Archer-Gemekush-Midland, Food related

[parmasson]

I read the previous discussions on food in Traveller from a year or so ago.

One thing that strikes me is that the listed Megacorporations do not appear to deal in foodstuffs. To my befuddled mind that suggests three things.
1. The writers overlooked it. (never)
2. Most food/agricultural products are not worth moving because planets can supply themselves with enough food.
3. There is another large organization that does not qualify as a "Megacorp" and goes unmentioned as a result.

I prefer option three because The Nutra-Go Brand Authentic Food Flavored Nutrient Product is available at better starports everywhere and goes wonderfully with my favorite soft drink Hava-cola.

I see a vast food manufacturing and distribution network run by a company called "Omniyumm" or "Archer-Gemekush-Midland Food and Industrial Gasses." Perhaps it is just a subsidiary of Sharurshid?

Any thoughts?

 

[parmasson]

Provided for the benefit of my fellow citizens is a list of the foods I have culled from the archives . . . Hmmmm lost the link. If it is incomplete or mislabeled let me know.

Food
Deep fried Mars Bar
Groat Cheese
Astroburger
Soylent Snacks complete line
Knobble jerky.
Capt. Hawkins Chicken Fried Lizard.
The ever popular squid-on-a-stick
Authentic Food Flavored Nutrient Product
Coffee Juice Cake (Trader Jim's Original trademarked and patented?)
Instapak Noodles!
Jut add hot water, wait and eat!
Come in a variety of flavors:
Vilani-shugilii, Sol-Thai, Sol-Chinese, Sol-Japanese, Vegetarian, Sol-Italian,

Sold in packs of 25 individual meals for 2.5cr a package. Light weight, nutritious, and filling.
Nutra-Go Brand Authentic Food Flavored Nutrient Product!
Bhlog and crottled greeps
Obibak candy-fish.
Aamarishiraa soup (Tomato with Vilani herbs)
Refried spam on a stick.
Fish flavored pop tarts
Beef flavored Kippers on a stick
Peruvian beaver cheese
Vilani Chili and Cheese
Genuine "Smoky Enerei's" Tree Oxen Jerky!
Try all 3 varieties: Original "Old Terran Teryaki", Vargr "Extra Chewy", and Spicy Wispwood Smoked!
Condiments
Hiver Joe's Hot Sauce!

Drinks
Grimjack' and inflict 'Olde Minke' (?)
Hava-Cola
BLUE SUN soft drink
Sparky Cola
Kaakaaraa Kola (like Vilani beer except it's soda; has a "kick" to it)
Bouncy Bubbly Beverage and Authentic Coffee Colored Analogue
Sparkling Coffee. The original carbonated, high-fructose, caffeinated, single-malt, vegetable drink
Groat Milk
Beefola! The meat flavored soft drink! (recent Dr. Who episode)
Sola Cola (T20-COTI-Randy Tyler)
Kaakaaraa Kola (T20-COTI-Casey)
Okra Cola (GURPS Space v2)
Extronian Carbonated Tea (GT BTC pg47)
Brubecks Light (GT Starports pg86)
Brubecks Amber (GT Starports pg86)
Brubecks Dark (GT Starports pg86)
Brubecks Porter (GT Starports pg86)
Synthe Beer -Rethay Lite (GURPS Space v2)
TaDaaaaaa....Tea
Tokay

Liquors
Mixed drink-Naval Snoot (GURPS Space v2)
Vatabell Distillate Liquor (GT BTC pg61)
Saurian Brandy (Borrowed from Star Trek)

Hefrian Single malt Scotch, a Glen Moraigne clone from Terra..a bottle;
That years batch[current] 20-25cr.
10 year old = 75-100cr.
15yr old = 120-150cr.
25 yr old = 225-250cr
50 yr old.= 400-500cr.

Wines:
Algae wine- Bex-X (GURPS Space v2)
Zilan Fireau et Fille eiswein (GT BTC pg100)
Tojak Eszencia (AHL Rules Book pg26)
Star Wine 17% alcohol (glows softly in the day. 1 liter = 1 candle of light at night) 3X expensive
Space Wine 47% alcohol in dry form, 15% liquidifed (Discovered by accident by a belter, this wine has been freeze-dried. Think pop-rocks. Mix 1 tablespoon with water or carbonated water stir and chill for instant wine. WARNING do not Dry Space wine directly into mouth) 5X expensive if available
Suntory: very expensive, very smooth whiskey, 10x price of usual whiskey.
Rhylanorean Sake
Hospice du Beune

Beer:
Panther Piss (Cheap, cheap bear. If spilled it will stain anything :0 . If a regular beer cost 1 credit you can get a pitch for 1 credit.) 5% alcohol

