WHAT KIND OF FOOD DO PEOPLE EAT IN YOUR CAMPAIGN SETTING IF YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR SHIT IS SHALLOW FUCK

I know that's you, George. Maybe if you spent less time drooling over imaginary food you'd be able to put out books faster?

Shitloads of different types of shrooms and fungi, usually served as a stew. Especially in mega-urban areas where industrial underground fungi caves have replaced farms

I ran a cooking campaign.

Everyone was satisfied.

Potatoes.

Mostly protein sludge and re-hydrated gruel. My players just picked up 2 weeks of good "real" food from the space station they arrived at last night. Vat grown meat, cheese and what seems to be real corn.

They care more about what cigarette and booze brands are available at every space station and planet they visit.

One of the players only smokes Dixie Reds and he gets real upset when he runs out.

Mostly Medieval European food. Bread, potatoes, alcohol, and whatever meat they can get their hands on. Beyond that, it depends on the setting.

>Medieval Europe
>Potatoes

>Potatoes
>Medieval European

>Mostly Medieval European food.
>potatoes

Adventurers, and Rich people, eat meals made from monsters
The region where my PCs are now would be based of Anglo/Germanic cuisine

My character mostly eats insects and small rodents.

Soup.

So far my players saved a ranch where they raise and slaughter brontosauruses instead of cows. They even used Utahraptors like border collies.

I just open Redwall or A Song of Ice and Fire and read feasts descriptions out of those.

Fucking Redwall, man.
Literally more food descriptions than a cookbook.

The Island city that the Imperium decided to make its capital has a sort of early Scandinavian cuisine.

All players are required to order from a detailed list of foods, ranging from grains, offal, meats, tubers, roots and herbs.

I track their macro nutrient profiles and provide bonuses or penalties based on degree of malnutrition.

Traveling Rations
Because we aren't Brian Jacques

> Terry Prachett did Discworld cook book, despite food being nearly non-entity there
> But Redwall cook book was never made
Feels like such a waste.

>Dwarves
>Large insects, various fungi, cave fish
>Elves
>Small game, fruits, freshwater fish
>Halflings
>Treated meats, vegetables, dairy
>Gobs and Orcs
>Any meat they can get their greasy mitts on
>Totally-not-slavic-half-giants
>Kvass, rakia, kompot

Actually, it was! I remember having it as a kid. The only thing we could make cause we were poor as fuck as the super spicy otter soup. Google it, man, it's out there somewhere.

Dwarves are pretty tasty. No meat on those elves though

>Mostly Medieval European food.
>potatoes

I'm Peruvian and I'm so fucking triggered right now.

Aha! Found it on Amazon. amazon.com/Redwall-Cookbook-Brian-Jacques/dp/0399237917/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473003522&sr=8-1&keywords=redwall cookbook

If you want to get it, which I highly recommend, make sure to spring for the hardcover. Much easier to prop up when you're cooking. Amazon also has the ASOIAF cookbook, which I have and which is great. Shows you how to make medieval bread, which is great.

>sauteed minotaur tongue
>stewed minotaur tongue
Aren't minotaurs usually sentient?
Even if they aren't, why eat something that's mostly human when there's a perfectly good completely non human version found all over the world?

>Traveling Rations

Containing what? It's not like you have modern MRE or even cans.

>Medieval Europe
>Potatoes
>Bread

Mostly bread, cheese, and mulled wine. I find that too many varieties of fantasy foods cause them to blend together and become boring. I keep that shit rare so every greeble fish with honkberry sauce is special.

I'm always shocked when people don't know potatoes are a New World food

tomatoes, too

since because fantasy

It's been over 400 years. And South America did jack shit with it compared to all the dishes that sprung when it was exported to Europe. Well, after people stopped eating it raw and getting sick.

you ask such silly questions

In my party they contain hardtack, a small wooden box of goatchese, bread that's so hard you have to either beat it against a rock or soak it in some soup, and a small party popper. Once I described the state of the food they were eating day in day out they started to put some points into cooking and started hunting their food. I was so happy.

It's going to depend heavily on socio-economic class and profession.

However, in the region where the players are currently located, there is a strong tradition of eating cured foods. So meals tend to consist of smoked meats and pickled vegetable and chutney.

It's less the "fantasy" and more the "medieval" that we find concerning.

