Questions tagged [food]
For questions about sources and types of nutrition for a living organism.
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Lembas bread (2000 kCalories per bite)
In The Lord of the Rings, the elves invented an incredibly nutritious bread/biscuit; as Legolas clearly says, only a small bite is just enough to satisfy the needs of an adult man for 1 day.
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How many people can you feed per square-kilometer of farmland?
Questions about how to feed a large population keep popping up on this website quite frequently. One obvious option is farming. But how many people can you feed per square-kilometer of farmland?
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Can a human colony survive on a 'hot' world?
A colony ship headed for its new home countless light-years from Earth suffers an unfortunate malfunction on the final part of its descent phase and crashes onto the planet. Thankfully, the ship ...
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How often must carnivorous grassland eat?
Don't go into the bonegrass. Seriously, unless you want to be dead. You go in there, brush the grass with your clothes, start to feel sleepy...
Before too long your limbs will go numb, then you're on ...
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How to butcher your dragon?
READ ME FIRST: There seems to have been a great deal of misunderstanding stemming to equal parts from the words I chose for this question as well as the human nature of only seeing what one wants to ...
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Designing an animal that wants to be eaten
So I had a funny idea, somewhat based off the cow in the Restaurant at the End of the Universe in the Hitchhikers Guide. You know the one—that wants to be eaten and whose only purpose in life is to be ...
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The first McDonald's restaurant on Mars
The McDonald's fast food company is the world's largest restaurant chain which prides itself with offering (almost) the same standardized menu all around the globe...
...this globe.
When humanity ...
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How to enforce a Ban on Vegetarianism
Let's say that Vegetarianism is banned in my country and meat eating is mandatory. The technology is modern. Stuff like Tofu, Quorn and other things that can make vegetarianism more popular are banned ...
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Safe way to eat zombies?
This answer to Making food last for a large group made me realize that using the zombies as a source of resources is pretty much never covered by genre pieces even when it is essentially a siege ...
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How can Dwarves produce honey underground?
I have often heard/read/watched in fantasy about dwarves drinking mead and lots of it. I recently learned that mead is made from honey which requires bees and flowers which require sunlight. I doubt ...
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What could cause sugary rain?
In a world very similar to ours, rain has a high concentration of simple carbohydrates in it, enough to sustain life on the surface. After some rainfall, this sugary rainwater is left behind and some ...
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Farming after the apocalypse: chickens or giant cockroaches?
So let's say you live in a terrifying post-apocalyptic world. For whatever reason, this world is now infested with cockroaches the size of chickens (similar to radroaches from the Fallout games, but ...
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Does a hexagon-based bread loaf make any sense?
Back in the day, during a writing jam, I started wondering it'd be good if a culture in my world would have loafs of bread resembling a hexagon-based tube. Almost like a cylinder, but with six well ...
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What does the Minotaur eat?
So: We all know about the Labyrinth and the Minotaur. One is a maze of stone tunnels, and one is a half-man half-bull killing machine.
It's reasonable to assume that the Minotaur requires a decent ...
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How do I begin to explain that my orcs may survive by eating soil?
In my RPG campaign setting the orcs are tougher than most other races. In hard
times they can eat wood (small bushes and fresh pieces of trees). In
really hard times they can eat healthy soil and ...
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