General Who has Space Food in Your Traveller Universe?

[Spinward Scout]

I remember Tang being advertised when I was a kid as Astronaut's drink of choice. And you can pickup freeze dried ice cream here and there.

This is one I never saw: Space Food Sticks.

Do you have these or beef jerky type space foods or others IYTU

 

[gchuck]

Taco Bell!!!!

 

[Spinward Flow]

Specialized Space Foods is more of a TL=7-8 kind of thing.
By TL=9 matters have improved to ... airline food.
It's only once you reach TL=10+ that the food onboard ship gets back to being akin to terrestrial foodstuffs standards, with little difference between what can be served aboard ship versus dockside or planetside.

Skill in preparing the foodstuffs for consumption ... that's Steward skill.

 

[willtron3030]

• "Basic", borrowed from the E. C. Tubbs' Dumarest saga.
• Auto-chef food printer feed stocks made from tank-grown algae, and various fungi such as yeast. They can be consumed in 'raw' form, but texture and taste make them almost inedible until processed and seasoned.
• Survival rations in bar and paste form, from the same sources as the autochef feedstocks. These are famously close to inedible.
• Micronutrient supplements in liquid and pill form, as needed for life forms according to their biome of origin (IMTU, biomes are broadly categorized as "green 1", "green 2", "yellow", "red", and "blue". Humanity evolved in green-1).

You'll find a small, sealed dry-bag of personal shelf-stable items in the effects of most spacers, containing two or three pouches or bars of survival rations, a personal supply of micronutrients, multivitamins, and luxury items such as favorite spices, dried meat or dried insects, and dried fruit.

 

[willtron3030]

I remember Space Food Sticks. Your post made me re-frame them as "carb jerky". Thank you for that laugh.

 

[Quint]

Mostly I have Basic ala Dumarest, and Scout Brew is "fermented" (not really, but that's what they call the process) Basic.

D.

 

[Grav_Moped]

Taco Bell!!!!

Relevant:
Help building a taco truck spaceship?

 

[agorski]

IRL I have a can of Pocari Sweat, because sweat.

 

[whartung]

I remember Tang being advertised when I was a kid as Astronaut's drink of choice. And you can pickup freeze dried ice cream here and there.

This is one I never saw: Space Food Sticks.

Space Food sticks were a 5 food group for me in 2nd grade. The peanut butter and chocolate were the best, my friends used to come over to my house to get them. Just think food paste run through a Playdoh fun factory. But they were sweet, not sticky, not really messy, and had some protein in them as well.

Modern Tang is gorged with fake sweeteners and terrible.

You can typically find freeze dried ice cream (which is actually pretty good for a novelty) at your local aerospace/science museum gift shop. I wouldn't call it a staple, but if you find some, pick it up and give it a shot.

 

[Enoki]

It's far more fun for all the Tl 10+ players to have to shop for supplies on a TL 4 or 5 planet in an open market or starve...

 

[Condottiere]

 

[coliver988]

I always remember the episode when Book brought fresh strawberries as part of his passage price: fresh food was worth that much (or I am horribly misremembering).

in the traditions thread I mentioned IMTU that the first meal post-jump is a full feast for everyone with fresh food.

However, as others have mentioned, pretty sure we'll get better at food storage and I would assume fresh food for an entire week where possible, but there are always the emergency MREs sitting back in that locker, under the now defunct cleaning bot, next to the spare patch kits.

And you can get freeze dried ice cream at most camping stores as well. We have a few of them as well as a crate or two of stuff like that from when I was a much more active backpacker. Now I am calling it prepper food...probably need to recheck the dates on those come to think of it. My garage is like a giant ship's locker: full of stuff we'll never use.

 

[Spinward Scout]

It's far more fun for all the Tl 10+ players to have to shop for supplies on a TL 4 or 5 planet in an open market or starve.

Referee Tip!

 

[kilemall]

It's far more fun for all the Tl 10+ players to have to shop for supplies on a TL 4 or 5 planet in an open market or starve...

One of my assumptions is that vatmeat becomes the standard because of space culture/production needs, costs, ability to talk to animals means we regard them differently, and lack of suitable grazing land on most worlds.

So a big 'not in Kansas' moment is when they realize they are dealing with actual slaughtered animals on those low tech Ag worlds, and most characters act with revulsion and difficulty eating them.

 

[Enoki]

One of my assumptions is that vatmeat becomes the standard because of space culture/production needs, costs, ability to talk to animals means we regard them differently, and lack of suitable grazing land on most worlds.

So a big 'not in Kansas' moment is when they realize they are dealing with actual slaughtered animals on those low tech Ag worlds, and most characters act with revulsion and difficulty eating them.

Exactly... "Whataya mean this is food? Food comes out of a package..." It wouldn't be just some synthetic meat that'd be difficult to deal with, even preparing raw vegetables would present problems. "It says here you peel the potatoes, but how do you do that, and what do you do with the peeled part, whatever that is...?"

The whole process would be frustrating, revolting, and require a very steep learning curve.

 

[kilemall]

Exactly... "Whataya mean this is food? Food comes out of a package..." It wouldn't be just some synthetic meat that'd be difficult to deal with, even preparing raw vegetables would present problems. "It says here you peel the potatoes, but how do you do that, and what do you do with the peeled part, whatever that is...?"

The whole process would be frustrating, revolting, and require a very steep learning curve.

Jealously guarded secrets of the Steward's Guild, I'm sure.