yet another random piece of 40k lore that I will now spend 30 minutes reading into and understanding like 20% of before committing it to memory; never to be recalled again until I've long since forgotten where I heard/read about it and randomly remember it one day as I drive past a cow-field. I should get into warhammer................
I really like this one because it's over-the-top grimdark in a class conscious way. Corpseburgers are a very common food in the Imperium, especially for soldiers who spend so much time on the battlefield where most of them end up dead. There is also corpsestarch, which is basically Soylent Green.
For the poor in the Imperium, all of their meat intake is either recycled dead humans or captured rodents and bugs. But the rich still eat large animals, the most common of which is the Grox, a large lizard that is hardy enough to survive in almost any environment, nearly 100% edible, and fairly nutritious and tasty to boot.
CW: Mass Death
In one story (which might not be canon anymore but who cares), a shipment of Grox burgers intended for the uber rich gets sent to an Imperial Guard regiment by mistake. The burgers taste so much better than what the soldiers are used to eating, that upon the realization that they will never get to eat it again the entire regiment commits suicide together.
I know Corpse Starch has been referenced in a few of the books I have but Gut Cheese is new to me, and googling just brings 'WH40k Cheese strats" which is unsurprising.
Actually I don't think Gut Cheese is a thing, mainly because 40k's writers aren't creative enough to think of it, I said it because it definitely fits the setting.
I'm pretty sure this is a common food in Warhammer 40k.
yet another random piece of 40k lore that I will now spend 30 minutes reading into and understanding like 20% of before committing it to memory; never to be recalled again until I've long since forgotten where I heard/read about it and randomly remember it one day as I drive past a cow-field. I should get into warhammer................
I really like this one because it's over-the-top grimdark in a class conscious way. Corpseburgers are a very common food in the Imperium, especially for soldiers who spend so much time on the battlefield where most of them end up dead. There is also corpsestarch, which is basically Soylent Green.
For the poor in the Imperium, all of their meat intake is either recycled dead humans or captured rodents and bugs. But the rich still eat large animals, the most common of which is the Grox, a large lizard that is hardy enough to survive in almost any environment, nearly 100% edible, and fairly nutritious and tasty to boot.
CW: Mass Death
In one story (which might not be canon anymore but who cares), a shipment of Grox burgers intended for the uber rich gets sent to an Imperial Guard regiment by mistake. The burgers taste so much better than what the soldiers are used to eating, that upon the realization that they will never get to eat it again the entire regiment commits suicide together.
I know Corpse Starch has been referenced in a few of the books I have but Gut Cheese is new to me, and googling just brings 'WH40k Cheese strats" which is unsurprising.
Actually I don't think Gut Cheese is a thing, mainly because 40k's writers aren't creative enough to think of it, I said it because it definitely fits the setting.