This post concludes the quest for a non-magical equivalent of the elvish lembas bread given to the nine companions in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Ring.
Legend has it that one “very thin cake” could keep one of the “tall Men of Minas Tirith” on his feet “for a day of long labour”… which, we concluded in Part 1, translates to 6,000 calories of delicious waybread. In Part 2, calorie calculations concluded that you can’t get more than about 2,000 calories into a large 1-cup serving of food… and you can only do that if you use pure lard.
Pure lard isn’t appetizing, while lembas was “baked a light brown on the outside, and inside was the colour of cream”... delicious enough that Gimli greedily gobbled (I'm really hitting the alliterations today) an entire cake by accident. In this post, I look at a few attempts to make the highest calorie edible lembas equivalent.
Legend has it that one “very thin cake” could keep one of the “tall Men of Minas Tirith” on his feet “for a day of long labour”… which, we concluded in Part 1, translates to 6,000 calories of delicious waybread. In Part 2, calorie calculations concluded that you can’t get more than about 2,000 calories into a large 1-cup serving of food… and you can only do that if you use pure lard.
Pure lard isn’t appetizing, while lembas was “baked a light brown on the outside, and inside was the colour of cream”... delicious enough that Gimli greedily gobbled (I'm really hitting the alliterations today) an entire cake by accident. In this post, I look at a few attempts to make the highest calorie edible lembas equivalent.