ice cream/soda pop
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Celebrim
Legend
I'm not sure that there would be any dramatic effects, but ice cream (or at least sherbet) is a very old treat known to the Romans. You can make it anywhere you find snow in sufficient quantities, and indeed you can make a version of it by just adding flavors to snow. Ice cream can also be hand churned in snow and then left to freeze whenever it is below freezing.
Carbonated beverages are likewise well known even into antiquity, as there are in various places naturally carbonated springs. D&D alchemists would appear to have sufficient knowledge of chemistry to make carbonated or sparkling beverages on their own. Table salt and sodium bicarbonate would do the trick.
So presumably, both of these things could appear in typical D&D settings, and wouldn't cause any more effects than what you'd expect of a sugary treat. They would however be significantly rarer and more expensive than in the modern world, and would probably only be enjoyed by the very wealthy or as a local treat in locations where the ingredients could be readily sourced. In both cases, unless sugar cane was known and cultivated in your culture/world, the cost of sweeteners would be a significant portion of the cost.
If you wanted of course, you could always have magical foods in your game with effects similar to potions.
Celebrim
Legend
A good starting point in this topic might be to read 'A Face Like Glass' by Francis Harding. But, enchanted food has a long and varied history in myth and fairy tales. Consider the tarts in Pixar's 'Brave', or the poisoned apple in Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty'. Pretty much any effect that a potion can have can be mingled with food (presuming sufficient skill in potion making and crafting food). But of course, fanciful foods would also be created specifically to have pleasurable effects - from the recollection or creation of pleasant memories, to various sensory stimulations, to illusionary vistas, to actual narcotic effects. When you consider what lengths people go to in the real world to stimulate a jaded palette, it's easy to imagine that magicians would be called on to provide fanciful foods of all sorts.
Some food for thought:
1) A frozen treat that erupts with hot toppings like a miniature volcano.
2) A blended beverage in which people can see glimpses of far away lands among its swirling fluids.
3) A pudding that grows sugar crystal plants, with unfolding petals and blossoming flowers.
4) A spiced wine that causes one to re-experience pleasant memories of ones youth when sipped.
5) A potent beverage that forms small storm clouds above the goblet that contains it.
6) A fizzing beverage that occasionally shoots off small raspberry flavored fireworks and pinwheels, which guests try to catch on their tongues.
7) Balls of flavored ice which when prodded, transform into various fanciful shapes like fruits, mice, grasshoppers, and forth.
8) Pies that release clouds of pleasant aromas that stimulate the appetite, and which magically become the flavors the eater likes best.
9) A covered dish of curling steam, which if caught on the tongue can be chewed with illusionary satisfaction, and captures the flavor of various exotic dishes - but which fills the stomach not at all.
10) Small cakes, which if shared, allow the eaters to briefly experience the experiences or perceptions of their fellow diner.
11) A salad made of tossed daydreams, which causes the diner to become lost is a series of pleasant fantasies.
12) Distilled joy, pleasure, hope, courage, or other emotion.
Ganymede81
First Post
Fizzy Lifting Drink, clearly.
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Celebrim
Legend
Sufficient to make a popsicle, but you can't make ice cream with one. You end up with just a block of ice without any of the trapped air necessary to make the ice 'creamy'.
Perhaps the ice cream cone itself is enchanted to keep whatever is placed in side it cool - finally an ice cream treat that doesn't melt if you take too long to eat it!
Celebrim
Legend
The frozen volcano treat I suggested in an earlier post, "A frozen treat that erupts with hot toppings like a miniature volcano.", presumably works much the same way, with frozen covering that is enchanted to stay cool, and a molten interior that is enchanted to stay warm.
abe ray
Explorer
Willy wonka!
