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Sounds like a good diet.

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Ón gráti sem jett barn kvéner jag syggji jett lag um deiðan...
[oʊ̯n ˈgɾaːtɪ sɛmː jɛtː baɾn ˈkʰʋɛːnɛɾ jaː ˈsʏd͡ʑːɪ jɛtː laː ʊmː ˈdɛɪ̯an]

Yes, it is what I try to eat when not being seduced by ice cream.
Expect for corn, I don't like it. I just want to be mean and not give them bread.

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Ikasmu ati'uki nai uraiur.
Hinai nimuśim naimi nai sasamiur urukani. Śi'ama nai huhumiur na ni'amuśim nai sasamiur.
Pumaki nimuśim śima'a na ami nimuśim ara'a. Hini nihrasum i'aku tumra urukani na nihrasum sanik hraspir.

Majs är ju jättegott !

Majs med lite smör och salt... mmm .

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Proto-Hyảlim | Bjarmish

Ón gráti sem jett barn kvéner jag syggji jett lag um deiðan...
[oʊ̯n ˈgɾaːtɪ sɛmː jɛtː baɾn ˈkʰʋɛːnɛɾ jaː ˈsʏd͡ʑːɪ jɛtː laː ʊmː ˈdɛɪ̯an]

It's okay... I guess...

Men fisk är den bäste!
And I fucking love avocados.

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Ikasmu ati'uki nai uraiur.
Hinai nimuśim naimi nai sasamiur urukani. Śi'ama nai huhumiur na ni'amuśim nai sasamiur.
Pumaki nimuśim śima'a na ami nimuśim ara'a. Hini nihrasum i'aku tumra urukani na nihrasum sanik hraspir.

Ah, that's a pity. I drink it once a day, mixed with a bit of milk/soymilk and honey... which was where I got the original idea for the Aidsese's sweetmilk.




Me too.

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The Agyon are obligate carnivores whose Meradion-diet consists of mostly seafoods: Shrimp, seals, whales, fish, and the regional favorite, massive sharks. No feast is complete without a big shark on the table!

They love the taste of fat, grease, and sodium. They enjoy foods with a high level of acidity and have much lower bitterness tolerance than humans. They aren't attracted to saccharine (a complex sugar) at all as humans are, but due to a quirk of their taste mechanisms are superstimulated by capsaicin.

A classic dish among them is called Atsamiz, prepared by boiling a very high piquant hot sauce, then putting peeled, heavily salted raw shrimp into the pot and allowing it to stew, serving with the sauce in the bowl as a sort of extremely spicy soup. They find it delicious. As a human, your mileage may vary on that one!

Non-Meradion Agyon (of which there are very few) have the same taste, but accustom the menu for local fauna. Due to the small size of their community and relative recency of their stay, they've not had much time to build up as rich of a culture of food items. Their menu mostly consists of back-home favorites with local meats and spices substituted for traditional ones, with various levels of success. You cannot substitute squirrel for shrimp in Atsamiz. Blech!

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...how big are these dragons?

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Proto-Hyảlim | Bjarmish

Ón gráti sem jett barn kvéner jag syggji jett lag um deiðan...
[oʊ̯n ˈgɾaːtɪ sɛmː jɛtː baɾn ˈkʰʋɛːnɛɾ jaː ˈsʏd͡ʑːɪ jɛtː laː ʊmː ˈdɛɪ̯an]

In human form? Three and a half to five feet tall. In Dragon form, when "standing" on their hind legs and reaching their head as high as it will go, males grow to 20-25 feet, females from 25-30 feet (the biggest males are only as big as the smallest females). However this sexual dimorphism doesn't affect their human-form size.

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Speaking of concuisine, how do your conpeople get food? If they farm, how do they do so?

Mbinhgany is mostly forest (rainforest, swamp forest and cloud forest, being in Central Africa); this caused the development of orchard agriculture (using slash-and-char, much like the Amazonians did in reality), aquaculture and fishing, originally using only native crops, but by the Warring States Period (120 BCE-242 CE) they were using crops from across much of Subsaharan Africa. During the Hibiscus Period (744-1408 CE) and the Age of Exploration (1408-1598 CE)), the vast majority of contemporary Mbinhgany's major crops were introduced, though the core is the same as that of the 5th millennium BCE. Today, crops from all over the world (as well as GMO crops) are grown in Mbinhgany, mostly on huge mechanized state-operated farms.

@Micamo: Do the Agyon get their mostly aquatic diet through aquaculture; if so, what type do they use? Or do they simply eat wild caught foods.

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Here's a basic rundown of how Agyon aquaculture works:

The sea around the shores of Meradion are divided into sectors and are privately owned, just as parcels of land are in our culture. A fish-raising company is called a Tsundamaiona, and each Tsundamaiona owns tracts of seabed. The Tsundamaiona seed these beds with nutrients, algea, and plankton, which attracts lots of fish. During harvesting, fishing companies (Roizamaiona) pay the Tsundamaiona for the right to extract fish from their seas, then sell the captured fish on the market. The Tsundamaiona keep careful track of the environmental health of their seas in order to ensure fish output stays high, and restrict the exploiting of the Roizamaiona accordingly: No one would pay to harvest from an empty section of the ocean!

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Sigh...

Reindeer and water. Maybe other game when reindeer are scarce.
The Hezek aren't too keen on cuisine. That rhymed.

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The Mbaxtinhgiots would be happy to send you a gift of spicy groundnut sauce stewed greens and hibiscus tea as a symbol of allegiance between our people .

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In the plain of Dunabar a common delicacy would be blood pudding or jell-o. Horse meat is the most gluttonous food and is only eaten by the royal family.

Cheese and yogurts are also abundant.

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That'd be nice, except the Hezek aren't omnivores. Picky picky.

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Safiria has this dish called éşçığaréti, which is dragon stomach stuffed with dragon meat, goat cheese, spinach, onions, and ham, then boiled until done. (Terrans can substitute the corresponding parts of a steer.)

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This is just to remind me that I want to answer this when I have enough time -- which won't be until later.

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In modern times, the Mbäta make extensive use of GM plants as well as GM Giant Gourami and GM tilapia. Vertical farming has been widespread in cities since the mid 18th century and now even the great city of Wosÿmîma produces a surplus of food, importing only exotic (for them), hunted and fished foods.

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I have just came up with some recipes and the general cuisine of the Mbäta; it can be found here.

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I haven't thought too hard about developing a conworld for Nederano to be used in, but occasionally little vague bits appear in my mind. Instead of all the tourist-friendly fusion cuisine that Aruba seems to have, my Nederano Aruba would be true to its dutch and Mexican roots. Soft tacos, primarily of fish, since Aruba is an island. Chips/fries served with it, because, hey, fish and chips is popular the world over. Waterzooi or snert for a soup/stew. Either could be flavored by a salsa fresca. For breakfast, olliebollen ("oil balls", a type of dumpling) or tsmijter spek en kaas: (a couple of eggs fried with bacon and Gouda or Oaxaca cheese), or Ontbijtkoek (breakfast spice cake) and Mexican hot chocolate.

I guess I do have lots of ideas. But I'm too tied up with Nederanese orthography to really delve.

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From a Dutch perspective, that is (although delicious) very improbable. Oliebollen are generally only eaten once a year: on new years eve.

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