General What is your most common food or drink in The Third Imperium?

[Spinward Scout]

Do you have a most common food or drink in your Imperium?

I was just reading about Traveler's Stew in Dungeons and Dragons.

I would think Traveller would have something you can order throughout the Imperium.

A 'Traveller' Stew of sorts.

Are Astroburgers common enough to get anywhere?

People mentioned Sola Cola a while back.

I hear about Groats, but that might just be in the Spinward Marches. Groat burger, groat steak, etc...

What do you have in yours?

 

[Condottiere]

Preradiated Dehydrated Unspiced Ramen.

 

[TamsinP]

I think G'Kar has the answer:

 

[Grav_Moped]

I think G'Kar has the answer:

In my PbP here, I had a NPC with a preference for Ikean Cuisine. (Swedish Meatballs, lingonberry jam, etc)

I think I also mentioned Alien Wrenches. No, that's a typo -- ALLEN Wrenches. My bad.

 

[Grav_Moped]

In my PbP here, I had a NPC with a preference for Ikean Cuisine. (Swedish Meatballs, lingonberry jam, etc)

I think I also mentioned Alien Wrenches. No, that's a typo -- ALLEN Wrenches. My bad.

And of course the Vargr religious sacrement of pizza and hot dogs and offerings of small portions of random foods, due to the COSTCO belief sys ---

Sorry, I am being advised that this should have been COTCO*, not COSTCO. We regret any confusion.


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* Church of the Chosen Ones. Vargr who believe they're Grandfather's preferred sophonts because he personally oversaw their uplift. Yes, it's canon. And it's more nuanced than that -- these are Vargr we're talking about here.

 

[Condottiere]

Actually, I would have thought the universal dish would be sausages.

After all, there will always be meat parts that are discarded, and will be recycled.

 

[Grav_Moped]

Actually, I would have thought the universal dish would be sausages.

After all, there will always be meat parts that are discarded, and will be recycled.

Obligatory in context:

 

[Condottiere]

Now we know that the first place they raid is the meat aisle.

 

[bookwyrm]

Standard Ships Crew Rations with Pure Water for all those Free/Far Traders plying the Trade Lanes and other routes. (Something like Cram from The Hobbit, somewhat nutritious but very, very boring)

Types of Rations differ for the many Star Trading Sophents out there.

Beer in all of its forms for any being that can ingest it.

 

[Timerover51]

Baldur Honey Rum is popular in the Piper-Norton Sector, along with Supercow burgers and Superyam fries in a couple of sub-sectors. Seafood is always popular, although the Kelpie Lobsters have to be eaten in moderation due to high caloric value. Vinland canned goods are always welcome, especially the Butter Chip Pickles and the Sweet Gherkins. The Vinland Angus beef is very widely used on Space Viking ships.

 

[Dragoner]

IMTU spacecraft spend a decent amount of time in Zero G, crumbs are a no go. For US, NASA Academy (it has transformed itself into a university), and Old Free West origin citizens, the spacers eat a printed yogurt consistancy food they call "dreck". It has the advantage of not producing feces, meaning they are less likely to have to go wearing their vacc suits. The first meal on dirt, ratings call it the "colon blow" for the food hangover effect is often stuff like prime rib, baked potato, and steamed green beans, organic, not printed if possible. Downport restaurants make a killing off the first meal, and vy for the spacer business.

 

[Condottiere]

Artificial sausages.

 

[aramis]

Do you have a most common food or drink in your Imperium?

Drink? Yes. Super popular in its home sector... Ol' Nr 7. JD. Only reason it's so common is the rep. 3700 years of continuous production... Still a very consistent mediocre whiskey with great advertising and marketing. But a Name will get it dragged everywhere. (A PC in one campaign ordered a full Td of it... to his home on Regina. About half a megacredit.)
It's only most common becauseof rep, and it's still rare outside the SR Sector...
Runner up: Algae beer.

Food... one PC claimed the Dead Spacers' Nachos Muertos was... ignoring that the meat, cheese, peppers, and grain involved vary from location to location... Regina and Wypoc use Regina grown Groat flesh and milk and a regina native grain, and a local reginan pepper-like fruit... Earth it's soy cheese, vat meat, and the original corn and Jalepeño. 5000 locations across the imperium... claiming, but failing to, serve the same dish

 

[Nathan Brazil]

