Video Game Foods You Would Never Want to Eat in Real Life

Food is a staple of video games now, whether it’s a cooking simulator or an RPG that uses it for health recovery and buffs. However, not every recipe and item you come across is mouthwatering. Instead, these are video game foods you would never want to eat in real life.

Foods in Games That You Don’t Want to Try in Real Life

Fuzzy Cheese – FFXIII Lightning Returns

The unexplained nature of this fuzz earns this food a spot on the list. Why is it fuzzy? Usually, that would indicate some type of mold. While it could just be a normal texture for this fantasy food, it might be best to avoid it just in case. After all, there are plenty of instances in games where the food isn’t anything you want to eat in real life. If you value living without food poisoning, that is.

Slurp Juice – Fortnite

An incredibly beneficial item in Fortnite, real Slurp Juice isn’t something you’d want to drink. This drink has a blue glow to it. Plus, the game hints at it being made from toxic waste, with the mushrooms from Slurpy Swamp being a likely ingredient as well. I can’t imagine any situation where toxic waste is part of a tasty item. Especially if you have to chug the Slurp Juice as quickly as in-game characters do.

Alamarri Pickled Krone – Dragon Age

This is technically from the Dragon Age tabletop, so how canon it is in the game universe is unclear. Either way, it’s a recipe that I don’t think should be tried anytime soon. The ingredients for this traditional food include krone, pine pitch, druffalo dung, and sometimes brine. I can’t imagine what the flavor profile is supposed to be with this dish, and I don’t want to find out.

Trout Yogurt – Earthbound

Trout Yogurt is a healing item, but you can add condiments to it as well. However, there’s not exactly a description for this item to let you know what it’s made with or how it might taste. The idea of mixing a fish with a base that’s normally creamy and tends to have a sweet or tart taste makes it difficult to guess what the result might be like in terms of both taste and texture. But the thought of fish chunks in yogurt isn’t too appealing.

Moss Soup – Stardew Valley

The description of this item says that it’s thick and very slimy. Plus, Stardew Valley simply adds that it’s edible after describing the texture. Considering the only ingredients you need to craft this soup are a few pieces of moss, I assume there aren’t any spices added to help mask its natural flavor either. Between the texture and uncertain flavor, I’ll be passing on this dish.

The Baker’s Feast – Resident Evil 7

This entry could also be listed as everything in the Baker household. When Ethan is forced to be part of a family dinner, the table is full of dishes that don’t look appetizing. It doesn’t help that the plates and cooking equipment all seem dirty, and not simply from being used to prepare a meal. Additionally, Ethan takes damage when he’s forced to eat the food, and that means the taste must be on a new level of terrible.

Dubious Food – Tears of the Kingdom

Usually, the result of cooking with elixir ingredients, this food is bad enough that it gets censored with pixels. Link’s face shows that it tastes bad since he looks like he’s in pain when forced to eat Dubious food. He manages, but he certainly doesn’t enjoy it. I hope I never eat a meal that looks and tastes bad enough that it has to be pixelated.

Grandpa’s Learn’n Elixir – 7 Days to Die

Most recipes in 7 Days to Die are normal enough, especially in a zombie apocalypse situation. However, Grandpa’s recipes tend to be a bit different and often include ingredients that aren’t fit for human consumption. This particular one lists a bottle of acid in its recipe. I have to imagine it burns going down and probably causes severe damage to your throat, much less the rest of your body.

Shabriri Grapes – Elden Ring

Between the name and the fact that they’re eaten, Shabriri Grapes earn a spot on this list. These aren’t actual fruit, and they’re instead eyes. Eyes that Hyetta specifically requests that you bring to her for the sole purpose of eating them. If they pop like grapes when you bite into one, I can only imagine how awful that would be in terms of both taste and texture.

Slop – Fallout 3

Luckily, you’d have a hard time recreating Fallout 3’s Slop in the real world. Mainly because the main ingredients are irradiated water and what’s essentially mutated human (trog) meat. While it restores the highest number of hit points of all food items, it also increases your radiation by a fair amount. Even with the number of hit points it returns, I’ll be passing on this dish.

These are only some of the video game foods you would never want to eat in real life. It turns out that games are as full of terrible food concepts as they are delicious ones. If you want content about a series where you wouldn’t want to eat anything offered, take a look at this list of all Silent Hill main games, ranked.