ways_back_room | DE: Faces of food

Gene - doesn't really care. Though he knows more than he thinks he does...if someone showed themselves unaware of what a seasonal fruit was, he'd think they were idiots. Because that sort of thing is just obvious, isn't it?

Javert and Valjean - have such limited palates that they don't have to wonder. But again, it would never occur to either of them not to understand seasonal fruit and veg, and how animals get butchered. They live in a time where if it's not in season, you don't eat it. Javert couldn't afford to buy imported things, and Valjean can, but doesn't (unless Cosette wants it). Plus, the 19th century had limited storing and preservation techniques for transport. PLUS plus - Valjean was a poacher in his younger days, so butchered a fair few animals himself. In conclusion; they are familiar.

...it occurs to me that much of this also applies to Courfeyrac, without the hands-on knowledge. Not that he thinks a great deal about such things. He's hungry, he buys dinner. End of.

Bruce Banner and Bruce Wayne - also familiar. Not because they don't avail themselves of year-round produce, but because they're smart and educated.

Robin - lives off the land most of the time. There's little about the food chain he doesn't experience first hand.

Giovanni is as clueless as you could get in the 18th century. He's aware that there are some things you can't get at some times, but I doubt he's ever even picked his own food, let alone killed it.

Harry is vaguely aware of the whole thing, but doesn't really think about it except maybe some effort to buy in season.

Ichabod has lived off the land, so he knows how to kill and butcher a deer or rabbit. I don't think he's come to terms with non-seasonal produce yet.

Roshaun - lord, no. What the Sunlord and his family want, they get, and they never get their hands dirty.

Gavroche hasn't killed anything for food himself, but I'm sure he saw the inner workings of the Paris slaughterhouses.

Nancy is a 1940s city girl - but was living under rationing, so this idea of getting things out of season would get you a blank look.

Norrington has probably hunted for food, and is from a time when you ate what was there.

Jonathan is in the same boat as Harry.

Michael Carpenter I'm sure has hunted for food when he was away from home. He's not as bothered about the seasonal produce, though.

-- Hannibal sources his own food very conscientiously if at all possible. Especially the meat. He has a story to tell about every cut he serves.

I had to. Sorry!

You know, I had considered Cam's pups, especially Shephard, with this one but somehow I had completely missed what Hannibal would likely say. Heheh.

Never forget there is a gourmet cannibal in the virtual audience!

**grins**

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I have purposely avoided addressing where food comes from in cyberspace as much as I can, because it makes my brain hurt almost as badly as the timescale issue. I mean, when sprites die, they dissolve Jedi-style, but there were those dead Webcreatures conveniently floating around so they could use their carapaces to armour the ship... *rubs temples*

That being said, we've mostly given them foods that parallel human foods. (Canon proper doesn't show a lot, but there have been instances of donuts, milk, and biscuits and jelly in the British sense.) Millicanonically, it can be assumed that food sources are roughly the same as in Userspace. Somehow. (If they weren't, the sprites would have been shocked at the notion that Users' meat comes from animals, and they weren't, so.)

To answer the actual question: mostly, for Enzo, food comes from grocery stores and restaurants, but when he bothers to think about it, he does know more or less how it got there. Cyberspace doesn't have seasons, so fruit availability is not seasonally restricted; he is aware of the concept as one of the many interesting things about Userspace. He visited the Fallout-verse once and learned to milk Brahmins, but while he eats meat, he does not like personally killing anything that's not threatening him or anyone else, so he did not participate in that aspect.

Lucas is familiar with where his food comes from, having grown up in a small community that keeps animals and a three year period of living off of whatever he could find. He's had to skin and prepare small animals himself and knows the local butcher. But there's also some video game logic, such as receiving a baked yam after fighting a baked yammonster.

Lohengrin is sort of aware of food in the way any story character is aware of food: if he needs the knowledge to be a clever protagonist in another tale, he has it. Otherwise, food has never presented itself as being very important in the story, with the exception of Princess Tutu's side character Ebine. Along with that, Lohengrin likely has some anachronisms going on. He might be familiar with foods he shouldn't rightly know about as a result.

Mia knows about food from an intellectual standpoint. Table manners and food pairings were likely more important to learn, but she generally knows what's in season and what's safe to eat. The last one's pretty vital when your city's main culinary export is mushrooms.

Hmm. That makes me wonder if there is something about Lunar locations that are mushroom friendly. My moon dweller (though it is on a moon orbiting a completely different planet) also comes from a society in which mushrooms are important. Heehee

Mia's home is on top of a network of caves, so yes, very mushroom friendly.

Mushrooms! Thurlow lives in an underground city where the food tends to be mushroom-based (certainly the vegetarian offerings are; the meat is even more unsavoury), so they'd also be well-versed in what mushrooms not to eat.

