Koopa Soup with Leviathan Steak: Video Game Creatures as Food

Strange, but common question. Out of all the games you've played, which animal, creature (or character) do you think would taste the best?

How do you think they would be prepared for consumption in every-day life? Would restaurants revolve around dishing out your favorite BBQ Behemoth Steak or Korean Leviathan Platter?

Would it be difficult for said creature to be ingested? Would it try crawling back out? Would it multiply inside? Would it kill you before it was digested?

Despite their habit of melting whatever they bleed upon, I think a Xenomorph would have an experience and taste similar to that of King Crab. Ugly, slimy and horrendous looking, but nobody ever took the time to see if that saliva that dripped out would taste sweet.

And of course, there is always Tauren Steak, although I would wonder if the Krogans from Mass Effect would taste like Pork or Italian Sausage.

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Pikmin 2 has a whole segment of the Piklopedia (Aka: Bestiary) dedicated to cooking the various creatures. So i'd have to point to that.

A corpse should be left well enough alone...

You just know there's a thriving food industry in the world of Monster Hunter that uses Hunters to grab large quantities of Wyvern meats.

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Enlong beat me to Monster Hunter, dangit. :P

I don't want to eat any Pokemon, considering they're all just as feelsy as humans. However, the fruit from the neck of a Tropius is something I would not mind having.

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Isn't that one of the few Plant Pokemon that aren't poisonous? Tropius Fruit Punch would be sweet.

Monster Hunter characters must absolutely love dinner time. Wonder if much of the meat is "pre-cooked".

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Mm, tail of Kremling...

It's been 3000 years…

Relevant.

Scrambled Exeggcute wouldn't work, though. They're tree seeds that look like eggs.

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Chocobos.

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"I've heard barbecued Goomba is a delicacy."

Actual words from SM 64 DS, when Yoshi first gets a Power Flower.

When you wish upon a side of beef, soon will come an end to all your grief

I guess this Earthworm Jim 2 boss would be cheating, wouldn't it?

A few years ago, I asked the Live-Action Film forum about eating a Xenomorph. It was pretty much agreed that it'd be impossible.

edited 10th Nov '14 11:53:33 PM by DrFurball

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In Legend of Zelda, do culinary professionals work with poe souls? I mean, we know that Link can consume a poe so I can imagine there are people who make poe related dishes.

We are all made of star stuff. Very, very weird star stuff.

Funny you should ask this. I wonder what slimes would taste like? They look enough like gumdrops or Hershey's Kisses anyway.

ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.

That sounds like serious black-market stuff. I imagine eating someone's immortal soul is probably considered a taboo along the same lines as cannibalism. But there are probably shady-enough characters to run with such an industry.

Or maybe Hylians don't care once someone's spirit has regressed to the monster state. Hard to know for sure.

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Wark....

On a related note, I might have tried (and somewhat succeeded) in recreating a couple culinary recopies from FFXIV and spent way too much time thinking what Earthly meat would be the best substitute for dodo, raptor, marmot, etc.

edited 11th Nov '14 10:25:54 AM by Elle