I'd also add that the legends about Roman soldiers not liking meat (or beer) are probably much exaggerated. It probably largely comes from the fact that, before refrigeration, fresh meat was _much_ more difficult to get to the front than good grains, which did indeed constitute the majority of the Roman soldier's diet. The supply trains that followed Roman armies could often be the size of small cities depending upon the number of legions they were supporting, but adding a significant number of animals to that train whose sole purpose was to be slaughtered at some point was just cost ineffective, to say the least. Having said that, salted meats were absolutely part of the menu. In some eras, some records indicate that the typical legionary was afforded a pound of bacon per day! The spoils of war also often amounted to the victimization of many of the local livestock wherever Rome marched as well, of course. As for beer: Well, it wasn't huge in Roman culture to begin with, but neither were pants, and both of those are things that we know for a fact that Roman soldiers ended up living amongst and eventually adopting more than the typical Roman citizen. There are stories of former soldiers brewing beer for the younger comrades as part of the supply train in campaigns in Germany as well, indicating that while beer wasn't as popular as wine, many Romans ended up taking to the brew in situations where they were unable to get the grape stuff as readily. So to paraphrase the words uttered by a member of another army of equal moral fiber to that of _any_ empire: *"Looks like meat [and beer]'s back on the menu, boys!"*
@@chompythebeast its also likely the case that romans had to cook the food themselves, and so if you take some guy trained in war... he may not know how to properly cook saltpork... or he may not have enough water, or fresh water, to be able to do so.
The canned iguana meat can be a sign of how far the food shortages were prewar. I could imagine corporations going for more exotic meat just to meet the high demands kinda like Oddworld
I always thought they would start canning on their own. Like atleast maming stew in jars or something. Maybe the iguana meat is imported from somwhere. Or maybe they just all all lizard type creatures iguanas
@CEO of Unpopular Opinions Remember this you gotta separate game mechanics from in universe weirdness. you don't see the PC or NPC's running around with backpacks or shopping carts or something to carry their supplies or weapons in
The model of the S'mores in Fallout 76 seems to show the bottom layer of chocolate being a darker color than the top layer of chocolate, which could mean that the bottom layer is dark chocolate and the top layer is milk chocolate, which would be a decadent and rich eating experience.
Could also be some sort of slight milk syrup or even a cocoa powder kind of deal, but the ridges make it a tough call. Honest double chocolate after the apocalypse? That'd be heaven
A Florida or Louisiana fallout definitely would. I mean nukaworld has gator claws. Giant snapping turtles. Gators. Snakes. Jesus. Giant 50 foot long anacondas
According to my knowledge of Ancient Rome, the consumption of less meat would be a reference to gladiators' diets, not soldier's. The common understanding of soldier's rations of the time was wheat, vegetables and some type of meat, depending on station and operations at the time. The staple ration for almost everyone in the empire were grains, such as wheat and barley. Gladiators were known to consume lower amounts of meat and larger amounts of grains such as barley, giving them the name hordearii or "barley eaters". The reason why their diet was different was most likely due to budgetary reasons, as generally slaves/prisoners are fed the bare minimum. Also, the young Catholic Church actually condemned sausage eating and made it a sin. Emperor Constantine seemed to agree with this sentiment, banning the eating of sausage as well. More specifically the banning of blood sausage dates back to the 10th century Byzantine Empire. Emperor Leo VI outlawed the production and consumption of blood sausage due to the prevalence of food poisoning associated with how blood sausage was prepared. Of course, an army marches on its stomach so it would be wise to avoid dysentery and the likes. Cheers!
Gladiators were not slaves. They were athletes, more comparable to WWE than cage fighting; some even had their own product endorsements and often came from wealthy families. One of the most popular perfumes was their cleaning oil, so any one could make a decent second income. I'd think the diet is more for aesthetic reasons: they usually had quite the layer of subdermal fat. This allowed for impressive looking cuts AND gave protection against accidental deep cuts, even slight stab wounds. I would also guess that the blood sausage stigma was partially a holdover from kosher law. I know "sausage eater" used to be an insult, but forgot by whom, why or when 😑
@@Burner-B The majority of low-level gladiators were slaves or prisoners. They were taken care when it came to health and food, but also had strict training and were often looked down upon by the higher classes. This is even true when it comes to where they were allowed to be buried, as they were often segregated from freemen. Although often people would choose to become a gladiator freely, as you said they had a chance to become famous. Even at least one emperor joined in on the games. Emperor Commodus was the best-known example of such. So, you are partially correct, but for the most part they were indeed slaves or prisoners of war, or at the very least considered to be low class or slaves. There were multiple reasons why they had such a diet, budget, as well as high energy intake. Barley was considered an inferior grain by most Romans, but also considered healthy in relative terms. Cheers.
@@gaiusgermanicus6765that was only in the very beginning of the Roman society, by the period of 75 BC-100AD that most gladiators were people signing into schools and by that period they were often seen as celebrities
May be iguana is just slang for mistery meat, its like "hey man what's the meat"" i dunno iguana?" And it just stuck and as to the first follout do you really think that the reptile on a stick is an iguana cause i don't think the barely alive humans would care what species the reptile is
I like to imagine the wasteland animals just have an instinct to leave someone who is clearly fucked up and tripping balls alone because they know if they mess with said person it’s likely they will either die or get an ass whooping
RE: Ruby's Casserole, "it is unknown how the venom enhances the casserole, but according to Ruby, don't eat the casserole with an open sore in the mouth, since it will kill you dead." In the same quote, moments before, she says the venom gives it a nice smoky flavor.
For the record Squirrel is quite tasty BBQ teriyaki style.... Welcome to Kentucky. Squirrel stew is good too from whats left over from the limbs of the squirrel.
@@ashleysmith38 sometimes squirrels can be stringy, and tough when grilled. So deboning said squirrel and putting it in a pressure cooker makes it good for the said stew.
To add on to the idea with the Iguana stuff: They are a retile that can grow at a fair rate, get big, eat plants and things we normally wouldn't... If food was in dire straits for so long, I can see people moving to that. As for not seeing it, assets maybe? It being all over the place is a little less likely, but ya deal with what ya got.
It could also be that iguana has become a catch all for all reptiles and that iguana meat is just the meat of any old lizard. I think that tegu which look quite similar to iguana and are an invasive species in the us are used to make “iguana” meat
The Vault Dweller's Official Cookbook version of brahmin fries are essentially just Scotch eggs. I don't know if they're available in America but they're a common snack here in the UK. Scotch eggs are hard boiled eggs coated in sausage meat and breadcrumbs. Despite what the name would suggest, they aren't actually Scottish. They were invented in England and there are multiple theories about how they gained their name. For some reason, they seem to have lost popularity in more recent years but they are quite tasty.
A possible solution to the yellow color of the canned iguana meat: its potted. In the 18th century, a method of preserving meat was to seal it in a jar with a layer of clarified butter. The butter would be poured in melted, and allowed to cool, forming a waxy, translucent yellow plug between the meat and aerial microbes that might spoil it.
Iguana bits may be popular and exist across the whole wasteland for the same reason Deathclaws exist across the whole continental wasteland, since the chamaleons they evolved from were such popular pets and mutated across several decades of radiation. My guess is that the iguana bits were a popular snack and so there were places dedicated to breeding them to meet demand
Deathclaw are actually a Vault TEC experiment that they let the public have as pets but didn't tell about the experiment basically if hit with Radiation they wouldn't die but live and grow
Deathclaws were the result of prewar military experiments with genetically engineering a monster to unleash behind enemy lines. Their widespread distribution is most likely a combination of migration after the bombs fell and multiple facilities working on slightly different breeds scattered around the country.
