General Vilani Street Food.
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Kimchi. Lutefisk. Portuguese stewed meats (or other culinary traditions involving cooking in vinegar to tenderize the meat).
Lots of marinaded stuff, some of which you probably don't want to see being done . . . .
GypsyComet
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"Fresh off the vine/tree/etc" is not positive marketing to traditional Vilani.
"Boiled and Grey" on the other hand, is a venerable Terro-Vilani franchise.
"Boiled and Grey" on the other hand, is a venerable Terro-Vilani franchise.
Gray noodles and florescent pickled “vegetables”, perchance?
Enoki
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Given the canon on Vilani and their diet, I'd suggest something like Hakarl as a food (rotten pickled shark--a delicacy in Iceland. It smells of ammonia / urine and rotten fish). That is, they take some totally indigestible meat or vegetable of questionable origin, then put it through a process of (variously) pickling, fermenting, controlled rotting, or the like that ends up making it edible. But the resulting "food" has undesirable qualities like a horrific odor, or an extreme taste that most non-Vilani would find so objectionable they likely couldn't bring themselves to eat it.
For the Vilani, it is considered a delicacy and those qualities are ignored or even desired by them. Nothing like injecting some humor into food situations...
For the Vilani, it is considered a delicacy and those qualities are ignored or even desired by them. Nothing like injecting some humor into food situations...
Biltong.
Makes me wonder if koji is a beloved appropriation from Solomani cuisine...
BlackBat242
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Balut. 
Condottiere
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Brat worst.
Ingredients indigenous wildlife (processed).
Ingredients indigenous wildlife (processed).
They're going to match the typicals of most eras and areas...
- Things that can be dropped into your hand (including many non-sticky confections)
- things on a stick (including proteins and confections. From kabobs to cotton candy)
- things that can be wrapped in something able to be handled but not intended to be eaten (such as sushi rolls presented on taro leaf or banana leaf instead of on a plate. Or on paper plates or in paper cups. Paper, unlike plastic, is truly recyclable. )
- things served to your dishware
- things dropped inside a hollowed loaf (many medieval stews were served in large rolls or small loaves. a loaf the size of a #3 can, chopped in half, then the halves hollowed, makes two bowls suitable for a meal each.
- things in cheap durable containers, including plastic, metal, or even wood or glass containers. Think the cheap plastic beer steins sometimes seen at ballgames as collectibles. Often allowing a refill for a reduced price.
Condottiere
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Banana leaf seems more for ambiance, though it does allow the eating establishment to dispense with the dishwasher.
Experience tends to prefer a soda can and a straw, though pouring the drink into a transparent plastic bag, tied up and strawed was an option.
Experience tends to prefer a soda can and a straw, though pouring the drink into a transparent plastic bag, tied up and strawed was an option.
I'm thinking that some local customs might include always carrying folding cups/bowls (think camping-style dishes) and silverware.
The attached image is of a 7.2 oz example; it collapses to a disc.
https://www.rei.com/product/111933/sea-to-summit-x-seal-go-container-small
Note: Provided as an example, not a product or vendor endorsement.
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Condottiere
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I got one of those just pre pandemic, so never really got around to using it, though I had planned to keep it in my brief bag.
Recently, I came across a more sturdier variant, but still with the concertina collapse option.
Recently, I came across a more sturdier variant, but still with the concertina collapse option.
Enoki
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Some other fun ideas for your players to run into (look them up)
casu martzu: A cheese that is crawling with live maggots. A delicacy on Sardinia...
surstromming: A pickled herring from Sweden. Wear a gas mask opening the can...
The ever popular "Monkey meat" / "Mystery meat" on a stick. A street food in a lot of countries. Also called "Lizard on a stick" sometimes... (if it still looks like one, all the better).
Star Trek did this a little bit with like Klingon dishes and occasionally with other ones, but it was usually incidental to the episode.
For street food it should be portable, easily portioned, fairly quickly made, not requiring much of a special environment to keep it (like constant heating or refrigeration), and compact in size.
The aforementioned Hakarl is usually served in cubes with a toothpick. I could see the above being something of the same held in a sealed container by the vendor that opens it just long enough to take out the customer's order to keep the stench down. "XXXX is best eaten fresh..." "YYYY is best when the maggots are still alive..." That sort of thing...
I did one where the characters had varying TL backgrounds. Seeing what amounted to a local variant of oysters in a tub of water, the higher TL characters used to only processed and manufactured foods thought they were rocks, while the lower TL characters knew what they were. The higher TL were revulsed because they had never experienced such a thing.
casu martzu: A cheese that is crawling with live maggots. A delicacy on Sardinia...
surstromming: A pickled herring from Sweden. Wear a gas mask opening the can...
The ever popular "Monkey meat" / "Mystery meat" on a stick. A street food in a lot of countries. Also called "Lizard on a stick" sometimes... (if it still looks like one, all the better).
Star Trek did this a little bit with like Klingon dishes and occasionally with other ones, but it was usually incidental to the episode.
For street food it should be portable, easily portioned, fairly quickly made, not requiring much of a special environment to keep it (like constant heating or refrigeration), and compact in size.
The aforementioned Hakarl is usually served in cubes with a toothpick. I could see the above being something of the same held in a sealed container by the vendor that opens it just long enough to take out the customer's order to keep the stench down. "XXXX is best eaten fresh..." "YYYY is best when the maggots are still alive..." That sort of thing...
I did one where the characters had varying TL backgrounds. Seeing what amounted to a local variant of oysters in a tub of water, the higher TL characters used to only processed and manufactured foods thought they were rocks, while the lower TL characters knew what they were. The higher TL were revulsed because they had never experienced such a thing.
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Linguistic drift and an unfortunate choice of typography in their formative years led many Vilani and non-English speakers during the Long Night to assume the company's name derived from the forming partners, Bo Ild & Grey, leading to some confusion when neither of these obviously talented Shugilii is mentioned in the company history.
Groat burgers/sliders/gyros
- Groat is a meat source in the Spinward Marches. Most Sophonts think the taste is agreeable.
Noodles and Beak
- using a beak from a Beaked Monkey, some find the cooking of Noodles and Beak a detestable practice. Those who don't, think it's an excellent street food.
Ruuta Spines
- covered with a spicy sauce made from the body of the Ruuta, the Spines are eaten similar to the Terran dish called 'Ribs'.
Roasted Peak or Roasted Floaters
- The Peak Floater is a creature whose internal gas bladder can be ignited in a controlled room and the collected pieces are chopped and roasted longer to cook completely. Eaten with a Lemon-ish sauce.
- Groat is a meat source in the Spinward Marches. Most Sophonts think the taste is agreeable.
Noodles and Beak
- using a beak from a Beaked Monkey, some find the cooking of Noodles and Beak a detestable practice. Those who don't, think it's an excellent street food.
Ruuta Spines
- covered with a spicy sauce made from the body of the Ruuta, the Spines are eaten similar to the Terran dish called 'Ribs'.
Roasted Peak or Roasted Floaters
- The Peak Floater is a creature whose internal gas bladder can be ignited in a controlled room and the collected pieces are chopped and roasted longer to cook completely. Eaten with a Lemon-ish sauce.
Condottiere
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Street food does imply it has to be relatively inexpensive.
While I'm no expert on the Vilani, but wasn't one of the concepts that most stuff on their planet was inedible, and would need quite a bit of processing to be digestible to humans?
While I'm no expert on the Vilani, but wasn't one of the concepts that most stuff on their planet was inedible, and would need quite a bit of processing to be digestible to humans?
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