Food ideas for dune watch party

Gummy worms 😂

I feel like your best bet is to just get whatever food you want and lazily force it into a Dune pun. Like Pizza Al-Gaib or Pie Hulud

SANDwiches.

Make the Dune No-bake Spice Cookies from the 1984 movie activity book https://preview.redd.it/making-the-official-no-bake-spice-cookies-recipe-for-a-v0-w1lxm1vpgp8e1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=61c748e12d6f41ad0b0f3ee24c775cbdc236eb27

Muad' Dip Spice cake

Middle Eastern and North African dishes. Use edible glitter to add "spice" to the food as seen in the movies.

Spice cupcakes topped with cinnamon sugar and a gummy worm.

[3 Pound Gummy Worm](https://www.vat19.com/item/worlds-largest-gummy-worm?srsltid=AfmBOoqVkTGL-EZtNIgcLOIxFiKA0pI0uNHlzDDxfa54Vj932r3JgUdU&zCountry=US)

Something Spicy.

I did a Bob's Burgers of the day called Beer 'n' Hark Onion burger. It's beer boiled onions on a burger. I also made brats and cut the ends so they curled out a bit when grilled to look like worm mouths.

Gatorade in pouches and with a straw, so you can pretend you're drinking your own bodily fluids.

I'd prolly do stuffed dates as an appetizer. Take some walnuts and candy them (toss in this syrup and roast slowly in a 300 degree oven)  with a hot mixture of honey, cinnamon (MELANGE), butter, and optionally some cayenne or chili powder. Take them out and let them cool. Then blitz until coarsely chopped in a food processor and add goat cheese or cream cheese. Stuff dates with this mixture and optionally wrap with prosciutto. 

Beans Gesserit

A few ideas, mostly dessert focused: I think a blue colored mixed drink is good for a starter for the opening scenes in Caladan Indian Gulab Jamun for the Gom Jabbar scene? They sound sort of similar. Maybe brownies/a cookies and cream dish for Giedi Prime due to the dark/monochrome vibes? Baklava for when they arrive on Arrakis?

Thai tea. Closest thing in the real world to how the spice melange is described as tasting.

You need food *and drinks*! Dune does not pair well with food. Spice, puns, sand. Ok sure. You want aristocratic food. It doesn't have to be fancy but should feel fancy. Something on the end of a toothpick. Served on a tray like you would serve the head of a great house or imperial guest. Shawarma sliced, hummus or charcuterie. A curated yet selected offering like a fremen might slap together. Salty, savory, not something you eat every day. Then you could do the "Water of Life" with any number of blue drinks. From koolaid to alcoholic concoctions. Do a couple neon colors, get some unique bottles from the flea market, put something in a bucket of ice for the contrast.

Whatever you do, make sure you have blue Gatorade.

"spicy" cinnamon cookies

Gummy worms, pecan sandies... some type of blue drink. Fanta, Gatorade etc. Muadib dip, SANDwitches

potatoes trimmed to uniform girth thickness, then spiral cut (plenty of sub $10 options on amazon for a cutter) and shaped into a segmented worm body. follow the concept of Hasselback potatoes, where you're brushing the potatoes with a garlic butter glaze to get a deep golden color. From there you can tap into your inner creative and get as realistic as you want with your glazes and any "teeth".

Whatever it is sprinkle a little sand on it, so you get the extra crunch like trying to eat damn near anything at the beach.

Cow tongue

Dirt Cake.

People already covered the snacks/food so I'll just recommend a pitcher of ice water that can sit and condensate on the table. Those movies will make you appreciate some ice water.

Dry spiced snacks eaten from the skulls of your enemies.

Not sure about food but I'd be saving up all your piss, sweat and spit in the weeks heading up to it so you can filter it and serve if as some authentic themed drinks.

Saltines. Enough of those and your mouth will feel like Arakis

Hagfish

mushrooms...lots

Water of life... unfortunately it's just UV blue :((

Not food, but for a drink/cocktail to pair you could mix up a good deep blue drink for that water of life. And a gummy worm for a garnish lol

Farofa, brazilian food, looks like sand and tastes good on meat.

It's not middle eastern at all but try looking for jollof rice. It can be mildly/notably spicy and has an orange color to it. It's similar to Spanish rice Idk abt cocktails much but you could consider something with cinnamon as the "spice" with the drink. Maybe have chips and "mua'dip"

Vindaloo curry or Szechuan food. The spice must flow!

Hot run toddies. A heavily spiced warm butter rum drink. Keep it in a crockpot.

If you're not serving popcorn in a [Dune Popcorn Bucket](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl_Xhvgkxrk), what are you even doing?

Cat milk Boiled Cow Tongue Bug Juice Oh I'm sorry, you meant the new Dune movies not the David Lynch film.

Top everything off with gold flakes

Water

Spicy worms

Craft some dragon fly copters with veggies and toothpicks ( carrot stick wings, celery body) for an appetizer, with a spicy hummus dip. I’m not vegan or vegetarian and I have a hard time coming up with food ideas for myself, so that’s all I got, lol. Happy Birthday!

https://www.reddit.com/r/dune/comments/pgryfe/dune_day_food_ideas/

Cocaine…but dye it sort of a sandy reddish color.

Gummy worms in cinnamon sugar. As the culture on Dune is obviously Middle Eastern coded. Hummus with falafels can be Vegan. Falafel pita sandwich with vegan tzatziki. Squid ink pasta with a soft cheese like riccotta or burrata. To represent House Harkonnen. Something French to represent Timothee heritage. French fries could represent his American and French side. Tbh it doesn't really matter. As another poster said you could really make anything and it could fly. It's a fictional world where we don't really see them eat. So anything could be from their planets.

Sandwiches

Spiced popcorn

Confuse them by doing [food from the banquet scene](https://www.mothersuperior.blog/cuisine-of-dune) that only turns up in the book.

Hummus kind of looks like the desert

A mountain of cinnamon The spice must flow 🥴🥴🥴 Put some surprises in the cinnamon. Like long sausages. Add a huge container of water and tell everyone it is not to be touched. That water is sacred.

just wanna say a huge thank you to everyone who replied! it means a lot

The IMAX where I lived had “spice” for a popcorn topping when they had Dune Part 2 playing. It was a mixture of sugar and cinnamon and it was so good.