I have a running theory that the enclave made the deathclaws prewar in Appalachia and when the bombs dropped they were able to escape and the reason they are so rare in fallout 1 is because they are still in the process of migrating to the west coast which would also explain why most people talk about them like they're legends or don't exist or just straight up don't know what a deathclaw is. And it also explains why deathclaws are so prevalent in fallout 76 despite it being only 25-27 years after the bombs dropped, cuz it would only make sense that that's where they originated from. The Appalachian mountains are secluded, rural, and if one escaped it wouldn't be able to do much harm to anything because of the sparse population of west virginia and would be easier to contain, it also explains why the enclave have such an interest in deathclaws
The term "Donut" in Fasnacht Donut is quite misleading. In Germany, we call them Krapfen (not Karpfen, which is a fish). Krapfen, in some parts also called Faschingskrapfen (Fasching = Carneval), uually made with a yeast-dough, sometimes also a shortcrust, boiled in oil, then rolled in sugar.
@@DS-wl5pk Yep.... Welcome to Germany. Funny thing, sometimes it's just how you pronounce things. The word "umfahren" can mean either to drive around something or someone (if you emphasise the fahren) or to drive something or someone over (if you emphasise the prefix um)....
this video makes me really hungry, then makes me no longer hungry by showing me some nasty food, then makes me hungry again by showing me something absolutley delicious
I honestly don’t know why this channel isn’t more popular. You go so in depth into literal fictional food and I love it. Keep up the great videos man. 👍🏻
You can get Dethclaw Omlette in New Vegas from the girl in the Mess Hall in Sloan. Bringing her a Deathclaw Egg gets you a Deathclaw Omlette and if I recall correctly you learn to make them as a result.
Considering the word is of french origin, the british spelling is how its spelled in french so i like to think its the correct one. Honestly, ive never seen it as omelet anyways
the stinky may be surströmming. a swedish lightly saltet fermentet rotting fish that shows its readyness when the Tin it is perserved in bloats. In 1981, a German landlord evicted a tenant without notice after the tenant spread surströmming brine in the apartment building's stairwell. When the landlord was taken to court, the court ruled that the termination was justified when the landlord's party demonstrated their case by opening a can inside the courtroom. The court concluded that it "had convinced itself that the disgusting smell of the fish brine far exceeded the degree that fellow-tenants in the building could be expected to tolerate" for the blood sausage, you usualy bleed out the meat and then keep it spinning in a tub to keep it from congealing ( in the traditional way i used make it with the bare hand) then later when you ready the sausage meat you add it back into. then when the sausage is heattreated, (depending on teh thickness) it is quiet sturdy you can cut them to chunks and put them on a stick for a nice crisp roasting. the fassnacht is a reference to Germanys Fasching/Karneval. it is common to celebrate by eating the Donut, however we kall it "Krapfen" usualy it is filled with jam like strawberry or cherry. and the sausage is just a bratwurst. a steamed then grilled pork sausage. the spoiled meat may be a reference to the usual low quality of teh "flesh" used in in those since we have a saying that you dount wanna know whats in a sausage
I think the implication of gulper slurry is that you rub it on yourself to appear invisible to, say, the animals of the island - similar to how people in zombie movies will rub zombie innards on themselves to blend in.
The smores one using bone could be ground up powdered bone mixed into the razorgrain flour, in medieval France there were documented occurrences of bakers grinding the bones of the dead (from cemeteries) to bulk flour during times of famine
13:48 Awww come on RK. Cooking is easy, just need a bit of imagination and good taste. Just the other day I was experimenting and discovered tuna fish, mixed with cajun spice and 3 diced jalapenos makes some INCREDIBLE sandwiches! I'm tempted to share the recipe with Subway, just scared they won't let me have a cut of the profits.🤣🤣🤣
I like to mix mine with a bit of Cajun seasoning as well. One time all I had to eat was tuna and some jalapeño cheddar crackers so I drained the tuna, mixed in some mayo, crumbled the crackers and mixed them in as well. Wasn't half bad.
The Fasnacht donut is actually indeed a donut, it looks like one you can get in my hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana called a beignet. Same idea, even has the powdered sugar atop of them and everything.
Cafe Du Monde may be a tourist trap, but it's worth doing while you're there, especially if you can get there when the line isn't stupid (ie early). Do you have a favorite spot for beignets that's usually a bit less crowded?
I absolutely love this guy's work. Every single video I learn something new about the lore and game design. Definitely up there with my favorite channels!
I think iguana meat is popular because iguanas are simply easy to hunt As for where iguanas are? They're just not onscreen like squirrels which are eaten regularly in the wasteland (squirrel stew\on a stick)but they only appear in fallout 76
@@theencolony5595 well it does for the mojave considering there are multiple references and call backs to the first 2 games, and it being based on the nevada/california border
I remember when New Vegas first dropped, I'd have barely been a nine year old knucklehead. But my folks still got me the game. Didn't understand how inventory worked 100% so every food item I came across went right into my inventory, and once I got over encumbered I'd just scarf it all down and get rad poisoning! Then wander about cuz I had no idea how to get rid of radiation. Great times, food really does make the best memories eh? On a side note I did a little interesting digging! The R96 Assault Rifle is supposedly based near 1:1 off the CETME assault rifle family. Although from what I've gathered it's a 7.62 Spanish rifle they rocked sometime in the 80s-early 90s. Surprisingly reliable from what I've seen, but I haven't seen much. Just something for if you ever do another weapons video. As always! Stupendous work, Rad King!
bethesda recycled a lot of old fallout imagery to make fallout 3 appealing Frankly, I don't know why they didn't put more effort into creating a distinctive flora and flora, and therefore, pallette Pretty lazy imo
I know this is a two week response but those could be from descendants of iguanas that escaped from zoos or former pets. Possibly in the case of the capital wasteland it could be the zoo explanation.
@@eitanrosen464 Maybe, but were they enough iguanas in DC at that time for them to sustain and increase the population enough so people would hunt them en masse?
My head cannon is that ‘iguana meat’ is just a euphemism for human flesh that caught on after the war, hence why it seems to be readily available everywhere humans live no matter the climate.
Been a sub for a while, and I just wanted to say I really like your work. Good mix of lore and your own thoughts that gives the lore some direction rather then the blank regurgitation of item and story bits so many other fallout focused channels spew out. Great work, thumbs up. :)
22:25 blood sausage is called "sanguinaccio" (from SANGUE = BLOOD) in italy, expecially in south italy; is a food not very consumed anymore, since the last 20 years, but somebody (expecially old and mature people) consumes it
Adding up, in Portugal is usually called morcela (wonder if has some association to the english word 'morsel'). It is usually made with a mix of pig blood, rice, fat, and red wine, on pig intestines. Although most younger people don't eat it by itself or in bread, is a common ingredient for cozido and feijoada.
"Grinder" is a term that I've only ever encountered living in New England, and is simply a regional alternative to "sub". Of all the years I spent living in Virginia and traveling frequently to and through West Virginia, no one ever used it.
19:50 this is actually a really clever detail, as most venoms, including scorpion venom, is not actually poisonous. It's technically perfectly fine to eat it, just as long as it doesn't get in your bloodstream (like from an open wound)
The invisibility food could work because of the combination of material mimics a stealth boy after whatever the gulper intestines has breaks down the non edible components
I'd imagine the acid is there to dissolve the crystals. How any of that works, with or without gulper guts, is pure science fantasy. Or even SCIENCE!, I suppose.
