"What if aliens taste good?" Topic

Hi All,

I am looking for pictures (lots of pictures) of OOP Warhammer Fantasy models, and I was wondering if there was some sort of a gallery website I could visit to get them.

Thanks in advance!

Samuel Groover

What if aliens taste good? In fact what if they taste great! Instead of invading a bug planet, you would be harvesting a bug planet. Mmmmm…steamed bug with drawn butter and garlic… What do you guys think?

Whoa!! looks a glitch on the board…looks like we both pressed send at the same time.

Who do you nominate to be the test guiney to let us know how they taste? Someone has to be the first.

Cordwainer Smith wrote a story about it. Alien ambassador gets burnt and the smell drives the humans wild so they cannot resist eating him. Top stuff.

…just like chicken.

As long as I'm just the consumer at the end of the line, I could probably go ahead and chow down, as long as it doesn't look like the real thing anymore. No chocolate covered aliens, no sucking the marrow out of alien leg bones, etc.

Mmmmm. Alien ettouffe(sp).

Cant wait so see battered deep fat fried aliens! Hmmmm!

one word- popplers!

Depends how dangerous they are. Even if they taste good if they come with teeth, claws, acid spit etc. Then the hardest men in the Galaxy are going to be the farmers! :)

Jeremey
germy.co.uk

Oy, we taste disgusting! We'd make really bad food for humanlings, especially wargamers…

Like Alaskan King Crabs fishermen?

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Some of us would be prepared to eat them, after all some of us will eat whales or Ginsters Pasties

One word- Zitzers! No, wait, he's right- Popplers! Fishy Joe's, here I come!

~Mike

Somewhere out there, another species was just about to make first contact with us, when they picked up this thread…

Would you like fries with you McAlien Burger?

Aw mom, I wanted Bug McNuggets!

In StarGuard, there is a passing comment of how much the Dreenoi (insect race that devowers worlds)taste like crab legs. I've always loved that perspective.

"Flamethrowers! Bring in the flamethrowers! And be sure to get 'em evenly on both sides this time!"

That would make for some interesting shows on the food channel.

BAM…we are going to these aliens up a notch.

Mmmmm…. Xeno-licking…

SOMB

Easy Answer to original question – eat them. Starguard had it right!

Tastes great !
Less Filling !
Tastes great !
Less Filling !
…….Pass the beer.

Kim Basinger was an alien in My Stepmother is an Alien…

And I bet she tastes good…

SOMB

Sumarat— are you the devil? You TORTURE us so! 8)=

Aww, now if I answered that, it'd be telling! Where's the fun in that? *grins*

Thank goodness I turned off the volume on my computer. Those were freaky enough without the jingle.

You missed the best part, then- it's such a hauntingly beautiful piece, energetic and forceful, yet melodic and speaking of some experience beyond mere internet use…

Or maybe it's just completely insane.

Who is the dude with the mustache?

I'm not sure, but personally, I was more wondering "Why the hell are those kids naked save for their space helmets?"

Which, I guess, could give suggestions as to who the guy with the mustache is…

- Monk

I didn't type that, what I said was:
to misquote:
"alien may taste like pumpkin pie but i'll never know because i'll never eat the filthy mf."

If Aliens tasted good, space exploration funding would triple, because every socialite, rich snob and overpaid epicure would be doing everything possible to be the first to sample the new haute delicacies.

Finding tasty aliens would be the absolute best thing that could happen to NASA :)

@ Pontifex: No, the efete would only do it if it was particularly disgusting or they only used the organs. We proles wouldn't "get it."

"Alien-bacon tastes good, alien-chops taste good."

I see your misquote and raise you one, Bob A.

Looking at how the tree-huggers get uptight when you try to have a nice feed of seal-flipper, what do you expect they will do when you try to serve up something that can actually complain about it.

There was a great cordwainer smith story about a species that looked suprisingly like ducks that found a way to sponge off humanity; they also loved german beer.

Won't spoil it, but do look it up.

To break out an old joke from Traveller…

K'Kree BBQ…..

I'll aks the missus if I do……….

Now if the aliens can re-grow parts we might be able to work out a deal:

Alien Traveller: How much for an entry visa

Terran Immegration Official: Your left arm at the shoulder

AT: No, seriously..

