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a replicator can make blood wine but not the subtlety of day old stew? im a bit skeptical.
The subtleties of flavors marrying over time? Doubtful. We've seen characters reject the texture/flavor of basic meals, let alone something purposely left to chill and reheat. Maybe by the time of DISCO they'll have nailed it down.
I suspect a lot of the TNG era issues with flavor/texture coming of replicated food has more to do with the person programing those flavors having no idea what they were doing in the kitchen and just mashing something together. Either because the "person" coming up with the pattern is the computer system; or because the person was some one like Barclay who might be handy with the ship's systems... but, doesn't understand the first thing about food and couldn't cook a ham sandwich.
Or like with alien foods... just simply not understanding what the food is or is supposed to be. Like how you never really see Mediterranean cuisine put garlic and mint together, even though the two are basically ubiquitous in that cuisine. Someone who reads a quick note that those two flavors are common might make the mistake of thinking they're used together, unless they actually know something about cooking. Maybe that alien culture you just read the cliff notes on has weird taste buds. or maybe they enjoy the dissonant flavoring.
its just chemicals.. that they are building at the atomic level!
I was always skeptical of the complaints. i figured theyre either discretionary (replicator not programmed for that variation) or human error cuz people suck.
It'd be like The Fly but with foods mixing, instead of Jeff Goldblum.