D&D General Sandwiches should exist in your fantasy world!

[Paul Farquhar]

It's bizarre in one sense, because you look to something like LotR and food really has its place in that story.

Re: ovens. The most common thing people do when they need their morning bread is make their dough, but bring it to their neighborhood's bakery to be baked. This still happens!

Including tomatoes and potatoes, which were not introduced to Europe until the 16th century, and fish & chips, which probably date from the 19th century.

The Hobbit, has forks!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It's bizarre in one sense, because you look to something like LotR and food really has its place in that story.

GRRM won't shut up about food in his A Song of Ice & Fire books, as well.

 

[Tonguez]

Including tomatoes and potatoes, which were not introduced to Europe until the 16th century, and fish & chips, which probably date from the 19th century.

The Hobbit, has forks!

The Romans were frying fish and battered fish was introduced to England by Portugese jews from the 16th century and was eaten with mushy peas until potato chips were introduced. So fish and chips may have been 19th century but fried fish and fried root vegetables are old

 

[Bohandas]

I was unaware of that use of the word corn. Though I suppose, in hindsight, I shouldn't have been, considering barley corns are a thing and refer to the individual bits of edible plant that you use for cooking. I apologize.

Similarly "salsa" and "ketchup" can both just mean "sauce"

edit: Salsa moreso than ketchup

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Gnomes are definitely behind forks.

Unfortunately, they followed that up with sporks.

 

[Tonguez]

Gnomes are definitely behind forks.

Unfortunately, they followed that up with sporks.

I blame tieflings for sporks - only the spawn of Asmodeus could devise such a fiendish woe

 

[Reynard]

There's an element of how broadly or narrowly one defines "sandwich." Flatbread wraps and food served on top of bread have been around since ancient times. "Trenchers" of bread are a medieval thing that would fit very well into a standard fantasy "knights & castles" game.

Sandwiches in the form of edibles between two slices of bread is an 18th century development. That form, and the related "bread roll or bun cut in half, with edibles between the two halves" does come across as anachronistic in a medieval style setting. Or at least it does to me.

On the third hand, in a fantasy setting of the "late medieval, heavily seasoned with anachronisms" sort, those 18th century (and later) sandwiches can fit right in.

I'm going to guess -- admittedly with no evidence -- that sometime in the intervening 10000 years since the invention of bread that someone, somewhere put some food between two pieces of bread.

 

[Umbran]

You'll win more friends and influence more people if you refrain from attributing differing aesthetic preferences to political thoughtcrime.

This might shock you but I'm not looking to "Win Friends" when I discuss or mention the racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism that exists in the TTRPG community. The only intention is to acknowledge that it is there, rather than pretending that it isn't.

Mod Note:
Will the two of you please de-escalate, before someone must do it for you? Thanks.

It was not an "Out of Nowhere" shot across the bow.

Mod Note:
With respect, this is talking about food - while I can see issues of racism in there, I think expanding that to imply transphobia did seem poorly founded in this context. Calling out issues is good, but maybe keep it specific? Thanks.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

...And then the gnomes invent the Big Mac and the Double Down

More evidence, should it be needed, that Gnomes are chaotic evil.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Including tomatoes and potatoes, which were not introduced to Europe until the 16th century, and fish & chips, which probably date from the 19th century.

The Hobbit, has forks!

Every time I see them slicing tomatoes in my Song Dynasty drama it makes my brain glitch a little