kilemall
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Those are good descriptions and effects, but what is your scoring matrix?
General What is your most common food or drink in The Third Imperium?
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Condottiere
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Try Not To Eat - The Jetsons (Dial-a-Meal, Martian Meatballs, SpaceBurger)
We traveled to 2062 to get some of The Jetsons craziest and most delicious foods to tempt our reactors in this Try Not To Eat Challenge! Which futuristic food would you try?
Dial-a-Meal Breakfast
Season 1 Episode 14 “Test Pilot”
Spaceburger Drive In
Season 1 Episode 2 “Jet Screamer”
Martian Meatballs!
Season 1 Episode 18 “Jane’s Driving Lesson”
Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Season 1 Episode 1 “Rosey the Robot”
Lunar Lasagna
Season 2 Episode 33 “Space Bong”
PRIZE: Foodarackacycle & Cosmic Cola
Season 1 Episode 2 “Jet Screamer”
PUNISH: The Menulator Sandwich
Season 1 Episode 18 “Jane’s Driving Lesson”
Enoki
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That's going to be harder to post as the tables will be messed up. I'll try to get them up though.
Oh, kull wahad, I have thought about food way too much. Let's see here...
There's Basic, of Dumarest origin - and various forms that it can be delivered in (the ubiquitous vat with a spigot on a ship, but also squeeze tubes, "survival cups" - these last two tend to be flavored in various ways.
There's Cracker (a Hardtack-esque survival food) and Cake (kind of very dense pound cake) that show up in survival/disaster stores and as government dole. Cake comes in Red, Yellow, Berry, Coco, and Pumpkin Spice varieties. Tubes of Frosting are occasionally included (Standard, Mint, and Rum flavorings)
Aidlyte is a either a pre-sold beverage or a water additive that has various vitamins, plus electrolytes, that help against dehydration. Comes in a wide varieties of colors and flavors - Black Ice, Blue Lightning, Red Thunder, Purple Bomb, Sport Extreme, with Misjump and Babycare being slightly more tuned for specific situations.
Fleather ("Fruit Leather") are a popular snack, and if there is a fruit, there's almost certainly a Fleather for it.
Meatsticks (aka a Slim Jim) also remain popular, and come in a crazy numbers of flavors.
Nutella (in various nut flavors) is easy to find.
Scout Brew is an alcoholic drink derived from Basic, "distilled and fermented" basically as moonshine. I have a whole Library Data entry on the customs.
SPAM is around of course, in Spiced Ham, Peppered Beef, Seafood Chowder, Smoked Salmon, Barbecue Chicken, Cheesesteak, and both Pumpkin Spice and Clove and Rum as special Holiday flavors. Stukan is the Solomani version, and much less processed (Soylent Green jokes abound).
Sylean Brandy (and the higher proof Imperial version) is a product of the Sylean Cultural Region.
The Twinkie has survived as traditional Terran-inspired wedding/betrothal gift indicating wishes for a happy marriage and quick and easy pregnancy.
Vargr Take-Out is a very common street food that is basically kebabs, traditionally only meat and very, very rare but for other species that various versions with many different ingredients. Basically the only requirement is that you can put it on a stick.
Vegamite remains a standard spacer and survival food.
And Vilani Beer is out there, an acquired taste for non-Vilani.
D.
There's Basic, of Dumarest origin - and various forms that it can be delivered in (the ubiquitous vat with a spigot on a ship, but also squeeze tubes, "survival cups" - these last two tend to be flavored in various ways.
There's Cracker (a Hardtack-esque survival food) and Cake (kind of very dense pound cake) that show up in survival/disaster stores and as government dole. Cake comes in Red, Yellow, Berry, Coco, and Pumpkin Spice varieties. Tubes of Frosting are occasionally included (Standard, Mint, and Rum flavorings)
Aidlyte is a either a pre-sold beverage or a water additive that has various vitamins, plus electrolytes, that help against dehydration. Comes in a wide varieties of colors and flavors - Black Ice, Blue Lightning, Red Thunder, Purple Bomb, Sport Extreme, with Misjump and Babycare being slightly more tuned for specific situations.
Fleather ("Fruit Leather") are a popular snack, and if there is a fruit, there's almost certainly a Fleather for it.
Meatsticks (aka a Slim Jim) also remain popular, and come in a crazy numbers of flavors.
Nutella (in various nut flavors) is easy to find.
Scout Brew is an alcoholic drink derived from Basic, "distilled and fermented" basically as moonshine. I have a whole Library Data entry on the customs.
SPAM is around of course, in Spiced Ham, Peppered Beef, Seafood Chowder, Smoked Salmon, Barbecue Chicken, Cheesesteak, and both Pumpkin Spice and Clove and Rum as special Holiday flavors. Stukan is the Solomani version, and much less processed (Soylent Green jokes abound).
Sylean Brandy (and the higher proof Imperial version) is a product of the Sylean Cultural Region.
