I am working on fleshing out a end of the world game. I am working on what would be the some of the things people would eat.
I know the usual - Dog, Cat, Other humans, mutants, wild game and so on, but is there anything really wacky you can think of for food?
Cardboard treated in caustic soda
nettles
dandelion
Ect
any other ideas?
>>50797806
Depends on the nature of the apocalypse, really. If there's vegetation left, it's likely you could find edibles there. Any wild animals are fair game. There's also salvage, canned goods and such.
>>50797949
SNORT
>>50797911
It going to be a post nuke game
>>50797806
Try dandelion wine. It actually exists, too
Using modern knowledge it's possible people would breed insects for a more efficient source of protein than cattle. Perhaps not even the insects themselves - just off mexican cuisine I can think of maguey worms (HUGE caterpillars), escamoles (ant larvae), chapulines (seasoned grasshoppers), chicatanas (they have some sort of sludge in their torax which is used for a kind of sauce)
I've heard there have been attempts at cricket flour
>>50798228
Some more insect-related food fresh off wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_locust
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_Pasta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milbenkäse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mealworm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_spider
>>50797806
people can eat dandelions raw, and nettles but they need to be cooked.
plastic/wax fruit (it looks like the real thing!), carpet (ya gotta boil it, so tha glue gets soft), mud pies (i heard the pie half! now with stuff other than dirt!), nails, rocks, pennies, buttons, small rocks. you know, pretty much anything small enough to swallow to stop the empty feeling in your gut.
>>50797806
Why was rat-on-a-stick not mentioned?
>lizard shishkebabs
>>50798110
In a post-nuclear winter scenario, overall sunlight is going to kill crop availability. This is going to have a massive effect on ALL life.
That being said, there ARE crops that are shade tolerant which should be farmable.
Most plants grown for their greens will be fine, especially most asian greens and lettuce. Root vegetables will also tolerate these conditions, but will take longer to farm in general. Scallions can survive, too.
Basically, things that are just bundles of leaves or roots are pretty resistant to shade conditions. But you can expect the growing season to be short, and yields to be very small.
Grass pea, actual grass, bark bread, carnivorous-animal-sausage, cockroach (apparently they can be tasty if you keep them on a vegetable diet), literal stone soup
We pretty much eat everything on the planet already. Even stuff we shouldnt eat like fugu fish we still eat. The question isnt what crazy stuff should we eat, the question is what is left because whatever is left we will still eat it.
>>50798579
Fugu isn't THAT dangerous. The reason it requires so much training to serve is that it's supposed to have a teensy tiny bit of poison so that it gives a light buzz instead of killing you. The fish itself is supposedly tasty, but the poison is part of the appeal
>>50797806
Lucifer hammer had the fun idea of goldfish carp being a common fish...