Food for Travelling....
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One of our old traditions was to get a huge bag of Tootsie Rolls which would be set in the middle of the table. Each of us would eventually have a big stack of used Tootsie-wrappers by their place at the table (and a wicked sugar-rush). This was in our younger, more foolish days; I don't think we'd dare it nowadays.
Pizza is a must. We preferred deep-dish 'Chicago style,' where big globs of tomato sauce are a bigger danger than dripping grease.
As a GM, I try to discourage beer-drinking, at least as long as we're playing the regular campaign, but I'm not always successful. We'd traditionally blow through several 2-liters of Coke and/or Mountain Dew (which, combined with those Tootsie Rolls around 3am could get downright scary).
Pizza is a must. We preferred deep-dish 'Chicago style,' where big globs of tomato sauce are a bigger danger than dripping grease.
As a GM, I try to discourage beer-drinking, at least as long as we're playing the regular campaign, but I'm not always successful. We'd traditionally blow through several 2-liters of Coke and/or Mountain Dew (which, combined with those Tootsie Rolls around 3am could get downright scary).
Pizza is good now that we have jobs & money. But once upon a time, I ate in the University cafeteria.
Traditionally, a night of adventuring called for a stack (one cellophane wrapped subpackage) of fig neutons, and a (heavy glass) liter of coke. If the game went on for more than 4 hrs it called for a second liter, and fresh doughnuts (Shipley's all-night donuts was a five minute walk from our dom rooms.)
Traditionally, a night of adventuring called for a stack (one cellophane wrapped subpackage) of fig neutons, and a (heavy glass) liter of coke. If the game went on for more than 4 hrs it called for a second liter, and fresh doughnuts (Shipley's all-night donuts was a five minute walk from our dom rooms.)
Evil Steve
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25 years ago? Super Big Gulps and Doritos. Now? Coffee/tea/chai, a can of coke, maybe some nuts or beef jerky.
I don't miss the attempts to OD on coke from the old days. I certainly don't miss orange fingers from the Doritos.
I don't miss the attempts to OD on coke from the old days. I certainly don't miss orange fingers from the Doritos.
Rraurgrimm
SOC-11
It has become a kind of tradition that the host of the session cooks something for the guests. As the host changes with every game session, everyone is trying to cook up something for the guests. So from barbecue to casserole to soup over vegetarian food and enchilladas we had a nice variety of things so far. Of course, snacks are still something to be found at the gaming table before and after the main course.
Yet I have to admit that the best food we have had during roleplaying was for our Cthulhu-campaign (well, apart from the feasts during LARPing). The campaign is set in the 1920ies - and the Orient Express plays a major role. One of the handouts was an original menu of the Orient Express, usually tied to the specialities of the regions the Express was travelling through - and that served as an inspiration.
So we usually have three-course meals with a soup, a main dish and dessert. For example, Minestrone, followed by Chicken Piccata (not exactly our recipe but the closest one I could find) and closing with self-made Panna Cotta when we were moving through Italy. The snacks have been substituted with fruit, accompanied by cheese from the region (and since recently, with a little bit of orange mustard to the cheese). As we meet for a weekend once about every three months, cooking as a group in a large enough kitchen is a lot of fun.
Yet I have to admit that the best food we have had during roleplaying was for our Cthulhu-campaign (well, apart from the feasts during LARPing). The campaign is set in the 1920ies - and the Orient Express plays a major role. One of the handouts was an original menu of the Orient Express, usually tied to the specialities of the regions the Express was travelling through - and that served as an inspiration.
So we usually have three-course meals with a soup, a main dish and dessert. For example, Minestrone, followed by Chicken Piccata (not exactly our recipe but the closest one I could find) and closing with self-made Panna Cotta when we were moving through Italy. The snacks have been substituted with fruit, accompanied by cheese from the region (and since recently, with a little bit of orange mustard to the cheese). As we meet for a weekend once about every three months, cooking as a group in a large enough kitchen is a lot of fun.
leo knight
SOC-12
Back in the day, we were quite committed to our gaming. Everyone fueled up before game time, so aside from various forms of soda, almost no food at the table. Sometimes after games we would hit Burger King, or the now defunct Pappy's pizza joint. Now, we usually hit Andy Nelson's, a local barbecue restaurant for carry out, and kibitz while we eat.