I always assumed the "iguana bits" are what people called the deathclaw meat, because technically they're mutated iguanas. I assume when the military began experimenting on mutating them they sold the canned meat of the "failures". That would be very in lore for them to do. As for the rubber dinosaur on a stick...no idea.
Much like tuna being the chicken of the sea, scorpion is the lobster of the wasteland I always thought moldy food should have an ingredient to make penicillin at a aid station. Not necessarily helpful outside of a serval mode and maybe to complex for a player to make without a perk, but I could see a wasteland doctor questioning the player to hunt some moldy food down. Lol by fallouts logic the recipe would probably be moldy food, irradiated blood and a hubflower.
@@davidhong1934 The hunters in fallout 4 certainly look like lobsters. while normal Mirelurks look more like horseshoecrab. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab This article notes that horseshoe crabs are more closely related to arachnids so more like spiders and scorptions so yeah.
Iguanas are as prolific as squirrels in Florida, and they are a very popular pet all over, so much like the fallout explanation for radscorpions, perhaps iguana bits exist because of a combination of necessity, availability, and general safety of edibility.
Regarding the caravan lunch. In some old tabletop games, HP can also represent your mental fatigue as a result of battle. In this case it might not be the actual nutrition so much as the presentation of the meal. Sitting down to eat a spread of lunch is much better than cramming your facehole with another rusty can of pork n beans.
My guess on the no Iguanas in the wasteland thing is that one or several groups of people caught all the wild iguanas at some point and started breeding them in a facility unknown, and they were very thorough with the catching because they wanted a monopoly on the iguana based food market
Diseased cranberries might be a reference to the “Noble Rot” in wine making. The common fungus “Botrytis cinerea” concentrates the sugar in grapes. It’s the white fuzzy mold you see sometimes on blueberries, a cranberry relative. This might be their justification for it.
Gulper Slurry headcanon: The acid and crystal aren't referring to the crafting items but instead drugs. You're not really invisible, you're just so high that you think you are.
On the topic of how they might have bred molerats, with them always digging through stuff, it actually shouldn’t be that difficult. In principal at least. You just need a solid metal compound area fenced off on all sides with additional stone blocks or something to prevent them from pushing in and just shattering the fence with pressure. My grandfather used wooden posts buried deep and reinforced with concrete blocks on the farm. The ground would have to be asphalt, concrete or again some metal platform with bedding so they don’t get injured or sick, but can’t burrow into it. This is all just a base. The main thing would be to actually stop them from trying to break out, not just creating a strong cage. Assuming you went out and caught a few of them somehow, you’d want to bring them in the cage and tie them to something, then shatter or pull out their teeth, and put metal nose rings on them. Irl we do this to pigs to deter them from uprooting and digging because it hurts them to push into the earth strongly with nose rings on. With next generations, take out the teeth while they are young, put nose rings and castrate males not suitable for mating. In a few years, you can actually set up a pretty solid molerat farming operation. So it’s really nothing too strange conceptually, it’s doable.
Iguana bits = chicken of the wasteland. Reptile and bird meat are very very similar. Up until fallout 76, there were no edible fowl in the wasteland. So when survivors of the great war had a hankerin for chicken... they figured out the big green iguanas that showed shortly after they crawled out of their backyard fallout shelter were damn near the same thing.
@@Rad_King throw in a sunset sarsaparilla and you have yourself a deal . 200 year old hamburgers don't sound that good....I'm keeping the animal fries though .
dried brahmin dung as a cooking fuel source is a real thing. Dried cow patties has been used as 'firewood' for a long time. Cow digestion is very efficent, and their poop; when fed on not-that-nutrieant grasses, is basicaly becomes solid cellulose bricks, when they are left out to dry in the sun for a few months.
You're not the only one who thought "mutfruit" is pronounced as "mutt-fruit"! My dad (he's also a fan of the _Falout_ series) and I pronounced it as "mutt-fruit" for years until we heard an NPC in the game pronounce it as "mute-fruit". In my opinion, the "mutt-fruit" pronunciation works just as well, because a mutt is something that has an unidentifiable admixture, and the mutfruit is indeed a mutated combination of various fruits.
I thought pepperoini rolls were really popular in the south? I've seen several cooking shows such as "A Chef's Life" with Vivian Howard(southern chef) where she devoted an entire episode to hand pies and pepperoni rolls were given significant attention. I think she's from South carolina though
my personal theory is that iguanas are found in some place near the center of the united states, and the reason theyre found everywhere is that for whatever reason post-war iguanas are incredibly easy to farm, maybe some mutation made them hyper-horny, and long-distance traders trade mass amounts of it (the ease of farming and light weight could mean theyre incredibly cheap to get in bulk from the source, spreading it out throughout the wasteland. id presume near where iguanas are found, itd probably be nearly the only food, but everywhere else, its just incredibly common. i dont think the idea of traders hauling back giant packs of iguana corpses would be too far-fetched
Noodles were present in the original Fallouts, I believe. "Box of noodles" is labeled as instant spaghetti, though, different-looking than the instant ramen stuff found in 3, FNV, and 4.
I still remember playing fallout 4 and having my melee weapons be more damaging with each hit than a mini nuke and being extremely confused because of it. Then the damage went back to normal, until I ate a Yao guay roast, aparently the +10 meant ×5 somehow, bethesda sometimes is like that
A theory I saw once was that is used to be real iguana but after a while the people who made it just started using whatever meat they could find mixing it together and calling it a day
Alot of people say all iguana bits are human flesh but I don't think iguana bits arent human flesh in the later games because only bob's are human flesh from doc morbid.
Well, you can't kill him in that game without making the entire town hostile, and you can't even report him to the police. So I think that means canonically Bob never got caught by anyone other than the chosen one. That would mean he is free to spread his recipe to every shady businesses man and cannibal in the wasteland. Plus fallout loves doing references like that every if it doesn't fully make sense. 76 mentioned that the Gurmands were from Apalachicola. Apparently that tribe of cannibals made it across the country to Vegas and even survived for 200 years without changing their name. Thought if it was a reference I would expect it to give extra stats when you have the cannibal perk.
@@rolay7730 I don't think the gormands are the same faction in 76 and NV plus how would they have the human flesh iguana bit recipe this early in the timeline
Have you ever mixed the main components of a caravan lunch and eaten it? 1. It's delicious. it could use some hot sauce, though. 2. It's really filling.
Someone else mentioned that Blood sausage is considered a chem which may be why it's not allowed at the camp in a game code standard. But I do know that most of the tribes that make up Caesars legion are based off of a lot of love tribes and prewar people intermingling after the war. Among the groups in those mixes are the Navajo, who make a kind of blood sausage where blood is cleaned, mixed with potatoes and baked in the clean stomach. Caesar might have considered the food to be to close to the tribes before they became the 87th, so he probably banned it for that reason
Funny I used to work in a meat market in a regular grocery and yes while we didnt sell bull testicles we did sell pork testicles. We also sold chicken feet, canned pig brains (in milk gravy), and intestine, among many other things. We didn't have iguana but we probably could've gotten it. We DID have Gator tho. Also fun fact another name for pork testicles is "Rocky Mountain Oyster"
The reason blood sausages aren’t allowed in Legion forts is because it is erroneously categorized as a chem in the game’s code, and Caesar did not allow chem use in the Legion.
