Foods

Foods and dishes are named from what they are and what was done to them, not from a list of recipes. Nothing is gated by a name: hunger, saturation, hazards and buffs come from the food's state exactly as before. The name is how you and the wiki call the thing.

In vanilla

A food has one fixed name. Slicing, drying or mashing it does not exist.

In Feedback

One food, by what was done to it

• Fries: a root vegetable (potato) cut at the Prep Table and cooked through.
• Potato Chips: the same, cut and then dried out.
• Croutons: a starchy food that is not a tuber (bread), cut and then dried or charred.

Stale, spoiled, burnt and chunky (a ragged cut) put a word in front of any name: "Stale Fries", "Burnt Croutons". Spoiled wins over stale, then burnt, then chunky.

A dish, by its parts

A dish's parts vote for a cuisine through their materials (tomato leans Italian and Mexican, soy and ginger East Asian, potato and cabbage Eastern European, noodles Italian and East Asian, rice East Asian and Mexican). A tie lets every leading cuisine try its names in order. A name then fills in the part names:

• Italian: Pasta e (main), Pasta al (side, a sharp vegetable such as tomato).
• East Asian: Stir-fried (main) Noodles, (main) Rice Bowl.
• Mexican: Arroz con (main), (main) Burrito in a flatbread wrap, (main) Taco in a wrap with a sharp side.
• Eastern European: (potato) Pierogi in a wrap, Hunter's (main) with a mushroom, (root) Stew with a protein main and a beet or turnip.
• No cuisine: Noodles with (main); Mashed Potatoes (a minced tuber in a bowl); Salsa (a minced sharp vegetable in a bowl).

A soup carries no list of what went into the pot, so it is not named from its ingredients yet.

Changed vanilla names

Potato and baked potato (Fries, Potato Chips, Mashed Potatoes); Bread (Croutons).