Homebrew Do people in your game world put cheese on their apple pies??

[MichaelSomething]

Let me ask you something about your home brewed campaigned worlds. Do people in your world put cheese on their apple pies??

 

[Pedantic]

A nice white cheddar is great on pie. A scoop of ice cream is nice with pie. Unfortunately, I've learned from personal experience that a scoop of homemade white cheddar ice cream is just upsetting, with or without pie.

 

[Charlaquin]

Is that a thing people do anywhere…?

 

[Pedantic]

Is that a thing people do anywhere…?

Northeastern United States, it's not uncommon.

 

[Deset Gled]

Getting into that level of minutiae is not common in my group. Ordering at a restaurant is not what I would normally call peak gaming, unless it's somehow related to a plot or development.

I vaguely remember something like this happening once, probably 5ish years ago. We were at an inn. We were getting friendly with the owners to set up a fetch quest. I think someone ordered pie and asked if they could get cheese on it. It might have been a fried egg instead. Either way, the DM allowed it.

There was a campaign where we tried to start a legend that vampires were repelled by raisins, though. That lead to a running gag where we asked for raisins a lot to make sure the cooks weren't vampires.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Its not something I've ever heard of, but its a good example of how idiosyncratic regional food variations can be*. I remember how surprised my partner (from London) was to discover that in Northern England cheese (preferably Wensleydale) is eaten with Christmas cake/fruit cake.

And of course these are things that rarely mentioned in text, but are great for establishing time, place and feel (fashions work too). I did a whole subplot about coffee in one campaign, and in my Eberron campaigns the trenchcoat was the major fashion item long before it appeared in the official art. I found the menu from Heroes of the Borderlands a bit jarring, and I expect the contents of Bilbo's larder in the Hobbit seems odd to some. And PJ used the waistcoat to create a whole hobbit look.


*Cheese and apples are often eaten together in a Plowmans' lunch though.