What kind of ice cream is your galley?

[Timerover51]

What's the difference between high vacc and low vacc? The tone of voice pronouncing doom?!

"High Vac" means a high level of vacuum, about what you would have in intergalactic space. "Low Vac" means what you have in the typical light bulb.

Blackbat, thanks for supplying the origin of "long pig". I think that the New Guinea natives used a similar term, and I think that it also shows up in the Jack London stories about the Solomon Islands.

 

[Redcap]

And there was I, amusedly thinking that it might have something to do with social standing as you fly out the airlock :devil:

 

[Blue Ghost]

.... Ice Cream in space. Ice Cream in your scout ship's galley. Ice Cream in your Free Trader's hold. Ice Cream in your Gazelle class escort's drop tanks.

Rocky Road? Pistachio? (you know, I've never had pistachio). Chocolate Chip mint? ... bubblegum?

Minor rant; the local safeway doesn't carry straight up orange or lime sherbet, just those blend sherbets ... I wonder why that is.

I wonder if Ice Cream is a deal breaker on other worlds. Seal a trade deal with a bowl of vanilla and chocolate fudge.

 

[Blue Ghost]

Okay. So, ahem, yesterday at the store I was ice cream browsing, and what do I see? A five gallon tub of Birthday Cake Batter flavored ice cream.

Man am I tempted.

I bet that would go down well with the Vargr crew members too.

 

[kilemall]

Where does ice cream sit with the K'kree on the sliding scale of accepted/banned-and-get-you-nuked food?

 

[MThompson016]

Where does ice cream sit with the K'kree on the sliding scale of accepted/banned-and-get-you-nuked food?

Hmm.

I don't know. The only time I've encountered K'Kree is on the wrong end of my meson gun.

 

[aramis]

Where does ice cream sit with the K'kree on the sliding scale of accepted/banned-and-get-you-nuked food?

It's milk. There's a short story (in JTAS, IIRC) where a k'kree exhibits disgust at a nursing xenomammalian, shortly before ending the mother and child.

So, somewhere between "inexcusable faux pas" and "causa maxima est anathema".

 

[Blue Ghost]

You know, my casual lay knee-jerk observation is that there's quite a few users who talk Vargr and Aslan, and even Zhos and Solis, but the K'Kree seem like a "no fun" kind of race. I'm postulating it's because of ice cream.

I wonder if Hivers like Ice Cream. Soil flavored, I'm guessing.

 

[kilemall]

You know, my casual lay knee-jerk observation is that there's quite a few users who talk Vargr and Aslan, and even Zhos and Solis, but the K'Kree seem like a "no fun" kind of race. I'm postulating it's because of ice cream.

I wonder if Hivers like Ice Cream. Soil flavored, I'm guessing.

Chunky grub sherbet. With Vilani fungus bits if it's a special occasion.

 

[aramis]

You know, my casual lay knee-jerk observation is that there's quite a few users who talk Vargr and Aslan, and even Zhos and Solis, but the K'Kree seem like a "no fun" kind of race. I'm postulating it's because of ice cream.

I wonder if Hivers like Ice Cream. Soil flavored, I'm guessing.

They'll purge a world for consuming milk... Ice Cream would be abominable to them.

 

[Golan2072]

Non-mammal aliens will usually have trouble digesting dairy-based ice cream due to their lack of lactase. This is easy to solve with various substitutes, as well as lactose-free cream; alternatively, there are lactase supplements and even a simple genetic treatment (TL9+) allowing the alien's small intestine to produce lactase. IMTU (These Stars Are Ours!), Cicek (reptilian aliens) LOVE Terran dairy products of all sorts, ice cream included, so such supplements and treatments are fashionable.

Zhuzzh (insectoids), on the other hand, have no problem digesting this, like almost any other organic matter.

 

[Blue Ghost]

Okay. So, ahem, yesterday at the store I was ice cream browsing, and what do I see? A five gallon tub of Birthday Cake Batter flavored ice cream.

Man am I tempted.

I bet that would go down well with the Vargr crew members too.

I splurged a few days ago on a tub of the stuff. Meh, it's got kind of a bitter chemical after taste to it. It might be something Vargr would go for. K'Kree would freak out. Not sure about Aslan ... turn up their noses at it? Solis ... YMMV. Darriens would run experiments on samples of the stuff. Bwaps? Vegans? Genoee would claim they created it until they tasted it. Virushi would dish out bowls of the stuff to tonsillectomy patients.

 

[SanDragon]

Virushi have tonsils?!?!

 

[wellis]

They'll purge a world for consuming milk... Ice Cream would be abominable to them.

Could they possibly make an ice cream analogue out of plant stuff? A sort of vegetarian ice cream?

 

[aramis]

Could they possibly make an ice cream analogue out of plant stuff? A sort of vegetarian ice cream?

We are capable of that now. Dole makes a really good soft-serve, for example.

I don't think they'd care. The K'kree are psychotic in their hatred of mammals and carnivores.

 

[wellis]

We are capable of that now. Dole makes a really good soft-serve, for example.

I don't think they'd care. The K'kree are psychotic in their hatred of mammals and carnivores.

I meant the K'kree when asking about an ice cream equivalent for them. Like could they possibly make their own version, and what flavor might it be I mean.

 

[aramis]

I meant the K'kree when asking about an ice cream equivalent for them. Like could they possibly make their own version, and what flavor might it be I mean.

They wouldn't bother.

They're that bloody paranoid.

 

[Keklas Rekobah]

Magna-Leia Brand Ube-Flavored Iced C.R.E.A.M.*

(*Chemically-Replicated Edible Agricultural Material -- mostly algae, lecithin, soy, and GMO yeast.)

 

[Blue Ghost]

Sounds like something the Droyne would eat.

Either that or a bowl of frozen :CoW:

 

[Timerover51]

Sounds like something the Droyne would eat.

Either that or a bowl of frozen :CoW:

Droyne always struck me as more of an omnivore type with a bias towards fruits and nuts, sort of like a squirrel or raccoon. I suspect that any kind of fruit-flavored ice cream would go over well, along with pistachio.

I have heard that K'kree-blood flavored ice cream is quite popular among the Vargr, and also the Aslan when fresh blood is available. As the Imperium is between the K'kree and the Vargr and Aslan, they rarely get to enjoy such a treat. However, captured K'kree are worth their weight in Iridium if sold to the Vargr or Aslan.