>Once I described the state of the food they were eating day in day out they started to put some points into cooking and started hunting their food

best outcome. trail food isn't exactly fine cuisine, even if you can afford prepared food.

>there's some insects in my hardtack? good, it means more protein.

In the military, I managed to eat almost all of the main meal in an MRE before I realized the last quarter was like solid mold. I've never puked that fast in my lifetime. If we could hunt our food on the regular, I gurantee we would.

What were you eating that was so bad you couldn't tell it was moldy as fuck?

> Current year
> Not having booze tables

Axebeak breasts smothered in cream sauce served with radish salad dressed witg a salt and vinegar dressing. The lower classes eat "Munchkin Stew" (rabbit and squirrel stew with wild root vegetables and wild black pepper) and brown bread made from stone-ground barley and oats, formed into rough, somewhat dry mounds, and baked till the top cracks.

Commoners eat the rougher cuts of meat from livestock, while the merchant class and middle-class get a chance to purchase the more tender cuts. Butchers have first right to pick their cut of meet since they are the owners of it by common law. The nobility obviously eat the finest cuts of meat as well as can afford exotic fruits and vegetables.

The nomads of the mountains and deserts hunt and eat various creatures, the most prized being the Gurlong--giant feathered serpents that burrow beneath the sand at night to sleep and soar majestically in the sky during the day. One adult Gurlong can feed a tribe for three days and three nights.

Fruits are common at all levels of the social tree due to an abundance of orchards and free trade with the fertile Elf kingdom.

I think it was Chili Mac. I was too pissed off from the past 16 hours of rain to heat it up. It was a congealed mass of "food" and thus, I couldn't see the mass of mold hiding at the bottom from probably a pinhole insertion six goddamn years ago.

Thing is, I still would have taken that over the Vegetarian Omlette. I still have no shit nightmares about that thing.

>bear picatta
I thought bear would be a red meat, rather than a white one, would go much better in a marsala sauce
>.t waiter at a family owned italian resturant

Speaking of preserved egg product, what sort of monster would invent powdered eggs?!?

I really dislike this "commoners couldn't eat the good cuts of meat couldn't eat meat at all" meme.

Reading this thread proved my point correct. Most of these anons know nothing about food and food history so it's not something they should focus on at all to breathe life into a setting.

Fucking peasants not getting "choice cuts" and potatoes in a !Europe setting. Christ.

It's less they can't and more they don't unless it's a special occasion, most commoners want to maximize the money they can make and that means serving up the best cuts for customers rather than themselves.

As far as meat goes they eat it all the time, it's one of the primary diets of all the races.

The potatoes were magically introduced by the demon king.

are the redwall books good
I mean they're (according to wikipedia) children's fantasy so I'm afraid they'll be shitty like the harry potter boks

but that assume that there enough well to do people to buy all the good cuts from all the peasants in the area. That might be the case near large cities but I doubt that's how it worked anywhere else.

With big titties?

All sorts of food. If I knew all the food they were eating, I wouldn't be able to remember anything else.

it is red, and also very gamey. Preparing to be good eating takes a pretty deft hand really.

maybe

Wild rabbits, pigeons, and duck. It's super easy to find game.

Yes, in the country side the yeomen farmers have free reign over everything and anything they grow or breed. City commoners are a distinct class so I make the distinction.

I'm pretty sure it says "Boar Picatta".

>harpy egg
oh no

>>bear picatta
The picture says BOAR picatta, not bear.
I've seen boar meat being classified as white (like pork), red or even black (like other games).

So I don't know if it's red , but the wine sure can be.

Not all eggs are fertilized user.
Still weird I guess.

They eat meat, vegetables, grog, and ale. The four food groups! OP, what else would they eat you fukken' pleb!

A nutritious goo that they harvest from magically grown land sponge. It comes in different flavors and colors, but is the primary food for all life. Richer people might be able to afford some meat, but that's rare.

But it's not self-indulgent wank. Cuisine=culture. The ingredients used, the variety of them, the amount and kinds of seasoning, the cooking styles employed, the number of choices on a menu, the utensils required to eat it (if any), whether the food is easily portable or not... all these things speak volumes about culture, economics, and geography in relatively few words. As a GM, I use detailed descriptions of food to establish a sense of place since I know a huge amount about food and drink and basically fuck-all about, say, clothing and architecture.
Actually, I'd point to GRRM as an author who does what I'm talking about pretty well. He's not always very clever or subtle about it (the upper class in Slavers Bay literally EAT PUPPIES), but his "food porn" usually does serve a purpose.