IMTU: Food Vat Protein, Generic Flavor AKA Songs About Food Vats Food is is expensive. Not sustenance. Sustenance is plentiful. Few people truly starve in the First and Third Imperiums depending on how far a world is culturally from Imperial norms. However transporting food in trade means "Lixury Food". In the Imperiums this means food animals and crops that require being an alive, independent (more or less) life form, anything requiring long tmes for the "food stuff" to achive maturity. Higher population worlds are more likely to be Red Zoned. The congruence of high population creates more totaliarian governments, more restrictive laws and no Ag Trade Code. T5 and MgT DMs for Red Zoning and Trade Codes show this trend to the case. It may only be one world here and there, but they are more likely is one Red Zoned world with billions or tens of billions of hungry mouths. No food gets in, no food gets out. Originally, generic protein food vats were invented by the Sueerat as one of their "environmental neutral actions". The mass production of food in an environmentally safe manner proved a boon to their colonization efforts during their sublight empire era and later when they were absorbed into the Ziru Siirka. The Vilani of course tried to usurp copyright, but the Suerrat demonstrably proved they developed the process independently. This attitude originally came because of the shilugi. IMTU The Vilani had more or less engaged in a form of ritual cannibalism for 280,000 years. Not to exert dominance over other tribes by killing them and taking their stuff, but by scavenging the dead as a means of extending food supplies against the hostile environment and Ancients' War Machines. More compatible proteins meant a faster "fermentation" of the local life and a return of naturally compatible proteins to the Vilani themselves. Socially, this honored the dead by keeping them part of the tribe, not just spiritually, but physically. One is far more literally tied to their ancstors directly. This may be the reason why pinky fingers are so important as "relics" as evidenced in Agent of the Imperium. The rest of the body supports the tribe. This practice continued until the coming of the Terrans who had odd different views on the issues of food. Their re-introduction of generic proteins not tied to specific animals led to increased food supplies and profitibility for which the Suerrat were vindicated once freed during the Interstellar Wars. Still, in the Vilani Autonomous Region, the tradional practices are maintained and few Vilani can resist the old "homestyle" recipes. Also in the region, one food animal, pigs, were imported from Terra and sometimes added as faux "flavoring" due to its similarty to Vilani.

 

[Nathan Brazil]

The generic protein is a white to greyish color. On occassion, pranksters have dyed the protein green. The origin of the prank is Terran/Solomani but the reason is unknown. Also from time to time, people make jokes about dictators throwing living persons into the vats, but these comments are reviled throughout Imperial Space...

 

[kilemall]

IMTU: Food Vat Protein, Generic Flavor AKA Songs About Food Vats Food is is expensive. Not sustenance. Sustenance is plentiful. Few people truly starve in the First and Third Imperiums depending on how far a world is culturally from Imperial norms. However transporting food in trade means "Lixury Food". In the Imperiums this means food animals and crops that require being an alive, independent (more or less) life form, anything requiring long tmes for the "food stuff" to achive maturity. Higher population worlds are more likely to be Red Zoned. The congruence of high population creates more totaliarian governments, more restrictive laws and no Ag Trade Code. T5 and MgT DMs for Red Zoning and Trade Codes show this trend to the case. It may only be one world here and there, but they are more likely is one Red Zoned world with billions or tens of billions of hungry mouths. No food gets in, no food gets out. Originally, generic protein food vats were invented by the Sueerat as one of their "environmental neutral actions". The mass production of food in an environmentally safe manner proved a boon to their colonization efforts during their sublight empire era and later when they were absorbed into the Ziru Siirka. The Vilani of course tried to usurp copyright, but the Suerrat demonstrably proved they developed the process independently. This attitude originally came because of the shilugi. IMTU The Vilani had more or less engaged in a form of ritual cannibalism for 280,000 years. Not to exert dominance over other tribes by killing them and taking their stuff, but by scavenging the dead as a means of extending food supplies against the hostile environment and Ancients' War Machines. More compatible proteins meant a faster "fermentation" of the local life and a return of naturally compatible proteins to the Vilani themselves. Socially, this honored the dead by keeping them part of the tribe, not just spiritually, but physically. One is far more literally tied to their ancstors directly. This may be the reason why pinky fingers are so important as "relics" as evidenced in Agent of the Imperium. The rest of the body supports the tribe. This practice continued until the coming of the Terrans who had odd different views on the issues of food. Their re-introduction of generic proteins not tied to specific animals led to increased food supplies and profitibility for which the Suerrat were vindicated once freed during the Interstellar Wars. Still, in the Vilani Autonomous Region, the tradional practices are maintained and few Vilani can resist the old "homestyle" recipes. Also in the region, one food animal, pigs, were imported from Terra and sometimes added as faux "flavoring" due to its similarty to Vilani.

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Whoa.

Thats the sort of thing that had the Terrans known about it would be invaluable for wartime propaganda but made getting along post conquest very tough.

 

[Condottiere]

I Can't Believe It's Not Buttocks!®

 

[Murph]

Swedish meatballs.

 

[Grav_Moped]

On occassion, pranksters have dyed the protein green.

And of course the rumor about one of the longer classified Imperial Edicts, that "It's a COOKBOOK!"

 

[TamsinP]

Swedish meatballs.

I agree - see my comment further up