Adeptus Ridiculous - FOOD IN THE IMPERIUM (Yes, corpse-starch is in this one) | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: March 12, 2025

https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculoushttps://www.adeptusridiculous.com/https://twitter.com/AdRidiculoushttps://shop.orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculousWithin the Imperium, entire worlds... are devoted to the pursuit of agriculture and the growing of food, providing the necessary sustenance for the people of more specialised worlds elsewhere in the galaxy. These so-called Agri-worlds can grow a variety of food in many different ways, from the ill-tempered livestock known as Grox that provide meat to so many across the galaxy to simple wheat for bread.On some Agri-worlds, entire continents have been cultivated for the growth of foodstuffs. The most standard type of food grown on most Agri-worlds and distributed to feed the peoples of the Imperium is processed corn. This variety can produce confusion when Imperial cultures mix; in one recorded instance, Tona Criid, a native of Vervunhive on Verghast, mistook camouflage paint for a type of food-paste supplied to the 1st Tanith Regiment.Space Marines have been known to subsist on triglyceride gel and amino-porridge, as well as local wildlife hunted during their deployments. Some Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes have their own particular diets. The Dark Angels, for instance, are known to consume nutrigruel, carboloafs and vitamead. Support the show

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Starting point is 00:00:11 Welcome everyone to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast. My name is D.K. Diamantis, his name is Bricky. You know why we're here. And if you're here and you're like, man, if only I could support this podcast somehow, maybe heading over to patreon.com slash Adeptis Ridiculous, where you can get access to Discord, bloopers if they happen, $15 to get you access to all of our posters in crispy digital form. It's wonderful.
Starting point is 00:00:35 It's great. Speaking of posters, Bricky, guess what? There's a new one today. I mean, the last, which was the last one? Was the last one the bomb? I think it was. I think it was think fast. Was it think fast?
Starting point is 00:00:48 Because that one was pretty good. I feel like you, I feel like your ideas have to start to come into their own a little bit and have become less problematic over the times. You know, I really wish I could take credit for coming up with these, but I can't. Usually it shy's like, hey, what do you think of this poster, idiot? And I'm like, wow, that's pretty. like it and then and then they go ahead with it so i i can't really take any credit for like the ideas of you got you got to give that to shy and and and like callus day okay fine well i'll give
Starting point is 00:01:22 it to them for the time being but yeah you know all things considered it's still frightening to me anyway uh what is the poster my yeah shy what's the poster what do we got this time around boom how about that the tag lines have been so pre-reesome me mo lately. Wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on. Hold on. I'm thinking, I'm thinking hard. Okay, okay, okay, don't hurt yourself.
Starting point is 00:01:51 Okay, we got creepy got Gough. We got creepy got Gough GF. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Is this the, oh, wait, I haven't even read. I was going to say, if you read what I posted, you can see exactly what it's based on. I just looked at adjust the actual, actual artwork. I was like, this reminds me of the people from the Astardi's Tooth. we talked about with Kira.
Starting point is 00:02:13 This reminds me of the weird death people, the mortifactors. And then I look to the left and it says, shy in bold letters says, this poster is inspired by the mortifactors. From Spacehammer 5 numbers. Yeah, yeah, sorry. The Morda F asterisk actor is from Space Hammer 5 numbers. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:02:30 Legally distinct. Dark and brooding chapter with a very morbid dark outlook on life. Therefore, goth G. G.F. with knife. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. With the tagline, I can fix her. Duck smoke Clasic
Starting point is 00:02:46 Duck smoke If you enjoy this poster as well obviously You can check it out over at Orcadate.com However, you may wish to click on the new link down in the description. We have since updated the website
Starting point is 00:03:02 And so if you go to like Orcadate.com slash adabick or something, you're probably going to get an error 404. So there is a brand new link down in the description. give it a look, check it out. And yeah, it's going to be some good stuff. Also, of course, if you're a patron, you get it for.
Starting point is 00:03:22 You get the digital version for being a part of the patronage. Mm-hmm. Hell yeah. Let's go. Pretty, as the kids say, it's pretty poggers, dude. Mm-hmm. So, D.K. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:03:37 Episode today. There is an episode. Oh, whoa, is that why we're here? We have episode. Cool. We have it now. It exists currently. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:03:48 Mm-hmm. And we will talk about it. Oh, nice. Now, before recording, you were like, yeah, I want to say it's a short episode, but every time we say that, hour plus. Hour plus. It always goes way longer than we assume. There's a good chance this might still go an hour plus, but it's not because the actual subject
Starting point is 00:04:08 matter of it is interesting and long. it is more so the fact that we will probably just yap and like theorize instead yappers do yamp you know yapping is very much apparently like a gen a gen z
Starting point is 00:04:25 quote oh it so is it's I feel like yapping became like popular again very just recently with like streamer v-tuber popularity the phrase not yeah the phrase of speaking
Starting point is 00:04:39 no no yapping is been around since like the, you know, the dawn of talking. Anyway, mystery quote, you ready? Mm. A new selection of quick snacks for the guardsmen on the go replaced her traditional oatloaf bars. Despite scandalous rumors you may have heard,
Starting point is 00:04:58 these are not simply repackages of food destined for domesticated felines and are in fact carefully balanced micro meals, providing all of the goodness you need for a meal in a few juicy mouth. foothfuls. They are available in two delicious flavors. Fish and rodent. Oh. They done chopped up our researcher.
Starting point is 00:05:25 Oh, no. Poor possum. They done put possum in the soup. So obviously this is guard rations. And I'm going to be honest, I feel like I have a bit of a a leg up on this quote because I
Starting point is 00:05:44 saw this morning, I saw the tweet about plans for future episodes and I did see a tin of corpse starch and granted, I'm assuming that's what we're doing today is the corpse starch but I will out myself, I did not just figure that. I knew about corpse starch and how wacky, wild and gross it is.
Starting point is 00:06:11 but I'll take corpse starch for a thousand, Alex. I love how you, even when you get it like somewhat correct, you still can't even give yourself the pleasure of getting it right. I can't because I saw the tweet this morning that showed like what we were planning for episodes and I saw tins of corpse starch. And I was like, surely that's not today. And I can't, I can't do it. I can't do it.
Starting point is 00:06:30 I can't do it. I cheated. He is honest as honest if he is anything. You are somewhat correct. I just get hit by Epic. bed fail. You sure did. God damn, really? Yeah, really. What the hell, man? On my screen, it's just a, it's literally a pile of shit that's got a sad face on it.
Starting point is 00:06:53 Me with like the soldier in the desert staring at the camera being like, here it comes, and the tornado being an image of Ryan Gosling eating cereal. Make that happen. I wanted to post this picture of this cat with all the cheeses on him. Aw, a little orange cat. Yeah, yeah, he's not very smart, but that's okay. It's a cat. Sometimes cats just be like that. Anyway, because it has food all over him.
Starting point is 00:07:19 So it's not Corpstarch specifically. This episode is actually more just the food of the Imperium. This is shy. In all caps, Bricky stop. Before we move on. Impending Doom. I want you to check out the thumbnail Ted's cooking up for this. this. Okay, well, the knockman one was pretty good.
