302. Boomfruit

At some point in time, someone attempted to grow explosive fruit. Perhaps they imagined an orchard of grenades, tuber minefield, or simply a cheap source of explosives. The remnants of the project, and its greatest apparent success are the boomfruit.

Boomfruit are not very dangerous, and takes real creativity to kill someone with one. They are essentially large tomatoes designed to produce nitroglycerin in addition to its normal juices. A typical boomfruit contains just enough to pop dramatically on any hard impact. They are popular at protests, concerts, and public appearances, but most security will have been specifically trained to look out for them.

275. Carnifruit

Sunrise is home to the planimals, a form of life similar to both the plants and animals of Earth. Planimals are mobile, although slow, and some species (carniflora) have evolved to take on the role of herbivore-predators. A few species, instead of hunting, catch their prey with traps, much like the carnivorous plants of Earth. They also grow fruit, not for seed dispersal, but as bait. They have evolved fruit so tempting it can entice planimals even if they are aware of the trap. "Carnifruit", with a little engineering for human tastebuds and biochemistry, are a fantastic addition to the transhuman pantry.

268. Runoff

Makers, wet nanotech, and common pieces of biotech are clean and efficient, but not perfectly so. A buildup of grey water, improperly folded proteins, and loose nutrients must regularly be drained. This can be automatically recycled, but some people have started collecting it in buckets for informal drinking contests. Contestants must have medichines to avoid food poisoning, toxic buildups and other complications, but no augments are allowed that would disguise the taste!

267. Survivor's Yeast

Survivor's yeast (actually an entire ecosystem of microorganisms) can metabolize any mixture of organic material and water into an edible, if unpalatable, slurry. On Earth, almost all types of dirt could be rendered into food, and so the stuff, stored as freeze-dried packets of powder, could be found in emergency kits, soldiers packs, and survivalist bunkers. There is little that the yeast can metabolize in the rest of the solar system, but it is still sometimes used by the poor and desperate to eat a maker's feedstock without a maker.

248. Pod Feed

Pods are not built to last. They are cheaply cloned organs held together by cybernetics, and require extensive regular maintenance. Pod feed is a special food supplement designed to prevent common pod problems. Just as comfurt delivers anti-depressants and anti-psychotics in the form of tasty yogurt, pod feed delivers anti-rejection drugs and purpose-built proteins. Pod feed takes the form of a powder, intended to be mixed into drinks or other foods.

The project is open source, begun and still maintained by the Argonauts. The feed is designed to be producible by everyday makers. Regular use by non-pods can spur the development of a number of immune disorders.

226. Lemonberries

Lemonberries were once a popular snack. As the name suggests, they are lemon-lime flavored berries, resembling yellow blueberries. They fell dramatically in popularity when an unknown party released a version designed for assassination. When combined with saliva, the juice of this variety of the berry becomes a powerful acid. Deaths have occurred both from being tricked into eating the acidic variety and from being spat on.

Mechanics

Assassination variety lemonberries are treated as a chemical [Medium]

If spat on someone, they do 1d10-1 DV per turn for 5 turns, or 1d10+1 DV per turn for 5 turns if ingested.

225. Choconuts

Choconuts were originally envisioned as an upscale snack, but as cocoa trees began to near extinction, demand for alternatives rose dramatically. Choconuts are genetically engineered nuts, engineered not in imitation of cocoa nuts, but to gain a prepared-chocolate flavor. Every type of edible nut has been made into a choconut at one point or another, but hazelnuts and almonds have always been the most popular.

224. Fruit

The Fruit clubs of Luna and Mars are a franchise of 24/7 nightclubs oriented around soma fruit. The clubs have had only mixed success expanding into Extropia and the outer system, as franchising is an unpopular business model, and autonomists find them dull.

Fruit clubs offer a variety of soma fruit, to be picked right from the tree, vine, or shrub. Caffeinated lemons, amphetamined limes, aphrodisiacal cherries, lightly alcoholic peaches, medium alcoholic apples, heavily alcoholic potatoes, a variety of hallucinogenic berries, and mood-altering nuts are the standards, with rotations of experimental types.