I think the food items would really benefit from 1) Staying a bit more grounded with their effects and 2) Having a morale bar in addition to HP/Hunger/Thirst/ etc... Food is such an integral part of day to day life that we take for granted nowadays, but in a wasteland it would literally be life and death. I was never a fan of the whole healing through food idea that Skyrim did especially badly. If healing is a property, I'd say it should be a very slow and very long lasting life regen. Morale could affect a bunch of things, with good morale giving more exp, letting you run for longer, push yourself harder in terms of stamina/AP, giving you more strength and endurance at higher ends of it. It could be a gradual bar that gives more bonuses to more stuff the higher it is, and penalties if it's low. With maybe attributes like endurance/charisma/luck affecting how high your morale can go.
*be me in fallout world, sees Deathclaw* *Human brain* 'That thing is huge, scary, and very very deadly.. avoid at all costs' *monkey brain* 'big beast, big food!' Me: Food it is
In Fallout 4 Deathclaws can loose their tails when it takes enough damage. If they still have any form of lizard regeneration, could we cut the tail off leaving it to grow back while having a possible 30lbs chunk of meat to smoke over hickory chips with a post war dry rub
I always thought the town was pronounced "Hell-vee-shuh", and that they were "SILT" beans, like the fine sand or soil found around rivers and streams...
Blood Sausage in Fallout you get through the Them's Good Eating perk and can be found on the corpses of I believe only humanoid creaters, there for you are committing cannibalism every time you eat them. Which would be a good reason for the Legion to ban them.
IIRC, "blood sausage" is another shoutout to the original Wasteland, too. One of the over-the-top enemy death descriptions is that their "head explodes like a blood sausage".
@@raziyatheseeker yup, Wasteland's descriptions were great but let's be honest. Some of them made no sense, how does a head explode like a "Blood Sausage" when a Blood Sausage is a tube of coagulated blood.
7:10 New Vegas also has the deathclaw omelet you have to talk to some lady in sloan about it. She even mentions that her grandma had a deathclaw in a shed to get fresh eggs from, until someone killed it. Oh my mistake it's the wasteland omelte. But that's a refrence to fallout 2 in New vegas.
I think, in fallout one and two atleast, iguana bits are human flesh carved to look like iguana, especially with all the stuff that happens with iguna Bob
Taking about the squrrell stew: "-Fallout brotherhood of Steel, Fallout New Vegas-" Legit didn't expect that and got a laugh out of me. Okay, this humor is actually pretty great.
Blood sausage is counted as a chem in the game’s code, hence why it doesn’t decrease hunger and why it’s banned by the legion
I'd also add that the legends about Roman soldiers not liking meat (or beer) are probably much exaggerated. It probably largely comes from the fact that, before refrigeration, fresh meat was _much_ more difficult to get to the front than good grains, which did indeed constitute the majority of the Roman soldier's diet. The supply trains that followed Roman armies could often be the size of small cities depending upon the number of legions they were supporting, but adding a significant number of animals to that train whose sole purpose was to be slaughtered at some point was just cost ineffective, to say the least.
Having said that, salted meats were absolutely part of the menu. In some eras, some records indicate that the typical legionary was afforded a pound of bacon per day! The spoils of war also often amounted to the victimization of many of the local livestock wherever Rome marched as well, of course.
As for beer: Well, it wasn't huge in Roman culture to begin with, but neither were pants, and both of those are things that we know for a fact that Roman soldiers ended up living amongst and eventually adopting more than the typical Roman citizen. There are stories of former soldiers brewing beer for the younger comrades as part of the supply train in campaigns in Germany as well, indicating that while beer wasn't as popular as wine, many Romans ended up taking to the brew in situations where they were unable to get the grape stuff as readily.
So to paraphrase the words uttered by a member of another army of equal moral fiber to that of _any_ empire: *"Looks like meat [and beer]'s back on the menu, boys!"*
You also get it from Human, Ghoul & Super Mutant corpses through the Them's Good Eatin' Perk meaning that it's human or well almost human flesh
@@chompythebeast Romans preferred Wine but due to how much easier it is to keep did bring Beer with them after they finally Captured Gaul.
@@chompythebeast its also likely the case that romans had to cook the food themselves, and so if you take some guy trained in war... he may not know how to properly cook saltpork... or he may not have enough water, or fresh water, to be able to do so.
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"I dont understand why anyone would eat just a jar of jam or relish" ::cracks open 200 yo can of dog food:: "Dunno" 🤣
to be fair i've heard stories about soldiers eating dog food.
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"Soldiers eating on a dog food" huh...🐶🍽? Dang it, Sheila...😟
Zero. From the book/movie Holes. He cracked open that generations-old gooey peach slime and chugged it like a champ.
Depending on the brand, dog food is literally on the quality of human food.
And that's guaranteed with european brands (because that's a law there)
“It’s not the ingredients; it is how the chef chooses their ingredients and the love they have for their meals.”
-Cook-cook, Gourmand and Cannibal
Cook-Cook's all about the love.
@@oneblacksun all about makin-bakin
Look, I think he's a former cook for the Ultra Luxe that left after House told him no more Cannibalism.
And rapist don't forget rapist
@@MrPikaGammer probably got caught ass raping the human food with his flamethrower
The canned iguana meat can be a sign of how far the food shortages were prewar. I could imagine corporations going for more exotic meat just to meet the high demands kinda like Oddworld
I always thought they would start canning on their own. Like atleast maming stew in jars or something. Maybe the iguana meat is imported from somwhere. Or maybe they just all all lizard type creatures iguanas
its human
@CEO of Unpopular Opinions the ones on sticks could probably be carried around in dime bags
@CEO of Unpopular Opinions Remember this you gotta separate game mechanics from in universe weirdness. you don't see the PC or NPC's running around with backpacks or shopping carts or something to carry their supplies or weapons in
@CEO of Unpopular Opinions Merchants travel with Brahmin. Hunters run around with only armor and the weapons on their backs
The model of the S'mores in Fallout 76 seems to show the bottom layer of chocolate being a darker color than the top layer of chocolate, which could mean that the bottom layer is dark chocolate and the top layer is milk chocolate, which would be a decadent and rich eating experience.
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Could also be some sort of slight milk syrup or even a cocoa powder kind of deal, but the ridges make it a tough call. Honest double chocolate after the apocalypse? That'd be heaven
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I like how the insects didn't go extinct they just got ten times bigger, my god imagine the surviving reptiles, like turtles, gators, lizards. Etc
A Florida or Louisiana fallout definitely would. I mean nukaworld has gator claws. Giant snapping turtles. Gators. Snakes. Jesus. Giant 50 foot long anacondas
imagine slugs and fucking centipedes or fleas
@@MetalMilitia83 a giant giant anaconda
Imagine a mutated mole cricket
@@adventurouseddie9369 if the mantises were any larger they would be terrifying
According to my knowledge of Ancient Rome, the consumption of less meat would be a reference to gladiators' diets, not soldier's. The common understanding of soldier's rations of the time was wheat, vegetables and some type of meat, depending on station and operations at the time. The staple ration for almost everyone in the empire were grains, such as wheat and barley. Gladiators were known to consume lower amounts of meat and larger amounts of grains such as barley, giving them the name hordearii or "barley eaters". The reason why their diet was different was most likely due to budgetary reasons, as generally slaves/prisoners are fed the bare minimum.