Starting point is 00:07:43 Yeah, it really was. All right. I will look at the thumbnail. Bricky, stop before we move on. Wait, second. Hurry up and wait. Sorry, shy. Oh, wow. All right. All right. All right. Yep. Yep. All right. That's a good thumbnail. Yeah, we cook it. All right. Fine. Worth. Worth. Worth. Anyway, so it is a good thumbnail. All right. So, it is a damn good thumbnail. We cook it. All right. So, it is a It is food.
Starting point is 00:08:12 It is food in the Imperium. And also not just the Imperium, also food in some of the other cultures as well. But mainly it's just like, you know, you look at Warham. And it's this awful authoritarian, totalitarian religious cult. And, you know, it is clear sci-fi, but it's sci-fi fantasy. And it's so dystopian. The question remains of like, what the hell do they eat? You know?
Starting point is 00:08:40 Yeah. Yeah, whenever I think a corpse start to solve was just Soylent Greens is people! And they just have such a surplus of people that at some point, you know, they probably were going to resort to using bodies and stuff and grinding them up into a powder, into a starch. And granted, that's not like the only thing that they eat.
Starting point is 00:09:03 That's not like the only food source available, but in the grim darkness of 40K. I mean, there's the old little, quote with the Kriegsman who has buddy or a different guard regiment died and he was like siphoning blood from him yeah he says your friend is dead and does no longer needs his blood wouldn't you want it to go to a better place and so always a little bit of good good good business there but with that all being sim yes so it is more of the food of 40k big e more like big eats nope no okay that's that's That's on we're moving on.
Starting point is 00:09:42 That's on you, Possum. That was your failed joke. I didn't. Every time a joke doesn't hit now, I'm just going to be like, oh, what was it? It was in the script. Jesus, Possum. What the hell? But whatever a joke is really good, it was my joke.
Starting point is 00:09:56 Absolutely. Hell yeah, brother. So, obviously, you know, the difference between corpstarch and Soil and Green is the fact that the people who eat corpstarch are very aware of what it is made of. But if we're going to be boring. We do need to be a little boring before we can be fun. So the most thing to be obvious and most clear is what is the most prominent food in the Imperium? What is the most eaten food in the entire Imperium? And if you're thinking it's something weird in sci-fi, you are incorrect.
Starting point is 00:10:31 It is the boring answer. Is it just like meat? It's corn. Oh, that is the boring answer. It's just, it's corn. Corn makes a lot of sense. In the United States, corn or some kind of byproduct of corn makes or is found in over 70% of food products in one way or another. Everything from cereals to even like alcohol.
Starting point is 00:10:55 It is used in the production of ethanol. And about 94% of ethanol in the United States is from corn. I'm sorry, I have to do this, but the world eaters are very thrilled with this news. I'm sorry. I had to. Somebody had to do it. With the amount of times you said corn, I'm sorry, blood for the blood God, the skulls for the skull throne. Someone had to say it.
Starting point is 00:11:19 And I, I mean, there's the agri world. You can see there that Shai posted from space. That is corn. Those are fields of corn. Wow. Really?
Starting point is 00:11:31 So that big circular areas, that's just corn. Fields of corn. Agri world. A lot of corn. It's all, lot of corn. It's a lot of corn.
Starting point is 00:11:42 I guess when you had to feed the Imperium, you do need agro worlds that are just like 75% or 25% of it is dedicated to just growing corn. Plus, I mean, you use corn very often for feeding livestock. And these citizens of the Imperium are in one way or another. Livestock for the Imperium. That's true. So in our real world, there is over 22,000. types of corn. It is a very firm, like, option for mass farming and production. Very few plants have as
Starting point is 00:12:19 much of a massive and long-term genetic hybridization than corn. And it is a very common concept that in the beginning, when you sent all the ships away from Terra, they probably brought along corn seeds. It grows incredibly easily very well. It also was one of the only surviving plants in interstellar. The Christopher Nolan film was also corn. I need to watch that at some point. It is a very good film. Also, like, corn is like, shy posted that, like, that sort of retro poster about corn being the food. It's a very versatile thing anyway.
Starting point is 00:12:57 You can make just about anything out of corn. Corn is insane. It is a ludicrously powerful plant. Mm-hmm. And so, yeah, I mean, like, the answer in this case, in the world of the imperial, in the world of 40K, it is corn. They are not as hilariously over the top as Warhammer is. They do occasionally have little grounding bits.
Starting point is 00:13:21 And one of them is the fact that it is obviously lots of corn. Now, naturally, we don't want to go too deep into the soil and green part to get, you know, like put the car before the horse, so to speak. But, you know, as the soil, like, obviously, soil and green is an additive. of the novel, make room, make room. Oh, I didn't actually know that. Yeah, it's like, um,
Starting point is 00:13:47 it's its own like little like side novel. And say it's like make room, make room like exclamation points at the beach, which is a cautionary tale about overpopulation. And the TLDR is, it takes place in the far future of 2022. I hate that. Where obviously overpopulation has obliterated the ecosystem of Earth.
Starting point is 00:14:07 New York City has a population of over 40, million and the only people who can live a halfway decent life are the hyper elite so the most prominent company around it is the soilet corporation that acts as a food producer because there are so many people and they obviously make various types of little soiled type things little crackers soilet red is from red lentils soilet yellow is made from soy and the most popular one is made from green plankton known as soilet green however sorry for the spoiler of a a movie from 1973. Due to massive overpopulation,
Starting point is 00:14:44 Soylent Green is, in fact, actually people and is legalizing the use of euthanasia and encouraged because then they make more food from them. Yeah. Soilent Greens is people. Yes. And so that is the whole, the whole
Starting point is 00:15:00 tale of there, of course. Now, obviously, Corpstarch is a version of recycled human biomass that we use later on and a major portion of the food. trade. But if we are being as obvious as we are, motherfucking corn.
Starting point is 00:15:20 Just, just motherfucking corn. Let's go. Hell yeah. We love corn. Now, if you had to guess, what do you think everyone drinks? Water? Yes, absolutely.
Starting point is 00:15:36 You've heard all kinds of various types of foods. Do you hear things about the amount of Amasek they drink and things like that, but yes, the answer is, again, the obvious one, it's water. They've got giant purification crystals and it's obviously described with like a little metallic tinge at times. But yes, everyone drinks water and eats corn. Makes sense. Now, that's boring, though. It's super boring.
Starting point is 00:16:03 Give me some hard hitting Warhammer drank. Of course. So how do you manage a population in the trillions, right? Naturally, the way you do that is seriously large amounts of agriculture. Now, that makes us into a particular kind of world known as an agri-world. Yep. Now, an agro world, obviously, is an agricultural world, and it is terraformed often to allow the production of food and to make more space for the food. populations on agri-worlds are very small,
Starting point is 00:16:39 often a workforce of maybe only about a million people on a planet, of roughly the size of Earth. So very small population. Yeah, if it's the size of Earth, then it's only like a million workers. Essentially, that's kind of a skeleton crew. Right. And often a lot of people are thinking that living on an agri-world would be quite nice because the population is so spread out compared to, say, a hive city.
