Food and Drink

Stew (the OMT's are thick and savory, which translate as "viscous" and "dark brown") is the staple FOOD in Fantasyland, so be warned. You may shortly be longing for omelettes, steak, or baked beans, but none of these will be forthcoming, indoors or out. Stew will be what you are served to eat every single time. Given the distubed nature of life in this land, where in CAMP you are likely to be attacked without warning (but see BATH) and in an INN prone to be the center of a TAVERN BRAWL, Stew seems to be an odd choice as a staple food, since, on a rough calculation, it takes forty times as long to prepare as steak. But it is clear the inhabitants have not yet discovered fast food. The exact recipt for Stew is of course a Management secret, but it is thought to contain meat of some kind and perhaps even vegetables. Do not expect a salad on the side. -- Dianne Wynne Jones's "Tough Guide to Fantasyland"

The food eaten in Kalyr is not like that.

Using the wonders of wiki-based web collaboration, any suggestions from anyone for some distinctive food items?

Ransack an obscure regional cuisine (finding something "obscure" to all players is harder in an Internet game...) Rename everything. Serve warm. -- Karen Cravens - 27 Nov 2001

There have been a few instances in the PBEM where food has been mentioned; without trawling through the archives, some examples I can think of:

• Fried meat (animal unidentified) and potato, with rather more potato and rather less meat, a lot of grease and many burned bits, as served as breakfast in a cheaper inn.
• Lots of delicate pastries served as breakfast in a much more expensive inn in the same city
• References to barges loaded with cabbages, which strongly implies that somebody, somewhere eats the stuff.
• An Inn in Filgeth called "The Dancing Fish", serving only fish dishes
• The famous Worms in Garlic
• Now serving in the canteen of the The Academy Of Knowledge at Filgeth City: A concoction made of fish and cabbage, with lots of spices, coloured bright orange.
• What about Jelly Roll ?

-- Tim Hall - 29 Nov 2001