Also, the young Catholic Church actually condemned sausage eating and made it a sin. Emperor Constantine seemed to agree with this sentiment, banning the eating of sausage as well. More specifically the banning of blood sausage dates back to the 10th century Byzantine Empire. Emperor Leo VI outlawed the production and consumption of blood sausage due to the prevalence of food poisoning associated with how blood sausage was prepared. Of course, an army marches on its stomach so it would be wise to avoid dysentery and the likes.
Cheers!
Gladiators were not slaves. They were athletes, more comparable to WWE than cage fighting; some even had their own product endorsements and often came from wealthy families. One of the most popular perfumes was their cleaning oil, so any one could make a decent second income.
I'd think the diet is more for aesthetic reasons: they usually had quite the layer of subdermal fat. This allowed for impressive looking cuts AND gave protection against accidental deep cuts, even slight stab wounds.
I would also guess that the blood sausage stigma was partially a holdover from kosher law.
I know "sausage eater" used to be an insult, but forgot by whom, why or when 😑
@@Burner-B The majority of low-level gladiators were slaves or prisoners. They were taken care when it came to health and food, but also had strict training and were often looked down upon by the higher classes. This is even true when it comes to where they were allowed to be buried, as they were often segregated from freemen. Although often people would choose to become a gladiator freely, as you said they had a chance to become famous. Even at least one emperor joined in on the games. Emperor Commodus was the best-known example of such. So, you are partially correct, but for the most part they were indeed slaves or prisoners of war, or at the very least considered to be low class or slaves.
There were multiple reasons why they had such a diet, budget, as well as high energy intake. Barley was considered an inferior grain by most Romans, but also considered healthy in relative terms.
Cheers.
@@gaiusgermanicus6765that was only in the very beginning of the Roman society, by the period of 75 BC-100AD that most gladiators were people signing into schools
and by that period they were often seen as celebrities
Marshmallows are made of gelatine, and gelatine is made from bone (usually pig bones which is why marshmallows aren't kosher)
That explains a lot
Can't it also be made from fat?
@@emilianozamora399 Bones, cartilage, connecting tissue, skin etc. doesn't have to be from pigs. Gelatine from cows is also common.
I mean I figured they were made from marshmallow but it’s possible that they’ve been synthesized over the years like so much else.
You can also find halal/kosher gelatin made from cow bones
As someone else commented earlier, a video/series about the armour and/or clothing of fallout would be interesting.
Stay tuned comrade!
@@Rad_King the fact that I seen you use the word comrade in a reply is why I'm going to give this channel a chance frist time seeing one you're videos
Yes I agree
This dude is gonna make list for everything at some point, I’m sure of it!
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May be iguana is just slang for mistery meat, its like "hey man what's the meat"" i dunno iguana?" And it just stuck and as to the first follout do you really think that the reptile on a stick is an iguana cause i don't think the barely alive humans would care what species the reptile is
17:24 Theory: it doesn't actually make you invisible. You're just tripping balls so hard everything wants to leave you alone.
I just picture a deathclaw nervously side eyeing a visibly highly fucked up dude jittering an crazy eyed.
If you look up in the trees of far harbor you can see invisible gulpers
Headcannon
I like to imagine the wasteland animals just have an instinct to leave someone who is clearly fucked up and tripping balls alone because they know if they mess with said person it’s likely they will either die or get an ass whooping
@jbiehlable I feel like I should know what you are referencing but I am stupid
RE: Ruby's Casserole, "it is unknown how the venom enhances the casserole, but according to Ruby, don't eat the casserole with an open sore in the mouth, since it will kill you dead." In the same quote, moments before, she says the venom gives it a nice smoky flavor.
For the record Squirrel is quite tasty BBQ teriyaki style.... Welcome to Kentucky. Squirrel stew is good too from whats left over from the limbs of the squirrel.
Squirrel Brain be bussin
@UCu87GAGUMaS4_HZFnwqW5DA I could see knox and the brotherhood of steel involved as well lol
How is there leftover squirrel it's tiny
@@ashleysmith38 sometimes squirrels can be stringy, and tough when grilled. So deboning said squirrel and putting it in a pressure cooker makes it good for the said stew.
@@ashleysmith38 also, some squirrels are a bit beefer than they appear. They look smaller in the tree. Lol
To add on to the idea with the Iguana stuff: They are a retile that can grow at a fair rate, get big, eat plants and things we normally wouldn't... If food was in dire straits for so long, I can see people moving to that. As for not seeing it, assets maybe? It being all over the place is a little less likely, but ya deal with what ya got.
It could also be that iguana has become a catch all for all reptiles and that iguana meat is just the meat of any old lizard. I think that tegu which look quite similar to iguana and are an invasive species in the us are used to make “iguana” meat
The Vault Dweller's Official Cookbook version of brahmin fries are essentially just Scotch eggs. I don't know if they're available in America but they're a common snack here in the UK. Scotch eggs are hard boiled eggs coated in sausage meat and breadcrumbs. Despite what the name would suggest, they aren't actually Scottish. They were invented in England and there are multiple theories about how they gained their name. For some reason, they seem to have lost popularity in more recent years but they are quite tasty.
Here in Brazil we call it Bolovo, and I think thats beautiful
A possible solution to the yellow color of the canned iguana meat: its potted. In the 18th century, a method of preserving meat was to seal it in a jar with a layer of clarified butter. The butter would be poured in melted, and allowed to cool, forming a waxy, translucent yellow plug between the meat and aerial microbes that might spoil it.
Radscorpions do seem to lay eggs (at least in New Vegas) you can collect some from a nest during the quest "Bleed Me Dry"
The gulper bits don't make you invisible. Your brain fights off a seizure and you just think you're invisible.
As for the S'mores, bone would make gelatin, as you said. Gelatin is needed to make marshmallows.
Iguana bits may be popular and exist across the whole wasteland for the same reason Deathclaws exist across the whole continental wasteland, since the chamaleons they evolved from were such popular pets and mutated across several decades of radiation. My guess is that the iguana bits were a popular snack and so there were places dedicated to breeding them to meet demand
Deathclaw are actually a Vault TEC experiment that they let the public have as pets but didn't tell about the experiment basically if hit with Radiation they wouldn't die but live and grow
Deathclaws were the result of prewar military experiments with genetically engineering a monster to unleash behind enemy lines. Their widespread distribution is most likely a combination of migration after the bombs fell and multiple facilities working on slightly different breeds scattered around the country.
I have a running theory that the enclave made the deathclaws prewar in Appalachia and when the bombs dropped they were able to escape and the reason they are so rare in fallout 1 is because they are still in the process of migrating to the west coast which would also explain why most people talk about them like they're legends or don't exist or just straight up don't know what a deathclaw is. And it also explains why deathclaws are so prevalent in fallout 76 despite it being only 25-27 years after the bombs dropped, cuz it would only make sense that that's where they originated from. The Appalachian mountains are secluded, rural, and if one escaped it wouldn't be able to do much harm to anything because of the sparse population of west virginia and would be easier to contain, it also explains why the enclave have such an interest in deathclaws
The term "Donut" in Fasnacht Donut is quite misleading. In Germany, we call them Krapfen (not Karpfen, which is a fish). Krapfen, in some parts also called Faschingskrapfen (Fasching = Carneval), uually made with a yeast-dough, sometimes also a shortcrust, boiled in oil, then rolled in sugar.