Starting point is 00:17:03 However, and in fact, a lot of imperial propaganda tells you that relocating to an agro world to work is great. However, when you actually get down into agro world, it is not the most fun time. For example, the terraforming is not particularly subtle. I'll read a little quote here. Okay. The Imperium is not a gentle custodian of such places. After discovery of a candidate planet, the first 50 years are spent in terraforming according to well-known Martian procedures. All pre-existing life is scrubbed from the rocks, either by the application of control virus chewers or by timed flame drops.
Starting point is 00:17:46 The atmosphere is regulated, first through the actions of gigantic macro processors, and thereafter by a land-based network of control units, more commonly referred to as command nodes. Weather, at least as generally understood, disappears. Rainfall becomes a matter of controlled timing governed by satellites in low orbit and kept in line by fleets of dirigible The empty landscape is divided up into colossal production zones Each patrol by crawlers and pest thopters Millions of base level servitors are important
Starting point is 00:18:17 Kept at the very lowest level of cognitive function But bulked up by a ruthless level of muscle binders You just like you're terraforming the planet In a way that is like you're not making it a lush, beautiful place, you are, you are with a blunt force and hammer controlling every aspect of this planet's existence. Oh yeah, you're slashing burning it and then remaking it into a green, I don't want to say a greenhouse, but yeah. Also, man, you don't get a lot of dirigible anymore. You don't hear much about derogibles anymore. That's, it's a fun word to say, too.
Starting point is 00:18:51 I've honestly never heard that word until right now. Oh, really? What is a derigible, D.K. I want to say it's like a, yeah, it's like a Zeppelin or like a like a blimp. I always remember it because I can never escape it. Warframe had a sentinel that was sort of called a dirigible and it was kind of like a little balloon that floated next to you. Oh, well, I guess I guess I didn't really think about it as like a little little Zeppelin balloon. Yeah, a little Zeppelin balloon do, Dad. It's an old-timey word. So I'm not shocked if someone was like,
Starting point is 00:19:30 I don't know what a dirigible is. It's like, well, that's okay. I mean, I've, I've never heard of it before. I am now learning. Now, obviously, as the production of food, such a massive scale, the entire surface is dedicated to just a few foodstuffs in a highly mechanized sense,
Starting point is 00:19:49 which might not seem bad on paper, but consider the following, right? Earth is a planet with biomes that work in synchronized sense. with each other is an ebb and flow between biomes that allows things to naturally grow in a seasonal sense when a world is terraformed for an express mechanized purpose the natural flow of things is entirely thrown off and the forced schedule is put on the surface of the planet which has dire consequences for the planet as though the surface can be changed the planet can't fully be
Starting point is 00:20:22 changed. This means that agro-worlds will face incredible and unpredictable storms and traumatic surface damage that cannot be repaired often. Because they have a massive over-harvesting of food, it makes so that the soil doesn't have much time to mend itself more plants or plant-im, and the fate of most of the agro-worlds after a few full harvests is an unhabitable death world. Oh. Oh, so they terraform a planet, and then they just reap it until it is dead. So, I mean, the quote here is, but that doesn't matter. A planet can be driven like this for thousands of years before it eventually keels over and becomes a death world.
Starting point is 00:21:07 The quality of the crops gets steadily worse, but the quantity can be sustained almost indefinitely, assuming that supply lines are maintained and imports remain constant. Oof. That, that sucks. Yeah. But I mean, I guess it's just one of those things you have to do if you're the Imperium, though. Like, you just have too many people. So if it means just over-harvesting a agri-world after terraforming it and just letting it waste away eventually after thousands of years, like, you kind of have to.
Starting point is 00:21:43 I mean, I would not say that it is something that the Imperium has to do. I know for a fact they could do it better because their technology is so back. and ridiculous. But obviously in this situation, like, they're just like, get as much out of it as you possibly can. Yeah. When in reality, there's clearly better ways to do it, but the Imperium doesn't invent technology.
Starting point is 00:22:08 So they can't think of how mad the ad mech would be. There's also an infamous saying that goes along with the stuff that says, you come for the soil, you end up a part of it. So if you're aware. worker on these planets, you will, you will most likely be like mulchified or whatever the phrase is. And you put back into the soil. There is no, there is no retiree for you. No.
Starting point is 00:22:35 Now, on the other subject of food, because corn is boring, we have the other very enjoyable part, the grocks. The grocks. The grocks. You have most likely heard the phrase grox before, most likely as grok shit. which is often which is basically their version of bullshit it's the cow oh okay cool
Starting point is 00:22:59 even though it's not it's yeah I was say it's the cow it's not actually a cow it is a weird reptilian creature but it's often the the real world version of the cow it's a bunch of groc shit okay it's a fantasy cow
Starting point is 00:23:14 it's a sci-fi fantasy cow it looks like a damn dragon despite the fact that it is a long reptilian creature yes So it is another major piece of food. It's called slab. Now, there are instances of your standard cattle and cattle-like animals, but the most prominent form of livestock in the Imperium is a creature known as the Grox. It is roughly five meters or 16.5 feet in American or about five wifu pillows in D.K.
Starting point is 00:23:43 Now I know the measurement. It is about a five-meter-long reptilian creature, which makes sense. because it's about the same size as a saltwater crocodile. Okay. It is built a bit stockier. So you imagine a crocodile as bovine, of course. And it is, by all accounts, a highly dangerous and angry creature that is notably violent and territorial.
Starting point is 00:24:08 Oh. And this is what we have chosen to be the food source. All right. Well, you flip that bitch over and its skin and meat on its stomach is highly nutritious and very palatable for humans. Ah, so risk reward. It might be a dangerous territorial bitch, but
Starting point is 00:24:28 mm-mm, that's succulent belly meat. It also is a huge perk about the grocs is that they can fully sustain themselves on a very minute diet. Their digestive system is incredibly remarkable and they can eat
Starting point is 00:24:44 like a couple rocks a week. That is. So are there like grox farmers that like herd and yeah because I was going to say like even if they are violent territory whatever surely something like that you got a farm breed and and just keep them in you know yeah
Starting point is 00:25:06 also I wonder if there's like a a grox version of like Kobe beef where they just like hang it and like never let its feet touch the ground and just let it get nice and fat so it's even more succulent I that I mean there are cuts of grocs, I assume, that are more sought after than others. Now, obviously, these things can exist in a relatively any, like, reasonable environment because they're big reptiles. So they can be spread across the imperial.
