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Stag
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What do people eat in a PA setting? We've seen from Fallout rat stew and mutated fruit, but what would one expect to survive eating, or find? (Answers not limited to Fallout, plzzz..)
Water, acquired from the moisture in the air.
Mutated wildlife.
Plantlife.
Bugs.
Other humans.
Mutated wildlife.
Plantlife.
Bugs.
Other humans.
Sorrow
So Old I'm Losing Radiation Signs
Food synthesised by my GECK.
I would say pretty much nothing, and even if I did find some, I'd think more than twice before deciding wether it's worth having my balls burned due to radiated seeds.
*Mutated Apple hits you in the groin for [very high number] damage.
Within the second, your voice goes from Barry White to (sexually) abused russian toddler.
You die.*
I always thought that the food in Fallout had a lot of character. Not safe, palatable or even edible, but it had character. Some examples I found in the dialogue files. (aside from the staple inventory items like iguana-on-a-stick etc.)
Brahmin Fries
What makes ours taste so special is that you have to harvest it while the brahmin is still alive. You just grab the brahmin by the scrotum and snip four with one cut. You’ve got be careful; the brahmin usually gets riled up at that point. Then you just dip them in batter, add some salt and fry in grease until golden brown.
Canis burgers
Our burgers are made of nothing but the choicest, select, grade-A dog. The meat is ground up and made into half-pound patties. And to give it that unique smoky flavor, they are slow grilled over dried brahmin dung.
Rat Surprise
Catch rat. Careful no squish too much. Hang by tail on wall. Let hang til tail fall off. It ready then. Eat quickly, if let sit too long, the surprise crawl out and fly away.
On the subject of PA food, it would really depend on when the Apocalyptic event that changed the world occured, a reasonably short time after it, people could survive on rations and canned goods and other preserved foods. A long time after... life goes on, and people would turn to whatever hardy livestock or plantlife is available. Also depending on supply, cannibalism would probably have arisen as a way of life.
Brahmin Fries
What makes ours taste so special is that you have to harvest it while the brahmin is still alive. You just grab the brahmin by the scrotum and snip four with one cut. You’ve got be careful; the brahmin usually gets riled up at that point. Then you just dip them in batter, add some salt and fry in grease until golden brown.
Canis burgers
Our burgers are made of nothing but the choicest, select, grade-A dog. The meat is ground up and made into half-pound patties. And to give it that unique smoky flavor, they are slow grilled over dried brahmin dung.
Rat Surprise
Catch rat. Careful no squish too much. Hang by tail on wall. Let hang til tail fall off. It ready then. Eat quickly, if let sit too long, the surprise crawl out and fly away.
On the subject of PA food, it would really depend on when the Apocalyptic event that changed the world occured, a reasonably short time after it, people could survive on rations and canned goods and other preserved foods. A long time after... life goes on, and people would turn to whatever hardy livestock or plantlife is available. Also depending on supply, cannibalism would probably have arisen as a way of life.
zioburosky13
Vault Senior Citizen
I would say anything that's not radiated.
well you don't want to end-up glowing in the dark at night eh?
well you don't want to end-up glowing in the dark at night eh?
The girl in Mom's diner was sad because everyone ate all the cats, but no-one seems to eat dogs, which there is an abundance of.
there's only a few crops but there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the soil, with the vault dweller freely dispensing advice on crop rotation in FO1, I don't see why people just don't make more crops, The Ghost Farm in FO2 has enough crops to supply many a town, and a steady water supply, but the most you'll find yourself is mutated fruit.
on the note of the Ghost Farm, if you let Modoc attack them, why does Modoc stay at Modoc and not move into the more secure Ghost Farm where there is food and water and natural shelter? It's all Karl's fault
there's only a few crops but there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the soil, with the vault dweller freely dispensing advice on crop rotation in FO1, I don't see why people just don't make more crops, The Ghost Farm in FO2 has enough crops to supply many a town, and a steady water supply, but the most you'll find yourself is mutated fruit.
on the note of the Ghost Farm, if you let Modoc attack them, why does Modoc stay at Modoc and not move into the more secure Ghost Farm where there is food and water and natural shelter? It's all Karl's fault
Vault 69er
Water Chip? Been There, Done That
This topic reminds me of an old Twilight Zone episode where a post-nuclear war town is surviving on some crappy grown food or something because a wise old sage told them all the food in their stores was contaminated.
Some raider guys turn up and think it's all superstition. Eventually they find out the old sage was really a computer. They smash it to bits and tell everyone to get all the food and drinks they've wanted all along.
Of course the computer was right and they all died. Yay!
.. er.. more on topic though, I'd go after canned food and bottled water primarily. Even if it were contaminated somehow like in that episode.. well.. I'd rather die than eat bugs or stuff like that.
