Lumon-Approved Foods to Serve at Your Severance Watch Party
If you’re a Severance mega-fan like me, you know the much-awaited Season 2 finale is coming out this week. In honor, I’ve put together a list of Kier-inspired foods you can make to enjoy while you watch, from the obvious to the obscure!
From Tiktok to Reddit to Facebook, the internet is overflowing with theories, analyses, and fan art of my current obsession, Severance. It’s a delight to go down each rabbit hole and engage in speculations, some crazier than others, with strangers.
But one thing I haven’t seen too much discussion of beyond the obvious eggs, waffles, and melons, is the food we see in Kier, both above and below ground. I’ve even seen claims that the outies don’t eat food! Hopefully Irving’s recent glazed ham dinner party put those suspicions to rest.
Now somehow we’re already coming up on the last episode of the season. A full 76 minutes, confirmed by Ben Stiller himself! If you’re planning on having a Severance finale party, or just want to have a few themed snacks while you watch, I’ve put together some suggestions for you.
Please try to enjoy each idea equally.
Spoiler alert: While I don’t overtly discuss plot points in this article, you will be in for huge spoilers if you haven’t watched at least through Season 2 Episode 7, Chikhai Bardo.
Eat like an innie
First we’ll explore some of our beloved innies’ favorite and most coveted bites.
Some fluffy, classic Belgian waffles
Are you refiner of the quarter? I believe you’re owed some Belgian waffles with butter and copious amounts of syrup, served with a wine glass of milk. These are best enjoyed in extremely low light, in solitude. Now go to the founder’s bed.
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A coveted egg bar
If you want your egg bar to be coveted AF, you’ll want at least a couple dozen eggs for this, made into multiple types of fancy deviled eggs. Here’s a whole collection of deviled egg recipes for your egg bar, including some of those pink beet-dyed ones we see in S1.
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Melon, melon, and more melon
You seriously can’t go wrong with a full melon bar. Try melon balls served with toothpicks, or multicolored melon skewers. Serve them in a Vandyke-cut (jagged edged) melon bowl or make one of these incredible caladium leaf watermelon bowls (below).
Here are a few tasty-looking melon skewer ideas you can use!
If you’re feeling extra ambitious, carve the face of a loved one into a watermelon. If you do this, I cannot beg you enough, PLEASE share it on Instagram and tag me, @pinchmeimeating.
Marshmallows
For full effect, you will need some artisan or homemade marshmallows, cut into squares. If I had a Cricut, I’d make a stencil of Kier’s face and dust his portrait onto each marshmallow with cocoa powder. Remember, though: marshmallows are for team players.
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Copious luxury meats
For all the innies know, “luxury meats” could be burgers and hot dogs. I personally would choose some fancy charcuterie like proscuitto or capicola ham. Serve with goat cheese, for obvious reasons. Check back for updates on a Severance-themed charcuterie board!
Vending machine snacks
Any of the Lumon-provided vending machine snacks are an excellent and nutritious choice for a Severance party. You could go with the classic choices:
- Edamame (dry roasted)
- Raisins (shriveled)
- Peanuts (roasted and salted)
- Beets (dried and sliced)
- Blueberries (dried)
- Ginseng (cubed)
- Sunflower seeds
- Meat (smoked and salted)
- Peas
- Pretzels (buttered)
- Fig bites
Or try some of the newer options available after the Macrodat Uprising.
- Cut beans
- Christmas mints
- Fruit leather
- Salsa
I’m not sure how one puts salsa in a little cardboard vending container, but I’m sure you can just put my favorite tomato-jalapeño blender salsa in a bowl.
Spicy candy
If you’re feeling rebellious, Milchick thinks you deserve some spicy candy as a loyalty test. I think some Mexican spicy candy would suffice, or Hot Tamales if you like a more American hot candy flavor.
Eat like an outie (or not)
Whether your eats are inspired by a dinnerless dinner party, a quick bite at Pip’s, or some baked goods from Mark’s nosy neighbor, you should be able to find something in Kier to replicate at home!
A no-dinner dinner party
If you want to go the easy route, you could just serve… an empty placemat with a glass of water. I’m looking at you, Ricken.
After all, as our friend Patton points out, life is not food. The empty setting would be best served afterwards, to encourage some post-show discussion. The lack of food will allow you to “dig in” to the Severence theories on a much deeper level.
If you’re still hungry after your no-dinner dinner party, one of these delicious sandwich recipes should fill you up!
