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

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-11T23:09:46+0000

Also, this 2,000 year old sandwich looks delicious.

The world’s oldest sandwich?? 🤔🤔🤔

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aco175 · 2026-03-11T23:19:06+0000

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.

DrunkonDuty · 2026-03-11T23:39:20+0000

I was initially suprised to hear gamers are complaining about non-historically accurate food in RPGs.

Then I realised "gamers" and "complaining" and thought "Yup, that scans."

Also, that sandwich looks amazing.

MichaelSomething · 2026-03-12T00:51:31+0000

Is it safe for my character to put pineapple on their pizza now???

Reynard · 2026-03-12T00:53:27+0000

MichaelSomething said:
Is it safe for my character to put pineapple on their pizza now???

Only if they are gnomes.

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-12T00:55:33+0000

aco175 said:
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.

"Bob, can you point to Westeros on this map of Earth? No? Nowhere?"

Reynard · 2026-03-12T01:55:36+0000

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.

MGibster · 2026-03-12T02:06:14+0000

Reynard said:
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.

Twiggly the Gnome · 2026-03-12T02:09:48+0000

Reynard said:
Only if they are gnomes.

I prefer carrot

Tea Cozy · 2026-03-12T02:13:30+0000

Reynard said:
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.