This should be a rhetorical question...

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

In fact the reason that elf women developed Lembas as a complete source of nutrition was probably as a necessary response to male elf cookery.....

Maybe Lembas was a kind of Galaxy or Green and Blacks chocolate developed by Elven women as a comfort food to stuff their faces with after facing all that washing up left behind by the Barbecue binges of the men?