Wow, one placement of the "R" is the difference between a doughy treat or an actual fish
@@DS-wl5pk Yep.... Welcome to Germany. Funny thing, sometimes it's just how you pronounce things. The word "umfahren" can mean either to drive around something or someone (if you emphasise the fahren) or to drive something or someone over (if you emphasise the prefix um)....
Danke schön for that explanation!
this video makes me really hungry, then makes me no longer hungry by showing me some nasty food, then makes me hungry again by showing me something absolutley delicious
The Caravan Lunch might be more filling than all the elements separately because there might’ve been some type of filler added to the pre-war food.
I honestly don’t know why this channel isn’t more popular. You go so in depth into literal fictional food and I love it. Keep up the great videos man. 👍🏻
I think you figured it out. Only the nerdiest want to hear about the food of fallout 😄 I’m glad you’re hear though!
I think it's hilarious how they predicted the iguana meat. I live in Florida and they are literally overtaking the state.
You can get Dethclaw Omlette in New Vegas from the girl in the Mess Hall in Sloan. Bringing her a Deathclaw Egg gets you a Deathclaw Omlette and if I recall correctly you learn to make them as a result.
I, a 33 year old American, learned today that "Omelette" was a British spelling. I had to goggle what the American spelling was "omelet."
Considering the word is of french origin, the british spelling is how its spelled in french so i like to think its the correct one. Honestly, ive never seen it as omelet anyways
@@mocatdow Same, I've only ever seen omlette
the stinky may be surströmming. a swedish lightly saltet fermentet rotting fish that shows its readyness when the Tin it is perserved in bloats.
In 1981, a German landlord evicted a tenant without notice after the tenant spread surströmming brine in the apartment building's stairwell. When the landlord was taken to court, the court ruled that the termination was justified when the landlord's party demonstrated their case by opening a can inside the courtroom. The court concluded that it "had convinced itself that the disgusting smell of the fish brine far exceeded the degree that fellow-tenants in the building could be expected to tolerate"
for the blood sausage,
you usualy bleed out the meat and then keep it spinning in a tub to keep it from congealing ( in the traditional way i used make it with the bare hand) then later when you ready the sausage meat you add it back into. then when the sausage is heattreated, (depending on teh thickness) it is quiet sturdy you can cut them to chunks and put them on a stick for a nice crisp roasting.
the fassnacht is a reference to Germanys Fasching/Karneval. it is common to celebrate by eating the Donut, however we kall it "Krapfen" usualy it is filled with jam like strawberry or cherry. and the sausage is just a bratwurst. a steamed then grilled pork sausage. the spoiled meat may be a reference to the usual low quality of teh "flesh" used in in those since we have a saying that you dount wanna know whats in a sausage
well, I know it's bad but Weisswurst ist yummy!
@@mecca6801 i am more of a "frische mettbratwurst" guy
@@Mogura85 I think I need to go to market! 🤤
That's cool!
I think the implication of gulper slurry is that you rub it on yourself to appear invisible to, say, the animals of the island - similar to how people in zombie movies will rub zombie innards on themselves to blend in.
Your narration this episode was probably he best yet! I love your content. 100/10
The smores one using bone could be ground up powdered bone mixed into the razorgrain flour, in medieval France there were documented occurrences of bakers grinding the bones of the dead (from cemeteries) to bulk flour during times of famine
bone can be used to make the Marshmallow, since they are made of (sugar, water and gelatin), and gelatin can be made of animal parts (collagen)
13:48 Awww come on RK. Cooking is easy, just need a bit of imagination and good taste.
Just the other day I was experimenting and discovered tuna fish, mixed with cajun spice and 3 diced jalapenos makes some INCREDIBLE sandwiches! I'm tempted to share the recipe with Subway, just scared they won't let me have a cut of the profits.🤣🤣🤣
I like to mix mine with a bit of Cajun seasoning as well. One time all I had to eat was tuna and some jalapeño cheddar crackers so I drained the tuna, mixed in some mayo, crumbled the crackers and mixed them in as well. Wasn't half bad.
@@skystorm569 Yup its good stuff! Hmm...now you done made me hungry🤣🤣
Heading to the local SM get some
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The Fasnacht donut is actually indeed a donut, it looks like one you can get in my hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana called a beignet. Same idea, even has the powdered sugar atop of them and everything.
Any honey to use as well or is it just some scarface props of cokieana
@@giovannicervantes2053 It is actually true that eating good beignets will often leave one looking distinctly like Tony Montana
Cafe Du Monde may be a tourist trap, but it's worth doing while you're there, especially if you can get there when the line isn't stupid (ie early). Do you have a favorite spot for beignets that's usually a bit less crowded?
@@chompythebeast Try a local joint that sells em.
@@chompythebeast I think the closest I ever got to having good Beignets was at a goddamn County Fair for some bands n shit
I absolutely love this guy's work. Every single video I learn something new about the lore and game design. Definitely up there with my favorite channels!
I think iguana meat is popular because iguanas are simply easy to hunt
As for where iguanas are? They're just not onscreen like squirrels which are eaten regularly in the wasteland (squirrel stew\on a stick)but they only appear in fallout 76
Iguana bits are people.....you find out where in either fallout 1 or 2
@@jamesmeppler6375 no, only bob's are people
@@jamesmeppler6375 that doesn't explain the iguana bits in DC, the Mojave, and Boston however
Why do you think we don’t see very many cats?
@@theencolony5595 well it does for the mojave considering there are multiple references and call backs to the first 2 games, and it being based on the nevada/california border
The "how and why" of these recipes can be explained by accepting the fact that this is a video game franchise created by people.
Pretty sure the Yao Guai Steak is bugged (as a "feature"). Instead of getting a flat +10, it's more of a ×10
Yeah that's an easy mixup, I've done worse while making mods
Goddamn, Yao Guai meat gives you fu kin anchor arms
Yeah I was surprised when my super sledge was doing over 1000 damage
Kinda like Popeyes spinach
Bugged? Nah. Just a Bethesta superfood.
You're my favorite lore page, my guy. Appreciate the dedication, Mr. King
I remember when New Vegas first dropped, I'd have barely been a nine year old knucklehead. But my folks still got me the game. Didn't understand how inventory worked 100% so every food item I came across went right into my inventory, and once I got over encumbered I'd just scarf it all down and get rad poisoning! Then wander about cuz I had no idea how to get rid of radiation. Great times, food really does make the best memories eh?
On a side note I did a little interesting digging! The R96 Assault Rifle is supposedly based near 1:1 off the CETME assault rifle family. Although from what I've gathered it's a 7.62 Spanish rifle they rocked sometime in the 80s-early 90s. Surprisingly reliable from what I've seen, but I haven't seen much. Just something for if you ever do another weapons video. As always! Stupendous work, Rad King!
The cetme was basically a Spanish G3 ,since apparently the cetme was a collaboration between the creators of the g3 and a Spanish company
@@Squirrel-Gaming. Thanks for the extra info, my friend
Thx. Watching this while doing meal prep and glad I don’t have to worry bout rads in my noodles.
Its kinda strange that iguana bits where even in Fallout 3, like does Washington D.C (and Columbia in general) HAVE iguanas as part of its fauna?
They were probably escaped pets, that then rose in population since that's how the Radscropians came to the general D.C. Area.
bethesda recycled a lot of old fallout imagery to make fallout 3 appealing
Frankly, I don't know why they didn't put more effort into creating a distinctive flora and flora, and therefore, pallette
Pretty lazy imo
I know this is a two week response but those could be from descendants of iguanas that escaped from zoos or former pets. Possibly in the case of the capital wasteland it could be the zoo explanation.