Ok, my turn.

Jess is mostly aware of seasonal foods but it's more out of desire for flavor than reducing her carbon footprint. She's also lived in Madripoor and so is quite aware of where that meat comes from.

Hank is vaguely aware of seasonal foods, mostly because I am assuming, in his time, that the industrialized food industry hasn't gotten so big yet. He's also a biologist and so is quite aware of what is involved in producing meat.

Brimstone is oddly silent regarding food. I couldn't even tell you if he eats to be honest. It's never mentioned in canon, though others eat, and I have a hard time imagining him doing it. I can't even decide if he's a herbivore or not.

Isabella/Lady Trent is very aware of seasonal fruits and veggies, coming from a Victorian-like fantasy world. She's also aware of animal bodies enough to understand, and not be grossed out, by organs and such. Blood doesn't bother her, though I'm not sure if she's witnessed a butchering.

Quin lives in space.

Mulan and Andrea have hunted and likely butchered their own meat before. With the breakdown of technology in Andrea's world, I doubt she has access to food that can't be delivered reliably by horse and wagon.

Anton prefers to eat meat and pickled vegetables but is loosely aware of seasonal veggies; more by what's available than any conscious awareness.

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Thor is aware in the broad overarching way of someone who has to understand agricultural production to rule well, and who has hunted sometimes and been taught some level of foraging just in case, but who has never actually lived on a farm or had to deal with the nitty-gritty aspects of how this looks to someone who's not a warrior prince. Plus I suspect Asgard doesn't worry all that hard about what's in season.

Enjolras is a city boy who is mostly politely baffled by the appeal of nature, but he's a city boy of the early 19th century. So basically: what Write said. He knows what's in season because in his day you mostly only got what was in season unless it could be dried or pickled or whatever; he knows meat comes from animals because of course it does, where else would it come from, those cows being transported to market are gonna be the ones hanging in a butcher's window soon enough. But he couldn't tell you how to properly care for an apple tree or how to properly kill and butcher something.

Cosette is similar, except that she grew up with a gardener and pruner father and uncle, and she does understand the appeal of nature. Enjolras is firmly focused on other things, whereas Cosette just hasn't spent too much time on working farms or the like. And she'd probably take a while to get past "Oh, the poor chicken" -- she knows where meat comes from, she's seen animals destined for the table, but she doesn't like to think about it too hard.

Clare knows perfectly well, but considers it largely irrelevant to her, and has no detailed idea about how to farm. She barely eats. Food mostly is a human thing to her.

Trowa is from a space-age future. He knows a lot about scrounging for food, both in the wilderness and in urban areas, but that's more hunting and foraging and dumpster-diving and shoplifting -- not so much farming. He's aware of seasons, kind of, but it's not a major thing on his radar.

River is like Trowa but more so, and without the hunting/foraging experience. She's intellectually aware of where food comes from and some of the seasonal pressures, but it's very much a distant intellectual thing. Fresh fruit and vegetables are exciting because they're only available on-planet in places with significant agriculture or significant transportation infrastructure, not because they're only available in the right season.

Regan is like River except that she's only ever lived in places with a whole lot of transportation infrastructure. She takes food for granted a lot.

(Way back a few years ago I used to play Piotr Rasputin, and he is quietly despairing at EVERYONE ON MY ROSTER HERE except maybe Cosette and Clare.)

Amascut likes hunting down her own food. Not so much growing her own food, though. Plus, she's old enough to have lived through a total civilization collapse or two. Of course she knows where food comes from! It's everywhere, and sometimes it loudly insists that it is not food.

Fairy Fixit has an inkling, at least, of which universe mangos come from. Foodstuffs are transported into and through Zanaris via the teleportation network. Seasons don't matter very much in her line of work. It is important to some of the other fairies but they pay attention to the seasons on other worlds, not Zanaris, which as far as I can tell doesn't have seasons. She knows fungus intimately, though, and knows what is edible and what is not.

Will has spent most of his life hunting for his own food and aware of what's being grown. He gets baffled by modern foods that he can't tell what it is.

Charles knows some mainly because he's not fully a city boy. The size of the Xavier mansion means in my headcanon, there's a vegetable garden and he grew up during the War. His family wouldn't have been as restricted as others but he'd be aware and his Nanny was a big part of his life so through her, he'd learn.

Moist knows more than he wants to know about food thanks to growing up in Uberwald where he was sometimes considered on the menu. He grew up as landed gentry and since his grandfather trained dogs bred for hunting and attack, he'd be fairly aware just not care a great deal. He likes good things.

William is very tied in because he lives on a working ranch and buying food and seed costs money.

