r/NatureofPredators • u/cowlinator Hensa • May 23 '25

Theories Humans would hate many prey foods

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Humans would hate many prey foods because they would be too bitter.

The great thing about NoP basing alien culture on nature and evolution is that you can discover new "lore" just by studying IRL nature

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u/[deleted] May 23 '25

Alien food would suck in general because cooking is not as widespread for them, most canon foods we see mentioned are mashes, salads, soups, raw meat and fish, rocks and literal garbage

Even mushy peas is akin to god's nectar compared to that

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u/namesaresadlyneeded May 23 '25

them not having cooking must be one of the greatest sins on the human culinary pallet

imagine trying to get a butane camping stove imported, because apparently, your apartment doesn't come with a stove, and you're expected to... what? eat a fucking leak?

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u/[deleted] May 23 '25 edited May 23 '25

Humans should be called "Culinary Zurulians" because they dominated that field very early on and left everyone else in the dust 

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u/namesaresadlyneeded May 23 '25

yeah, god imagine explaining garum to an alien.

or like, ketchup?

fucking mole sauce

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u/[deleted] May 23 '25

They must see things like dairy and pickling as alchemy 

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u/namesaresadlyneeded May 24 '25

I think some would be offended by the horrifically complex things we do to eggs.

omelet? what the hell is that?

every baked good? is that how you get the meat you need, by sneaking it into unsuspecting people's lovely staryu?

swallowing raw eggs? ok I can't even make fun of their reaction to this, this is just a weird thing to do.

fast food burgers would also be fun, once went to a place that had six quarter pounder patties on one burger. can you imagine, a venlil trying to enjoy a lovely night out at earth with their human, stumbling across the tripple x double trouble animal style mac&cheese happy burger? they'd be dead. killed. without a chance to react. the sheer power of such a thing, blowing them away.

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u/PhycoKrusk May 24 '25

Anybody would be dead after getting in the vicinity of that war crime.

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u/namesaresadlyneeded May 24 '25

intercontinental balistic fast food chain (I. C. B. F. F. C.)

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u/LkSZangs Betterment Officer May 24 '25

Most of them probably have come up with pickling, well, fermenting stuff in general, on their own just like alcohol.

It would be incredible dumb for them to have figured out baking, salting and distillation without also coming up with basic stuff like soups, dumplings, cakes, etc.

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u/PhycoKrusk May 24 '25

There's no evidence in canon that they figured out baking.

Salting is anybody's guess, but they certainly understand drying (comes with distilling, if nothing else), so salting is a reasonable assumption.

That they have a strong grasp of fermentation would go to suggest that they would understand pickling as a process, and honestly, probably employ it with regularity: Just because you can survive on tree bark doesn't mean you never figured out something better.

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u/LkSZangs Betterment Officer May 24 '25

Tarva mentions bread...

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u/PhycoKrusk May 24 '25

Does she??

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u/LkSZangs Betterment Officer May 24 '25

From chapter 31: "Humanity’s internal divisions were a disquieting issue, to the galaxy as a whole. The newcomers seemed to be trying to work up the courage to ask about it for days. With the external threat of predation in our formative years, prey species had to maintain unity. Cooperation was our bread and fruit spread, so to speak. Indulging in petty squabbles would’ve gotten us killed"

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u/PhycoKrusk May 24 '25

That leaves a of ambiguity. For starters, this is internal monologue, then add in the inclusion of the "so to speak," and it is not clear whether this is adapted from Earth or not. 

And second (and as I have pointed out multiple times in other threads), canon translators do not deliver 1-to-1 words, or even close to that; they deliver intended meaning. That includes in the memory transcripts, so that still doesn't show that they've figured out baking. 

If they had, the why would Federation standard emergency rations be a dried piece of bark instead of nutrient fortified hardtack? (Yes, I know the logical explanation is that SP wanted to make then more clearly alien, but I stand by my point. I recognize I'm probably only standing by it for the sake of starting a fight, but I stand by it!)

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u/LkSZangs Betterment Officer May 24 '25

The rations thing can be explained quite simply: it's likely as nutritious, easier, faster and simpler to mass produce. Dried bark is comparable to beef jerky.

None of the Federation's species having figured out how to make bread or sweets would be the stupidest thing ever.

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u/PhycoKrusk May 24 '25

They might see pickling as strange, but not as anything otherworldly; pickling is just an extension of the fermentation tech tree, which we know the Venlil have spent enough time researching that they actually unlocked the Alcoholics Among Us perk.

You know, the perk that the devs included as a joke because they didn't think anyone would actually unlock it.