#vulcan food

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Pirmah for breakfast 🍓🍞⋆.˚

"Spock, is it logical for a Vulcan to indulge in something as frivolous as strawberry toast?" - (Probably) Bones

I saw a post on how vulcans basically eat strawberry toast a few weeks ago and I have been thinking about drawing it ever since.

Its just a rough sketch and it doens't make sense how the strawberries can stay on the toast from that angle but maybe I should clean it up and colour it??

[ichayalovesyou]

Vulcan Cuisine

Recipes:

Plomeek Soup

Plomeek Tea

Spice Tea

Krei'la (Breakfast Biscuits)

Culinary Anecdotes:

Is Vulcan Food Spicy?

Perhaps Vulcan cuisine, like Vulcans themselves, isn't nearly as bland as it seems on the surface? Anecdote by @zero-way-out

The Vulcan Sweet Tooth

Vulcans enjoying sugary treats? It's more logical than you think! (Or is it?) Anecdote provided by @crystal-mouse

Why Do Vulcans Get Drunk From Chocolate?

Glucose is far too common in plant-based foodstuffs, so what IS the chemical mystery that allows Vulcans to get drunk off chocolate? @menecio may have the answer!

Vulcan's VS. Terran Mega-Fungi

Vulcan is dry, Vulcans are vegetarian, how would they react to the mushrooms in the Terran diet? Anecdote by @sunsinourhands

Click Here to Return to The Vulcan Masterpost (Coming Soon!)

[crystal-mouse]

I need to ask somebody this question because it's been in my brain for a while and it's driving me nuts. Is spok vegetarian or vegan?

Because we all know he doesn't eat meat, but there wasn't a discussion about other animal products.

The closest we got to spock eating was with zarabeth where he suggested they start a greenhouse so they don't have to eat meat. He still could've suggested they get an animal and milk it (which would naturally lead to the question are Vulcans lactose intolerant but that's for another day)

On the other way when he's stuck with kirk in the 20th century, kirk brings him purely vegetables - no eggs, no cheese, no yoghurt, not even another comically large baguette. Which makes me think spock is actually vegan but I've never seen it addressed anywhere.

Hiya! Thanks for the ask- this is a really interesting question, and I think it generally comes down to three main points, which are:

What we see in the show

Cookbook interpretations/recipes

What replicator food counts as

As you mentioned we don't really see much of Spock's diet in TOS (beyond him saying he does not eat meat, plomeek soup and what Kirk brings him when they're stranded in the great depression)- so we can gather that he does largely eat a vegetarian/vegan diet but lesser the finer details. Many vegetarian dishes can also be vegan- so the fact Spock has eaten food that appears to be vegan, may not confirm one way or the other.

When you start to look at the cookbook's made in addition to the series (which tbh they might be less vegan friendly due to the years they were published) the Vulcan/Spock specific dishes listed in both the 1978 Cooking Manual and Star Trek Cookbook (1999) seem to be more vegetarian leaning and often contain animal products such as eggs, butter, cream, cheese and milk (which may also answer your question about Spock being lactose intolerant, but at the same time, i've never met anyone lactose intolerant who hasn't also consumed lactose intentionally).

Below are some recipes from Spock's section of the 1978 cookbook (there is also a section on Vulcan food, but I chose to focus on Spock as he's the main subject we're talking about):

And here are the Spock/TOS specific recipes from the 1999 cookbook:

I'm yet to read/obtain the 2022 trek cookbook, but based on what I could find online, the plomeek soup recipe in this version also contains animal product (greek yogurt/creme fraiche) in order to create the opaque effect seen on screen.

In all, based on these recipes/interpretations of the food we do see in TOS, I'd say that Spock is more likely vegetarian than vegan.

