dude forgot Rule 2
Vikings also believed that drinking cod liver oil would make them stronger. Turns out, cod liver oil is high in vitamin D which mitigates seasonal depression which is kinda important in northern latitudes.
Trial and error existed before science was a thing, even if medieval academics were idiots who thought seniority was more important than observations and the reasoning used to “explain” things was often as dumb as the reasoning in the OP.
It’s how garlic and salt got a reputation of warding off evil spirits because food rotting seemed like it was caused by ghosts to people who had no idea microbes existed, and salt and garlic had anti-microbial properties, which reduced or slowed the occurrence of rot and/or mold.
Of course, from there it got taken to ridiculous levels, like people thinking a ring of salt protects them from non-existent beings or garlic frightens off other non-existent beings. But it all started from noticing that meat lasted longer for those with good access to salt (or something along those lines).
“CaN i PiCk AnOtHeR oPtIoN”
Bitch, you came looking for silver and found gold.
Hey, you’re hot like a forge. Wanna bone?
(Never said it’ll gonna be good)
You need to be able to pick the recipe option then. If someone knows recipes from ancient Rome, they might just be a harmless history nerd. If someone knows recipes from WH40K, well, I don’t know what to say.
Wouldn’t 40k, depending on who and where, be something like, “Open meal package. Place 200g water in package. Close package and shake for 40 seconds. Open package and eat.” Civilian worlds you can just make up whatever, just like the scenario designers do. Want a US-lite world? Got one. Want a world reminiscent of 1800s UK? Got two.
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Option E: cheese wheel