Yes, I'm a bad survivalist.
Some raider guys turn up and think it's all superstition. Eventually they find out the old sage was really a computer. They smash it to bits and tell everyone to get all the food and drinks they've wanted all along.
Of course the computer was right and they all died. Yay!
.. er.. more on topic though, I'd go after canned food and bottled water primarily. Even if it were contaminated somehow like in that episode.. well.. I'd rather die than eat bugs or stuff like that.
Yes, I'm a bad survivalist.
I_eat_supermutants
Vault Senior Citizen
Well this is an interesting subject.
In terms of Fallout, they are in a society that is attempting to rebuild, so agriculture and such.
In a real life PA situation it could be anything you can find.
Canned food of any kind, old pepsi, bottled water, people, dogs, candy bars, anything packaged such as cup of noodles or raman noodles, things with a shelf life of 10,000 years. Twinkies come to mind.
In terms of Fallout, they are in a society that is attempting to rebuild, so agriculture and such.
In a real life PA situation it could be anything you can find.
Canned food of any kind, old pepsi, bottled water, people, dogs, candy bars, anything packaged such as cup of noodles or raman noodles, things with a shelf life of 10,000 years. Twinkies come to mind.
Plasma-pip
First time out of the vault
I'd say pretty much nothing other than irradiated fruit and meat. I'd bet that population would fall even more (relatively) once people started eating.
It all depends on what kind of apocalypse there was.
Nuclear, we've got radioactive dust EVERYFUCKINGWHEREGODFUCKINGDAMNIT, that must be cleared out and prevented from blowing back into the crops. Radioactive plants, will keep you alive though... but your hair might fall out. Boiling your water won't help. it must be filtered to remove radioactive particulate. Several layers of cotton cloth with carbon in between the layers would make a decent filtration system. I'd still boil it to get the microbes... and your hair is still going to fall out because you ate the mutated fruit.
Biological, I'd avoid the meat.
Chemical... I think we are immune by now.
Asteroid. UV lamps and kick ass watering systems!
Zombie, BRRRRRAAAAAIIIIIINNNNNNNSSSS!
Nuclear, we've got radioactive dust EVERYFUCKINGWHEREGODFUCKINGDAMNIT, that must be cleared out and prevented from blowing back into the crops. Radioactive plants, will keep you alive though... but your hair might fall out. Boiling your water won't help. it must be filtered to remove radioactive particulate. Several layers of cotton cloth with carbon in between the layers would make a decent filtration system. I'd still boil it to get the microbes... and your hair is still going to fall out because you ate the mutated fruit.
Biological, I'd avoid the meat.
Chemical... I think we are immune by now.
Asteroid. UV lamps and kick ass watering systems!
Zombie, BRRRRRAAAAAIIIIIINNNNNNNSSSS!
There's this godforsaken pulp series that imagines a FO:BoS type of universe with more focus on guns (TRUCKLOADS of guns) than thongs. The characters eat military rations, even a century after the nukes. Makes sense. Not only can that crap withstand just about anything, but military supply kits contain salt and chlorine and fluoride and some other nifty chemicals.
Demonslayer
Water Chip? Been There, Done That
Brahim sausages and some mutated spaghetti:
Maybe some brains if you look to the girl in the next pic:
Maybe some brains if you look to the girl in the next pic:
Other humans and toilet water.
citixensinister
First time out of the vault
In China, many many decades ago, either the early 20th century, or late 19th century, a famine drove people to gather and bake sand or dirt, to make sand cakes. 
It fills the stomach, but it lack any nutrition, so people gradually died with full stomachs, sad but true.
So maybe in Fallout, they can add some pinch of rats, some slices of mole rats, and a dash of brahmins into that sand cake, and probably... just probably... survive to make kids to carry out this pathetic existence.
It fills the stomach, but it lack any nutrition, so people gradually died with full stomachs, sad but true.
So maybe in Fallout, they can add some pinch of rats, some slices of mole rats, and a dash of brahmins into that sand cake, and probably... just probably... survive to make kids to carry out this pathetic existence.
It really depends on how far after a nuclear disaster we're talking. The first couple of generations after the apocalypse would definitly have a hard time, growing crops and whatnot, but I think it'd start to pick up from there. If you actually do scrape off the first many centimeters of dirt before growing crops, I think you'll eventually be able to grow enough to feed a small village.
I always figured can food would be radiated cause the cans are made of metal and whatnot, but you always see people eating them in PA films.
I always figured can food would be radiated cause the cans are made of metal and whatnot, but you always see people eating them in PA films.
sickfuck_diablo
It Wandered In From the Wastes
What about the oceans? Fish, plants, shellfish... Also isn't anything made of metal more likely to hold radioactive particles? So wouldn't canned food be kind of out?