Starting point is 00:25:35 I'm super easy. They also lay eggs at a pretty rapid rate. So it is a really good livestock when it comes to meat. Yeah. Do they eat the eggs? I'm pretty sure they do. Well, this make more grocks. Make a grox egg omelet
Starting point is 00:25:52 Yeah, yeah Making the mother of all grox omelets here, Jack Hell yeah, brother Can't fret over every egg Now if you're a little bit worried about the whole They're very aggressive thing Don't you worry The Imperium has figured out a lovely solution
Starting point is 00:26:08 Which is lobotomies And neurological prods implanted into their brains Yeah, that does sound like an Imperium thing to do It's crazy Whenever it's like, oh yeah, in 40K they found a solution. It's lobotomy and removing your brain and making you a docile sheep. It's like, yeah, that tracks.
Starting point is 00:26:26 Yeah, why bother with, like, thinking too hard and having to worry about things like disagreements when you can just lobotomize them? Yeah, so easy. Yeah. Now, of course, the meat harvested from these creatures is slab. It is the most prominent meat of this, of the, all the imperium. It's actually what the, like, what the actual slab is is a little. bit in the realm of the author's discretion, which is a theme that we will return to.
Starting point is 00:26:55 Yeah. But on the surface, it is a highly processed crox meat, which would very much make sense. Mm-hmm. You know, I mean, for the most part, it is just like the grox is an incredibly useful animal. It is harvested for its meat, it's hide for its leather, its teeth and its claws for its blades. Every little bit of the grox is harvested in some way for the, Imperium is high, is very high in protein, cheap to manufacture, slow to degrade. It's, it is perfect. That's fair. Those, those, those fangs and stuff would make really good blades and stuff.
Starting point is 00:27:33 And it does have a really thick hide. So that's, that's fair. I hadn't, I hadn't thought about harvesting it for other stuff. Um, is there Grock's milk? Probably. Yeah. I don't see no others though, so I don't know, man. There's probably also Grox shit that is used from manure and stuff, like,
Starting point is 00:27:49 it appears to be just a genuinely really good. I mean, Grox hide is a phrase also used. I remember the guardsman then used the word Grox hide. Mm-hmm. You know, like, like Grog's hide is really tough. I'm pretty sure they always refer to it.
Starting point is 00:28:03 It's like, oh, it's tough, like a Grox hide. Yeah. Very versatile animal. Cool, cool, cool. Funny enough, there is a little quote here that goes, a second meat supply supplemented the first. The Ephraim balked at the sight of it. A great heap of corpses were being thrown into the grinders,
Starting point is 00:28:18 limp and blank-eyed, shot through with lasbeams or bullet holes, a tangle of malformed limbs and tusks and hooves and brutish snouts and slit-nosed faces and lithe bodies. He recognized green skins and a few others. Heat flared across his skin despite the cold room and his heart hammered as the barrage fell upon him again, taking his leg, tearing apart just like the meat in those wretched fucking grinders. The sheer horror of it, wondering how far the conspiracy went and how deep. Most of varangansua citizens hadn't ever seen a Xenos and those that had, not in decades. Many thought aliens were just a myth. And yet they were all being thrown in the grinder
Starting point is 00:29:04 into their food. Yum. So you got a little bit of slab being a little bit of human, a little bit of orc. Yeah. The sawdust version. Yeah, you don't want to see how the sausage is made. You really... It won't ruin your appetite.
Starting point is 00:29:21 You really don't. Nope, no, no, no. Now, of course, this does not mean that all slab is orc, obviously. Slab is actually introduced originally in Gaunt's ghosts way back when as a white putty made from available nutritional sources. But this appears to have been adjusted a little bit more to make Slab more of like the meat, like a big chunk of a big chunk of. the meat of some sort. Okay. Okay. Also, I was just thinking about, wouldn't there be problems with processing
Starting point is 00:29:51 orc meat? And just like... Don't worry about it. All right. Cool. You're thinking, hmm, that's how you get a lobotomy, D.K. You're thinking too hard. You're right. I'm about to be servitorized talking like that. You got to watch yourself there.
Starting point is 00:30:08 We don't want you to ask too many questions. Fair and valid. Let's move on before the Inquisitor shows up. at my house. Now, if we're moving past grocs or we're moving past corn and water, let's get into the one that people are the most curious about. You know, corp starch.
Starting point is 00:30:26 Corpstarch, yep. So corpstarch is one of the most prominent foods you can find in hive cities specifically, particularly in Necromunda, and we have no idea what it's made of. Please tell me that's kind of be a joke, right? That they're like, oh yeah, hey, everyone, here's our newest, most favorite can. corpse starch. What's it made out of? Who knows? Right? We don't know. We call it corpse starch because it makes sure that you don't become a corpse. That's why you should eat this start. Please tell them. That can't be right, can it? You call it corpse starch because it's the food that
Starting point is 00:31:01 makes corpses of our enemies. Oh no. Obviously, corpse starch is very clearly known. Okay. Okay. I was like, please. I know this is like a parody, but oh no. Oh, no. No. No, people realize it very much. They know what corpse starch is. Okay, good, good, good. It is, like, generally, corpstarch is interchangeable with a food stuff in 40K known as Soylins Veridians. Okay.
Starting point is 00:31:30 I know. All right. I know. Just smack me over the head with it. All right. It's so, it's so, like, apparently it's actually kind of humorous because there's a little bit of a, of an internal joke in 40K. Mm-hmm. Um, this, it's very funny.
Starting point is 00:31:46 So corp starch is used interchangeably with the food stuff known as Soylins Veridians, which is obviously a games workshop lo, ha, ha, ha, soil, ha, soiling. Yeah, yeah, yeah. However, if you would assume that Soiland veridians is a form of, like, human cookie, you're actually wrong. Soilins Veridians is actually just beans. Really? Is it just beans? I believe this. is intentional as it appears that it is straight up just like tofu and so the joke is that they've
Starting point is 00:32:20 made their version of soilant green but it is not actually people so i think in a in a sheer moment of humor from games workshop they have taken the piss out of it and they've decided to be like you know what our soiling green is not actually people it's just like tofu wait So corp starch is It's tofu? No, no. Soilin for it is. Okay.
Starting point is 00:32:47 Okay. Just that one product in the corpstarch is tofu. That is not the whole. Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool. So it's obviously assumed the two of them are the same thing, but they are actually not. It is just its own little funny thing of beam. Got it. Corp starch, as mentioned originally, is a very prominent food in the,
Starting point is 00:33:10 the Imperium, just, you know, like, not as much as corn. Sure. Now, originally, in early Necromanda lore, Corp starts was quite limited. And a few times over, they were talking about how it's mainly in the lower parts of the hive. And there are so many stockpiles that eventually gets rotting. But this changed massively dramatically in 2017 when Necromanda was relaunched. And it became to be far more. prominent in the face that corpstarch was a super common thing as the life of the citizen
Starting point is 00:33:47 and the imperium is literally grinding you into a pulp it like actually you know genuinely grinds you into a pulp yeah no longer a metaphor actual reality you get ground into a pulp turned into corpse starch and you feed everybody else to be ground up in sort of a crazy Oroboros. Yeah, I mean, it's the idea that the Imperium will grind you into dust because of the mechanized horribleness of the regime. But like in this sense, they're taking it quite literally. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:23 Yuck. Now, the upkeep in production is actually quite interesting. It's done by something known as the corpse guild. The corpse guild regulates. the trade and production of corpse starch. And it is one of the major and most important roles of the guilds in Necromunda, because millions of people are born and die each day, and without the orderly disposal of corpses, plaguing disease would run rampant.
