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[Tales and Chronicles]

I still maintain that the British Empire was largely driven by everyone trying to find something better to eat.

Then some splinter group fled the country to create their own utopia based on the consumption of their own version of Marmite...

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

The problem is mostly that they found it. They found a lot of it. And then they found out how to make all of it but without any flavor.

The part I like the most in British cuisine is that the time it takes to boil every aliment down to a tasteless grey thing is always enough for a couple of pints in the meantime! Its magic!

 

[MichaelSomething]

To bring it back to D&D...

Remove damage cantrips! Make wizards throw darts again!

Bring back 4E style rituals. Adding time and gold costs to powerful spells is balance the way Gygax intended!

WOTC should intentionally make the Next PHB super vague and confusing so that DM judgement is the greatest power in the game.

The DMG should advise DMs to organize appendix N reading clubs so new players would better understand the source material.

Dressing up as your in game character will help immerse you.

Enworlders should rule D&D like the elite rule over society. We are the best at judging what should or should not be in D&D!

 

[Reynard]

Dressing up as your in game character will help immerse you.

You should get in game bonuses for wearing real world costumes.

 

[payn]

Enworlders should rule D&D like the elite rule over society. We are the best at judging what should or should not be in D&D!

 

[Reynard]

The biggest problem that D&D has had through all of its editions (except maybe 4E) but ius especially pronounced in 5E is that it wants to have its cake and eat it too in the debate between gamism and simulationism. D&D wants you to believe it is simulating an alternate reality with real impacts of day to day activities like eating (see: rations) and gravity (see: falling damage) but then it counters its own simulation mechanics with gamist mechanics because they are cool and fun. Gygax talks specifically about this in the 1E DMG, and the problem has never really been solved (again, except possibly 4E because of how it leaned into gamism more). 5E does an especially bad job of presenting simulation (the need for rations while traveling) and then undermining it with gamist rules (rangers and outlanders can just ignore that requirement outright).

 

[humble minion]

Then some splinter group fled the country to create their own utopia based on the consumption of their own version of Marmite...

The sheer viciousness of the Australian civil wars driven by the Vegemite-Promite schism make the horror of the Emu Wars fade into insignificance, but these conflicts are little-known outside Australian shores...

We got kinda lucky food-wise down here, as far as ex-British colonies go. At least after WWII anyway, when the Italians and Greeks started immigrating in numbers, and over the past 30 years the Asian influence is really pronounced. I've just came back from 6 weeks in the USA, and the gaps in food culture here are really noticable after that. There's almost no Mexican (of any region) food here worth a damn, and even proper slow-cooked bbq places are real thin on the ground compared to almost anywhere in the USA. The Chinese and Greek and Lebanese food here is unbelievable though.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

You couldn't find bean and cheese burritos?

Those were available SOME places, but everywhere.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The beans are traditionally cooked with lard.

In Catholicism, at least, that’s not an issue. I’ve actually asked a canon lawyer about this- it’s why we can eat vegetable soups made with beef or chicken stock, fries made with beef or duck fat, etc.

It's like a client I was working with's problem near his offices in Queens. Lots of traditional Chinese noodle places in the neighborhood - fantastic food for someone like me to explore. But he ate kosher and all of the traditional Chinese noodle places used pork stock and didn't adapt to have kosher/halal options, so he always made his lunch at home.

I accidentally ruined a friends’s enjoyment of hot & sour soup when I asked about the pork strips in it. A lot of places near us started making theirs with chicken instead because of a boom in our Muslim population, though.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Well, outside of the Southwest. Once you cross the border into New Mexico, you are emphatically in the land of other Mexican cuisines. And once you get to California, it's a whole different set of Mexican foods all over again.

And California-Mexican food is spreading across the country, thanks to fast food chains like Rubio's. If anything, I think Tex-Mex has probably peaked, since the cuisine is all the least healthy parts of American cuisine added to the least healthy parts of Mexican cuisine, and that's increasingly out of fashion in the US.

Yeah- you start in Texas and travel to California, you WILL notice differences in the “Mexican” cuisine.

I don’t know that Tex-Mex has peaked, though it’s in a bit of flux. Amusingly, so many kitchens of ALL cuisines here have a high percentage of Mexicans doing the cooking, that we’re starting to see fusion restaurants of various kinds.

There used to be a place near me that had a full menu of Chinese and Tex-Mex, and it was good. The owner died, though, and her kids sold the place-it’s a bar now. I’ve seen at least 2 other Sino-Mex places since then. (One was bad and failed within a year.)

The Indian/Tex-Mex place around the corner from my house also failed- they were good, but a road construction project severely affected access. But there’s other Indo/Mex places popping up in better locations.