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Author: bulmabriefs144

Jan 19th 2013 at 2:05:39 AM

"As it is, it seems a bit chairsy. In a typical MedievalEuropeanFantasy setting there's not going to be a wide variety of culinary choices. "

Someone didn't [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_food do their research on actual medieval food]]. Various types of game (chicken, turkey, goose, partridge, and a heck of a lot more birds than we eat today. Heck, if you really wanted to get technical, you could swap "a giant turkey drumstick" for what we have here if they were rich adventurers), lamb, rabbit, various meat pies or other pastries might be sold at markets (emphasis on the pastry part not the meat), and for the really low end you might have oatmeal or gruel (think Dickens characters). You had smoked or salted fish (though this is normally left out of the picture entirely).

We could make it work, fairly easily, by dividing it into classes.

'''Lowest Class''' (In prison or starving)
Mainly gruel, or a thin soup (usually only a single vegetable like onion or potato, or it might be out of something like bread). You normally see this only for someone starving, or being mistreated.

'''Lower Class''' (The average starting adventurer)
The above dish. Beer.

'''Middle Class''' (An adventurer, after a quest)
Some sort of animal leg, usually a chicken or turkey drumstick. Lots of beer.

'''Royal Feast''' (Usually only if treated by a king) 
Many, many animal legs, sausage, as well as other stuff. Usually wine, and lots of it.