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I just realized why some people hate replicated food... (yiffit.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Two reasons, actually.

It's not their preferred preparation. All the replicated food is based on a pattern from an original recipe. It's not adding flair or anything, it's literally a copy of a dish made who knows how long ago. And that's where the next reason comes from:
Imagine eating some spicy pepper dish from, like, the 1940's vs the same dish made today with spicer peppers. It wouldn't be as spicy eating something that wasn't, at the time, really selectively bred to be more spicy. If the recipe for the replicator is, like, hundreds of years old it would probably not be as potent as the same dish made with real ingredients.

I can imagine that the characters that have expressed disdain for replicated food probably get hit by both of these. It's not the way they would preferred it to be made, and it's also like eating vegetable jello salad in 2024.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This doesn't make sense. The most famous replicator food is ordered with a modifier.

"Tea, Earl grey, HOT"

Why not "noodles, pad Thai, extra spicy"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Raktajino, extra strong, extra sweet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Jamaican blend, double strong, double sweet

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They do order modded food in DS9 as well. Bashir orders Soup, but with basil.

I think I recall it in lower decks too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I do enjoy the implication that lower decks had where all food products have to have their temperature specified.

"Birthday cake with lit candles, various temperatures"