Food Allergies

[stanzicApparati]

This doesn't seem to fit anywhere else but in the Chat section, but it's something that folks should probably be aware of. We have a lot of different species running around, and not all of us can safely eat the same foods!

So, let's make a list of what each of our species can't eat without it making us sick (or worse) - nothing's more embarrassing than giving your co-player something they can't safely eat, after all.
Notes about your species' general dietary habits are good, too; it's easier to make food everyone likes, that way!

Trolls are allergic to cinnamon. We tend to focus pretty heavily on meat and sugars, diet-wise; stuff that's pure junk food for a human might actually be a decent meal, for us! But considering that most universes where there are trolls are also universes where we're out conquering whole galaxies, you can imagine that we're pretty well-adapted to eat most things, or at least to not get sick if we take a couple bites of it.

I don't know much about hobs, but apparently they're primarily vegetarians? Red meat of any kind is definitely off the list for them; we'll have to hope some kind-hearted hob helps us out here, for anything more than that.

Birds should not be given eggs or poultry. Even if they aren't allergic, that's practically cannibalism, dude. Don't do it.

Yssarians cannot eat chocolate or garlic.

Turians apparently need the enzymes in their food flipped turn-ways from every other species that's shown up so far. Food + Mirror should do the trick nicely.

Humans, as a species, can be allergic to just about anything except probably water; individual humans may be allergic to peanuts or other nuts, shellfish, and milk, among other things. Otherwise, they tend to be slightly less omnivorous than trolls are, with a larger trend towards "vegetables and slight amounts of meat" instead of "meat, more meat, and a few vegetables for variety and flavor" and not nearly as much benefit from sweets and raw sugar as a troll would see. Human co-players should be asked what foods, if any, they're allergic to before any is offered. Seriously, guys, how did your species survive if you're allergic to so much stuff?

[walkingUnwoken]

Balanswar are primarily omnivorous, though red feathers usually eat more meat while green feathers tend towards grains.
Naufragii are a species that you probably don't want to bother trying to feed. Their bodies naturally split atoms inside their chest cavities(that's what the dark oval on their chest is). They can't use just any material, but most radioactive substances will work.
Feovum primarily eat metals and meats, though I don't think a vegetable would kill them.
Lunintra are autotrophic, just make sure there's nitrogen in the atmmosphere, phosphorus in the ground, and sunlight.

Also, what's wrong with cannibalism? Is that bad for your other bird-like species? I've known red feathers who survive entirely off eating their enemies.

[anarchistSwordsman]

Also along with chocolate and garlic, please, please do not give us alcohol or anything spiked with any type of drug. Most human drugs of any sort will cause either an allergic reaction, or are poisonous. This includes perscription as well as recreational drugs! Also, most of us are highly allergic to seafood and shellfish. Most other meats and vegatables are fine.

[ExtropianDreamer]

Aug 1, 2012 12:34:42 GMT -5 anarchistSwordsman said:

Also along with chocolate and garlic, please, please do not give us alcohol or anything spiked with any type of drug. Most human drugs of any sort will cause either an allergic reaction, or are poisonous. This includes perscription as well as recreational drugs! Also, most of us are highly allergic to seafood and shellfish. Most other meats and vegatables are fine.

As a general rule, all forms of drugs or medicines should be assumed to be incompatible with other species biologies. Sburb's healing items and such work fine on all species, even the really weird ones that don't actually have physical bodies, but giving an aspirin from your medicine cabinet to your alien pal is a terrible idea.

A nasty allergy to certain types of human soaps isn't terribly uncommon amongst trolls, particularly seadwellers - DO NOT GET IT NEAR THEIR GILLS. Trying to come up with an anti-inflammatory that works on trolls whilst your alternian buddy chokes to death is not a fun time. It doesn't affect all of them, mind you.

On that note, Sorpor can be alchemised with most human (and presumably other species') drugs to produce ones that will safely work on trolls.

[stanzicApparati]

Aug 1, 2012 11:40:14 GMT -5 walkingUnwoken said:

Also, what's wrong with cannibalism

Humans have a taboo against eating their own species. So do most trolls; the exceptions usually lie in the blueblooded or indigo range, which is where you also tend to find trolls in desperate need of a moirail to shoosh their more violently bloody urges.

