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The Diversity of Food |
Developed in the second century a.t. Bajiro Bread contains every
essential amino acid and a balanced quota of vitamins and minerals;
on a diet of bajiro bread a baseline human would need no further
nutrition.
Unfortunately it is relatively unappetizing.
As new human species have been developed, often with different
nutritional requirements, specific recipes of bajiro bread have been
developed, often unpalatable by other species.*
And one should not forget the vat-grown meats of Penglai- over the
centuries this has developed into a fabulous range of real meats and
imaginary ones,
particularly Red-cooked Dragon or Sea Monster, in the Penglaiese
dialect "Yulon `ongshao or "yu xiangh".
In many other worlds bioprinted meat has replaced live meat or vat
grown meat- particularly popular for barbecues is Pribabs - printed
kebabs with
a sturdy central bone to hold the meat more easily when eating,
or perhaps Prillets, entire animals printed without any bones at
all, often premarinated.
Replication of a tiny but tasty body part has allowed the development of delicacies such as crab-brain dip, isopod heart soup, anemone eyespot sauce.
Autophagy has developed on many worlds- any individual who spends enough credit to have eir entire body copied for engeneration at a distant colony gets little personal reward apart from the knowledge hat a copy of emself exists many light years away. As a spin off from engeneration, lifeless copies can be made at the customer's request; for barbecues, banquets, and resale as desired. Some celebrities make much of their disposable income from selling their bodies for food. Several fast food chains owe their genesis from this process.
Transgenic food is another source of novelty for the jaded palates of the civilised galaxy. Vegetable/meat crosses are energetically efficient, and can be made to provide both meat and fibre- oaksteaks are good exercise for the digestion, as are pine-pemmican and pork-apples. Developed long ago for various ocean dwelling clades, transgenic sea creatures such as codchicken and baconfish are popular even among landlubber species, while completely new foodstuffs with no apparent precedent in the realm of favour, such as the completely artificial Snoekmeat and Pspam are acquired tastes.
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The whiskey-plant.
A plant that look slightly like a tomato plant but have a sturdier
grow. It produces
globular, transparent fruit that fills up with an alcoholic beverage of
your choice as it
ripens. When you come home after work or out of a particularly
satisfying virtual reality
session, you just pick one of the ripe fruit, and use its hollow stem
as a straw. This has
the potential to be a really popular choice for the small garden. (The
problem is getting the
ice-cubes in there..:))
Diet moss
If you are reluctant to eat
solid food, for example for dietary, religious or ethical reasons, you
have here an alternative: you can grow a
photosynthesizing moss on your exposed skin. The moss then produces
carbohydrates which it introduce into your bloodstream through your
skin.
Confection moss (Diet moss spin-off)
Tired of constantly having to buy new clothes? Nothing you buy ever
quite fits?
Then the Confection moss is something for you; a live alternative. The
moss (which naturally
comes in a variety of colours) grow right on your skin in ant texture
you want.
It can also be geneered to produce a drug or chemical of your choice,
like insulin, ephedrine
or mosquito repellent. In addition, it digests your dead epidermal
cells and help regulate
your body temperature.
Soap-ciklid - A tiny fish, no more than a few millimeters in length. A gel-sphere containing several thousands of these is added when you take a bath, which dissolves and releases the fish. Ey then nibble on your upper epidermis, removing dead skin cells and picking off disfiguring body hair. These little spawn then get flushed out with the rest of the bath-water, beginning eir second life phase in your sewage-system as Sewage gourami.
Sewage gourami - a geneered type of fish that lives
in your sewage system, digesting
everything organic. Its a dark grey in colour, with a fat body and
multiple fins. It can grow
quite large, and moves further and further down into the sewage system
as it outgrows the
pipes. The organism probably has both cockroach, vulture and fly genes
vectored in. It most
definitely has a highly efficient Cyt p450-system to cope with toxins
and waste products, as
well as multiple redundancy in it�s genome.
Its flesh is sold at special restaurants, and is considered both tasty
and healthy. There are
chefs specializing in this fish alone.