A full ham dinner
There’s no better meal for this show than a cumin glazed ham, some loose corn, and some expensive red wine. Okay, so cumin glazed ham frankly sounds terrible, but here’s a glazed ham you might actually want to eat. And yes, a pineapple is involved.
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Shitty fucking cookies (Chamomile)
Or you could make some that actually taste good, like these lemon chamomile shortbread cookies. They’ll make you sleep like a rag doll.
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A single egg
If a full pre-waffle party style innie egg bar is too much of a commitment, you could eat a single hard boiled egg, whites only, with a fork and knife. (Jame would prefer you take them raw, though.)
Chinese food for a crowd
Get you some Chinese takeout! In fact, order a bit of everything on the menu. All that brain activity will make you hungry enough to eat for your innie AND your outie.
Pineapple
Depending on how much you like your guests, you could offer it in a fruit basket or in a tub of water for bobbing.
Eat like a test subject
Turn on the fluorescent lights and try making some testing floor delicacies. Not sure there’s much down there that would be at the top of my list, but here goes.
Key lime pie
Okay, maybe there is one thing worth eating from the testing floor. The only normal-looking food we see Gemma eat is a slice of key lime pie, so it had better be a good one! This key lime pie recipe looks absolutely fantastic and would make Dr. Mauer proud.
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Various teardrop-shaped foods
As for the other food on the testing floor, I’m thinking you could use these Lumon logo reminiscent teardrop cookie cutters to mold some testing-floor-reminiscent meals. But even if you don’t want to puree your food or make retro-futuristic aspic, you can still be inspired by Gemma’s dinner choices.
Here are some of the options Gemma had in her appetizing drawer of culinary horrors.
Proteins
- Hearty Rabbit: How about some German rabbit stew?
- Liver Pate: You could easily mold this chicken liver pate into a teardrop shape since it’s already a puree! Other than the pie, this would be my top choice of testing floor food.
- Corned beef: Hey, you might even have some leftover from St. Paddy’s day!
- Rendered Marrow: Okay but seriously, this Roasted Beef Bone Marrow Appetizer looks legit!
- Rangeland Bison: You can make bison meatloaf or bison burgers!
- Pacific Octopus
Veggies
- Fermented Cabbage: That’s just sauerkraut, right? You can buy some or make your own!
- Garden Snap Peas
- Charred Rutabaga: Mashed rutabaga is pretty delicious.
- Macerated Kale
- Candied Carrots: Who doesn’t love carrots glazed with brown sugar and butter?
- Heirloom Tomatoes
Sides
- Flaky dinner roll
- Tender cassava: I think cassava pancakes would do nicely.
- Macaroni and cheese
Don’t Forget the Garnishes!
- Basil
- Chives
- Crispy Chip Wheel
- Apple Blossom
- Borage Flower
- Goldenrod Blossom
Honestly, apart from the colorful cat food-esque presentation, the items sound pretty good. Maybe Gemma doesn’t it have it so bad… in the food department, anyway.
Eat like Reghabi
Apart from a no-dinner dinner, this is the easiest option. This woman lives on snacks. Just buy some junk food and call it a day.
- (Severence) Chips
- Frosting: Straight from the can, with a spoon.
- Probably literally any other junk food snacks you can think of
- Eggnog: Pretty similar to three raw eggs in milk. Hmmm… Since it tends to be only seasonally available at the store (to Reghabi’s disappointment), here’s a recipe for fluffy homemade eggnog!
Drink up!
Whatever you end up eating, you’ll need a drink to go with it.
- Tea: A nice hot cup of lavender tea, courtesy of Mrs. Selvig (or a lavender Earl Grey frappucino) or some nice hot tea with lemon, which seems to be something Gemma enjoys even on the testing floor.
- Drip coffee: Preferably either from a shitty diner or an ether-distributing coffee shop.
- Fruit punch: We’ve seen this at the severed floor melon bars and at the pre-waffle party egg bar. This melon lemonade punch seems like just the thing. Or you could try a tropical fruit punch instead: There’s no melon in it, but it does contain pineapple!
- Whiskey: Mark’s preferred drink. His dad even had a flask that said whiskey is life.
- Red wine: Expensive, of course.
Hopefully you’ve found a few items on this list to plan your own Severance-inspired food, whether it’s for the finale this week or your inevitable rewatch binges between now and season 3.
So turn on some defiant jazz, make sure your bathroom is stocked with 4-ply washroom tissue, and dig in!
