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I'm designing a school/academy-life type series of Space Opera sessions for my players, as per their request, so their characters legitimately can act like they've known each other since they were fourteen with all the inside-jokes and quirks that come with it.
I've got most settled, but one thing I'd thought I'd seek guidance on is perhaps under-looked:
Food. Specifically, cafeteria food.
How should food of this caliber be handled in a space opera/school setting? I usually pride myself on how I describe culinary items, with a background in food myself, but that's almost always with fantasy. I don't really know how I want to approach this. I want the cafeteria to be a memorable setting where they can meet up before classes are over, eat, and discuss whatever it is they need to.
Help me, /tg/. You're my only hope.I may or may not make the head of the cafeteria like Chef from South Park.
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>>51419078
have the Cafeteria be part of the pride of the school. they offer foods not only from all over the sector, but from dozens fusion styles from cross-cultural goodwill missions.
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Cafeteria serves three foods for free - they are proven culinary receptures dating back to the days of Union. UBM, UGM are available on weekdays while URM is reserved for weekend. The acronyms are pronounced as a word (ubm, ugm, urm) and stand for Universal Brown (respectively Gray or Red) Mush.
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>>51419394
I-I kinda want to subsist on a diet of cubed foodstuffs
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>>51419078
Just rip off of the replimat from DS9. Well-meaning, automated, free to those of the correct political affiliation, trying its best to imitate the recipes of many cultures but so unappetizing and limited by the ethical/nutritional restrictions of the powers that be that people are willing to go to Quark's bar and pay for some real booze and a better atmosphere.
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>>51419078
consider some of the following foods:
Baistebidus, Cabidela, Diyabath, Kushari, Larb, Poulet Moambe, Vla
and the following drinks
Airag, Chal, Qatiq, Tongba
and think how you can make those- or dishes like them- staple dishes in the setting.
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>>51430572
Those are mostly just different languages' words for meat slop.
Maybe the cafeteria's food extruder can only create foods with the consistency of a thin stew, and the school authorities insist on calling the food on offer each day by a variety of different fancy names from a variety of cultures, but the students themselves have simpler names for it like "brown slop," "red slop," "grey slop," and "yellow slop."
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>>51430724
actually all of those are real dishes and drinks on Earth, right now.
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>>51430870
I am aware. I looked them up and they all look like slop.
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>>51431340
Diyabath is a vegetarian soup. Larb is a salad. Vla is a custard and yogurt dessert.
how do these look like meat slop?
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>>51431476
Is that not why you chose those obscure dishes? They all have a consistency suitable for ladling out at a cafeteria or pumping through a pipe.
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>>51432430
no, i chose them because they come from a variety of different cultural groups and don't appear very often in -any- form of western entertainment.
also, you dodged the question of how a salad, soup, and custard look like meat slop.
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>>51419078
serve soylent viridians
after the crash of the human meat market after the realization that you have to feed the humans first before eating them, everyone decided to substitute it with a soy based analogue
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