@@eitanrosen464 Maybe, but were they enough iguanas in DC at that time for them to sustain and increase the population enough so people would hunt them en masse?
My head cannon is that ‘iguana meat’ is just a euphemism for human flesh that caught on after the war, hence why it seems to be readily available everywhere humans live no matter the climate.
Been a sub for a while, and I just wanted to say I really like your work. Good mix of lore and your own thoughts that gives the lore some direction rather then the blank regurgitation of item and story bits so many other fallout focused channels spew out. Great work, thumbs up. :)
22:25 blood sausage is called "sanguinaccio" (from SANGUE = BLOOD) in italy, expecially in south italy; is a food not very consumed anymore, since the last 20 years, but somebody (expecially old and mature people) consumes it
Adding up, in Portugal is usually called morcela (wonder if has some association to the english word 'morsel'). It is usually made with a mix of pig blood, rice, fat, and red wine, on pig intestines. Although most younger people don't eat it by itself or in bread, is a common ingredient for cozido and feijoada.
"Grinder" is a term that I've only ever encountered living in New England, and is simply a regional alternative to "sub". Of all the years I spent living in Virginia and traveling frequently to and through West Virginia, no one ever used it.
19:50 this is actually a really clever detail, as most venoms, including scorpion venom, is not actually poisonous. It's technically perfectly fine to eat it, just as long as it doesn't get in your bloodstream (like from an open wound)
Oh, hey! I've got the Fallout cookbook! There are some pretty good recipes in there! My favorite being the "Dusty's Brahmin Burgers"
So then, what does "Dusty's Brahmin Burgers 🐮🍔" tastes really like? Is it tastes pretty good, Georgie?
The invisibility food could work because of the combination of material mimics a stealth boy after whatever the gulper intestines has breaks down the non edible components
I'd imagine the acid is there to dissolve the crystals. How any of that works, with or without gulper guts, is pure science fantasy. Or even SCIENCE!, I suppose.
9:40 if i somehow survive into the apocalypse i sure as hell am not going out of my way for a salad
I always assumed the "iguana bits" are what people called the deathclaw meat, because technically they're mutated iguanas. I assume when the military began experimenting on mutating them they sold the canned meat of the "failures". That would be very in lore for them to do.
As for the rubber dinosaur on a stick...no idea.
Much like tuna being the chicken of the sea, scorpion is the lobster of the wasteland
I always thought moldy food should have an ingredient to make penicillin at a aid station. Not necessarily helpful outside of a serval mode and maybe to complex for a player to make without a perk, but I could see a wasteland doctor questioning the player to hunt some moldy food down.
Lol by fallouts logic the recipe would probably be moldy food, irradiated blood and a hubflower.
I like the penecillin recipe idea, but in real life, the mold used to make some antibiotics is a different one commonly found on food.
I thought Mirelurks were the lobsters of the wasteland (they're at least crustaceans)
radiation is so bad even mold has mutated.
@@davidhong1934 The hunters in fallout 4 certainly look like lobsters. while normal Mirelurks look more like horseshoecrab. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab
This article notes that horseshoe crabs are more closely related to arachnids so more like spiders and scorptions so yeah.
Iguanas are as prolific as squirrels in Florida, and they are a very popular pet all over, so much like the fallout explanation for radscorpions, perhaps iguana bits exist because of a combination of necessity, availability, and general safety of edibility.
Regarding the caravan lunch. In some old tabletop games, HP can also represent your mental fatigue as a result of battle. In this case it might not be the actual nutrition so much as the presentation of the meal. Sitting down to eat a spread of lunch is much better than cramming your facehole with another rusty can of pork n beans.
My guess on the no Iguanas in the wasteland thing is that one or several groups of people caught all the wild iguanas at some point and started breeding them in a facility unknown, and they were very thorough with the catching because they wanted a monopoly on the iguana based food market
Diseased cranberries might be a reference to the “Noble Rot” in wine making. The common fungus “Botrytis cinerea” concentrates the sugar in grapes. It’s the white fuzzy mold you see sometimes on blueberries, a cranberry relative. This might be their justification for it.
Gulper Slurry headcanon:
The acid and crystal aren't referring to the crafting items but instead drugs. You're not really invisible, you're just so high that you think you are.
On the topic of how they might have bred molerats, with them always digging through stuff, it actually shouldn’t be that difficult. In principal at least. You just need a solid metal compound area fenced off on all sides with additional stone blocks or something to prevent them from pushing in and just shattering the fence with pressure. My grandfather used wooden posts buried deep and reinforced with concrete blocks on the farm. The ground would have to be asphalt, concrete or again some metal platform with bedding so they don’t get injured or sick, but can’t burrow into it. This is all just a base. The main thing would be to actually stop them from trying to break out, not just creating a strong cage. Assuming you went out and caught a few of them somehow, you’d want to bring them in the cage and tie them to something, then shatter or pull out their teeth, and put metal nose rings on them. Irl we do this to pigs to deter them from uprooting and digging because it hurts them to push into the earth strongly with nose rings on. With next generations, take out the teeth while they are young, put nose rings and castrate males not suitable for mating. In a few years, you can actually set up a pretty solid molerat farming operation. So it’s really nothing too strange conceptually, it’s doable.
The Brahmin Fries as done on the Vault Dweller's Cookbook sound like an interesting alternative to Scotch eggs!
"Can't eat a whole jar of jam." Joey from friends enters the chat. Lol
When it come to iguanas the desert ones makes sense for the west and for the east it might be a mutated green from Florida or the Caribbean.
Iguana bits = chicken of the wasteland.
Reptile and bird meat are very very similar.
Up until fallout 76, there were no edible fowl in the wasteland. So when survivors of the great war had a hankerin for chicken... they figured out the big green iguanas that showed shortly after they crawled out of their backyard fallout shelter were damn near the same thing.
Just in time for me to grab some In-N-Out and head to a small lake for lunch . Cheers 🍻
I’ll trade you a squirrel in a stick for your in-n-out
@@Rad_King throw in a sunset sarsaparilla and you have yourself a deal . 200 year old hamburgers don't sound that good....I'm keeping the animal fries though .
Still going call them Muttfruits.... been doing it for years not stopping now
Haha I admire your commitment!
@@Rad_King Thanks great radiated one 🙏, always said their muttfruit cause they so stubborn they will grow anywhere
“Mutt” fruit would make sense if it’s a bunch of fruits that mutated together
@@caracalcontinuum3118Mutt makes sense cause it's a Mutated fruit so Mut Fruit
Real life blood sausage/black pudding is one of my favourite meals.
dried brahmin dung as a cooking fuel source is a real thing. Dried cow patties has been used as 'firewood' for a long time. Cow digestion is very efficent, and their poop; when fed on not-that-nutrieant grasses, is basicaly becomes solid cellulose bricks, when they are left out to dry in the sun for a few months.
You're not the only one who thought "mutfruit" is pronounced as "mutt-fruit"! My dad (he's also a fan of the _Falout_ series) and I pronounced it as "mutt-fruit" for years until we heard an NPC in the game pronounce it as "mute-fruit". In my opinion, the "mutt-fruit" pronunciation works just as well, because a mutt is something that has an unidentifiable admixture, and the mutfruit is indeed a mutated combination of various fruits.
that muttfruit take makes no sense, mutfruit makes sense because it's a mutated fruit
You forgot the pepperoni roll in 76, which is some kinda nod to the actual law in Virginia where pepperoni rolls are illegal for some reason
Just googled it and by the look it is basically a calzone. Just call it a calzone, problem solved.
