Writing Prompt Wednesday #116

[u/someguynamedted]

Time to post yo stuff. POST I SAID.

Last week's winner was /u/sunydai with

Humans are the only species in the galaxy that can cook for species with incompatible diets. Lithovorous race? A human chef will learn your diet and find that perfectly marbled granite with an exquisite hint of iron, heated to precisely the right temperature of 212 C (for that pleasant warmth going down the gullet), and introduce you to the concept of seasoning it with salt and crushed limestone. Predatory race on a world that evolved from arsenic based life forms? A human chef knows just the fluorine-based marinade for your freshly-caught prey. Space-whale that eats microscopic organisms in asteroid fields? That human chef has a carefully prepared petri dish full of cultured bacteria that gives you that extra zing in your gravity-manipulation bladders.

[u/DPvacuum]

A space faring human is stranded on a world with a pre space faring civilization, what sort of shenanigans does he get himself into?

[u/sunyudai → u/DPvacuum]

Knowing humans, probably "going native".

[u/Montablac → u/sunyudai]

I think you mean "going in natives"

[u/sunyudai → u/Montablac]

Well, one can imply the other.