Ivan has very little idea, he lives a privileged lifestyle and knows that fresh stuff tastes good left on his own he eats like a bachelor with frozen meals and take out. He does like to cook but he's spent his entire life in the military which means someone else does the cooking.

Jane's family lives on what's basically a small farm, in the movie they have pigs and chickens to provide food.

Demeter is the goddess of agriculture so the answer is yes and can she help teach you?

Sameth knows some, because the Old Kingdom is rather medieval and growing up he had to do Perspective which means helping the servants to understand what it takes to run the kingdom. Though for all that, he's far more tuned into things than food.

Tumnus is quite aware, Narnia is small and during the Long Winter, everyone had to find food where they could.

The Pirate King, not very much, he lives on a ship and he trusts Ruth to keep everyone fed.

~~Silly people, apples come from the Warehouse!~~

All of mine, honestly, are decently aware of where food comes from.

Peter knows the most about it, due to the Enchanted Forest.

Everyone else... they know, but they're in varying degrees of not caring.

All of Eric's food have faces ...

I lol'ed.

Gordon is aware of where his food comes from because thanks to humanity having its agricultural capability disrupted by sixteen years of Combine rule, he and everyone else have been busting their butts trying to get back to feeding themselves. He's done a lot with the planting and the digging of fish ponds for pisciculture.

Adrian Shephard has been putting meat on his family's table and in its freezer since he was six years old and his uncles started taking him fishing; he started hunting as soon as he was old enough to hold a BB gun and shoot straight. There are very few North American animals he does not know how to render into edible form, and for most of them he can also make leather from the hides and make great use of the bones and teeth. He's working on that with Xen things. He knows which wild plants are edible, though he's not much good at medicinal use of most herbs, just the nutritional ones. He was one of the leaders in finding and retrieving the old pre-Combine seed vault contents in order to restart agriculture, although he's not much of a farmer; he just kills things so other people don't die. And he will commit bloody violence upon the person of anyone he catches damaging or harming a beehive, because his mother was an amateur beekeper and the honeybee populations are still precarious post-Combine and agriculture doesn't need the damage.

Ellen is familiar with where her food comes from. Vault 101 fed people mostly from stored food, but I've millicanoned that they had a hydroponic farm that provided a number of fresh vegetables to supplement their diet, and that a part of growing up in the Vault was learning that dead bodies got broken down into a form that was returned to the hydroponic works so that they could still make use of the nutrients. She kills a lot of her own food these days but is very happy to buy fresh vegetables from places where they grow, or to grow her own, because the meat-and-stored-food-intensive diet of most Wastelanders results in severe toilet issues.

Varric can theoretically hunt. He vastly prefers to pay other people to make his food and bring it to him and does not generally concern himself with farming or fishing.

Edward Kenway is the son of a sheep farmer and spent some time trying and failing to hold down jobs on farms; he's familiar enough with meat and with what's available in what season. He did not like farming more because it made him have to obey an employer than because of anything else. In-game, if his ship passes near a shark or small whale, his quartermaster will suggest that they stop and lower the boat to get fresh meat, at which point Edward then enters a harpooning minigame that ends with the shark or whale being hauled up for butchering.

Stacker Pentecost tends to think of where his food comes from more in terms of the work it took to get it to him than the farm or field or ocean it came from; for him the limiter on food is shipping, which is subject to port closures, or kaiju-disrupted production.

Medic is vaguely aware of farms and milkmaids and cows and golden fields of whatever. He does not much care.

El Santo is familiar with seasonal fruit and the importance of farms. Mostly, though, he tends to think of food as coming from the market and the kitchen more than from the farm.

The Balladeer doesn't really have many food options, and possibly doesn't need to eat too often anyway due to Strange Time Shenanigans. He knows about butchering, seasonal fruits, and things like that in theory, but they don't affect him much in practice and he has no idea when most of the seasons are. He mostly knows what he can get in each very specific moment of time he sometimes wanders into.

Clementine: Doesn't care. Unless it's human meat. Which is why she won't have dinner at Trudy's anymore.

Dixie: Used to be One With The Land when she was Mennonite and when she was in the convent. She can't say she misses milking cows, making bread, picking fruit and the like. Prefers champagne and gourmet meals of the non-poisoned variety.

Juliet: Cares faaar more about her food than Shawn, who has a love of manufactured food and products.

Pinkie Pie: Is a close friend of the Apple Family, so she has a pretty good idea of how farming works and is on a personal first-name basis with every farmer in the region. Ponies in Equestria are generally vegetarians, so meat isn't a thing. She's naturally a wiz at pastry-making and knows all there is to know about ingredients in baked goods.

Eponine: OMG there's food?!

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