List of foods

This page is a list of foods mentioned and/or eaten in Friends at the Table canon.

Seasons of Hieron

• They eat a lot of fish in Velas and Nacre, since they're on the coast
• Goosenog
  • Fisher Lacey of the Bottom O' The Flounder serves "heated-up iced goosenog" on High Sun Day in Velas.
• Apples are a classic (forgotten?) Nacre import
• Wine is of course sacred to Samot
• Coffee exists
• Soup is the favorite dish in Rosemerrow
  • Including "sugar soup" with sweet crackers
• Sandwiches
  • Sy Elmore eats a sandwich with vinegar once
  • Uklan Tel packs up some sandwiches for Fero
  • Ben gives Hella a sandwich
• Red Jack's serves soup and pork sandwiches
• At dinner with Samothes in Aubade, the party has a fish stew, a four seasons pie with chicken, beef, fish, and strawberries. They also have crescent shaped dinner rolls.

Marielda

• Hitchcock is served orange juice by the train bartender.
• The Tea Leaf Set (also known as the Tea Witches) brew tea that creates magical and psychotropic effects.
• The Six are served a turkey dish with a berry garnish at Memoriam College.
  • It's noted that this dish is halfling cuisine, from the area later known as Rosemerrow, and that Samothes must have had a successful battle for it to be served in Marielda.
• Coffee
  • Maelgwyn drinks a dark iced coffee.
  • Some types of coffee became unavailable in Marielda after Tristero sealed off Nacre.
  • Primo mentions that there is fresh coffee in the guestrooms in Samothes's volcano.
• Wine
  • Several characters are seen drinking wine in Marielda, despite its association with Samot.
  • Some wines are unavailable in Marielda after Tristero sealed off Nacre, although Maelgwyn somehow manages to get his hands on an expensive Nacre vintage.
• Apples are grown in Nacre, and are no longer available in Marielda after Tristero closes Nacre off.
  • Aubrey gains a love for apples after she is offered some by Samot.
• Christopher orders a cold, foaming mixed drink.
• When the Six eat brunch during Four Conversations:
  • Aubrey orders pancakes.
  • Hitchcock orders eggs; perhaps soft-boiled or scrambled, but it doesn't matter to him.
  • Sige orders a frittata with lots of mushrooms.
  • Castille can't eat, but spends the brunch carefully peeling an orange and separating it into neat wedges.
• Champagne and mimosas are served at Samothes's volcano on High Sun Day.
• Castille prepares two glasses of "very strong whiskey" on the rocks for Maelgwyn and herself.

Divine Cycle

COUNTER/Weight

• Constellation Coffee is a popular chain
• Chips/fries are served in the canteen during Kingdom
• Jambalaya
• Maryland and Ibex both separately chop up vegetables for a salad.
• Cassander makes squid ink pasta (repeatedly).

Twilight Mirage

• Popcorn, churros, big trays of fruit, toasted bean (by The Snacking Bean™), and edible flowers are featured at the mysteries. Possibly some of these things are flavors of churros as well. It is unclear.
  • There is talk of edible flowers outside of the mysteries. Maybe Nideo needs that in his groceries.
• Fourteen Fifteen orders a "reversed mango slinger, hold the tonic" at The Steady
• Waltz Tango (Cache) makes pasta dinner for The Beloved. He uses onions in the sauce because he wants it to "have that little kick"

• Jelly juice

• Recurring milkshake references

• Burger

• Calciyummm stackable milk
  • To go with the Calciyummm, an intern brings Tender, Grand, Fourteen, and Morning's Observation some cookies, including chocolate chip, gingersnap, oatmeal raisin, and a fourth mystery cookie, which is persimmon, cranberry, and egg flavored.

• Honey butter oats

PARTIZAN

• Leap foods include rotisserie meats, salad with yogurty dressing, energy bars, and nuts/popcorn to throw into his mouth.
• Ryrira and Avar give SBBR a white rice and stir fry dish, self serve from a central plate. And an oatmeal breakfast.
• Milli and Leap throw various snacks at a bad stand up comic.

Road to PALISADE

• Broadleaf serves chicken and rice soup in Eversin.
• In Braunton people normally eat Pile of Shrimp, but Broadleaf makes shrimp and grits, cornbread, and a big cake.
• Shrimp broth is served at Joyous Guard.
• Blue oranges are featured prominently in the Orbital episodes.
• Calciyummm is mentioned again.
• Hamburger

Sangfielle

• Fish jerky from Vish
• Traditional Blackwick Huge Pomegranate
• Oranges from the White Flower Caretaker's tree
• Lyke has a breakfast of coffee, fried eggs and griddled toast at Bell Metal Station
• Jolyon offers Duvall and Pickman a camphorous black tea and eggs aboard the Red Zephyr; they have access to burgundy paper to-go cups, which are fancy as Sangfielle does not have mass production
  • It is implied at other points that trains generate food through eldritch means in their dining cars, though it is unclear of what quality; the Grand Cormorant Limited's menu variously offers terrapin, a pasta dish, and oysters
• The Toll Collectors splurge on roast pork, rice and boiled fruit
• Jade Moon continental breakfast: griddle cakes, bacon, croissants, "a big bowl of wax" (?), fried egg whites, and a group pitcher of Bloody Mary
  • Also fruit, a pastry, milk, coffee
• Chine eats a mattress

Bluff City

• Sonny Veranda has the best cheese fries in Bluff City
• Coffee
  • They have a haunted coffee machine in Graysand Paranormal
  • The PCs meet at a cafe in Bluff City 05: There Is No Greater Love Pt. 1
  • Florence Slowly has a coffee machine in her car
• Tyler Taylor Pierce is known to eat ordinary hotdogs in wrappers from Show Dogs
• Elouise Salt and her family sell candy at Father's Candy Shope, specifically taffy, peppermint sticks, and balloon shaped candies that each have the word "magnificent" written on them in icing.
• Pomp Circumstance sells funnel cake at his family's funnel cake stand.
• The America's Playground gang buys cold ham with beans and a glass of milk (Melinda), cold ham and two boiled eggs (Pomp), sirloin steak (Sank), french-fried potatoes and cocoa (Catty), and butter cakes (Elouise). Elouise also considers buying a ham sandwich or corned beef sandwich but chickens out.

Live at the Table

• Honey
• Fawn, as a bush dog, eats a good sized bird raw.
• Piccolo's Aunt Matilda has him collect seven dozen frogs to make a gumbo, and/or a gumbo cake.
• On their way to Castle Stormguard, Piccolo and Caspian are conned into buying many unnecessary supplies for their journey, including oranges. They are told that oranges are critical to preventing scurvy for the human members of the crew and the dreaded double scurvy for Fawn. Caspian also buys a keg of liquor and some smoked meats wrapped in parchment.
• Caspian mentions that he likes a braided loaf of bread.
• The Magus feeds a living train some rock candy.
• While aboard the Seawing, the Fall of Magic characters and the ship's crew eat exclusively seaweed salad. The ship does have a wall of spices that everyone can use to season their salads to taste. The named spices are: paprika, salt, cylinder, coriander, peppermint, musk, and "It's a volcano". Piccolo dumps the "It's a volcano' spice on his salad and tells the rest of the crew that it tastes like ash. Afterwards, he confesses that it was actually spicy.
• The Fall of Magic characters go to the Village of Lights' Festival where the traditional festival food is meat fudge.