Jyt Beer 12% alcohol (has a bite like drinking gasoline or jet fuel) ave price

Pizzt Blue Swill Lager
Old Skunk Wizz - Beer
Vargr Beer - regular or extra chunky
Old Froth and Slosh

Liquors:
Old Misjump
Liquid Slurm (?)
Scout Brew
Jump-6 Whiskey
Scout Grog: make your mash from flour, pure sucrose, and water. Cook, add yeast of choice, then decant into carboys, distill when fermentation stops, ususally by freeze-distilliation, so as to get a weak whisky. Age about a month, in fresh carboy (the one you just washed since it was empty, and drained into leaving the ice in the first one...), with whatever fruit rhinds are available thrown in for flavor. Package half for self in 0-G fluid tubes, sneak rest to favorite scout bar for the discerning customer... usually for a few small credits from the proprietor.
JarHead! A flighty cocktail of hard liquors, vagely fruity, with a sharp pepper bite, all cut by 50% groat milk. Served chilled, if served by labelling. Marines tend to turn it into instant toddy: have the barkeep run the tray of unopened bottles through the dishwasher immmediately before serving. Label shows a marine holding a jar containing a pickled head with scout service like headgear...

Fizzyglug: Reginan non alcholic intoxicating beverage. Massive health warnings, mostly true. Posession on base forbidden; consumption off base limited to no less than 24 hours before duty. Toxic to Virushi; induce vominting and contact poison center immediately (Difficult hazardous fateful endurance for the virush to avoid major systemic failures...apply mishap results to random major internal organs...). Does little for aslan. Safe in small doses (1 can) for hummans and vargr, being Mildly euphoric, hyper sensitivity to touch, and lazy (Routine Endurance and Carousing to avoid intoxication on first drink, second drink rasies to Difficuult Hazardous, and eacch additional increses difficulty by one step. Each dose lasts about 4 hours. If task failed but not fumbled... apply a +1 difficulty shift to all tasks; sucess results in a 1 point penalty to mental attribute DM's and skill DM's, Critical success results in no penalties.)

Mega-b-drink 97% alcohol And extremely good tasting and extremely smoooootttthh. No bite or bitterness (Must make 3 consecutive checks to stay conscious per ounce drank or pass out. Must make 5 consecutive checks to stay sober) 1000X expensive per ounce Extreme rare. Often used in drinking challenges

Lava Red 50% alcohol Must be stored at min (or higher) 100 F degrees or will loose its flavor. If chilled 40 F or less it will loose its alcohol. Does not boil until 300 F degrees Tastes like black cherry and JD mixed with mineral water. 50X expensive
Lava Black 40% alcohol Must be stored at min 75 F degrees. Same as above but with boiling point of water. Tastes like black cheer and bourbon mixed with mineral water. 40X expensive

 

[Fritz_Brown]

Originally posted by Parmasson:
Soylent Snacks complete line

Is this only sold in K'kree areas? "It's caaaarnivooooorrrres..."
(Of course, you can't forget the K'kree steak! Most folks here seem to prefer it rare/medium rare...)

Originally posted by Parmasson:
Kaakaaraa Kola (like Vilani beer except it's soda; has a "kick" to it)

Actually, doesn't that describe all Vilani beer - it's soda...?

Originally posted by Parmasson:
Space Wine 47% alcohol in dry form, 15% liquidifed (Discovered by accident by a belter, this wine has been freeze-dried. Think pop-rocks. Mix 1 tablespoon with water or carbonated water stir and chill for instant wine. WARNING do not Dry Space wine directly into mouth) 5X expensive if available

I would be really interested in how to do this, as alcohols freezing point and boiling point are both well below water's...

Originally posted by Parmasson:
Jyt Beer 12% alcohol (has a bite like drinking gasoline or jet fuel) ave price

Dude, have you ever tasted jet fuel?! It better have more than 12% alcohol if it wants to have much of a market share.

Great list, Parmasson!

 

[parmasson]

Can't take much credit for it I just slapped it together.

As for space wine . . . it is really quite a simple matter if you have an emergency low berth you don't mind cannibalizing, the little blue part out of an igniter for a Type "B" power plant, an old fuel cell and 6m of copper tubing.

 

[Ran Targas]

Dude! This list is awesome!

IMTU, food is a major trading commodity and really big business; some worlds have it and a lot of worlds need it. Food manufacturers often own whole worlds. In some regions, prices for some delicacies are such that pirates and smugglers need little incentive to highjack food shipments. Makes for some interesting adventures.

 

[Liam Devlin]

Under liquors you missed...
Hefrian Single malt Scotch, a Glen Moraigne clone from Terra..a bottle;
That years batch[current] 20-25cr.

