Going, going, sandwich?

[brytta.leofa]

The large majority of words in the game didn't exist in a very recognizable form, if at all, in medievalist geek-lit.  Unless we want to speak like this, "Syððan wæs geworden þæt he ferde þurh þa ceastre and þæt castel," we're going to have to accept that we're modern people using modern language to communicate ideas and mental pictures.

In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit.

Which is almost a counterexample, actually. But you get the idea.

[WagonsHo]

The large majority of words in the game didn't exist in a very recognizable form, if at all, in medievalist geek-lit.  Unless we want to speak like this, "Syððan wæs geworden þæt he ferde þurh þa ceastre and þæt castel," we're going to have to accept that we're modern people using modern language to communicate ideas and mental pictures.

In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit.

Which is almost a counterexample, actually. But you get the idea.

I see we have varying ideas of what medievalist geeks read. 

[brytta.leofa]

The large majority of words in the game didn't exist in a very recognizable form, if at all, in medievalist geek-lit.  Unless we want to speak like this, "Syððan wæs geworden þæt he ferde þurh þa ceastre and þæt castel," we're going to have to accept that we're modern people using modern language to communicate ideas and mental pictures.

In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit.

Which is almost a counterexample, actually. But you get the idea.

I see we have varying ideas of what medievalist geeks read. 

Now if we were talking about medievalist nerds... 

[Samira]

I don't see what's so bad about sandwiches.  It wouldn't break my immersion to see a PC eating a sandwich.  Maybe it would if it came with a side of "french tubers," though.

[Calypso]

Well, there's the spicy scrab roll.

There have been a few filled pastries as desert items too (jade cream tarts).

I've seen at least one specialty food served on a stick, but I think that's something that should be much more common (especially now that bread is becoming a rarity).  Rat on a stick, lizard on a stick, mek kebabs, etc.

On a mild tangent, I don't think small insects as food is as common as it should be in Zalanthas.  We're already very used to eating large insects (scrab, beetles), but very seldom do you see smaller ones like (Earthly-sized) tarantulas, roaches, ants, and grasshoppers.

Maybe you should increase the value of bugs and grubs to make it more attractive to food-gathering foragers to collect them and get them into the shops?  They certainly exist in the game.. I have had characters that lived their whole lives off scavenged handfuls of worms and ants and pallid grubs, with an occasional tuber or fruit for variety.  They were elves and mutants, but I don't think that should matter.. the food type in question is pervasive.. forest, grass, or desert sand or cave..  you can find bugs and grubs

[Reiteration]

I don't see what's so bad about sandwiches.  It wouldn't break my immersion to see a PC eating a sandwich.  Maybe it would if it came with a side of "french tubers," though.

The skinny, zit-faced lad tells you, in lisp-accented Sirihish:
   "Would you like tubers with that?"

[Fredd]

Sandwiches were invented by king louie the... something.

He  had a chef make it so that he could have a full meal, but still play cards. They were made in a primative time. Why are they... that big word?

[Styx]

Anarchy is slowly descending.  I love sandwiches.  What's next, the systematic destruction and erasure of pies too?

[RogueGunslinger]

Only two pages, alas, I have fallen in love with this thread.

[Reiteration]

Anarchy is slowly descending.  I love sandwiches.  What's next, the systematic destruction and erasure of pies too?

Dear god, the day they remove ginka pie...

[AmandaGreathouse]

Anarchy is slowly descending.  I love sandwiches.  What's next, the systematic destruction and erasure of pies too?

Dear god, the day they remove ginka pie...

Will be a sad day indeed.

[WagonsHo]

Sandwiches were invented by king louie the... something.

He  had a chef make it so that he could have a full meal, but still play cards. They were made in a primative time. Why are they... that big word?

Earl of Sandwich.

[tortall]

This has me  wanting a sandwich IRL. Only I don't have any meat or cheese.... Only bread.


