SERIOUS POLL

[nekokoban]

Dear flist:

If you somehow found yourself in medieval Translyvania in a castle, and found roast beef in the walls, would you eat it?*

DISCUSS.

* Corollary: It is a castle full of monsters.**
** Corollary x2: You will probably have to fight these monsters off.***
*** Corollary x3: This probably isn't because you're in a video game.****
**** Corollary x4: Then again, this is because harukami and I were talking, so it may very well be a video game thing.

Comments

[justice]

Well, as long as it didn't come off a zombie.

[nekokoban]

I'm pretty sure it isn't.

Pretty sure.




Well, let's assume it at least looks/smells like beef.

[justice]

HAHA well

In Castlevania, you can get roast beef (or just "meat") off various things.

But if you get it off a zombie, it's rotten meat, which depletes your life.

[themadfish.livejournal.com]

I um. Maybe? Like, if I was starving and would die otherwise. But why is there roast beef in the walls?? But, if I wasn't starving, and busy fighting off monsters, I don't think I'd stop to eat the roast beef that's in the wall. Plus, how did the roast beef get in the walls in the first place? Sounds iffy. And, what if you get food poisoning? That'd make fighting off monsters harder. So I guess no, unless I absolutely had to.

[nekokoban]

Well, it basically came up that apparently they used to keep roast beef in the walls in Transylvania, and so she was asking if I would eat it, and we decided that there had to be a scenario where we'd say yes, BUT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO POLL LJ.

Also we're not guaranteeing that it's necessarily beef, but it IS roasted.

[themadfish.livejournal.com]

Huh. So if it's a regular thing to store beef in the walls, and it is roasted...then I guess I would. I might see if any other humans eat it first and don't die or turn into a monster. Or if there was a microwave/stove/firepit, I might just stick it in to make sure it's really cooked and kill off any lingering bacteria.

If it smelled really good, I'd be more likely to give in. Cause really, I love food and not that picky. If the walls in Translyvania are actually a valid storage system that works, then okay.

[irishninja.livejournal.com]

Vegetarian here, so no.

I'd be willing to give up vegetarianism for hematophagy if a certain Transylvanian count were to give me the "kiss of undeath." Is that an option here? These are important considerations... >_>

Edit: Of course there's a term for blood-drinkers. I should have looked it up before I hit the Go button.

[nekokoban]

Oh right, we should have put a corollary about vegetarians. :|a I think the option is mostly YOU VS MONSTERS and the only foodstuff you've found is that roast beef. However, if you WANT to be changed, I think we'd have to count you among the masses that the explorers are trying to fight past.

[keelieinblack.livejournal.com]

This probably isn't because you're in a video game.

See, up until this I was thinking it was Castlevania-related and going "Sure, eat it, in that situation you're a either a vampire or a vampire-hunting Belmont and not liable to be killed by by something like dodgy roast beef." But now I don't know! *frets*

[nekokoban]

Well, it IS a possibility! We were just like "oh, hey, roast beef in the walls of the castle." YOU ARE FREE TO DECIDE YOUR SCENARIO.

[thewriter0.livejournal.com]

Is there sauce? I think this is an important factor in my decision. Dry roast beef is not made any better by being in a wall. (Then again, sauce would ruin the tapestries!)

[nekokoban]

Well, depending on the type of monsters you fight/kill, you could MAKE yourself sauce. That is an entirely valid option.

[rinkhals.livejournal.com]

. . . baby

[nekokoban]

WE TALK ABOUT SERIOUS THINGS!

[sarraceniaceae.livejournal.com]

And waste perfectly useful monster bait that isn't me? Of course not!

[nekokoban]

BUT WHAT IF YOU HAVE NO OTHER FOOD

[lukita.livejournal.com]

Isn't there a five second rule for eating things off the floor or in this case a wall? Except now my brain is telling me the beef is laid in the wall like little bricks...

[nekokoban]

... it could be a wall MADE OF MEAT.

And that's how they store it.

WHAT THEN.

[torsui.livejournal.com]

if it was roast beef, maybe. mostly because i am a carnivore and have very little willpower.

if it was beef jerky, the chances go up. it's likely to be better preserved.

either way, i'd probably test it on a monster first. or maybe one of my teammates.

[upper-flowers.livejournal.com]

It depends on how hungry I was. . . Actually, I don't like roast beef. I wouldn't eat it, even if I was hungry.

Now, if you had a chocolate bar tacked up, we might have something to talk about.

[unicorn]

I'd eat it. Whatever, man.

[megido]

I don't like roast beef, so no. :|a

[plusqueparfait.livejournal.com]

so am I a party pooper if I am just plain too prissy to eat anything that was in a wall even in my imagination

[zoifox.livejournal.com]

Could I use it as a bludgeon instead? Or just throw it at the monsters so they can fight over it.

[harukami]

We ask the important questions.