10 year old = 75-100cr.

15yr old = 120-150cr.

25 yr old = 225-250cr

50 yr old.= 400-500cr.

Slainte!

 

[parmasson]

Sir,
Hefrian Single malt Scotch added thanks!
Are there any more foods?
I have,
An Aslan treat: tuna flavored popsicles
Kippers on a Stick, from some part of Terra I think
Shirnkung Mustard, spicy yogurt culture, local thing

BTW what is the connection between Trader Jim and Coffee Juice?

Respectfully submitted.
Fiday, 131st, -2513 Imperial

 

[Liam Devlin]

Instapak Noodles!

Jut add hot water, wait and eat!
Come in a variety of flavors:

Vilani-shugilii, Sol-Thai, Sol-Chinese, Sol-Japanese, Vegetarian, Sol-Italian,

Sold in packs of 25 individual meals for 2.5cr a package. Light weight, nutritious, and filling.

 

[parmasson]

Instapak Noodles-updated
Thanks.

 

[CraigD6]

I'd add MacSwineys from the Stainless Steel Rat series. Their fully automated outlets are found throughout known space and serve such delicacies as Macbunnyburgers, pocuswineburgers and Cherry Oozer drinks. Yum!

 

[Quint]

There are a handful or Vargr foods that have been adopted by humans IMTU and spread across Known Space as a result.

"Vargr Takeout" is a long standing streetfood IMTU, is basically shish kabobs of spiced and/or marinated meat. "Traditional" or Authentic is highly seared on the outside but very rare on the inside.

There is a similar "high class" version which is essentially sashimi and/or tartare, but served with multiple dipping sauces and eaten on special finger mounted claws that piece the food.

Lastly, there is a Vargr snack which is essentially a very small mouse that is cooked whole by seeping frying them in oil, then eaten whole. Any extremely small rodent will do, even insects actually, the idea being that they are about the size of an adult human thumb. Different oils give different flavors, etc. They are the fast-food equivalent of French fries, onion rings, etc. for Vargr, humans treat them more like chicken nuggets. It's not uncommon to see folks walking around Startown muching on a bag of these.

D.

 

[Timerover51]

I would add the following delicacies.

Terran Federation Space Forces Emergency Ration, Extraterrestrial, Type Three
Supercow sandwiches—huge masses of meat and hot relish, wrapped in tortillas of some sort
Superbourbon, made with New Texas superyams
Poictesme melon brandy
Government Issue, Meal, Combat, Individual (12 menus)
Raisin Jack, guaranteed to turn your insides black
Haggis, neeps, and tatties
Skillygalee, recipe furnished upon request
Dandyfunk, recipe furnished upon request

 

[Jacqual]

Do not forget the Deep Fried Twinkie from Terra late 20th century (Terra Time) and still hasn't gone bad.

 

[Condottiere]

Hard to tell with the tinned anchovies.

 

[Kaeto]

Don't forget Hardtack.

 

[Timerover51]

Don't forget Hardtack.

I have the recipe for 100 pounds of Hardtack, and it basically is flour and water with possibly a bit of salt or sugar. This is from a US Army Subsistence Handbook circa 1910. If salt or sugar was used, the quantity was 3 pounds per 100 pounds of flour.

Hardtack biscuits were about 3 inches by 3 inches and about 1/2 inch thick. They also had 9 to 16 holes punched all the way through them to promote the drying process. See Hardtack and Coffee by Josh Billings, which can be found at archive.org. The ration of hardtack per man per day was either 9 or 10 depending on the supply and the unit.

I have found some data on Japanese paratroop rations in World War 2 that I will have to post. On another thread, I posted the recipe for the World War 2 "D" emergency ration. May have to do that again too.

 

[Kaeto]

I have a copy of Hardtack and Coffee.

 

[Timerover51]

I have a copy of Hardtack and Coffee.

There is a picture of a hardtack biscuit in there. I have used it in a book that I did. There are some interesting ways to prepare hardtack in Billings' book as well. From talking with Civil War re-enactors, there are a couple of companies that bake hardtack and ship it.

Do you have the Army ration for the Civil War period?

 

[Kaeto]

There is a picture of a hardtack biscuit in there. I have used it in a book that I did. There are some interesting ways to prepare hardtack in Billings' book as well. From talking with Civil War re-enactors, there are a couple of companies that bake hardtack and ship it.

Do you have the Army ration for the Civil War period?

In a museum (I forget which one) they have a crate of hardtack from the Civil War. They tested one and it was still edible.

Don't remember the ration offhand, but I do remember that on the march sometimes they would put a hunk of raw salt pork between two hardtack as a sandwich to eat while marching.