Can I make a sandwich out of bread and bread?


craft slice 2.slice into sandwich

[Yam]

Call them sand witches, because they were first invented by a lone witch to keep sand out of his meat.

[Fredd]

Call them sand witches, because they were first invented by a lone witch to keep sand out off of his meat.

Fixed. And i agree! heh.
They wont be eaten in tuluk for that reason then.

[AmandaGreathouse]

This has me  wanting a sandwich IRL. Only I don't have any meat or cheese.... Only bread.


Can I make a sandwich out of bread and bread?


craft slice 2.slice into sandwich

Dear Tortall,

Yes! You can make a sandwich of bread and bread! People destitute enough have been doing so for years! As to what to call this marvelous innovation, there's already even a name for it! A wish sandwich. You put two pieces of bread together and wish there was something between them!

[Calypso]

I remember having seen cream puffs and 'sandwich' like desserts in Arm too.  Why is meat between hearty bread ostracized, but sugary cream between sweet bread not?  

Food falling into the 'sandwich' category is too obvious and historical of a preparation of food to ban because a few people don't like the word 'sandwich'.  Since we are using modern English for our names and descriptions of things, it seems to me the word 'sandwich' shouldn't be banned, at worst just the food items that seem too modern.  But in that case you might as well ban sliced bread.. with sliced bread existing in the world, its only natural to think of putting something between two slices and eating it, in my view.

[boog]

This has me  wanting a sandwich IRL. Only I don't have any meat or cheese.... Only bread.


Can I make a sandwich out of bread and bread?


craft slice 2.slice into sandwich

Dear Tortall,

Yes! You can make a sandwich of bread and bread! People destitute enough have been doing so for years! As to what to call this marvelous innovation, there's already even a name for it! A wish sandwich. You put two pieces of bread together and wish there was something between them!

It reminds me of bread and pull it.

I don't know. I don't find any words 'too' anything. Unless you said "roman nose", in which case aquiline's a better descriptor ... but is there truly one for ... sandwich?

[Fredd]

Seriusly though. Are Erdlu good for anything OTHER then meat?

[Marauder Moe]

Seriusly though. Are Erdlu good for anything OTHER then meat?

Well...

[Bogre]

Seriusly though. Are Erdlu good for anything OTHER then meat?

...eggs

[Majikal]

Seriusly though. Are Erdlu good for anything OTHER then meat?

EDS.


And wtf, sandwiches got pulled from the game.. seems a bit silly to me. Never had a erdlu and cheese sandwich ruin MY immurzzzzuns.

[Ashes]

Seriusly though. Are Erdlu good for anything OTHER then meat?

Bait.

I say we call them "stuffed bread."

A loaf of stuffed brown bread sits here, lookin' mighty tasty.  Mmm-hmmm!

Licking your lips, you look at a loaf of stuffed brown bread.
Crusty brown bread has been cut into a wide bowl and stuffed with all sorts of tasty stuff.  You can see erdlu, silt horror meat, diced gaj tentacles, mekillot milk cheese, and a whole fried Roc egg.  It has been generously seasoned with ground bahamet shell, intermingled with what could be finely-grated necker ears.  The entirety steams amiably, and it smells divine.

[BleakOne]

Even though I'm a newish player, two of my characters have had sandwiches, and I thought it was ok. It didn't break my experience of the game, although I do tend to make my characters treat such things as exotic.

Then again, I don't really know anything about the history of the sandwich, so it could be like having french tubers.

Now I'm confused. 

[Mazy]

The problem isn't the food type; it's that it uses a word invented in the 1800s and that we don't find in medievalist geek-lit.  That particular word is too jarring for a lot of us.

The large majority of words in the game didn't exist in a very recognizable form, if at all, in medievalist geek-lit.  Unless we want to speak like this, "Syððan wæs geworden þæt he ferde þurh þa ceastre and þæt castel," we're going to have to accept that we're modern people using modern language to communicate ideas and mental pictures.

I wholeheartedly agree!

Until the stuffed crust pizzas are implemented, that is.