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marlinspirkhall · 1 year

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The star trek food cubes are haunting me again. I want to put them in my mouth.

So here are the theories on how to make them.

[ID] Screencap from The Conscience Of The King shows Lt. Riley uncovering a plate of food cubes [end ID]

Tofu, diced.

Marinate in liquid(s) of choice (e.g, lemon juice). Cover with cornstarch. Add red, green or yellow food colouring to blocks as required. Roast and serve.

Suggestion: marinate the cubes in different flavours to correspond to their colours.

Prototype recipe

Melon, diced.

This one is low effort: Red cubes= watermelon, other cubes= melon. Allegedly, the original on-set props *were* dyed melon (but I don't have a solid source), so this may be the best fit.

Royal icing/icing sugar.

This one is just candy: make 3 batches of royal icing, one red, one yellow, one green, dice when half-set and leave to fully set.

Cake, fondant.

Possible, if we assume Lt. Riley was drinking milk in that scene from The Conscience Of The King (Pictured above). This one is also easy to make, assuming you don't object to fondant.

Jelly, cubed.

(Jell-O). Dishonourable mention; this one is too see-through for my liking.

[ID] Screencap from Where No Man shows Kirk eating a green food cube, which looks blue here. [End ID]

Potatoes, Diced.

Roast Potatoes, Diced

This idea comes from CoolPete.com, and my first thought was "please don't put food colouring on the potatoes".

Cool Pete provided a photo of the finished results, and the natural colour of the potato offsets most of the food colouring to make them all look greener than intended. The red food colouring comes out the best. I suppose colour theory dictates that you should use blue food colouring on the potatoes in order to get green cubes, but don't quote me on that.

With this in mind, I'm going to tentatively suggest a horrible idea:

Roast Sweet Potatoes (Yams), Diced

In theory, the redness of the yams might allow the Yellow Food Dye to look more yellow, and make the red more vibrant. There's a greater chance that you will be able to use the green food colouring without it looking blue here, but use at your own caution, because the finished product may look oversaturated. Perfectly edible, but potentially unappetizing (the first bite is with the eye).

Closing Comments:

For uniformity of texture, tofu or melon seems to be the best way to go. If we are to believe that the "food cubes" in-universe are supposed to be fruit (according to that same trekbbs thread, they're placed in glasses in Journey To Babel), then watermelon and cantaloupe are begging for our attention, but we must ignore them, for melon alone does not a meal make!

“I wonder if they were actually supposed to be some kind of fruit in-universe, too? IIRC, in "Journey to Babel" the copper aliens put them in their drinks, which seems a strange thing to do if they were supposed to be the 23rd century equivalent of tofu cubes or something.”

-Avro Arrow

This isn't the end, merely the beginning. I will test out a couple of variations of these meals and report back on which one I think is best.

My current hypothesis is that the tofu will allow for the most variation, as you can marinate it in naturally-colourful liquids of various colours. If it's colourful enough you could forgo the food colouring altogether, or marinate it in something colourless (like salted water) and then add seasonings and food colouring if you wish.

I intend to start by using tofu with diced potatoes as a side, though if I test out too many cube-shaped meals at once, my household will get suspicious, so I need to space this out over the course of a few months. I'm going to use the tag #Food Cube Trek, so filter it if that's not something you'd like to see.

#Food Cube Trek #food cubes #star trek #star trek TOS #girl help I can't stop thinking about the food cubes #long post #cooking with quark

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fiercerthanyou · 3 months

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Cindy Wright, "Bacon Cube 3, 2005,

Oil on canvas,

78¾ h × 76¾ w in (200 × 195 cm)

#art #creepy #surreal #freaky #painting #cindy wright #bacon #fooding #food #cube #flesh

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forecast0ctopus · 2 months

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bones smoking cigarette with tricorder and food cubes one of them moldy

#willem dafoe smoking cigarette with two oranges one of them moldy #star trek #star trek tos #star trek fanart #star trek tos fanart #leonard mccoy #leonard bones mccoy #idk which food cube is moldy. u tell me

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hollowslantern · 9 months

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I would be fangirling so hard if I met her in real life

#star trek #star trek cube food #star trek cube food fanclub

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aestrologist · 2 months

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<3

#uploads #aesthetic #cubes #food #pretty food #visual stim #candy #cute candy #p #sensory

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heartnosekid · 3 months

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taiwanfood_kao on ig

#stim #ice cream #fruit #food #sfw #pink #red #green #blue #white #cubes #strawberries #bananas #frozen desserts #utensils #pouring #hands #ishy gifs #postish

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cinereuz · 5 months

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I can't believe I made one of these audios in the year of 2023. This took 2 hours. Someone strike me down

#these audios put me into like an actual trance it's been years and i'm still obsessed with them #i wanted to add the tardigrades and/or food cube for people who like to party and the turtles lines so bad but i couldn't make them fit :(#lucas miller #taz balance #the adventure zone #thezonecast #god i fucking live in the lucas tag sorry for all the lucasposting he activates my autism neurons #i'll post more camp camp soon i swear

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randomitemdrop · 6 months

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trick or treat!! (thats me dressed up as my among us main VVV)

Oh I bet you want square candy

Item: Berry's Yogurt Cubes

#food and drink #cubes

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spirkbitch · 9 months

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i don’t care what anyone says, i know in my heart of hearts that star trek cube food is delicious

what i wouldn’t give for just one of those cubes, they look so good

#star trek #star trek tos #spirk #tos spirk #tos spock #spock #tos #star trek cube food

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doktorpfannkuchen · 3 months

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🍽 source: Dr. Oetker Schulkochbuch für den Elektroherd (translation: Dr. Oetker school cook book for the electric stove) ➛ publisher: Ceres-Verlag Rudolf-August Oetker KG ➛ 16th Improved Edition 1969 ➛ Printed in Germany

#vintage photography #vintage food #vintage cooking #vintage book #germany #dr oetker #Dr Oetker: Schulkochbuch für den Elektroherd #original colour images #(I love these little cubes of ice cream)#(but also the Whole Damn Lemon with a candied cherry???)

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marlinspirkhall · 1 year

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[ID] Meme shows a Screencap from Journey To Babel which shows Sarek standing beside Kirk before a banquet table. In the foreground are two trays of colourful and slightly misshapen cubes of plasticine. They are coloured yellow, red, blue and green. Text reads: We offer you our finest Play-Doh [End ID]

#food cubes #THERE ARE BLUE ONES? but these ones look much more Play-Doh-y than the ones from the other episodes! Curse you‚ Star Trek continuity!

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catfindr · 11 months

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