Opinin' O'Brien knows the value of next day lamb stew

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I've been without a fridge for close to a month. I got a countertop ice maker for next to nothing at Goodwill the next day. Really it's all I need. I've I buy strawberries I just put some ice on them every few hours, and they last a week.
It also doesn't hurt my city is known for having some of the best tap water on earth.

Of course, I can't let them know that it is because every day is the same... inside the pattern buffer. 😶
- It's all starting to add up... I mean... no! Let me stay! The real real sucks!
  
  Wishing you'd taken the blue pill aka not watched Star Trek eh...?
  
  I'd rather be woke than happy... wait, wtf am I saying?! YeS I wAnTs To PlAy ThE sPoRtS pLeAsE 🥺 aNd MaKes AlL tHe MoNiEz, YeAh...

Replicate yourself a bunch of ice, a cooler, and a fresh stew, and...

The answer to replicator problems is always MORE REPLICATION!
- I always knew it could make hot food, but can a replicator create ice?
  It's easy to put energy into a system, but removing it usually takes time.
- Just replicate day old stew
  
  Oh... you mean instant.
- I guess post scarcity go BRRR, but if I was Chief Engineer and caught some flunky using my precious reactor output to replicate ice there’d be a pointed discussion on thermodynamics
  
  Replicator, replicate me a flunky to sit through the Chief's lecture again I want piña coladas
  
  This has me wondering about the semantics of potentially replicating a bunch of high capacity batteries.
  
  That's a good point. Could we set a phaser to "cold?"
  
  What about a stew pot sized heatpump cooker/cooler?

I bet you can program it in.
- But can the replicator be able to mimic day old leftover pizza straight from the fridge....let alone microwaved day old pizza. Can it give you that unmistakable taste of it unevenly heated
  
  Computer, 1 bag of Totino's pizza rolls - combo flavor - make them molten on the inside and still cold on the outside just like my moms busted microwave would do
  
  Yes, it can.

No no no, the trick is you have to queue and schedule the replication order a day or two in advance. The ensigns on Deck 8 swear it tastes different.

a replicator can make blood wine but not the subtlety of day old stew? im a bit skeptical.
- The subtleties of flavors marrying over time? Doubtful. We've seen characters reject the texture/flavor of basic meals, let alone something purposely left to chill and reheat. Maybe by the time of DISCO they'll have nailed it down.
  
  I suspect a lot of the TNG era issues with flavor/texture coming of replicated food has more to do with the person programing those flavors having no idea what they were doing in the kitchen and just mashing something together. Either because the "person" coming up with the pattern is the computer system; or because the person was some one like Barclay who might be handy with the ship's systems... but, doesn't understand the first thing about food and couldn't cook a ham sandwich.
  Or like with alien foods... just simply not understanding what the food is or is supposed to be. Like how you never really see Mediterranean cuisine put garlic and mint together, even though the two are basically ubiquitous in that cuisine. Someone who reads a quick note that those two flavors are common might make the mistake of thinking they're used together, unless they actually know something about cooking. Maybe that alien culture you just read the cliff notes on has weird taste buds. or maybe they enjoy the dissonant flavoring.
  
  its just chemicals.. that they are building at the atomic level!
  I was always skeptical of the complaints. i figured theyre either discretionary (replicator not programmed for that variation) or human error cuz people suck.
  
  It'd be like The Fly but with foods mixing, instead of Jeff Goldblum.