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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nork" data-source="post: 5545689" data-attributes="member: 59879">I've been kicking around the idea for my next character to make a sort of 'traveling chef' that is looking to discover new product to cook.  Which would fit perfectly with being in an adventuring party that is constantly slaughtering any number of mythical creatures in exotic locals.Which really isn't *that* outlandish when you think about it, since my understand of medieval times is that the ruling class largely filled the "consumer" role in the economy, and one of the primary things they consumed was most of the excess food (due to taxes being paid in goods and services to the local manor).When one has a lot of excess food, one does extravagant things with it (foie gras for example).  When doing extravagant things with food becomes part of being the ruling class, then what you eat becomes attached to social standing.  Which is my understanding of the origin of food snobbery.  It often isn't that people simply like food, it is that for a lot of people eating high quality food is how one affirms their social standing.  Eating 'low quality' or cheap food without belly aching loudly about it being inedible runs the risk of making one seem 'low class'.  Which is why people often get so catty about restaurants.When a 'culinary bard' of sorts passes through and offers to serve up a still beating troll heart served on a bed of leaves from the world tree, they would represent a means of advancing social standing through consuming their truly exotic fares  (oh this foie gras is satisfactory, but you really should experience live troll heart).</blockquote>

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