Depends on where they're from.

People in the west, from Valonne, Arinoa, and Garm like their food spicy as fuck. The espers of Erud live up in the mountains, and keep yaks and goats. The lizardfolk in the desert south of those regions hunt the enormous and dangerous sand-burrowing deathworms for food, and while humans and espers may not like the idea of eating worm, the deathworms are actually nutritious and delicious. Since these lizardfolk are the vassals of the great fire dragon Bolla, they know a thing or two about cooking that would astound even the best human or esper chefs.

Even further south, the espers of Medon and the lizardfolk of the great water dragon Apalala are consummate sailors, so they know everything there is to know about fish and other sea-dwelling creatures. Across the sea, the lizardfolk of the great earth dragon Amaru bring down great roc birds and feast on them, with one roc being enough to feed entire tribes for weeks, provided the meat is preserved right. Amaru's lizardfolk also eat a lot of bugs.

The Gou Empire is known for its huge variety of bread and its vast wheat fields, and they also do a lot of fishing since there are a ton of islands all over the place around central and northern Gou.

Plenty of fruits and vegetables since most of the people in the setting are vegetarians. Tactical Hay rations for when they're on the road.

Mashed beans and other protein heavy foods for the other races when in their presence. Fish and game when in their lands.

and corn

>But it's not self-indulgent wank. Cuisine=culture.

That very statement is self-indulgent wank. It's like saying that skin colour or climate = culture. You foodies need your heads pulling out of your asses.

Bland, tasteless bread and plain water created by the 3rd level spell Create Food and Drink. It is pretty boring until the wizard upgrades the bread using Prestidigitation to make it taste fresh and warm, as if it had just come out of the oven. Though this alters not the contents, it makes the characters at least feel like they aren't just eating rations.

not much weirder than giving someone oral.
You'd eat your harpy GF's omelettes wouldn't you user?

>I don't see the point in immersion or creating a sense of place
Congrats on being a shit GM. I'm sure your players love being dragged from one vaguely Ren Faire-esque town to another, and find each one so memorable and unique

>venison
>ale
>perderders
>beats
What in the name of Sharragash are those?

>deer meat
>pickled barley stew
>eating rocks
>an abomination

Then where did all the Irish and Potato jokes come from?

Depends, if your setting is historical !Europe then the food will be mostly he same based on region: coast, forest, city, etc. are very similar without established global trade - and even then it's just a bastardized version of exotic cuisine in that area. You have different food when you go the the extremes (northern winter lands, southern coastal tropics, etc.) but there is mostly meat, gravy, vegetables, and biscuits.

Asia is a lot more interesting because their food is disgusting before cooking and the cultural impact is greater, but even it is meat/bean, vegetables, sauce, and rice.

Most of the interesting history of food has been par age of exploration.

*post age of exploration

The hundreds of years after the New World was discovered dumbass

Not liking beets advertises your faggotry

they're just too damned sweet.

yeah, he's right - pull your head out of your ass, there's more to a game than food, and there's more ways you can make something interesting than describing food

it's just one way of fleshing out a setting

Is this after the Vikings discovered it, or after Columbus "discovered" it?

I bet you wouldn't even salt your bitter melon, pleb.

You can salt my bitter melon any time you like

You literally known nothing about history.

Spain cultivated potatoes because they could survive the journey easily, and Sir Walter Raleigh brought them to Ireland in like 1590.

See

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Also the potato famine was in the mid 19th century

Thin strips of salted meat, fried in fat. They're commonly known as dracon.

Where did I say my sessions are literally nothing but sitting my players down and describing food to them?
>I don't know much about topic, so there can't be much to know, right?
I'm not even sure that greentext is appropriate here. Do seriously think the food in coastal Spain, Latvia, and Greece are in any way similar? Do you think Europeans didn't use "disgusting" ingredients as well? Do you not realize what people eat changes depending on what's native to that area? Do you not realize how much the introduction of certain New World crops like peppers utterly transformed certain cuisines? I'm not exaggerating when I say virtually every single thing you said is incorrect.

>You literally known nothing about history.
Nope, not at all. But at least I'm not a smug jackass about it.

No, you're just a smug jackass when you get called out on your own ignorance