What do you eat when gaming?

[Olaf the Stout]

That sounded to me like an unpleasantly frigid BBQ until I realized we're in different hemispheres!

Yeah it's normally over 30 degrees celsius during January (over 40 if it gets really hot). Generally shorts and t-shirt weather.

 

[fjw70]

I might have some snacks when playing with the kids but typically no eating while playing.

 

[Rod Staffwand]

Wine. Lots of wine. Nothing ruins a game so much as a having a clear head.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Wine. Lots of wine. Nothing ruins a game so much as a having a clear head.

One player opted for liquid dinner one night, and got drunk enough that his solution to everything was "FIREBALL! FIREBALL! FIREBALL!"

Not that he had any to cast...

 

[Elf Witch]

Now that most of us are over 40 and have varied health issues when tend to do healthy food. We do fruit and veggie plates, we do a little junk food like pretzels or blue chips with salsa. Once and while we will have cookies or M&Ms.

Drinking is mostly diet soda, water, iced tea. Yeah we are becoming old farts.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Tell you what: this time of year, gaming sessions tend to involve more- and better- leftovers than any other time of year...

 

[Boethermsbrukan]

Thinking a while back for this; it's been quite a few years since our usual group of chummers sat down for a game rather than just hanging out (not that it wasn't enjoyable or anything). Occasionally we'd order in a couple of Pizza Hut Meat Lover's, and there'd always a be fresh case of Coke in the fridge (or we'd go out on a 'munchies run' for some pop, but it was rare that we bought snack foods on one of them), but I think if I'm going to name out mainstay, it was often a big pot of spaghetti with the sauce concocted by our resident chiropteran chef. Damn, that stuff was good. There were at least a couple of occasions when our host would make up a huge dish of baked macaroni & cheese with ground beef, which was thoroughly awesome. As for 'in-flight' game time edibles, there would usually be a couple of bags of chips available but I think it was rare that food of any sort- with the possible exception of a can or glass of soda- came anywhere near the gaming table (such as it was).

Judging by my last couple of visits to a local comic & game store in the west end of town here in the early 2000's, it's becoming more common for said sit-down game stores to sell crisps, chocolates and sodas right there in the store. Is this something chummers elsewhere have noted?

Cheers!

-Boe.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I've seen that in a lot of places, but not in the majority or even a large minority of the stores.

 

[Mark CMG]

I also like Wheat Thins and cubers of cheddar cheese.

 

[megamania]

Gernerally chips, beef jerky and soda. Some groups were beer and sandwiches and another group was a bar-b-que at the 1/2 way point. pizza in another group (gamed next to a pizza shop)