Deities, Dungeons, and Death's Dishes

The cooking exploration, dungeon delving, adventure indie game set in an afterlife by Aaron B-D

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Every video game has barrels, but how many games let you make kombucha, beer, wine, kefir, kvass, and bourbon in them? #indiegame #roguelike #cookingsim

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#FoodFact! Twinkies originally had banana filling, but due to World War 2 rationing the recipe was switched to vanilla cream. The popularity of the new flavor led to banana flavored twinkies never being reintroduced

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#FoodFact! Worcestershire sauce was originally a failed attempt at making Garum. A barrel of it was forgotten about for a few years and before it was thrown out, a couple of chemists tasted it and found it was delicious.

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#FoodFact! Pumpkin flowers are edible and often served fried

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#FoodFact! Turkey consumes the most tea per capita in the world, at about 60% more than the UK, which rates third in tea consumption

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#FoodFact! Edible bird's nest are the bird-nests of swiftlets and considered a Chinese delicacy. They often sell for over $6,000 a kilogram due to their rarity, nutritional benefits, and unique flavor

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Had a lull in development while dealing with life problems, which lead to some new inspiration for foodstuffs!

One of the new bits of flavor text for a particular kind of item is "It's a good thing you're already dead, this stuff's delicious" #gamedev #roguelike

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#FoodFact! Almonds are a member of the peach family

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#FoodFact! Termites and ants are often roasted and eaten by the handful in some parts of the world, much like popcorn

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#FoodFact! Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth

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#FoodFact! Those tall, white chef's hats are called "toque blanche", literally French for "white hat"

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#FoodFact! Tea bags were originally hand-sewn back in the early 1900s

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#FoodFact! German chocolate cake comes from the United States, not Germany. This sort of thing happens a lot

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#FoodFact! Processed cheese was originally invented in Switzerland to improve shelf-life stability

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#FoodFact! Carrots come in all sorts of colors ranging from orange to purple to yellow to white. Bonus fact, carrots were originally purple and white, not orange!

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#FoodFact! Due to its extremely low moisture and high acidity, honey has an indefinite shelf life.

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These branches will have a bunch of fruits and nuts, groves littered around the maze will have vegetables and mushrooms, and roaming clay golems will have capes of high quality produce growing as gardens over their backs.

#gamedev #indiegame #cookingsim #roguelike

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Its just some walls and a floor right now, but this is the beginning of the next dungeon area: The Gardens of Eden

Hedges, mazes, berry bushs, rows of vegetable plants, forests of fruit... Everything needed for salads, strifries, and more can be found here. #gamedev #indiedev

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#FoodFact! Modern tomatoes are grown for yield and firmness to transport easier accross long distances. However, modern supermarket tomatoes are now bland as a result. Try heirlooms for more flavor

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#FoodFact! Almond milk typically contains less than 50% almonds, with some half gallon containers containing less than 5% almonds

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#FoodFact! Modern common bananas are all sterile clones. This is because of a disease that nearly wiped out bananas in recent history due to a lack of genetic diversity when farming.