Grrl Power #1449 - The Danbury Oreo Shake (Patreon)

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I know what we're all thinking. If we could eat metal, we'd all like to try Gallium. For the few of you who weren't thinking that, and wondering why the rest of us were, it's because Gallium's melting point is 85.5°F (29.7°C). So you could keep it in the fridge, probably in the cheese drawer, then pop some in your mouth, and it starts to warm up, then it gets all melty and you could suck on it like a hard candy. Yes, I know Cesium melts at 83.2°F (28.5°C), but Gallium just sounds like it would taste better than Cesium, am I right? Although... I do hope Cesium has its place in the spice rack of metal eating species, because I want Cesium Salads to be a thing.  

I thought drinking Mercury would be odd because metals conduct heat really well, so it would feel like a cold drink even if it was heated up quite a bit, but I looked it up, and it's a terrible conductor of heat. So good news, I guess you could make Mercury coffee and it would stay hot, though I suspect very few foods are Mercury soluble. So you'd probably wind up with a bunch of coffee grit floating on top of a mug full of hot Mercury. 

So Max does have some odd nutritional requirements, but it's perhaps even odder than 98% of her diet is still just normal human food. Her sense of taste is basically the same as it used to be as well, although it is slightly expanded so the odd elements she craves taste good to her. The fact that she can have an omelet florentine for breakfast, and then shoot out a petajoule of energy before lunch seems like a pretty solid indication that it's not proteins and complex carbohydrates that powers her power. Though maybe it is, and her body is able to fizz regular food. (By fizz, I mean fission, but it doesn't sound right to me to say "her body is able to fission regular food." Like, if you're talking about fusion, you can fuse two things together, but you have to fission them apart? No, there should be a "fuse" equivalent. So, fizz.) Of course, I have no idea how much nuclear energy is in the average omelet, even one with spinach in it, and non-fissile material is, by my understanding, not easy to chain-react, meaning it would be absurdly energy inefficient to extract all of the fission energy from it, so again, the theory is that Maxima's, and indeed probably no Super's power source is regular food.