Geeking out - Food and Games

I'm back with my random post about food! Previously, I did a post about food in movies and television shows. (Don't what me. Go read it.  )

Now I'm not going to hide it, I'm a geek. There's 2 things I love most in the world; Food and video games. So it's basically heaven for me when you combine these 2 together. If I'm not playing video games, I'd like to be eating.
Food and games go together like cookies and milk, brilliant pairing. Majority of the time in video games, food is used like a health potion, but I'm not going to go into that, let's see if I can pull something else off............ FOOD GAMES!

If you've played your fair share of video games, you would think of one game while reading this post the most;

COOKING MAMA

Cooking Mama! With her really bad English.

What else could it be? This game is the closest simulation game you get to actual cooking. You can use the recipes in the game to create real dishes too.
The game teaches actual cooking techniques, such as when you are frying, keep stirring your onions and stuff, or they'll burn easier.

Move those chopsticks or Mama will be angry!

They make you do everything from stir frying, to deep frying, to baking to garnishing. Whatever you can think of, you could probably find in some Cooking Mama 2 or some other Cooking Mama expansions.

If you get angry enough at the lady slave driver, you can go all Hannibal Lecter on her with the that knife.

You have to shape those patties as fast and as many as you can or Mama will not have enough for her  8-bit guests.

After you've completed a dish, she'll score you depending on how you did for each section of the food preparation.

That deserved a 95! This mama is one tough cookie. (Pun? What pun?)

Now that we've covered the food, let's move on to drinks. I haven't heard of a really popular and famous bartending or barista game that's the equivalent to Cooking Mama, but hey, I could be ignorant.
While I'm in my own world, here's a bartending game that I found interesting:

THE RIGHT MIX

You may play the game here.

Simple enough, your aim is to mix the perfect drink for the stuck up Bartender to try. Then he judges you on that.

Stuck up Italian guy judges you.

Also realistic enough like Cooking Mama, the drink combinations are not random, they have to make sense in real life, and if you shake too long your drinks explode. (Ok the last part maybe isn't true, but it's true that you should not over shake your drinks)

This is the screen you should be aiming to see. Assuming you're normal and don't wish to kill the Bartender.

And folks, that's all you do in this game. But the slapstick humour in this game does make it addictive for awhile.

I'm not going to move on and do waitress games, looking at you Diner Dash, even though it's in-my-face famous and is screaming for a place in this post. I just always feel a tinge of sympathy for Flo as she solos her eatery tables and serving demanding customers, while you click on the tables in such inhumane speed, that I can almost see pixelated tears rolling down her face. So yeah, I'm not going to glorify that.

I would have continued with RESTAURANT CITY, the Facebook game, where you could overwork your friends and see pixelated tears running down their faces instead. Unfortunately, the game has closed down. What a waste.


Excuse me now while I go try killing the bartender  making some nice cocktails.