[societalFlame]

[Rrangoon warrning]

Only alchhemize soporr slime to make drrugs if yourr medicine is topical orr othherrwise not ingested, unless you want yourr trroll to be out of commission until it wearrs off. Sometimes thhe alchhemiterr pops out somethhing withh thhe effects of ingesting soporr in addition to whhat you actually want it to do.

Also, if you'rre a trroll and someone says thhey want to shhow you a neat plant, say no. Especially if you smell somethhing irrrresistible in thheirr generral dirrection. Thhey only want to make you look foolishh.

[stanzicApparati]

But trollnip is delicious!

[silentAnswer]

Even though I've never met any of you aliens I've got a hunch that this is worth saying: Humans do not eat meat raw. Not only does it smell and taste disgusting but it is very likely to make us sick. How thoroughly we cook it is variable and often a matter of personal preference, but humans always cook meat before eating it. For veggies it depends on the plant; most taste better cooked, but almost require it. Also, grains are so important to our diet that we pretty much consider them their own food group, but they're always processed in some way (generally into some kind of bread).

Technically a human doesn't need meat at all, and in fact there's some who don't eat it for moral reasons, but if you do that you have to pay a lot of attention to your diet to make sure you get enough of certain things (mostly protein). It's generally easier to just have some item of meat and/or dairy incorporated with every meal.

I'm a bit curious if there might be some things we take for granted as being poisonous but others don't. Like, arsenic will kill humans, but maybe some aliens use it as a condiment? It might be safer in the end to just never serve another species food unless a member of that species watched you make it.

[tenaciousTheseus]

SilAns, I'm not sure where you got the idea that humans never eat raw meat. Steak tartar, sushi, sashimi... The list goes on. For aliens, don't serve us raw poultry, and wash your red meat and fish thoroughly before giving it to us.

Also, if you're not sure if something is poisonous to another species, or if it's poisonous at all, give it to a Doom player of that species. They can taste if it's harmful.

[silentAnswer]

Ok fine. Outside of a bunch of special circumstances where the food is stored and prepared very carefully and which I think most people eat for the novelty anyways, humans do not want to be eating raw meat. I wasn't thinking sushi when I said that, I was thinking "compare humans to some genuine carnivore animals you know of, what's the difference?" Though I dunno, I guess we could probably eat raw meat if it died thirty seconds ago and we'd witnessed beforehand that it didn't have some kind of disease. Maybe. I think I read somewhere that the part of us that would handle most raw meat actually atrophied away over time.

Whatever. If you're an alien and you must give us food, err on the side of overcooking it please.

[zoppaGavotte]

i guess you guys might be seeing more vux around soon, since i think we are coming up on the end of our session, so...

vux! and food!

since vux do not have mouths like humans or trolls or really pretty much any other species mentioned here, we can't eat most of the foods you can make just because we don't have teeth or anything! instead, we have long trunks, so we usually eat liquids (though a little bit of solid matter won't hurt us, as long as it fits up our trunk!)

for non-processed food that hasn't been liquified, most of our diet is creatures with hard shells, like crustaceans and insects and mollusks. we puncture the shell with a tool or get our tongue into a soft part, then we can secrete enzymes to liquify the organs and muscles of the creature and suck that out through the puncture. it's really tasty, but it takes forever, and most vux just don't bother with it because they're too busy.

(weird bugs are delicious, by the way!)

since we naturally spend a lot of time swallowing flesh-liquifying enzymes, our digestive systems are pretty tough! and i guess some vux are allergic to stuff, but i've always been okay eating the human milkshakes bas makes. also, they are super totally tasty!

[silentAnswer]

Wow, no mouth? That certainly is weird. But I guess you...

Wow. I really, really, REALLY hope that enzyme includes some kind of anesthetic or something. Except who am I kidding, nature never works like that. Too much work.

...

In an effort to distance myself form that thought, I have to ask: Mollusks? Insects? You're an alien species evolved on a completely different world, but you've got classifications of wildlife with the same names (and apparently the same characteristics) we do? That's... that's gotta be something the preinstaller does, right? Right?

[lucidChthonia]

If you haven't noticed that trolls use a completely different yet mutually intelligible writing system in which the most subtle of Alternian wordplay translates perfectly to English, you haven't been paying enough attention.

So yeah, I'd call it a matter of pre-installation.