However! Spock could still be vegan if you wanted him to be- it all depends of whether you consider replicated/synthesised animal products as true 'animal products'. As they are synthesised, they have never interacted or come from the animal in question, and only take on the form and taste/nutritional value of the product. So ig it mainly comes down to your own personal opinion of this- Would synthesised milk, that tastes and has an identical composition as non-synthesised milk, but has not come from a cow, be vegan? Personally, I'd lean to think they don't really count in the same way a veggie/meat-alternative sausage isn't *really* a sausage, more an imitation of varying degrees of success (where in this scenario, a synthesised/replicated sausage would be a very successful imitation as it's near identical).

Although that said- due to the synthesised food being practically identical down to the molecule, I'd doubt many vegetarians or vegans who are so because they dislike meat/animal products (instead or in addition of the ethical consideration) would want to eat it.

Additionally, while the recipes above mention animal products in the ingredients, they are frequently items that have vegan alternatives- while the usual version may contain the animal product, if Spock was vegan by choice, he could also substitute these for his personal food/replicator cards.

It's a bit of a long response, but I hope I managed to answer your question!

[theshadowrealmitself]

I like to think that Vulcans who come to understand that Humans just can’t try to process emotions the same way as them, it’s just healthiest to let it out in harmless ways, decide that venting and stuff should be taken just as seriously as Vulcan’s meditation time, and will encourage the Humans around them to complain about what’s upsetting them

People who are used to aloof Vulcans who avoid Humans at all cost running into one comforting a Human

“-and then they said my cheesecake was subpar, and they didn’t even bring a dish!!!”

“The purpose of this event was that every participant brings a food item of sorts, correct?”

“Yeah!!”

“And they did not follow this rule while insulting dishes that were brought?”

“Mostly just my dish but yeah >:(“

“How illogical”

“That’s what I’m saying!!!”

[msenglishgent]

This is going to do bad things to me…

[doctor-mccoys-sanity]

Guys are there meditation guides for the Vulcan way of meditating??? And if there are how do I find them immediately.

[x-heesy]

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Don't Worry Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin 🎧🫶🏽

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[firstroseofspring]

memory, death and life as komerex zha, the perpetual game; klingon culture as depicted in the final reflection, by john m. ford

[zero-way-out]

Headcanon: I was thinking about how on earth, food tends to be spicer the closer you are to the equator/the hotter the climate you are in.

(the leading theory as to why is the combination of peppers growing well in these climates and spices being antimicrobial which will keep food good for longer in hot climates)

So i think that vulcan food is incredibly spicy, and vulcans have incredible heat tolerance.

I love imagining that humans just assume that vulcan food is bland, like how vulcans themselves appear to humans. But under the surface just like vulcans themselves, their food is extreme.

[grissomesque]

Vulcans: *are vegetarians for ethical reasons*

SNW writers: "Haha, that's stupid. Here, let us hold your Vulcan DNA for a while so you can be free and fun like the humans."

Thanks, I hate it.

[thedreammweaver]

I think that every Vulcan has dedicated themselves to convincing other species they can’t lie so they can get away with lying through their fucking teeth

[talshiargirlfriend]

For the Star Trek Ask Game, 🍽️(What alien food/drink would you want to try?) sounds fun!

I would love to style myself an adventurous eater, but nope! Jumja stick is candy, right? So maybe that. Or Hasperat if I’m feeling spicy.

I found out plomeek just translates to “vegetable” in the Vulcan dictionary, so now I kind of want to try as many varieties of “plomeek soup” as possible!

Tea, booze, and desserts are probably all fair game. 😅

ETA: I wonder if the human custom of wrapping filling in dough and frying it is popular anywhere else in the universe. If not I bet it catches on.

Thanks for the ask!

[housekeepinginfo]

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[harley-rose25]

Wow a Star Trek Thought

So I'm currently taking a physiology course and when we going over the movement of sodium ions through the cells and the function of the sodium potassium pump; and I started thinking about how weird it is that humans in star trek can just eat practically any random alien food. Like it'd be interesting if while certain aliens might look human their internal biochemistry is different which makes their food poisonous to us or our food poisonous to them. Or like imagine if Vulcan food was considered bland not because it lacks spice but because it lacks salt; and human food is extremely salty to Vulcans and cant be eaten except for a little bit or else they'll get salt overload.