Make mine a Darth Vader burger! The weirdest edible movie tie-ins – WBNews

The Harry Potter books and movies were always a little food and drink obsessed. Trawl through the kitschier corners of the web and you’ll find recipes for alcoholic butterbeer, polyjuice potion jelly shots and even a biscuit based on Ron Weasley’s jumper. More than five years after the release of the final Potter movie, fans’ passion for wizarding-related nosh also continues to inspire new eateries: this week has seen the opening of a Boy Who Lived-themed pasta restaurant in Brooklyn, New York (the Dark Lord smoothie looks fairly quaffable), and a cafe in Singapore that serves up flaming “Goblet of Fire” cocktails. But, if Potter-related food and drink tends to be reasonably tasteful – or at least digestible – other movie branding tie-ins sound about as appetising as the vomit-flavoured sweetie in a packet of Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans. Here are some of the more disgusting menu items from around the globe. France’s dyed-black “Dark Vador” Burger To celebrate the release of The Phantom Menace in 3D in 2012, French fast food chain Quick cooked up this grim-looking double-pattied Darth Vader tie-in cheeseburger, complete with a bun so black it appears to have been grilled over the lava flows of Mustafar. For those ill-disposed towards the idea of ingesting the recommended yearly dose of E numbers in one half-hour sitting, the restaurant also offered a “Jedi” burger, featuring extra mozzarella cubes and a standard bun. Ghostbusters ectoplasm energy drink Ectoplasm is basically gloopy, gungey ghost goo, as excreted by…more detail