01-27-2015, 04:00 PM | #31 |
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Re: Chacteristic foods of your campaigns?
I've sometimes looked for weird things my delta living small but powerful nation people might enjoy.
Palolo worms' reproductive sacs and some other polychaetes make for lovely horrifying imagery of what real people already eat.
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01-27-2015, 04:25 PM | #32 |
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Re: Chacteristic foods of your campaigns?
In a recently ended game I was playing in, my character had an inordinate fondness for fermented catfish with a spicy sauerkraut equivalent.
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01-27-2015, 05:11 PM | #33 |
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Re: Chacteristic foods of your campaigns?
Strong preference for strong smelling food or merely that which is uniquely detectable from B.O. could count as a kind of cultural quirk.
Trackers/scouts know they're near an encampment of Kahokians by way of their latrines' odor of imported palolo.
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01-27-2015, 05:59 PM | #34 | |
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It's also useful to remember when somebody tries to derive an ideal diet from human anatomy that for more than long enough to matter evolutionarily - at least the last few million years - humans have *cheated*. Knives and mortars and pestles mean your teeth don't need to change even if your biochemistry does. Cooking and containers that allow pre-soaking replace changes to the digestive tract. Lately we even keep some of our symbiotic digestive micro-organisms in sourdough starters and brewing vats instead of in our gut. Without processing technology most of our food crops are barely edible. Chewing on wheat kernels and dry beans might be enough to keep you alive, but I wouldn't bet on it.
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01-27-2015, 06:27 PM | #35 |
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Our weakly acidic stomachs render us unusually susceptible to meat borne toxins and pathogens.
Humans have eaten very "unnaturally" since the agricultural revolution switched us to a mainly grass diet. I know about how common occasionally eating off-vore type is. But I think we can identify 95% of species' diets from biology unless they prepare foods in unusual ways. And our ancestors have prepared food for easily a million years muddying all attempts at pinning down ancient diets regardless of hypothetical optimums.
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01-27-2015, 08:10 PM | #37 |
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Our bodies really suck at digging, eating, and digesting raw tubers despite their nutritional use for hominids since Australopithecines.
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01-27-2015, 09:17 PM | #38 |
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But our mattocks and cookpots are the best in the Animal Kingdom!
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01-27-2015, 10:35 PM | #39 | |
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01-27-2015, 10:49 PM | #40 |
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Re: Chacteristic foods of your campaigns?
Sometimes all it takes to disgust is combine normal foods.
I knew a family that all mixed their applesauce with their spaghetti and meat sauce. Dairy products are, for the most part, carefully spoiled milk. Isn't it odd that most of us don't find it gross?
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