OT - Fantasy food vs Real Life

[Hand of Evil]

Okay, over the life of the boards every now and then there has been topics on food and cooking, well came accross this story and thought of all those post.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/773497.asp?0dm=C14KT

 

[mmadsen]

Some highlights:

DATING FROM 1500, “A noble bok of festes ryalle and cokery, A bok for a Prynces housholde” is the earliest copy of a printed cookbook in English, according to the British Library.
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They have reproduced and eaten some of the recipes, including “pyke and eles in balloke broth,” a dish of pike and eels spiced with cloves, cinnamon and saffron, and a mixture of milk and colored eggs called “ledlardes.”
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The book reveals that Henry V’s coronation feast featured a first course of 31 swans, roasted and probably redressed in their feathers. All carried signs praising the king.

This was followed by dishes of venison, antelope, porpoises and a range of fish, including carp, perch and lamprey, on which King Henry I is said to have gorged himself to death.

 

[mmadsen]

This was followed by dishes of venison, antelope, porpoises and a range of fish, including carp, perch and lamprey, on which King Henry I is said to have gorged himself to death.

I simply must work this into a campaign somehow -- a king gorged himself to death on lamprey!

 

[mmadsen]

I've noticed that fantasy literature often dwells on food -- try Vance's Dying Earth, Rowling's Harry Potter, etc. -- but fantasy gaming basically ignores it.

Has anyone worked exotic fantasy foods into their games?

 

[gamecat]

The only prominent food in our game is Mountain Dew. The Flaming Rheo has a decanter of endless dew in his possession, but I dont have caffiene rules.

 

[alsih2o]

i don't know if it counts as an exotic food, but i delivered to the p.c.'s imc a piece of jerky made from a dragons "member" that acted as fantasyworld viagra, with a -4 to int for the 2d4 hrs it lasts.....he he he...

 

[Droogie]

i don't know if it counts as an exotic food, but i delivered to the p.c.'s imc a piece of jerky made from a dragons "member" that acted as fantasyworld viagra, with a -4 to int for the 2d4 hrs it lasts.....he he he...

Yup, I'd say that qualifies as an exotic food.

 

[hong]

I'm aghast that noone has mentioned the crates of "elf pudding" that can be found in the Sunless Citadel.


Hong "how can you tell it's elf pudding? the ears get stuck in your throat" Ooi

 

[mmadsen]

The only prominent food in our game is Mountain Dew. The Flaming Rheo has a decanter of endless dew in his possession, but I dont have caffiene rules.

Every morning, the subjects of the Flaming Rheo collect dew off the mountaintops for his emerald elixir of vitality. I kind of like that...

 

[hong]

Every morning, the subjects of the Flaming Rheo collect dew off the mountaintops for his emerald elixir of vitality.

... if you know what I mean, and I think you do.

I kind of like that...

... if you know what I mean, and I think you do.


Hong "good times, great taste, less filling" Ooi