Most of the gaming I do takes place at my house, so quite often my wife will make brownies, cookies, or some other baked good. If its someone's birthday, we'll try to have a cake themed to their interests (or dislikes at times just for the humor of it...one of our number is a staunch Republican (he got an Obama-themed cake) and another hates Twilight (we got him a Team Edward cake)).
On occasion, someone will bring barbeque, hot wings, or something similar and we'll skip the baked goods.
But for me? I'm a huge fan of homemade chex mix. We don't do it much anymore, but were it up to me, that would be my gaming food of choice.
On occasion, someone will bring barbeque, hot wings, or something similar and we'll skip the baked goods.
But for me? I'm a huge fan of homemade chex mix. We don't do it much anymore, but were it up to me, that would be my gaming food of choice.
abomination
SOC-12
Irn Bru & Ginsters pasties. The food of champions.
And sometimes I bake brownies or cookies, because I like baking.
Pizza, delivered - and not that awful stuff that Domino calls pizza, or that slightly-less-awful stuff that almost qualifies from that Hut place. If the host feels like doing a bit of cooking, potsticker dumplings, or jambalaya, or chili-over-rice, or pasta. A cheese plate, with an assortment of interesting cheeses (none of that processed stuff; REAL cheese). Crunchies, generally pretzels. If there's a good sushi place within a ten-minute walk, sushi is a possibility.
Just came back from a seven hour gaming session we ran at a local cafe. I expected a few new people to show up, but didn't think I'd get to run a 12-player game!
It still went pretty well. Man, am I tired though...
Sandwiches, omelette, lots of tea and coffee, some milk cocktails.
It still went pretty well. Man, am I tired though...
Sandwiches, omelette, lots of tea and coffee, some milk cocktails.
Back in the day it was Slurpee and Twislers. Later that morphed into Chinese takeaway. Now would love pasties, but the real kind (not Ginsters or Pukka Pies, which should be banned under the Geneva Conventions), washed down with a mug of tea (milk and 2 sugars). Not sure I can get pasties locally, I guess I'll have to learn how to make them.
Chuck Anumia
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Interesting
This thread started in 2001, was resurrected in 2012 and a year and a half later it is back and with continuity throughout.
NEXT:
It seems as the decades go by and our bodies change; what we put into our bodies while playing has also changed:
1975 - 1985 = Coke (sometimes with RUM) Mountain Dew, licorice and Deep Dish Pizza
1985 - 1995 = Pepsi/Coke/Dr. Pepper, Trail Mix, Thin Crust Pizza
1995 - 2005 = Starbucks, Cola/Dr. Pepper/Mtn. Dew, Chocolate, Hot Wings
2005 - TODAY = StarChuck's (TM) Raspberry Chocolate Coffeejuice, Chi/tea, dried fruit, Werther's Hard candy, Slim Jims.
This thread started in 2001, was resurrected in 2012 and a year and a half later it is back and with continuity throughout.
NEXT:
It seems as the decades go by and our bodies change; what we put into our bodies while playing has also changed:
1975 - 1985 = Coke (sometimes with RUM) Mountain Dew, licorice and Deep Dish Pizza
1985 - 1995 = Pepsi/Coke/Dr. Pepper, Trail Mix, Thin Crust Pizza
1995 - 2005 = Starbucks, Cola/Dr. Pepper/Mtn. Dew, Chocolate, Hot Wings
2005 - TODAY = StarChuck's (TM) Raspberry Chocolate Coffeejuice, Chi/tea, dried fruit, Werther's Hard candy, Slim Jims.