Starting point is 00:34:48 Without a food source of these corpses provide, then they would also, you know, have massive issues with the populace, and they would starve. So the corpse guild gathers of thousands of dead every source. cycle, filling their mortuary caravans with pile bodies, and then rendering them down in grinding automata.
Starting point is 00:35:12 And grinding them into corpse starch. I almost hate to ask, but is the process of making corpstarch literally just like they throw the bodies into just a big meat grinder thing and just grind it as
Starting point is 00:35:28 far as it'll go until corpstarch? Well, here's a quick episode of how it's made. Oh, no. The worst episode of how it's made. So as obviously mentioned earlier, the corpse guild is responsible for the requisition of mass amounts of bodies for corpse starch. So to do so, they dispatch groups of harvesting parties during times of conflicts that are led by some groups called the pale consorts. The bodies are then brought to the, and I quote, corpse grinders.
Starting point is 00:36:02 Great. Who then butcher the body and send it up into the corpse starch factory. And then the end result is a paste-like substance, very reminiscent of tofu that is tasteless. Completely tasteless. Oh, great. So you don't even know what you're eating. That's lovely. That's just, that's lovely.
Starting point is 00:36:25 I love it. But obviously, according to the marketing board for corpse starch, everyone in Necromand that loves it. well I guess you bring up a fair point shy would you rather it tastes like corpse TK and it's like well I guess tasteless tofu is better than wow this tastes like Jim like oh fair for a second I thought I was like like sweat and like heavy weights like J I am like the man named Jim yeah ham whatever happened to Jim and she's like I don't know eating tofu yeah I'm numb numb this salad is delicious love the tofu in it.
Starting point is 00:37:04 It is genuinely you grab all your den, you bring them to the corpse grinders, they butcher your body, they throw you into the factory, you come out with whatever additional additives they add to it,
Starting point is 00:37:16 which is a paste-like tofu tasteless substance that is, in fairness, extremely nutritious. I imagine it would be if it's made out of, you know, people meat.
Starting point is 00:37:30 It is people meat. Yeah. Though I do know something interesting. The human brain is very hardwired that if you eat anything that is human related, you deal with major amounts of psychological stress. Oh. Yeah, like the brain is just hardwired. Like the brain just basically is like, hey, you eat human meat, you will have major problems. Oh.
Starting point is 00:37:56 Did they do this study on like cannibals or something? I think so. I think it was like. it had to be, right? That or like people who had to eat other humans to survive in a situation. Oh, right, like that famous plane crash
Starting point is 00:38:08 where it's like they didn't really want to, but if it's between your buddy who just died and your survival, it's like, well... Yeah, the rugby players, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Though the thing about the obviously is they probably...
Starting point is 00:38:24 One could argue that's why the people in the Imperium are so insane. Or you could say that they probably make some adjustments to the code and algorithm to how they make corpse starch to make it a little bit more acceptable for humans. True. Yep. Yep. Right.
Starting point is 00:38:39 Yeah. But obviously, Soyl and Green would not really work IRL because there are not as many dead humans to alive humans. And obviously, human meat has bad effects on the body. Yeah. But, you know, despite the Imperium being so backwards, they do have pretty insane tech. So there is a good chance they could just undo it. somehow.
Starting point is 00:39:02 Oh, sure. Like the ad mech would have some sort of Mcuffin that was like, oh, yes, we've made this completely palatable with no side effects. Right. Now, obviously, in the end of Soylent Green, the main character screams about how Soilet Green is people, right? And an attempt to break the wheels, stuff, the production, etc. And the audience is left to generally guess whether or not he was believed.
Starting point is 00:39:25 Because that's kind of like the weird ending there. Yeah, the cliffhanger. In the Imperium in 40K, we have the bad ending, which is everyone being like, yeah, so, so what? It's food. Yeah, what's the alternative, pal? Huh? What are you fixing for us in its place?
Starting point is 00:39:45 It's not even entirely all humans. Sometimes it's just considered recycled mass. So, rodents, insects, humans, whatever is dead in the hive. Okay. So it could be people, it could be cats, it could be rodents, it could be bugs, it's just a mish-mash of essentially
Starting point is 00:40:08 whatever they found lying around dead along with maybe a lot of human meat. Maybe we're more like the tyrantids than you'd expect. Yeah, it sounds like that. I was about to say, like turn that shit into a soup and just, you know. Also, hilariously, due to the focus on dead bodies and corpse charge production,
Starting point is 00:40:26 members of the corpse guild have fallen to corn before. Oh, wow, really? I guess that makes sense because, like, yeah, yeah, humans are very easily susceptible. Yeah, that makes sense, sure. So there are a couple other kinds of Imperium corpse starts. Also, yeah, that is what the corpse guild looks like, that image above. Oh, wow, what a pleasant group of people. Like, you love to see them, you love to turn the corner and see one of these guys.
Starting point is 00:40:53 Yeah, the bring out your dead folks have gotten an upgrade. Yeah. And how these people fell to corn? Never. No, no, never. Never. So there are a couple other bits of Imperium food stuff as well. A few other notable foods. Apple Peaches hybrids are a thing that are kind of fun. That being said, if it is not stored at exactly 18 and a half degrees, it will spoil in minutes. So that's kind of funny. There's also plenty of instance. of synth in the Imperium, which if synth is thinking of like a, like a Bubba Gump shrimp sense, like you're literally adding synth in front of any type of food you can think of.
Starting point is 00:41:37 Oh. Synth apple. Synths. Right. You know, and I'm assuming that's a synthetic, like, fake version of it, like, almost like a sort of a Star Trek replicator thing where it's like, oh, yeah, it's good enough,
Starting point is 00:41:51 but it sure it's not home cooking. Yeah. Any other foods past that is just some kind of like sci-fi reference. They talk about things like protein vats or like neutra bars and just this your general sci-fi crap. Okay. Yeah, when it came to like 40K food, I just kind of assumed most of it would be like, you know, like calorie mates, like those, uh, those, those chalky nutrient bars that
Starting point is 00:42:18 people in like, I want to say Japan and Asia eat because they just can't stop. And it's like, well, I'm working a. 20 hour shift. I guess I need some nutrition. Yeah, I mean, that kind of is part of it. It's just like, oh, dear, here's this, you know, major, I don't know what the word is. It's like, is this major kind of like,
Starting point is 00:42:40 because they had it in, you know, bloodlines. The main guy would just, like, heat up neutra bars. Oh, that's true. Yeah, yeah, he did. I just need some damn nutrients. I think he ate too many, though, and he got fat. That was like part of the joke.
Starting point is 00:42:56 Yeah. But there are a few other things. There's also, of course, recalf. Coffee. Coffee. Caffe. It is a hot, dark colored liquid with energizing properties. It's coffee.
