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Lord Dick Tim:
Canned cold rations?
Are we going to have disease and stuff in the canning possibly?
Pork and beans, canned breads? I can see a large assortment of tuna can sized meals handed out from sacks to the crew each day during a voyage.
Gato Blanco:
By cold food I simply meant food that isn't eaten immediatly after cooking.
I took a course in food processing. I believe that canned foods would be given to national militaries or rich mercenaries; poorer merchants and sailors would preserve wet goods in mason jars, like jams and pickled goods (Given how the magnitude of large scale processing required to make automated canning viable). Canned goods would be more valuable than jarred goods, since the cans are a bit more resistant than jars. Meat would be dried, salted like jerkey, since thats easiest to do. Sailors would often pick up fresh produce in cities if they could, since a voyage between friendly towns could take under a day to a few days.
Machiavelliest:
... does that mean the beer on board my ship is always an IPA?!?!
Gato Blanco:
Lol prolly, thats another good point! Most beers don't travel well, the shaking would lower the quality. Skilled crews who are able to transport beer without shaking it would make a tidy sum in well of areas
Captain Smollett:
Ok, I haven't felt the need to enter this forum until now, but since yall are talking about booze...
I never considered it but I suppose many of the southern groups would be drinking IPA to reduce the spoilage of their beer but I wouldn't be surprised at all to see the baronies and anglean republic enjoying lagers and maybe even pilsners (it's not hard to imagine each group having a distinct style and preference of beers).
The real question is what sort of liquor would we be drinking. In the Caribbean sugar was plentiful and Grog (Rum) was frequently the drink d'jour. What sort of crop is available in enough excess in these regions to distill?
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