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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 [[Take Our Word for It|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 [[Trademark Favorite Food]] may also be treated in this fashion. |
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 [[Take Our Word for It|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 [[Trademark Favorite Food]] may also be treated in this fashion. |
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Just watch out. Some of these foods are ''so good,'' they're [[Lotus Eater Machine|addicting in very,]] [[G |
Just watch out. Some of these foods are ''so good,'' they're [[Lotus Eater Machine|addicting in very,]] [[G-Rated Drug|very bad]] [[I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!|ways.]] Women who are pregnant, could be pregnant, or are nursing should not eat Impossibly Delicious Food. [[May Contain Evil]]. |
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'''[[No Real Life Examples]]''' -- it's just too subjective. No, not even [[Everything's Better With Chocolate|chocolate]]. |
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* The bizarre short story "Biscuits of Glory," collected in one of [[Bruce Coville (Creator)|Bruce Coville]]'s anthologies of children's stories, features biscuits that are "heavenly" in a near-literal sense. In a normal person, this causes levitation. {{spoiler|When given to a ghost, it "feels like it went to heaven," and is exorcised.}} Of note is that this is ultimately a negative effect, because nothing else can compare to the taste of the biscuits. |
* The bizarre short story "Biscuits of Glory," collected in one of [[Bruce Coville (Creator)|Bruce Coville]]'s anthologies of children's stories, features biscuits that are "heavenly" in a near-literal sense. In a normal person, this causes levitation. {{spoiler|When given to a ghost, it "feels like it went to heaven," and is exorcised.}} Of note is that this is ultimately a negative effect, because nothing else can compare to the taste of the biscuits. |
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* Mentioned briefly in ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]].'' When Meg is recuperating from her brush with IT among Aunt Beast's people, the food that Aunt Beast gives her is described as "incredibly delicious" -- just one more way in which aliens are superior to humans. |
* Mentioned briefly in ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]].'' When Meg is recuperating from her brush with IT among Aunt Beast's people, the food that Aunt Beast gives her is described as "incredibly delicious" -- just one more way in which aliens are superior to humans. |
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* Fourth-dimension-flipped ketchup in ''[[The Boy Who Reversed Himself]]'' is so good, it [[G |
* Fourth-dimension-flipped ketchup in ''[[The Boy Who Reversed Himself]]'' is so good, it [[G-Rated Drug|renders its consumer euphoric, suggestable, and desperate for more]], at least temporarily. |
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* A major plot point in one of Bone Chiller's novels (a series of children's horror fiction novels similar to Goosebumps). A new lunch lady makes food so delicious that all the students and teachers flock to the cafeteria every day to get a taste of her meals, and even fighting over them. It's so good that the main character cannot bear to eat anything other than her cooking, comparing his cornflakes he ate for breakfast to sawdust. However, over a series of strange events the he realizes that the lunch lady is actually a giant insect who implants eggs in her cooking so that they will incubate in the hapless residents, controlling their movements until they eventually hatch and discard their hosts' bodies. The main character manages to bring the bug lady down with the help of a fellow student (who was allergic to outside food and had to bring her own lunch to school). |
* A major plot point in one of Bone Chiller's novels (a series of children's horror fiction novels similar to Goosebumps). A new lunch lady makes food so delicious that all the students and teachers flock to the cafeteria every day to get a taste of her meals, and even fighting over them. It's so good that the main character cannot bear to eat anything other than her cooking, comparing his cornflakes he ate for breakfast to sawdust. However, over a series of strange events the he realizes that the lunch lady is actually a giant insect who implants eggs in her cooking so that they will incubate in the hapless residents, controlling their movements until they eventually hatch and discard their hosts' bodies. The main character manages to bring the bug lady down with the help of a fellow student (who was allergic to outside food and had to bring her own lunch to school). |
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* ''[[Wind On Fire|The Wind Singer]]'' had the underground mud people eating some kind of smoky, sweet roasted nut/fruit that Bowman and Kestrel found tastier than anything they'd had in their whole lives. |
* ''[[Wind On Fire|The Wind Singer]]'' had the underground mud people eating some kind of smoky, sweet roasted nut/fruit that Bowman and Kestrel found tastier than anything they'd had in their whole lives. |
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