Food
Food
Food often appears in friendly or diplomatic gatherings/circumstances. (( Maybe this article should be more general, to include tea? ))
In general, most food is synthesized (at least on Earth). Synthesized food is almost as good as food made manually.
Military implants increase the tastiness of raw meat, after one gets over the dysguesia.
Sakura Kyouko generally carries a food item. She also gave half a dozen churros to Akiyama Akari, with perfect timing too. Relatedly, suspiciously good interruptions of food service have happened quite a few times.
When Chitose Yuma was little, her parents took her to Destiny Land, and then she emerged late afternoon holding a cone of ice cream.
Cake
It had been a nice dream, involving cake.
Cake is a confection that can be made manually from flour, sugar, and other ingredients and baked.
Cake appeared in Akemi Homura's original celebrations of October 3rd and in Chitose Yuma's 458th (?) birthday.
Tomoe Mami is known for her cooking and in particular strawberry cream cake. Her cake was served to her in her visit to the Goddess. Incidentally, in Ryouko's visit to Atsuko Arisu, it was mentioned that strawberry cream cake was her favorite form of snack. This coincidence came up later, when Mami gave Ryouko the Chitose Yuma Medal for Combat Leadership Exceeding Expectations of Age and Training Level (and so this is also Mami's favorite cake).
Interlude II is titled "Madeleines", which is a small rich French tea sponge cake typically baked in a shell-shaped mold.
Terra Roja
chapter 55 extract
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a lot of the food on the colony was grown in huge hydroponics facilities, which made the presence of Earth foods like garlic and potatoes understandable
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"These are balloon barnacles, which are called that because they stick and grow on the side of anything in the air. They're a huge nuisance sometimes, and you have to clean them off your wings, but hey, at least they're tasty. In the wild, they latch onto the side of these sort of giant, gas‐filled, photosynthetic sacs. They're kind of like parasites."
"They also look like goose barnacles," Asami said, squinting at one.
"That's a coincidence," Azrael said.
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Before they could respond to the joke, more plates of food arrived, suspiciously timed.
"Alright, so these may look like giant chicken wings," Azrael explained. "But actually, this is basically a species of native bird…"