Starting point is 00:43:13 It's goddamn coffee. It's coffee. That being said, the very thin and limited descriptions we get, we can assume that there is at least a difference between recaf and Recaf and C-A-F-F-I-N-E. Whereas is caffeine is actually made from leaves or beans while Recaf is completely synthetically derived. Okay. So it's synthetic coffee.
Starting point is 00:43:38 It's synthetic coffee. I mean, recalph is basically just, if you actually take the description in Gladius, there's a better version of it, which is these humble fields of wild herbs hide a secret, a rich food and narcotic stimulant that allows organic races to go without sleep or rest for great periods of time called
Starting point is 00:43:59 re-caf by humans it's collected, process and distributed by factory workers and slaves to greatly improve their output. So like, it's coffee.
Starting point is 00:44:07 Yeah, it's coffee. It's coffee. Yep, it sure is. Now, there are other things as well. There is something, yeah, and also, like the, probably the caffeine,
Starting point is 00:44:18 the real leaves and beans are probably for the nobles who are just really rich. That makes sense. Now, if you're referring to other kind of food stuff in the Imperium, there's all slang called the green torox. Now, the green torox beverage, it's a beverage that's name is green torox canned fluid, refreshment, and energy delivery system single use. Yeah, we're just going to call that green torox. It's an energy drink.
Starting point is 00:44:44 It's a, it's a rock star or it's monster. It's a monster or a rock star or if you're a boomer gamer, a balls energy drink. Ooh. Wow. I vaguely remember balls. Never. Sorry, guys. I've never drank balls. The main ingredient, the B-A-W-L-S, Balls Energy Drink. Yeah. Now, the main ingredient in this beverage, however, is slang known as Friends on. And Friendson is a type of combat drug that makes the user frenzied and fearless of death. So this, this drink is literally given to. guardsmen who are considered sufficiently expendable
Starting point is 00:45:26 and if they provide that drink they are not allowed to drink anything else which makes them a vicious and effective soldier but it tends to have them result in dying within an hour of consumption it's it's the rage drink that kills you great also oh my god shy's right green torrocks is totally just red bull because torrarch is a bull and it's green not red as soon as i heard green i thought monster energy immediately but oh god Yeah, that is just, it is just, it's just red bull.
Starting point is 00:45:56 It's just red bull. It's just red bull. Jesus. All right. Yeah. No, you're right. You're right. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:01 Yep. Okay. Cool. Also, apparently the ingredients were, the green torox was a secret, but due to a printing error, the ingredients were printed on the can. And so the Imperium did the best to backtrack that by putting a big sticker over the ingredient list and says, ingredients redacted, do not remove sticker under pain of death. That's the most Imperium thing I think I've ever heard.
Starting point is 00:46:28 And I'm sure the General Poppians was like, yeah, I'm not touching that sticker. Fuck that. Nope. No, I know how the Imperium works. That sticker stays on the goddamn can. So, and then last here it says, obviously, while it is Red Bull, the dangerous nature of green Torox is as if Red Bull gave their, here we go. Their first car seat to Logan Sargent as opposed to Max Verstoppin. an F1 joke that the 640K slash F1 fans will think is a banger
Starting point is 00:46:58 slash quote a banger also being how I would describe George Russell's final corner in the 2023 Singapore Grand Prix I yeah listen my my my brother would love this joke because he's really into F1 he's got like the F1 like streaming subscription thing he watches all the preheats and stuff. He would love this joke. I have no idea what's happening. Good for you, George Russell's final corner in the 2023 Singapore Grand Prix.
Starting point is 00:47:33 Hell yes. There is one person on this, like right now being like, yes, yes. Yeah, please, if you get the joke, comment. We need to know who understood that. Four people. Now, there are a couple other non-alcoholic drinks. I would be remiss if I do not mention Tana tea
Starting point is 00:47:54 Which is very important Because Tena Tee is a very strongly brewed tea From the leaves on Valhalla The Ice Planet of Guardsmen It is a very difficult And acquired taste But it is often well known Because I believe Tena Tee is what Yergan
Starting point is 00:48:12 Gives Caiaphas Cain Very often Oh, okay I didn't realize that was a specific I didn't realize that was what he was giving him Okay. It's a bit of like a, it's a cute little, little thing. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:26 It's just like, because Yurgan is this blank and very unenjoyable man because he smells like crap. And he's also, he's a blank. But, you know, he's always the right hand band of, of Kane. So the most memorable thing about the Kane books was like, Yurgen could come in and save the day, kill a hundred people. And the guardsman next to him, like, wow, that was impressive. But man, does he stink like shit? this little troll smells like hell and I hate him.
Starting point is 00:48:54 And it's like, man, Yergan's just out here trying his best. Come on. Also, Yergan with a melty gun is arguably the most powerful, like, thing ever. The dude will just show up with a melty gun and be like, I win. It's great. Hell yeah. There's a couple other beverages. There's one known as the Saturn Snake Oil, which is more like a syrup, like a motron.
Starting point is 00:49:16 But it is a disgusting tasting instant hangover cure. which is kind of fun. Snake oil, nice. There's a ployne, which is a fruit grown in many of the worlds. That's like a nutrient-rich juice. They can cure a lot of ailments. And, you know, there's the case.
Starting point is 00:49:31 Normally it's just like, hey, here's this book. Hey, writer, make up something. And then it becomes canon because they're like, oh, that's cool. Yeah. Now, of course, in the Imperium, life sucks. So drinking is a common pastime. Now, booze. is a huge production thing in the Imperium.
Starting point is 00:49:54 And the most well-known one is obviously Amasek. Amasek, yeah. Yeah, super obvious there. You can generally make a broad assumption about it because of the word sec more than anything. We have triple sec, of course, which is the orange liqueur. And then there is obviously you could take the idea of Amma or Amaretto,
Starting point is 00:50:13 which is a sweet Italian liquor. Love Amaretto. Amaretto is fantastic. So Amisek, for the most part, can be assumed to be a, I mean, Amasek is also, I think, known in other, like, fiction. But it can be assumed that it is some kind of fancy liquor, top shelf implication. A glass of Amasek, please. Yep.
Starting point is 00:50:34 Also, Triple Second Amaretto mixed together would be banger. I think they'll be too sweet, man. Well, Triple sec is not like a drink, you just drink. It's like a cordial. You put it with stuff. True. Amarado and TripleSec would be like a sugar bomb. I don't think I'd be.
Starting point is 00:50:50 about like that one. We're American. We can handle it. Nah. Oh, no, I'm not drinking my sweet drinks too much. Boo. Boo. How dare you not mainline your corn syrup?
Starting point is 00:51:07 But very much obviously, because author's discretion, Amesek can be, is treated in so many different ways. It's acted like it's a distilled wine, like it's a Jack Daniels or a Merlot. Probably, closer to a more low than anything else.
Starting point is 00:51:24 Like it's kind of a glass of amosek sound. It sounds like wine more often than not. I gotta be, whenever it shows up in a book, I always, for some reason in my head, like, it always felt like it was a high class whiskey.
