I am of course veggie, which makes me bad for posting this.

Stargazy pie is a pie made with fish heads looking up out of the crust. It does not appeal. However, the lenses of fish eyes are clearly lenses and work well as a way of focussing an image, and since fish heads are edible, so presumably are fish eyes.

So: Make a tube of laver, support it with rice starch and place a fish eye at either end, having cored out the retina. Given the correct focal length, you will then have sushi which can be used as a telescope, or in pairs as field glasses.
-- nineteenthly, Apr 12 2017

But can you sneak it in to see a movie?

You Brits have a knack for creating the most god-awful food creations this side of heaven.

When are you going to learn to simply make it all out of industrial chemicals like we do in the States?
-- RayfordSteele, Apr 12 2017


Eat it up, yum.
-- nineteenthly, Apr 12 2017


One of these days, I'll get around to cooking a stargazey pie with a single rat's snout in the very centre.

//You Brits have a knack for creating the most god-awful food creations this side of heaven//

Have you heard of "lutefisk", which translates into English approximately as "soap"?
-- Wrongfellow, Apr 12 2017


Lutefisk (Norwegian) or lutfisk (Swedish) is a traditional dish of some Nordic countries. Lye fish is a god awful concoction. It would not make a telescope.
-- popbottle, Apr 12 2017


It sounds like you might be able to use it to polish the lenses though.
-- nineteenthly, Apr 12 2017


//When are you going to learn to simply make it all out of industrial chemicals like we do in the States?// That's very unfair on American food. They actually pass the industrial chemicals through livestock and plants before feeding them to people.

Interestingly*, van Leeuwenhoek's first microscopes had a single powerful lens taken from cod.

(*and yet untruthfully)
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Apr 12 2017



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