People can stop complaining about "historically inaccurate foods" in their RPGs now


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Can we still complain about regional food not being historically accurate for a game? Someone tried to place not-Asian food in my not-Western Europe game.

I tired to just say 'magic' but they were not having it.
 






More seriously: the kind of historical accuracy that castigates Sam Gamgee for talking about poe-tae-toes is not something I think us worth worrying about. So much about our conceptions of Medieval Fantasy is just plain wrong that I can't be bothered to worry about when potatoes, tomatoes or sandwiches entered the European lexicon.
Yeah. It's obvious they got potatoes and tomatoes from Maztica.
 

Only if they are gnomes.
I prefer carrot 🥕

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More seriously: the kind of historical accuracy that castigates Sam Gamgee for talking about poe-tae-toes is not something I think us worth worrying about. So much about our conceptions of Medieval Fantasy is just plain wrong that I can't be bothered to worry about when potatoes, tomatoes or sandwiches entered the European lexicon.

In 2024, someone complained on Twitter (shocking!) about that image of a Heroes Feast spell conjuring dishes that would plausibly appear in a fantasy planet with a decent amount of travel, trade, and emigration. “No! Europe only!” Really, they meant their idea of a Europe-analogous fantasy world.

Margaret Weis replied “Come to the Inn of the Last Home. Ale and spiced potatoes.” A lot of people didn’t seem to get the joke.
 

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