I thought pepperoini rolls were really popular in the south? I've seen several cooking shows such as "A Chef's Life" with Vivian Howard(southern chef) where she devoted an entire episode to hand pies and pepperoni rolls were given significant attention. I think she's from South carolina though
My guess the Meat is greenish is probably some preservatives or a flavoring Sause
its flammable
my personal theory is that iguanas are found in some place near the center of the united states, and the reason theyre found everywhere is that for whatever reason post-war iguanas are incredibly easy to farm, maybe some mutation made them hyper-horny, and long-distance traders trade mass amounts of it (the ease of farming and light weight could mean theyre incredibly cheap to get in bulk from the source, spreading it out throughout the wasteland. id presume near where iguanas are found, itd probably be nearly the only food, but everywhere else, its just incredibly common. i dont think the idea of traders hauling back giant packs of iguana corpses would be too far-fetched
Noodles were present in the original Fallouts, I believe. "Box of noodles" is labeled as instant spaghetti, though, different-looking than the instant ramen stuff found in 3, FNV, and 4.
I still remember playing fallout 4 and having my melee weapons be more damaging with each hit than a mini nuke and being extremely confused because of it. Then the damage went back to normal, until I ate a Yao guay roast, aparently the +10 meant ×5 somehow, bethesda sometimes is like that
A theory I saw once was that is used to be real iguana but after a while the people who made it just started using whatever meat they could find mixing it together and calling it a day
i love that iguanas are somehow one of the most common foods in fallout
After the current impending collapse, the foods of fallout give me false sense of hope for apocalyptic fine dining.
0:56 Dr Morbid begs to differ on the iguana meat
Alot of people say all iguana bits are human flesh but I don't think iguana bits arent human flesh in the later games because only bob's are human flesh from doc morbid.
whatever, who cares ? just eat the food. if people would care then nobody would eat hot dogs or pate.
why would people think that
@@pavelmorozov6599 because hot dogs aren't made out of human flesh?
Well, you can't kill him in that game without making the entire town hostile, and you can't even report him to the police. So I think that means canonically Bob never got caught by anyone other than the chosen one. That would mean he is free to spread his recipe to every shady businesses man and cannibal in the wasteland.
Plus fallout loves doing references like that every if it doesn't fully make sense.
76 mentioned that the Gurmands were from Apalachicola. Apparently that tribe of cannibals made it across the country to Vegas and even survived for 200 years without changing their name.
Thought if it was a reference I would expect it to give extra stats when you have the cannibal perk.
@@rolay7730 I don't think the gormands are the same faction in 76 and NV plus how would they have the human flesh iguana bit recipe this early in the timeline
Have you ever mixed the main components of a caravan lunch and eaten it? 1. It's delicious. it could use some hot sauce, though. 2. It's really filling.
33:00 for the record, maize is pronounced like maze, not mize.
Someone else mentioned that Blood sausage is considered a chem which may be why it's not allowed at the camp in a game code standard.
But I do know that most of the tribes that make up Caesars legion are based off of a lot of love tribes and prewar people intermingling after the war. Among the groups in those mixes are the Navajo, who make a kind of blood sausage where blood is cleaned, mixed with potatoes and baked in the clean stomach. Caesar might have considered the food to be to close to the tribes before they became the 87th, so he probably banned it for that reason
5:40
So yeah, that's based on the rocky mountain oysters. We trick tourists here in colorado to eat them.
Hahahahahahah hey there's nothing wrong with RMO. Fried up you'll never know.
@@warhawk4494 I heard its tender but i dont want bull nut in my mouth
Funny
I used to work in a meat market in a regular grocery and yes while we didnt sell bull testicles we did sell pork testicles. We also sold chicken feet, canned pig brains (in milk gravy), and intestine, among many other things.
We didn't have iguana but we probably could've gotten it. We DID have Gator tho.
Also fun fact another name for pork testicles is "Rocky Mountain Oyster"
I am surprised that no one mentioned that the Alien blaster in FO4 and FO76 you can downgrade the alien power cells with normal fusion cells.
The reason blood sausages aren’t allowed in Legion forts is because it is erroneously categorized as a chem in the game’s code, and Caesar did not allow chem use in the Legion.
I think the food items would really benefit from 1) Staying a bit more grounded with their effects and 2) Having a morale bar in addition to HP/Hunger/Thirst/ etc...
Food is such an integral part of day to day life that we take for granted nowadays, but in a wasteland it would literally be life and death.
I was never a fan of the whole healing through food idea that Skyrim did especially badly. If healing is a property, I'd say it should be a very slow and very long lasting life regen.
Morale could affect a bunch of things, with good morale giving more exp, letting you run for longer, push yourself harder in terms of stamina/AP, giving you more strength and endurance at higher ends of it. It could be a gradual bar that gives more bonuses to more stuff the higher it is, and penalties if it's low. With maybe attributes like endurance/charisma/luck affecting how high your morale can go.
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Thank you!
The ground beef with an egg inside definitely is inspired by Scotch eggs.
*be me in fallout world, sees Deathclaw* *Human brain* 'That thing is huge, scary, and very very deadly.. avoid at all costs' *monkey brain* 'big beast, big food!' Me: Food it is
By all means eat what the game refers to as…
“a collection of meats in various surprising states of decay garnished with maggots”
In Fallout 4 Deathclaws can loose their tails when it takes enough damage. If they still have any form of lizard regeneration, could we cut the tail off leaving it to grow back while having a possible 30lbs chunk of meat to smoke over hickory chips with a post war dry rub
I always thought the town was pronounced "Hell-vee-shuh", and that they were "SILT" beans, like the fine sand or soil found around rivers and streams...
Games of Fallout & Sports of Fallout
Always happy to see another RadKing posting, thank you for all your work and research.
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Double chocolate s'mores is definitely a thing
Epic video bro, just found your channel and its great, keep the good work!
Blood Sausage in Fallout you get through the Them's Good Eating perk and can be found on the corpses of I believe only humanoid creaters, there for you are committing cannibalism every time you eat them. Which would be a good reason for the Legion to ban them.
IIRC, "blood sausage" is another shoutout to the original Wasteland, too. One of the over-the-top enemy death descriptions is that their "head explodes like a blood sausage".
@@raziyatheseeker yup, Wasteland's descriptions were great but let's be honest. Some of them made no sense, how does a head explode like a "Blood Sausage" when a Blood Sausage is a tube of coagulated blood.
@@MrPikaGammerand the neck is a tube of blood
7:10 New Vegas also has the deathclaw omelet you have to talk to some lady in sloan about it. She even mentions that her grandma had a deathclaw in a shed to get fresh eggs from, until someone killed it. Oh my mistake it's the wasteland omelte. But that's a refrence to fallout 2 in New vegas.
You should do the armor of fallout ! Love the videos man
I agree
Don’t worry, it is coming :)
I have watch this channel from 3k subs and it gets better and better as he goes. good job 👍
I think, in fallout one and two atleast, iguana bits are human flesh carved to look like iguana, especially with all the stuff that happens with iguna Bob
Good stuff!
To be honest wasteland omelets and gecko steaks sound really good. I also thought mutfruit was pronounced that way to.
Taking about the squrrell stew: "-Fallout brotherhood of Steel, Fallout New Vegas-"
Legit didn't expect that and got a laugh out of me. Okay, this humor is actually pretty great.