General What is your most common food or drink in The Third Imperium?

[FreeTrav]

Here's an add on I did for food in Traveller

Food Availability and Traveller

etceteration in propitiation to the deitic principle of bandwidth

There are tables and rules that go with this, but I think posting them would be difficult to do because of the formatting.

Tables and rules at https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/foodscore.html [Originally printed September 2011 issue, also translated to Spanish in Vuelo Raso N.4]

 

[FreeTrav]

Actually, there are a couple of things that I think will end up being both ubiquitous and highly variable due to localization:

1. Some sort of cereal or pseudocereal grain processed into dough, then wrapped around a protein of some sort, and cooked. Earth analogues: Dumplings, bao, wonton, samosas, shumai, gyoza, Jamaican meat patties, Cornish pastys, calzones, arguably the sandwich, etc. [Generically might be referred to as something akin to 'hand-meal' in SF]
2. Some sort of cereal or pseudocereal grain, cooked whole (steamed or boiled), and served with boiled pulses or legumes, optionally with a spiced sauce of some sort. Earth analogues: curried dal [lentils] or rajma [kidney beans] or channa [chickpeas], various "ethnic" forms of rice-and-beans, etc.

 

[Condottiere]

Fermenting stuff could remove toxins, or make them palatable.

Going by any number of movies, or novels, humanity has an insatiable drive to produce alcohol.

 

[Traveller76]

Fermenting stuff could remove toxins, or make them palatable.

Going by any number of movies, or novels, humanity has an insatiable drive to produce alcohol.

Even since we took up agriculture we turned any grains or fruits into alcohol. You used it to sterilize water, it was a value added product (need to turn that surplus crops into more portable products) plus you could store it longer.