The Twinkie has survived as traditional Terran-inspired wedding/betrothal gift indicating wishes for a happy marriage and quick and easy pregnancy.
Vargr Take-Out is a very common street food that is basically kebabs, traditionally only meat and very, very rare but for other species that various versions with many different ingredients. Basically the only requirement is that you can put it on a stick.
Vegamite remains a standard spacer and survival food.
And Vilani Beer is out there, an acquired taste for non-Vilani.
D.
kilemall
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Misjump is a glorious name to use for various alcohol drinks.
*Nathan takes off top hat to turn off silliness implant chip for a moment*
You wrote more accurately what I was trying to convey. Your cost analysis of transport sounds good. Kudos !
The one unknown factor here is from a RAW standpoint (and an un-universe standpoint) is what are the costs of local production of said vat grown generic food paste (protein/tofu/whatever ) compared to import. Distribution may be cheap, but is local production cheaper still?*Nathan takes puts top hat back on*
Control of food production and distribution is another social control in totalitarian governments, regardless of its cost.
First off lower food cost can allow for the government to buy more thought police/thugs, surveillance equipment, reeducation cubes, etc.. Less intrusion by those "foreigners". Beyond that, there is the food itself. The rich, entitled and loyal get the good stuff and remain so and healthy. The masses don't starve, but is it a fun life as we define it?
My thought on this is the "furniture girl" in Soylent Green. As part of her job, she would have to maintain relatively good health and appearance. As such, she would have to be given access to bettter food, more water, soap, etc.. Better than the other 40+ million New Yorkers. If she rocks the boat too much, so much for that good lfe, eh?
There are also a few current RL examples I encourage you all to search for and research.
Condottiere
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You can use alcohol to either fuel the power plant, or the ship's bar.
That's got to be a gigantic ship to have enough lawyers to justify it's own bar
ZhodaniBob
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I think meat from the humble groats of Fulacin is the best established food source in Traveller. I remember when we had a small cooking area on deck, where we roasted groat steaks on the hull using solar radiation from a red supergiant (As suggested in The Joy of Starship Cooking).
Imperial Research Station Epsilon is located in the old Octagon Society building on Vreibefger and is doing Dr. Moreau-like experiments to increase yeilds for the meat-producing animals of the sector. I bet they have some good groat steaks there.
You can always find groat satay and Terran fusion barbecue in Vargrtown, just on the other side of the extrality line. But I always recommend the Aslan rancher on the far side of the world. His female relatives run an excellent steakhouse. There's an attached reserve where you hunt the groat that you'll eat. (It's a Fterlie thing).
Meanwhile, the Zee-ρ feed said that there's a shiguli apostate serving Vilani fusion cuisine at the TAS restaurant (Terran ingredients, Vilani uh, "cooking" techniques). But don't eat the corndogs by the Hiver delegation (old Dave Nielsen joke). I never liked the Droyne/Bwap place, though–black ants, live or dead, are not my protein source of choice. When I was at the downport, I picked up a copy of Vegetarianism for Everyone, but it turned out to be a political manifesto published by The Lords of Thunder and not a cookbook. Huh.
I think meat from the humble groats of Fulacin is the best established food source in Traveller. I remember when we had a small cooking area on deck, where we roasted groat steaks on the hull using solar radiation from a red supergiant (As suggested in The Joy of Starship Cooking).
Imperial Research Station Epsilon is located in the old Octagon Society building on Vreibefger and is doing Dr. Moreau-like experiments to increase yeilds for the meat-producing animals of the sector. I bet they have some good groat steaks there.
You can always find groat satay and Terran fusion barbecue in Vargrtown, just on the other side of the extrality line. But I always recommend the Aslan rancher on the far side of the world. His female relatives run an excellent steakhouse. There's an attached reserve where you hunt the groat that you'll eat. (It's a Fterlie thing).
Meanwhile, the Zee-ρ feed said that there's a shiguli apostate serving Vilani fusion cuisine at the TAS restaurant (Terran ingredients, Vilani uh, "cooking" techniques). But don't eat the corndogs by the Hiver delegation (old Dave Nielsen joke). I never liked the Droyne/Bwap place, though–black ants, live or dead, are not my protein source of choice. When I was at the downport, I picked up a copy of Vegetarianism for Everyone, but it turned out to be a political manifesto published by The Lords of Thunder and not a cookbook. Huh.
Spinal-mount legal department.That's got to be a gigantic ship to have enough lawyers to justify it's own bar
casquilho
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I almost hurled watching that part... Why didn't I add a "Mr Yuck" reaction when I had the authority?
Condottiere
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I was pretty sure that Lost In Space had instant meal pills, but didn't find a reference.
Well, that's the perfect storm as witnessed in the ST:TOS episode when the Andromedans take over the ship. They just use food pill, but McCoy and Scott introduces one of them to the baser pleasures of eating real food and...uh...drink.
Condottiere
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Tendi, Rutherford and Carol helping Dr. Migleemo.
"What is it?"
"It's... uhh... it's.. green!"
