Foreigner 5. Not a human thing. (updated)

[bellatrys]

It was kind of a toss-up to figure out which aspect of the Foriegner universe to tackle next - worldbuilding abstractions, which I find personally cool as an archeology/sf junkie; sociological commentary, which always rocks when done well; or personal/political conflicts which mesh the two of them? Backstory or plot advancements? Kabiu & culture

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[anna_wing]

Eek. This is scarily like the society I am postulating for the Eldar in Valinor.

Though the preservation of meat could also be argued to have come into existence precisely to avoid waste of an animal that is too large to be eaten at once by the persons available. I am partial in this argument, being also partial to sausages (both Western and Asian)and bacon and ham and smoked goose and salted duck and so on.

Extrapolating from the ethic you describe above, are the atevi willing to eating dairy or other domesticated animals once they are too old for their primary function?

I have eaten hot dogs; I might merely have been unlucky, but based only on my own experience I would resist their assignment to the category of "food" except in the very widest sense of "something ingested to prevent immediate death from starvation".

[mrowe]

I have eaten hot dogs; I might merely have been unlucky, but based only on my own experience I would resist their assignment to the category of "food" except in the very widest sense of "something ingested to prevent immediate death from starvation".

To paraphrase/quote C.M.O.T Dibbler: "It comes from inside an animal. Of course it's meat."

pork? well, um, definitely *pig*

[bellatrys]

You can make it into different shapes, too: rolled out flat and cut with a tin, it becomes baloney. (Which I also can't eat without feeling ill and havne't since I was about 18, despite efforts to appear normal and pass for a Regular American in public.)

Poured into a box and let harden, it becomes - of course! - Spam!

Re: pork? well, um, definitely *pig*

[anna_wing]

Baloney is a real thing?! I had previously thought that it was merely an idiomatic expression.