This past weekend , Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs showed us how even the most well - intentioned culinary devices can go awry . We reckon at other gastronome technologies that demonstrate baneful , severe , or will at least wreck your appetite .
Replicators ( Star Trek ): Despite their power to replicate everything from enceinte machinery to caviar , the replicators really malfunction far less often than their holodeck cousins . But leave behind it to the Cardassians to recognize replicators can be programmed for evil , whether by convey an aphasia computer virus or fork over a turkey in lieu of Captain Sisko ’s morning Raktajino .
Wonka ’s innovation ( Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl ): As much as Wonka claims that everything in his factory is comestible , it ’s good to keep your mitts ( and tooth ) off his more experimental works , such as Three - Course Bubblegum or Television Chocolate .
Nuka - Cola ( Fallout ): Unlike Slurm , which is less an excogitation than the intersection of a Slurm Queen ’s behind , Nuka - Cola has multiple ingredients — some of them radioactive . While marketing claims the radioactivity in Nuka - Cola Quantum is harmless , no drink that makes your pee glow can be healthy , and even go through Nuka - Cola Classic comes with a 10 % chance of addiction .
Allied Mastercomputer ( “ I Have No back talk , and I Must Scream ” by Harlan Ellison ): When the godlike computer AM put down almost all of humanity , it make up one’s mind to keep a few around for its own entertainment . To keep the survivors from dying , it manufacture miraculous food from heaven . To keep them from savour it , the computer make it all try direful .
Coffee Engine ( Girl Genius ): The Coffee Engine could give your preferent barista a political campaign for their money . It ’s capable of create the perfect cupful of chocolate , which would be outstanding if any someone who drank order cup did n’t become at once obsessed with its beau ideal . To keep all of humanity from disgrace into coffee berry - muddled zombies ( as if it were n’t already too late ) , the car had to be tweak to acquire only an fantabulous cup of coffee .
Matrix Food ( The Matrix ): Virtual food in the Matrix is n’t inherently malefic , aside from it being another way the machines trick your encephalon into believe you ’re in the physical universe . But when compared with the uniform slop served outside the Matrix , the hope of nightly steak dinners is enough to convert Cypher to grass Neo .
Soylent Processing ( Soylent Green ): The problem with over - processed foodstuffs is that no one greet what they ’re eating any more . That is n’t such a huge job when it ’s just ( tasteless ) soy and lentil wafer , but far more sinister when your a la mode fixings is tasty , human meat .
Bologna Virus ( Invader Zim ): When Dib hits Zim with a slice of bologna , Zim has a lunchmeat - inspired idea for taking out his nemesis once and for all . He overwrites Dib ’s DNA with Bologna sausage DNA , gradually turn him in to a delicious electron tube of pressed meat . of course , of course , the design backfire and he ’s get to find … a cure .
Killer Tomatoes ( Attack of the Killer Tomatoes ): Professor Gangreen find a path to turn Earth ’s most devious fruit into a weapon of mass demolition . In the 2d motion-picture show , he transforms tomatoes into humanoid spies , even as giant man - eating tomato splat through the street .
The Chocolate Dispenser ( Red Dwarf ): Unlike the Talkie Toaster , which is mostly annoying with its obsession with toast , the Chocolate Dispenser has declare itself Rimmer ’s actual curse , once expire so far as to aggress Rimmer by firing pop cans at his head .
Peanut Butter and Jelly Gun ( Meet the Robinsons ): Aspiring young discoverer Lewis is always inventing things , and often showing his contrivance off to less that appreciative prospective parent . The PB&J ordnance would have been less of a calamity if that one possible Father of the Church had n’t had a deathly peanut allergy .
Kandyman ( Doctor Who “ The Happiness Patrol ” ): Do n’t let his bridge circuit mix exterior fool you ; the Kandyman is not an automaton to be trifled with . hoi polloi who give out to smile and are n’t happy all the time must deal with the Kandyman ’s odorous brand of law enforcement — drowning in sugary goop , otherwise known as the “ fondant surprise . ”
Dish of the Day ( The Restaurant at the End of the World by Douglas Adams ): At Milliways , you get to meet your meat before you feed , thanks to a brand name of sentient animal specially bred to want to be run through . Granted , it ’s credibly not going to wound you , but you ’ll probably lose your appetence .
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