Adeptus Ridiculous - FOOD IN THE IMPERIUM (Yes, corpse-starch is in this one) | Warhammer 40k Lore
Episode Date: March 12, 2025https://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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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,
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It's wonderful.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Duck smoke
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Mm-hmm.
Hell yeah.
Let's go.
Pretty, as the kids say, it's pretty poggers, dude.
Mm-hmm.
So, D.K.
Mm-hmm.
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.
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
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
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
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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,
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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,
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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,
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.
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.
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,
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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
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.
It's just red bull.
It's just red bull.
Jesus.
All right.
Yeah.
No, you're right.
You're right.
Yeah.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Yeah.
Obviously,
wild snake is a bit of a reference
to the mescal worm
there.
So,
you know,
just,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
Okay, come on.
Anything?
This is an easy answer.
What is like a farming animal for orcs?
Farming animal for orcs
I
Bro
Cattle
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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?
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
We'll be around later. Bye-bye.
