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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").

What mashups of food or drink would you try first?

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Pot brownies that actually taste like brownies

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Rum ham.

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A real Milk-steak.

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- And a side of jelly beans, raw please
  
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- Boiled over hard
  
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Greggroll. Halfway between an egg roll and Gregg.

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- So egg and Bailey's in a shoe?
  
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- 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!
  
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  Grouse egg? How do they compare to Deggs and Qeggs?
  
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Blackberry lime

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- Good one. I’d especially like this as a soda.
  
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- Blackcurrant grapefruit
  
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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.

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

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- That immediately reminds me of the age old question: would you eat chocolate that tastes like shit, or shit that tastes like chocolate?
  
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  Definitely the latter
  
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  Which one looks like shit
  
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- So is it cake x1000
  
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Lemon-Lime

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- So just like a citrus fruit intermediate between lemon and lime?
  
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  Yes, I call it Leme for short.
  
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- The cool thing about fruit is that you can do it. It exists and is called a lemonime.
  
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- Oooooh. Good one. I’d like this as a soda.
  
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  You smart-ass. Take my upvote...
  
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Cherry sized seedless pommegranate

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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

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- Fish. I have yet to have good plant-based fish. Oooh, I could have normal sushi again.
  
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- 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?
  
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  From my understanding, it works like a 3D Printer. So no Animal must die!
  
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Baked Alaska / Empanada

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- If you freeze ice cream deep enough, then wrap it in pastry dough and fry it, you could probably achieve this.
  
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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_ice_cream
  
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Steak and mushroom

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

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- The replicator you need for this already exists. Its called a blender.
  
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  Not chocolate milk, but good milk chocolate. I’m not going to put chocolate in a blender.
  
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If I had a star trek replicator I'd use it to end capitalism and create post scarcity

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

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- 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?
  
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  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.
  
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  I think it's very much like regular ice cream, but a flavor an octopus would eat.
  
  Crab, maybe.
  
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Jamaican blend coffee, Double strong, double sweet.

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Dinosaur wings. Hey, it's worth a shot, right?

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Halfway between a pizza and a pineapple!

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Steak with Gorgonzola cheese

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Black tar heroine.

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- black tar
  
  heroine
  
  So like, a cross between Wonder Woman and Armus?
  
  I think that's basically just Pam Grier, LOL.
  
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- With chocolate sauce
  
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A fly and a bluewhale

Just to see what it'll do.

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- Can't replicate living beings.
  
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  I just started replicating a catgirl. Is it going to come out dead?
  
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I wouldn't even be experimenting with food. Star Trek replicators can replicate so much more than food.

I'd replicate something halfway between a car and a spaceship.

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- Time machine and a car.
  
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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.

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Grape/Lime soda.

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caviar suchi, why not?

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furry

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@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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- Hi there! The links in your text lead away from the user's instance, here are fixed links that stay on each user's instance: !asklemmy@lemmy.ml
  
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  @CommunityLinkFixer
  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.
  
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