Chacteristic foods of your campaigns?

[RyanW]

Bread-in-ham, from a fantasy campaign several years ago.

Invented by a slightly deranged wizard (a PC, go figure), who cast a transmute spell on an unsuspecting tavern owner's carving knife in mid slice. The minotaur then critically succeeded at his Cooking default to create a workable recipe that did not require magic, so we just decided that he had discovered how to do it simply by being too dumb to realize it was technically impossible. It caught on and spread to all corners of the world, and neither the wizard nor the minotaur ever got any royalties.

[Flyndaran]

How is that not just classic meat with stuffing?

[Flyndaran]

Virtually any starchy food can be turned into flour, chips or crackers.

[The Colonel]

Originally Posted by cbower

Eel and kidney pie. A pasty of fresh eel and pork kidney in a fishbone jelly.

I like to watch my players squirm sometimes. I'm a bad man.

I'm surprised that no-one has come up with that in real life - jellied eels are still fairly common on the East coast of England (although not as common as they were) and offal is also quite widely consumed ... all they'd need would be to swap the steak in a steak and kidney pie for jellied eel and you'd be done...

Perhaps there are very few things edible that some culture somewhere doesn't consider food...

[robkelk]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Why do they refer to meats like that? Shouldn't it be pig kidney? ...

The kidneys used in pies are usually beef kidney, not pork kidney.

And, apparently, killing an animal changes its name - pig to pork, kine to beef, and so on.

[Hans Rancke-Madsen]

Originally Posted by robkelk

And, apparently, killing an animal changes its name - pig to pork, kine to beef, and so on.

Usually from Anglo-saxon words to Norman words, allegedly because the Anglo-saxons raised the animals and the Normans ate them. ;-)


Hans

[Michael Cule]

It occurs to me that I've run the boar-hunting party as part of my BANESTORM game a few times too often. (Roast wild boar is so impressive to visitors.)

Next time I think the huntsmen will start to report falling stocks as the village expands. Have them hunt something more venturesome.

EDITED TO ADD:

Hmm, what about a time-tossed mammoth or two?

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by The Colonel

I'm surprised that no-one has come up with that in real life - jellied eels are still fairly common on the East coast of England (although not as common as they were) and offal is also quite widely consumed ... all they'd need would be to swap the steak in a steak and kidney pie for jellied eel and you'd be done...

That's probably a variant on the worm pies that are a feature of Worminghall. . . .

[cbower]

Originally Posted by The Colonel

I'm surprised that no-one has come up with that in real life - jellied eels are still fairly common on the East coast of England (although not as common as they were) and offal is also quite widely consumed ... all they'd need would be to swap the steak in a steak and kidney pie for jellied eel and you'd be done...

Perhaps there are very few things edible that some culture somewhere doesn't consider food...

Thanks, actually. I was trying at the time to come up with something gross (at least to someone who didn't grow up with them) but plausible.

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

How is that not just classic meat with stuffing?

It's an entire, intact, loaf of bread, interpenetrating an entire, intact, ham.