Zoochberry

Zoochberries were a type of berry that was at one point a cheap and popular staple ingredient grown on many worlds and used in many recipes. In 9 BBY, the Latero Greez Dritus made a zoochberry pie for the human Kata Akuna, who found it delicious.
As hyperspace trading made other berries more available, the popularity and production of zoochberries decreased, causing their price to increase. Because of this, the chef Strono Tuggs served those who craved zoochberries a Zoochberry Surprise, a dish containing no zoochberries.
==Description==
Zoochberries were a type of berry that could be consumed by humans and Latero.
==History==
===Tasty pies and juicy scams===
Zoochberries were at one point a popular staple ingredient and one of the cheapest berries available, being grown on many worlds and used in many recipes. One such recipe was zoochberry pie, which the Latero Pyloon taught her great-grandson, Greez Dritus, how to make. In 9 BBY, Dritus lovingly recreated Pyloon's pie recipe and served it to the human Kata Akuna, who found it delicious.
In 3 ABY, the thief Kay Vess encountered a merchant in the Wonto District market in the city of Mos Eisley on the planet Tatooine who claimed to sell serums, tonics, and miracle cures. When she questioned the authenticity of the goods, the merchant offered to sell her a solution of Loth-Cat dexterity or a booster of wampa strength, both of which were in actuallity simply vials of bacta. Vess then asked if the scam was that the solutions were just vials of zoochberry juice with added coloring, causing the merchant to ask for her to keep her voice down and then giving her one of the products for free.
===Strono's Surprise===
By 34 ABY, zoochberries had lost some of their popularity as hyperspace trading made rare and exotic varieties of berry available throughout the Outer Rim Territories. With zoochberries no longer seen as special, many stopped growing and harvesting the berries, causing a steep increase in their price.
Because of this, the Artiodac chef Strono Tuggs began serving those who craved the taste of zoochberries his Zoochberry Surprise, a sweet, creamy, and juicy dessert dish that did not actually contain any zoochberries. He included the recipe for the dish and wrote about the history of zoochberries in his first cookbook, The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook, which was published in 34 ABY. In the book, Tuggs claimed that Zoochberry Surprise was so flavorsome that few realised that the surprise was that there was no zoochberries used in the dish.
==Behind the scenes==
Zoochberries were first mentioned in the current Star Wars canon in the 2019 recipe book Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook, which was authored by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Marc Sumerak. The berries originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where they first mentioned as part of the dish zoochberry cream in The Glove of Darth Vader, a 1992 novel in the Jedi Prince series written by Paul and Hollace Davids.The Glove of Darth Vader The berries were then mentioned as an independent subject for the first time in Queen of the Empire, a 1993 junior novel in the same series with the same authors.Queen of the Empire
==Appearances==
*Star Wars Jedi: Survivor 
*Star Wars Outlaws 
==Sources==
*Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook 
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