in her mouth and the thought horrifies her. Or maybe it was the onion.

* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' has a series of short stories in the form of memories. One tells the story of a wine connoisseur who is offered a wine so delectable that he is willing to literally do ''anything'' to get another taste. The memory is labled "[[FridgeHorror Slowly Dawning Horror]]'' as the drinker realizes the implications of what it means.

* Killia from ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea5}}'' learned to make legendary-quality foods by trial-and-error from the loot scavenged off the corpses of curb-stomped overlords. ''It shows''.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'', the Delisauce condiment. Nobody knows what it tastes like, but it makes everything incredibly delicious (thereby maximizing its [[HyperactiveMetabolism recovery effects]]).

* ''WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}}'': [[PunnyName Rhost]] is a SupremeChef who can make just about any dish from inside his body in minutes, and his cooking is universally considered delicious, but the good cook also has an ace up his sleeve - he can produce an unreasonably tantalizing substance he calls his "special sauce." This sauce is said to be so tasty and enticing that Rhost can even use it to lure armies into obvious death traps with a trail of fresh pasta and make enemies eat themselves into comas, to name a few.

** Shade-of-the-evening is a blue wine consumed by the warlocks of Qarth. At first it tastes foul, but when swallowed it tastes like everything you've ever eaten and more. To Daenerys, it tastes like "honey and anise and cream, like mother's milk and Drogo's seed, like red meat and hot blood and molten gold." However, drinking too much can cause you to have horrible nightmares and fever dreams.

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', shade-of-the-evening is a blue wine consumed by the warlocks of Qarth. At first it tastes foul, but when swallowed it tastes like everything you've ever eaten and more. To Daenerys, it tastes like "honey and anise and cream, like mother's milk and Drogo's seed, like red meat and hot blood and molten gold." However, drinking too much can cause you to have horrible nightmares and fever dreams.

* The Website/SCPFoundation has numerous examples of incredibly delicious supernatural food. However, it's also usually SchmuckBait and incredibly dangerous in some manner.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1361 SCP-1361]] is a giant orange mass of animal tissue. If it ever gets bigger than 107 kilograms (236 pounds), it will start producing an irresistible scent, described by a D-class as "better than a rare steak, crispy fried bacon, and a wet [EXPLETIVE DELETED] all rolled into one." If anyone eats it, SCP-1361 will start eating them from the inside instead. It smells even better when cooked, as D-class personnel will resort to violence in order to get the stuff after catching a whiff of it.

-->-- ''Literature/TheLastBattle'' by Creator/CSLewis

* ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'': In one chapter, a hospital begins serving incredibly delicious mushrooms as a staple of their meals. The protagonist is suspicious of the food and never eats it, but everyone else can't get enough. It turns out the mushrooms [[spoiler:are actually the re-grown placentas and umbilical cords of several newborn EnfantTerrible who wanted to be put back in the womb]]. At the end of the story, the mushrooms turn out to be so delicious that the hospital staff just gorge themselves on them [[spoiler:and pay no mind to the creepy, naked, pregnant mosquito-woman drinking their blood.]]
** By [[Creator/JunjiIto the same man]], a short story called ''Splatter Film'' tells of a kind of honey that tastes so good that everything else completely pales in comparison once you've tried it. In fact, the main characters who get to try it start to suffer from starvation as nothing else tastes good anymore. It doesn't help that there's a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath certain risk]] in eating said honey...

** One food item was so [[IncrediblyLamePun delicious]] that it seemed to grant enlightenment in whoever ate it. [[spoiler:Giving it to the world leaders was what stopped an entire world war. They named the ingredient "GOD".]]

On the flipside of ForeignQueasine lies this. This is the foodstuff of legends, often produced by a SupremeChef or a [[GrandmasRecipe beloved grandparent]]. FoodPorn doesn't do it justice. The DeliciousDistraction pales in comparison. Just one bite will prompt anyone to [[OrgasmicallyDelicious moan with pleasure]]. [[SeriousBusiness Countries have gone to war for the taste.]] It's an Impossibly Delicious Food—like ImpossiblyCoolClothes, it's food that's over-the-top in terms of deliciousness.

Generally takes two forms: Either it's a food that's some combination of ridiculous ingredients, known for their yumminess, or its exact composition is [[TakeOurWordForIt never described]], only vague flavor. (It will also often be in terms of other foods well-known for tasting good.) But that description is enough for us to form our own opinions. Sometimes the food is actually stated to be magical or godlike. A TrademarkFavoriteFood may also be treated in this fashion.

** The Grapes of Generosity, which appear when a Fraggle needs to learn how to be generous. They are so delicious that a Fraggle will want to eat them all himself—but if he eats them alone, he will become more and more selfish... and eventually weightless, so that everyone can see how selfish he is. By contrast, if he eats the grapes with others, he becomes extremely generous.

** The Grapes of Generosity appear when a Fraggle needs to learn how to be generous. They are so delicious that a Fraggle will want to eat them all himself—but if he eats them alone, he will become more and more selfish... and eventually weightless, so that everyone can see how selfish he is. By contrast, if he eats the grapes with others, he becomes extremely generous.

* ''Series/FraggleRock'' had the Grapes of Generosity, which are so delicious that anyone who finds them will not want to share them.
** it also has the Mossmelon, and the Legendary Tooth (doozer) Tower, which were used to snap Wembly out of his stubbornness.

* ''LightNovel/KyouranKazokuNikki'': Played with. The son of an assassin turned his back on his father's trade and set up a Chinese restaurant based on his mother's recipes. People who eat his food tend to fall into comas. His father taunts him that he's a killer through and through. The real reason is that the food is so delicious it [[BrownNote overwhelms an average human's senses.]]