Starting point is 00:51:38 You know, they just kind of swirl it around in their little tumbler glass and yeah, hit me with that emmeasek. And it just, I was, like, I always give a whiskey vibe to me.
Starting point is 00:51:46 See, for me, I always thought it was a bit more wine because they always would be like, oh, with a glass of amessac, please. surf, and a two, actually, a tall glass of Amasek. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:58 It's often always drank by, like, the nobles. I think the remembrancers often like to drink it, too. Okay. But yeah, I kind of think of a bit more of wine, of a wine connotation. Okay, okay. But there's also a very common term in the imperial known as rot gut. I think that's pretty common term in real life, too, isn't it? when it comes to
Starting point is 00:52:20 alcohol. Generic bad alcohol. It gives you the buzz but a really bad tummy ache. Yeah. It'll rot your guts. It's a rot, gut.
Starting point is 00:52:31 It has wild snake in necrombunda, which is a strongly brewed alcohol in the bad zones, gang stuff. It's made from venomous snakes. Uh, ha ha.
Starting point is 00:52:41 Yeah. Obviously, wild snake is a bit of a reference to the mescal worm there. So, you know, just,
Starting point is 00:52:49 it's the classic. Also, Shai, I hate to break it to you, but Bud Light is not Rodgut. Bud Light is just canned water.
Starting point is 00:52:56 What's the, what's the similarity with Bud Light and having sex in a canoe? Uh, I don't know. What? It's fucking near water.
Starting point is 00:53:09 I like it. I like it. I like it. I will always, I will always love Bud Light Slander because, oh, you need to drink like a 24-packed.
Starting point is 00:53:19 even get a buzz, man. It's also like you drink like a like a six pack of Bud Light and you get, it's like a thousand calories. That's true. It's just not worth it. It's just not worth it. Budweiser, Bud Light, any of the, this is not worth it. Now, I'm sure you're very curious.
Starting point is 00:53:38 What, what does, like, does Master Chief suit jerk him off? How did you know that I was so curious about this? It's a common, it's a common curiosity. It's a common curiosity. Now, that being said, we're going to have to move past that one and ask more about the space marine and mechanics. What do they eat? Fine. Go ahead.
Starting point is 00:53:59 Tell me. Now, obviously, we always need to point out the most obvious one, which is the space wolves, yes, they eat very different stuff. They drink a poisonous alcohol to get them drunk. They will have feasts. Space wolves are much. more like the average person when it comes of food when but more of like a tradition yeah you know the halls and the feasts right yeah they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're going to have their crazy parties they're going to out drink and out eat the emperor
Starting point is 00:54:37 you know as they do that being said what about the actual diet of a space marine or a custodian for that matter obviously the space marines and custodians requirements are significantly more than a human due to their size and, you know, the exchange, what's the phrase, like the heat matter, mass, heat expansion, bar ratio, whatever the hell it's called, um, law of equivalent exchange. Uh, but space marines have two implanted organs that provide them assistance with their food. The first is the preanor organ, which is a pre-stomach that acts as a neutralization organ that makes indigestable or dangerous foods digestible.
Starting point is 00:55:21 So like a decon chamber for your stomach, basically. He doesn't digest anything, but it like sterilizes it. Sure. And therefore, a space marine can essentially eat anything inedible and get nutrients from it. Super helpful. Literally a space marine like eating like a cinder block and he can get something from it. I don't know why. I am just immediately imagined a space marine just.
Starting point is 00:55:48 chowing down on a handful of dirt. I mean, he just him like literally eating rocks. Exactly. Like a dumb as dirt, dude. He's actually eating on paint ships. Totally. Just mainlining paint. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:03 Now, going from there, you also have a more Fremen-esque style filtration system and their power armor that allows their muscles to be more efficient and then also reduce waste. So, because of that, these space marine teams, can live off something as like a basic nutritional pace for a very, very long time. However, if they are in a state where they have run out of nutrients and are extremely far away from aid, the space marine can go into a slight hibernation state thanks to the suan membrane. I can't hit the Among Us sound effect, but you know I would.
Starting point is 00:56:36 Yep. And the Susan coma is just that. Suspended animation to keep the space marine alive for that state. For how long you may ask, brother Silas of the Dark A, Angels was in the state for over 550 years. God, damn, that's a nap. And was successful. I mean, he learned from the best.
Starting point is 00:56:58 That's a dark angel. That's true. It's like it's just fair. I didn't think about that. You're right. Damn, they love their naps. They do. And so he was revived after that time period.
Starting point is 00:57:11 So they can go into a pretty serious like comatose state. Of course. Oh, go ahead. I'll just say Mechanica, Mechanicus, you know what it is. It's an intake in vitamins in a tube of like paste and gruel. Oh, sure. Yeah. It's not that.
Starting point is 00:57:28 Except for the occasional bite of a cookie. Mm-hmm. B-Y-P-E. B-Y-P-E. Bight of a cookie. I was just going to move on. I was just going to move past it because I didn't. Possum, you son of a bitch.
Starting point is 00:57:42 You did a other bad one. These are like Uber dad jokes. today. I don't know. Like my 50 year old dad was given like a Warhammer like book and was like oh hey how about a bite of cookie for the robots and right, right?
Starting point is 00:57:58 I don't know much about possum but I'm getting like early late 30s, early 40s vibes because I'm getting like the occasional millennial zoomer joke that I would appreciate because I'm on the cusp and then I'm getting
Starting point is 00:58:14 like some reference to God knows what for you. And I'm like, okay, there's something going on here. Yeah, there's definitely something. But yeah, I don't remember the last time I was like, oh, yeah, I totally remember a space marine like sitting down for a meal. Like aside from the space wolves, yeah, I can't think of a time where like a space wolf sat down for dinner.
Starting point is 00:58:40 Well, you mean like a space marine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, normally, I mean, they have all those damn connectors and a hooks in their body like they just it's just they see like a like a paste of gruel something just you know yeah like do it in big power armor doesn't eat much because like yeah you never see them take a shit either it's like that's probably there's some waste removal abba blah blah yeah honestly for the longest time i kind of just figured space marines didn't need to eat or just one of the tubes was just siphoning in what they needed and they just never had to period i mean they definitely need to
Starting point is 00:59:17 because, you know, mass and all that. But obviously, just they're so efficient. Yeah. Now, obviously, we have this part of the section, which is Shai's super special, dedicated orc food and drink section, naturally. Naturally, sure. Though, unfortunately, is not what I would call
Starting point is 00:59:36 the most exciting thing. Now, orcs can derive nutrients in a photosynthetic sense, like, because, you know, they're fungi. Yep, they're fungus, yep. They can actually get quite a decent amount of nutrients just to the fact that they can get sun or various types of that because they are
Starting point is 00:59:58 indeed plants. They're fungi. Obviously, they don't always need it because they can be on a ship forever and just think about not eating and then that works. True. But, you know, however, the orcs are orcs, therefore they still eat.
Starting point is 01:00:17 It is very well established that orcs like to eat humans. I'm not surprised. They like to eat humis. However, of course, if I had to ask you, what's the most commonly eaten thing by an orc? Probably other orcs? No. Oh. We already said that eat humans, meat.