TIO: I am serious.

Greys are like veal and eggplant. They are so mild that you have to be careful of the sauce you marinade them in, lest it overpower the taste.
Use mild sauces until you develop a taste for them, and then experiment.
Luckily (for them) they regenerate very quickly, so they grow faster than we can eat them.
I don't think that it's worth the effort, especially considering how addicting they are. That may be part of their Plan!

Perhaps they are the equivalent of tasting like space "chicken." Still, "Kentucky Fried Alien" is just WRONG, even if the Colonel uses his special recipe . . .

"Sir! They look like… like… giant crabs!

"Quick Johnson! Go get the butter!"

Then there was 'Close Encounters of the NERD kind'…where the 'mothership' was a giant banana split….or was that a pie???

In the DEMU trilogy by JR Busby…the 'hero'…BARTON…(his last name…we never learn his first)…was captured by the DEMU…who happen to look like giant lobsters…and they 'civilize' races they capture…by teaching them to speak/understand 'DEMU'…and then they surgically ALTER those that learn…into looking LIKE 'Demu' which means the only 'true' race in their dialect…

Oh, did I mention they did it without anesthetic????

Anyway…Barton after several years as 'prisoner/guest'…manages to 'escape the unescapable' prison/pen? without being 'made into a real person/Demu' and kills one of the DEMU guards in the process…and having lived on 'glop'…(liquid food for nearly 7 years..) is a little bit HUNGRY…and breaks the arm of the dead Demu…and 'crab salad'???

His adventures from there on, I'll leave to your own reading, but I HIGHLY recommend the 'Demu Trilogy'…if you get time…(Deathworld series is fun too, but not as filled with food)…

But….it 'captures the flavor' of the thread I think…

Pass the A-1 please…I'm having my arachnids RARE tonight….CRUNCH!!! *SQEEEEEE****

Sgt DWW

Were not most voyages of discovery here on earth prompted by the search of <<exotic>> substances for the wealthy?

In the eyes of the "aliens" WE would be the aliens… And as I have atested in the past… People taste pretty good…

I remember the old Twilight Zone episode called "To Serve Man", where as the first ship is taking back a load of humans as "Ambassadors" and they left a book by mistake. It was decoded just as the ship was leaving, but they found out too late that the book was a cookbook and not a promise of respect to humanity. Also, as a kid I remember a very short (about 10 min.) story that was a Night Gallery episode where a rescue crew to a previous moon landing site found the base demolished and the crew missing. Most of the equipment at the base had been assembled into a large mysterious device, looking like a framework of sorts. When a rescue crew member walked away a distance from a rise and looked back, only then did he see that the framework was actually a large mousetrap, almost finished. Then the large moon mice returned and ate the rescue crew… (burp!). Hey, it was a ghost story, you know?

"What if aliens taste good?"

Just a guess . . .

Like cows, sheep and pigs, they would probably outnumber us after we cultivate them to the extreme. Then, if they are sentient and intellectual enough, they will rebel and exterminate us (some may actually consume some of us in retaliation).

Just a guess . . .

CC

If so, they will end up living everywhere we colonize. What a trick. Disguise yourself as a tasty morsel, just to be taken to the ends of the galaxy.

So, what if these tasted great?

TMP link

CC

Taste of an alien?. Reminds me of the comic, The league of extraordinarie gentlemen (not the awful movie). When Hyde meets with one of the martian invaders and welcomes him to England.

"Ahh, but what if we were all seeded from the same source and they are simply now reconnecting with their distant genetic cousins?
Then we would all be mutually edible, right?
Who knows? They might just taste like chicken."
TMP link

CC

I think I'll pass on this trend of "new-cuisine". The roasted antares-slug with fries might be too much for my stomach.

The Karks may very well taste good. I've had shark and it's delish.

The Cnidarians might make good Calamari.

Taste…the final frontier.
These are the voyages of the Starship Epicure.
Its mission – to explore strange, new foods.
To seek out new meals of new civilizations.
To boldly dine on what no man has tried before!

Set phasers on fry.

To "The Trojan warrior"; solegends.com

There are loads of links to other oop manufacturer but there's heaps on old CW/Citadel stuff.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Chris

Thornhammer,

LOL. I was almost expecting the Starship to be called the Julia Childs. :)

CC