07/08/24 ♦ what do we eat?

one of my first posts i made about the microcosm on cohost talks about the classic worldbuilding question "what do they eat". ive wanted to extend that for a while, but i haven't really been sure how... so how about we talk about our favourite foods?

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🍫 I don't have an *objective* favourite - really, I like anything with candied barkstalk sap. If I had to choose one to eat for a day though, I'd go with... oh, gosh, I don't even know! Umm...
🍫 Monolyth makes a bunch of different cakes for the Dish. I mean, I love 'em all equally--
🌺 Just Choose One You Ninny
🍫 Aha, okay, okay!
🍫 It'd have to be the chocolate fudge cake. Y'know, the one with the layer of fudge, like half a thumb's-depth thick, and the layered chocolate fondant? And the dense sponge! Not too dense, but still, dense enough that you feel the weight on the fork!
🌺 That Is A Weird Measurement System. Thumb-Depths
🌺 I Am Glad You Enjoy My Cakes Though
🌺 You Should Visit Today, I Made Caramel Shortcake
🍫 OHHH!!! Second favourite! Second favourite!
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👾 favourite food? umm... well i dont eat often
🛠 ( LYING )
👾 hey!!
🛠 LOL =⊖]>
🛠 " OHH DYAD I NEAD 2 CLEAN MY ATAMZIER  OHHHH I ATE 2 MUCH OHHH"
👾 sut up!!
👾 ok, maybe i do eat often, but--
🛠 CARLORY DENSE !!!!!!!!!!
🛠 2ST LAW OF ROBOTTIC , "TELL DA TUTH"
👾 you just made that up!
🛠 LOL !
👾 fine. i'll tell the truth
👾 i like brownies! there's this kinda cracked recipe for making them with nuchishake powder out there, with the chocolate flavoured one?
👾 it's meant to be made in zero-g, but, nothing stopping u from makin it anywhere else, hehe
🛠 I REMBER WHEN U MADE SOM ON OLYMPUS
🛠 DUD... POWADER. EVERY. WHERE.
🛠 IT WAS FUNY THO I JSUT HAD 2 EMPTY DA FILTER EARLY LOL =⊖]
👾 LOL yup. but they tasted rly good!!
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💎 [My/Our] [favourite/preferred/choice]. Ah...
💎 It is [strange/unusual], but [I/we] [prefer/enjoy] the common foodstuffs of [sailors/spacers/CANNOT TRANSLATE]
💎 Though nuchishakes are certainly [pleasant/tolerable], the supply aboard [Apollo/chariot/saviour] rarely [demanded/required] its consumption
💎 The [galley/mess] would serve [pleasing/remarkable] specialties [from time to time/on occasion/when able], but the standard meals were a [variety/selection/curation] to satisfy dietary requirements, [rotated/changed] every ship-day
💎 [My/Our] [favourite/most desired] of these was the Pallada-fish pasta 'bake', topped with Ultan grub-cheese in white sauce. [Those/Fools] who say the Galactic Standard is "[limited/cramped/flavourless]" have surely [gone without/been deprived of] this [delicacy/ambrosia/panacea]
🍫 That's a bit of a stout comparison, Merc. I mean, I've never tried it--
💎 Then [you/we] will
💎 [I/We] shall prepare it upon [your/our] next [visit/transience/meeting]
🍫 ...okay!
💎 Yes
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🛠 O UMM MY FAV FOOD UMMMM
🛠 MY FAV IS RLY OBSCURE SOOO NO JUDGEY
👾 knowin u its prob some concourse vendor thing ive never heard of lol
🛠 WELLLLL UVE NEVR HEARD OF IT SNCE I HAD IT LIKE AGES AGO =⊖]⩥
🛠 BCK WHEN I JUST WOKE UP YKNO DA SPLINTER CLAN
🍫 Oh, yeah. The, uh...
👾 the vuufolk! i remember
🍫 Yeah.
🛠 YE
🛠 SO I WS COMIN 2 TERMS W/ BEIGN ALIVE ALL WHILE A BNUCH OF PPL WERE GOIGN LIKE "WOW OOO A ROBOT" ND POKIGM ME
🛠 POKING* SRY THEY WRE RLY NICE JUST WANTED 2 MAKE LITE IT WAS A WEIRD TIME ⊛∫
🍫 No, no, it's fine. Go on.
🛠 ⊖] OK
🛠 I LEARND I COULD EAT PRETY EARLY ON I JST HAVE " THE YUMYUM IMPULSE" WHEN MY BATTERY LOW
🛠 THEY MADE THIS RLY TASTEY THING SOMETIME IT WS LIKE CHUNKS OF SALTED MEAT STEWD IN IT OWN JUCES N SEASOND ......... WITH SOME GREANS .... EG 2
🛠 THEY SAID IT WAS " A GENARATIONAL RECIPE" FOR UM
🛠 POTIMEN VELU'IALA
💎 [poTimen Velu'iala/Generational baste-meat arrangement]
🛠 DUD ???????
🛠 HOW DO U KNO THAT
💎 [Noosphere/Overlink/CANNOT TRANSLATE/Skin]
🛠 OK .
🛠 NOT EVN GOIG 2 QUESTION IT AT THIS PT LOL
🍫 Er, cross-dimensional stuff aside, that sounds really good, Dyad. Simple, sure, but good.
🍫 Why's it your favourite?
🛠 IDK ..... ITS JST STUCK W/ ME .  THIS WS DURIGN A WIERD TIME
🛠 I THINK I WAS LOW ON PWR THAT DAY
🛠 STARTD RAINING ND I WAS SAT OUT SIDE SINCE I WANTED 2 BE ALONE
🛠 THEY CALLED ME INSIDE N I ATE THAT
🍫 Aww.
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🌺 My Favourite Food Is A Difficult Question To Answer
👾 rly? you like eating those?
🌺 Haha No I Meant To Say It's Hard To Choose
🌺 I Mean I Can Literally Go Anywhere With A Thought
🌺 I've Lived Three Lives And All
🌺 Hmm
🌺 Oh I Know
🌺 Ultek
🌺 There Is This One Restaurant In Bloc One
🌺 It Used To Be A Worker's Canteen Back When They Were Still Making The Blocs
🌺 Crazy To Think It's Lasted That Long
🍫 Yup. They built the blocs to last.
🍫 You were around when they were first being put together, right? During the crisis?
🌺 To My Recollection, My Components Were, Yes
🌺 Of Course The Fusion Left Me With Only Fragments Of Their Memories
🌺 But - Yes - The Canteen
🌺 They Make A Mean Locust Burger. The Fries There Are Top Notch Too
🌺 I Like Mine Topped With Cheese And Roasty Sauce
🍫 Hell yeah. I'll have to go sometime.
👾 heck ya!!!