Talk:Quantum taco

Needs everything --Lego6245 04:08, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Not exactly everything. Or more to the point, literally everything. It appears to be a quantum physics joke. It's not a food, it's ALL food. Have gotten stat gains from gingerbread bugbear and sausage wanton so far. Edit: Ghuol Goulash, pr0n chow mein and Rat Scrapple. --Narc 04:25, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Therefore, I guess, we keep track of what we get and see if there is a list its pulling from or if its totally random --Lego6245 04:29, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

It's like thermos, but food. Got can-shaped gelatinous cranberry sauce and Boris's key lime pie --Hrag 04:31, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Did you get the key from the key lime pie? Also, we need to figure out what there aren't any of. --Lego6245 04:33, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Yes, i did. Agree --Hrag 04:36, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

From five, got cold hi mein, ancient jerky, stunt nuts, a bowl of fishysoisse (hooray, hobo food!) and an igloo pie (one of the organ grinder foods).--Eonis 04:38, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Full now, so just going by pictures - got a mug cake, tempura something-or-other, some sort of burger, a skull-shaped Crimboween cookie, a sea avocado, and either rocky road or walrus ice cream.--Eonis 04:45, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Got poisonous caviar, so it looks like antiques site food is on the list. Also got turtle soup, dead lights pie. --Zeropointburn 01:37, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Based on my hasty spading, it seems you need two fullness left to eat the taco, even though the actual fullness cost depends on the "filling". This means it can actually make you over-full (which sadly did not cause my stomach to explode or anything similarly hilarious). --ManaUser 04:47, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

To help in any desired spading I over ate on about 80 of them and recorded the images: chess cookie, white castle burger, blob cookie, thick bandage (image), pointy mushroom, sammich (image), blackberry, wonton, chow mien, chow mien, kabob, royal jelly, cake 2 (image), white castle burger, spooky mushroom, gogurt(image), candy stake, casserole, key lime pie, cocoa fragment, cactus bud, chow mien, big tongue (image), lasagna, 6 pieces of tiny goat cheese, tempura 2 (image) (cauliflower or broccoli), blackberry, strawberry, juniper berries, cocoa fragment, cocktail onion, blintz, cake 2 (image), pie, hot date, banquet (frozen banquet assumed), sausage (image), cake 3 (image), fries (image), sammich (image), kabob, pie, mutant gingerbear, heart cake, casserole, chow mien, pate', corn, keylime pie, casserole, pie, velvet cake, brownie, lychee, key lime pie, chorizo, taco 2 (image), urinal cake, permission, devil cake, licgarotte, chess cookie, packet of peanuts, papaya, kabob, burrito, chorizo, gingerbear, chorizo, chow mien, casserole, taco 1 (image), pie, chow mien, mug cake, gnat loaf, cuddle cake. --Uzziah 22:54, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

with same approach, amongst the interesting: got rkolcandy.gif image (Radio button candy), beancake.gif (birthday party jellybean cheesecake), franksbeans.gif (Plate of franks and beans or fancy canapés), marble2.gif (tiny frozen prehistoric meteorite jawbreaker), beancan.gif (can of franks 'n' beans or expired can of franks 'n' beans), scook1.gif (wreath-shaped Crimbo cookie), scook2.gif (bell-shaped Crimbo cookie), cucumber.gif (sea cucumber), cuke.gif (ghost cucumber), greycheese.gif (wedge of gray cheese) --Hrag 18:29, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

If it's supposed to be "Schrödinger's thermos, only it's food", we can probably put together a quick list of food it can't be. All speculation right now, but it's something to look for:

• The TPS equivalent of food, if there is one.
• Food consumed upon purchase.
• Removed food, obviously.
• The steel lasagna, obviously.

I'd love to check this myself, but since both my accounts are in early HC, I highly doubt I can get the twinklies needed for one taco, much less enough for determining what *doesn't* exist. (Though maybe I can try, if the max-capacity trick from the thermos works with this.) --Billybobfred 05:28, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

I got an insanely spicy jumping bean burrito from one. --Chef Rannos 15:57, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Clannie got a three-tiered wedding cake and qualified for the trophy (Didn't have Stomach of Steel, just check JessVix) --Aznpride 04:50, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

References

"To illustrate this, consider the problem of where your fist goes when you open your hand." IIRC, this is likely from a Zen koan, akin to "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"--Fluxxdog 11:48, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Pasta?

If you eat it and you get the effect of having eaten a pasta food (as per the Canticle of Carboloading), does it give you the extra adventures you may have stored from using the Canticle? --Kay Dekker 17:00, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Given its other behaviors so far, I imagine it does. Confirmation would be nice, though. --Billybobfred 20:13, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

• Confirmed, if this is still interesting now. I was saving up Canticle turns, and I forgot to account for this. I ate a quantum taco and gained 33 adventures from Canticle. I believe I also gained MP from it, but I'm not certain. --DanielH 17:05, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Quest item/untradable food

I just got some turtle soup from a quantum taco while a pastamancer. The interesting thing is that turtle soup is an untradable quest item. I'm not aware of any such possibility from the thermos.--Nerdanel 11:01, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Yep, I just got an AoJ food (Sublime Nachos) and someone else in chat told me his multi got an Omega Sundae yesterday. I've never even been in AoJ, I just asked in chat what the consumption message was from as I didn't recognise it :P MatrixM (talk) 02:44, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Quality

Should we add the quality to the page, both when one has all but two fullness left and when one has all fullness left (that would be 15, 20, 30, or 35 fullness)? I firmly believe, without much evidence, that it is one of THE most effective foods if you consume it when you have only two fullness left, because of all the foods which take more fullness (similar to nightcaps when drinking). However, I haven't done the math to test this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DanielH (talk • contribs) on 09:11, 9 May 2011

• That's very difficult to compute, and changes on a regular basis. Any time a new food gets added (to the taco's possibilities) the numbers will change. What works against it being the "best" with any fullness is that there are a lot of (crappy) foods with one and two fullness. Might still be really nice with 2 left, but it'd be a pain to calculate it now and then recalculate it every time foods change/get added. --Flargen 17:55, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
• Quickly looking at the item database in pykol, it seems that the average adventures you gain from a quantum taco is around 6 or 7. This is without milk, munchies, or salad forks, and it doesn't count that some of the foods are 1-fullness and thus you can eat something else after them. Finally, it doesn't filter out foods that aren't consumable using the taco (although, since I looked at the items database, it shouldn't count foods which are only consumable on purchase). --DanielH 19:46, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
  • Sorry, forgot to sign. Also, this is not as good as I expected it would be, and is certainly not the best option. --DanielH 19:46, 9 May 2011 (UTC)