Starting point is 01:00:41 Okay, come on. Anything? This is an easy answer. What is like a farming animal for orcs? Farming animal for orcs I Bro Cattle
Starting point is 01:00:55 We did a tier list on this We did Of course I know this Bricky Why don't you tell the fans That weren't here for that episode Holy shit Deky It's a squig
Starting point is 01:01:05 Of course it's a squig I totally forgot that squigs even existed How dare you forget that squigs exist? I actually forgot The squigs even existed Until he said squigs I was like Oh, how dare you forget the squigs. Hair squigs.
Starting point is 01:01:21 They have a squig for everything. Of course squigs would be the most commonly eaten thing. I mean, they got their eaten squigs. And eating squigs are literally limbless squigs that subsists off of fungi and are cooked by Gretchen, which are apparently quite good chefs, and have various ways like cabobbed, marinated in fungus wine, stuffed with fungus and herbs, roasted on a spip, deep fry with fungus chips or grilled over a campfire. They can also be eaten raw if there's no Gretchen around for eating them,
Starting point is 01:01:52 but there's also really like juicy squigs, which are rare, gigantic squigs that are apparently some, and I quote, serious gourmet shit that the knobs and war bosses tend to love. Damn, that's some serious, so they literally just have limbless squigs that are just like, yeah, we breed these squigs to eat. That's it. Period. The end. That makes sense for the orcs.
Starting point is 01:02:21 Yeah, sure. And of course, you know, Gretchen and other orcs will tend to play a bit of a joke on their friends. And you might always be, you know, you might get hit by the good old bomb squig. Oh, okay. Or, you know, other things like that. Oh, God. That's an eating squid. Oh.
Starting point is 01:02:45 Oh. That would be, in fact, an eating squig. Yes, sir. Oh, God. That's, that's, that's going to stay with me for a while. It's good stuff. Look at that poor bastard's face. Like, why do I exist?
Starting point is 01:03:00 You exist to be eaten. Oh. Yep. I mean, squigs have a wide variety of looks, and that would be one of them. Holy shit. You can make it, oh, actually, you can make a good, bricky emote out of that. Ew. You make a solid bricky emo
Starting point is 01:03:19 out of that. I believe you, but damn. Ew. The brickloaf. The brickloaf. Now, if you're curious what they taste like, like a mushroom-y chicken, kind of thing,
Starting point is 01:03:34 there is a, in fantasy, there is someone who call it smoked hand with a lightness of a young chicken. So, whenever I think of mushroomy chicken, I kind of think of like a jackfruit, like a, like a V.
Starting point is 01:03:45 chicken supplement that you would get at like a vegan place or something. Okay. So it's pretty tasty. That sounds all right. Yeah. I think you actually make some really good stuff out of jackfruit. So I'm certainly no vegan, but, you know, they, they've been trying hard. I won't lie.
Starting point is 01:04:01 And they've been doing all right with some of their options. Yeah. Now, of course, there are the other Zenos food, of course. But, you know, it's a bit different. the kin of the Voton tend to eat quite well, despite their circumstances on the galaxy, but, you know, dwarves. Yeah, they're going to eat, they're going to drink, sure.
Starting point is 01:04:23 Yeah, it's a big part of it, of course. There's the food of the Eldar, which the Emperor's children have been known to consume and enjoy Eldar food. I won't lie, I read this, and I immediately assumed that meant that they, like, turned them into drugs. Of course.
Starting point is 01:04:39 But apparently not. Apparently the Emperor's children just like, Eldar food because it's so high emotion. It's so highly, you know, fancified. Oh, okay. Their emperor's children. Mm-hmm. However, you know, it may be a bit of a bad example of food compatibility between the species.
Starting point is 01:04:57 Eldar food is fairly robust and flavorful due to their senses. We consider very well-seasoned. And our food would most likely be considered inedible and bland to an Eldar palate. So, you know. Mm-hmm. It would be perfect for the Empress children, yeah. That being said, if an Eldar food would be good food, you would probably assume it would be such a sensory overload
Starting point is 01:05:20 that would be fatal to humans or at least... Yeah. Holy crap, I can't eat this. Naturally, the Emperor's children want to expand their palate. Which, yeah, is its own thing. Yeah. Yeah. I've been reading the faultless blade,
Starting point is 01:05:41 and yeah, they're crazy. They're crazy. They are insane. I cannot wait to paint up my Ambris Children Army. Hell yeah. There are other species, of course. Tyrannids are notably vegan. Sure.
Starting point is 01:06:00 Sure, yes. Tarynids, notably vegan. Only meat substitutes through the tarynids. Yep, sure, sure, sure. Raw biomass. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Yeah. Is there anything a Tyrannid won't eat?
Starting point is 01:06:16 No, remember, and I quote, by the emperor, they won't even leave our heir. Yeah, they eat everything. Now, in the Tao, though, this is most definitely, like, kind of goes along with the Tao stereotype, which is a more eastern. They bring along rations called Nim Konai, which are udon noodles, kind of in a little green sauce that are shaking. before consumed like an MRE sense. Oh, sounds lovely. It genuinely does, actually. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:06:48 If my MREs were like a green sauce udon, I would think that would be awesome. Yeah, I love it. Instead of salty crackers and, you know. People meat. Yeah, that or I meant like real live MREs to like dry meat, but that too. There might still be people meat in real MREs. Yeah, maybe. You just don't know.
Starting point is 01:07:07 But yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, when it comes to the overall food type stuff, it is like generally you know not uh it's up to the author there are some obvious ones we start with corn and water are the big ones but that's boring corp starch is most definitely yes a tofu like substance that people are made out of amisec is a kind of a catch-all for alcohol
Starting point is 01:07:32 much like recap is a bit of a catch-all for coffee but they assume it is coffee and like a wine but besides that uh that's that's that's kind of the about it's the most stuff past that it is just the writer's discretion if they want some kind of paste nutrient thing they want some sci-fi alcohol like yeah what's um what's the krogan one is it ring call oh yeah it's something like that yeah yeah yes where it's so good it just like kills you oh no no it's so strong it kills you mm-hmm funny stuff man i really hope the next Mass Effect game is good.
Starting point is 01:08:15 It's not going to be. It's going to be terrible. It's going to be awful if it even comes out. And I just, I just, I don't know if I can handle it. Me getting a, me playing a prank on Talley and giving her rink call instead of a dextro base drink. So she just fucking die. My God.
Starting point is 01:08:35 I was going to say, you give that to Talley and it's just one sip, one drop hits her lips. Dead. I love how I love how What is it She gets like drunk off of like some weird dextral wine Put in her systems And at the party in the Ciddle DLC
Starting point is 01:08:54 She's like whoa Damn the Cid L DLC was so good too Anyway Yeah another another another noticeably short episode Injection Or a hort Yeah crap it was a long episode again. Okay, well, I won't delay it too much longer. Go buy the poster. Check it out.
Starting point is 01:09:15 We'll be around later. Bye-bye.

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