'Haute Cuisine' on Mars 295
Roland Piquepaille writes "If you're lucky enough to be a crew member of one of the next European Space Agency (ESA) long-term missions, you will have the choice between eleven new delicious recipes, such as 'martian bread and green tomato jam' or 'potato and tomato mille-feuilles' when it's time for dinner. In 'Ready for dinner on Mars?,' ESA says that these recipes will use fresh ingredients grown in greenhouses built on Mars colonies or other planets. The future astronauts -- should I write 'farmonauts'? -- will grow potatoes, onions, rice, soya or lettuce. And it's interesting to note that the new menus were elaborated with the help of Alain Ducasse, the French chef who has almost as many stars in the 'Guide Michelin' as there are planets in our Solar system. This overview contains more details and references about eating in space."
Oh well... (Score:2, Funny)
I used to want to go into space...but if I have to eat that damned Frenchy food while I'm up there, forget it.
(Note: This post may seem like flamebait, but I really do hate the French, so I feel I'm justified.)
^_^
Just add water (Score:4, Funny)
"Midichlorian stew again?" (Score:4, Funny)
"Shut up and eat, kid. You want to grow up to be big and strong like your father, don't you?"
spirulina ? (Score:1, Funny)
my girlfriend takes a heaping spoonful of it and mixes it with warm rice milk. she loooves it, and i think it smells like raw chicken.
i'm sure Monsanto will find a way to get in on this, to ensure the first seeds planted on Mars are genetically modified and prevent strange new martian diseases that only Monsanto knows about.
Re:Oh well... (Score:2, Funny)
Yum. Martian food. (Score:5, Funny)
What! No Burger (Score:2, Funny)
should I write 'farmonauts'? (Score:5, Funny)
Let Me Be One of the First to Say It (Score:3, Funny)
Not a "Freedom Fry" thing, but... (Score:4, Funny)
No specific offense to the French intended, but as a vegetarian, I can think of much better choices to have designed the menu (not to mention, not everyone likes real French-style food).
Indian food, for example, has a truly huge variation of veggie-only dishes, as does Spanish (though on that, I'll admit, my experience with it involves mostly South-American-Spanish, not Southern-Europe-Spanish food). Greek has a decent selection as well, and you replace the lamb with falafel for most of the rest.
But French? The French have a reputation for taking perfectly good, otherwise healthy and veggie safe foods, and drenching them in lard. Wrapping them in thinly sliced meat. Stuffing them with unnameable mollusks and cephalopods.
Not the best choice, IMO.
Oh nos!!!1! (Score:4, Funny)
But the book isn't named How to Cook For Humans on Mars, it's named How to Cook Humans on Mars!!
Martian Menu samples (Score:2, Funny)
"The Helium Special". Four-armed green martian basted in its own ichor. Favorite of John Carter.
"The War of the Worlds". This blobby Martian is served to you live, at which point you sneeze on it, and your Earth germs instantly render it dead...and tasty.
Re:"Midichlorian stew again?" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oh well... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Oh well... (Score:3, Funny)
Next plan: Colonize the sun. To avoid a firey meltdown, we'll go at night.
I made fermented tang once (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not a "Freedom Fry" thing, but... (Score:3, Funny)
So would that be the Gaul of Cthulhu?
why no animals? (Score:3, Funny)
Would it hurt that much to bring a few frozen chicken eggs on the voyage and then raise some chickens on Mars?
Great idea, but.... (Score:2, Funny)
You know, that was a great idea. But no one would have thought that Dr. Smith would decide that a "nice omelette would hit the spot!" halfway through the voyage.
Just say no to veggies (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oh well... (Score:3, Funny)
I'd prefer my butter drenched in crisco on top of my cheese and then deep fried.. preferably breaded in that mixture used to make corndogs.
(you'd never know I'm actually a very skinny guy reading that either...)
but umm anyway... food on mars? yay?
Re:Tell us some Polish screen door jokes! (Score:2, Funny)
Laughed for days, we did.