The clubs are laid out as indoor orchards. Their layouts are designed to be larger than they appear, capable of hosting large amounts of people while still maintaining private, intimate spaces. Soft grass and moss carpets the floors, flowering and fruit bearing trees are carefully grown to mimic pillars and branch across ceilings, while shrubs and and bushes enclose secluded areas.

Plot Hook: A few cheshires have found their way into the local franchise and discovered the joys of alcoholic fruit. The owner will give 1000 credits to whoever can herd the drunken, invisible cats away.

206. Radium Wine

Among synth-bound bio-conservatives, who are wealthy enough to afford affectations, but not wealthy enough to resleeve into biomorphs, finding normal human analogues to the particular maintenance of their synth bodies is an obsession. The use of metabolic chambers is particularly popular, as it allows for a form of eating. Radium wine allows synths to fuel themselves from a wine bottle instead of a pump, containing a mixture of radioactives (for nuclear batteries) and pure alcohol (as liquid fuel). It is commonly served at the bars of hot zones where synths congregate, but is often restricted in other places due to the dangers of it being accidentally drunk by biomorphs.

187. Savorynges

Savorynges are unlike any other fruit. They are famous as the first entirely new fruit, engineered from the ground up as opposed to being a modified version of something preexisting. Designed to contain large amounts of protein and to have a long shelf life, they are surprisingly dry, with a texture commonly described as being as much like bread as like fruit. In taste they are like an apricot/orange mix. A bit of an acquired taste, they have nonetheless become popular due to their hardiness.

142. Livestock

Cannibalism has lost its luster. Human meat is as easily acquired as any other type, at least if you'll settle for vat-grown. Once the interest in the taboo wanes, however, most prefer the carefully engineered meats; no reason to settle for human when impeccable veal is cheaper. Still, there are always fetishists and connoisseurs.

Among those who maintain a romantic attitude towards cannibalism, vat-grown simply won't do. The very best meat is free-range. This doesn't mean they want to be murderers, however, and to this end a group of well-to-do cannibals have crowd-funded a new morph, the livestock model.

Livestock are designed to be eaten. Some sleeve their livestock with simple AIs, capable of carrying out dietary plans and exercise regimens. Criminal outfits use tasped slaves, as relaxation leads to a higher quality product. Livestock are also a not-uncommon choice of morph for infugees, as some patrons will subsidize the cost of the morph in exchange for the rights to eat it in a few years.

Mechanics

Livestock are biomorphs [High +5,000]

Implants: Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Cortical Stack
Movement Rate: 4/20
Aptitude Maximum: 25
Durability: 30
Wound Threshold: 6
CP Cost: 5
Credit Cost: High

138. Fabre's Fabulous Flavors

Limits on biomass and living space make traditional livestock inaccessible to all but the hyperelite. When they do eat meat, most are happy with resource-efficient vat-grown tissue. Genetically-optimized insects can be almost as economical, and for those among whom "real food" still has a certain cachet, entomophagy has come into fashion.

The most popular brand of edible insects is Fabre's Fabulous Flavors, specially designed so that each species has a unique flavor. There are sweet honeybees, sour grubs, spicy hornets, or the famous savory beetles. They are typically sold out of vending machines, mounted as if in a naturalist's collection, or else in cafes as kebabs.

129. Candy/Toys

There are many in the inner system lucky enough to have biological bodies, but not wealthy enough to afford old-fashioned, grown food. They subsist on fabbed food, perfectly healthy with inoffesnive flavors. There are a number of small autonomist projects designed to win inner-system support through better food.

Candy/Toys are an open source project designing edible toys that can be made by almost any maker. The maker prints small mechanical parts out of sugar, which can be eaten or built into simple toys, robots, and buildings. The toys are designed to encourage creativity among children who use them, and educate them in skills related to robotics and mechanics.

128. Terrabrew

Terrabrews are small, cylindrical terrariums, containing bacteria, algae, and tiny plants and animals, in a chocolaty soil with sweet, mildly alcoholic water, all designed to maintain equilibrium indefinitely. Their stability makes them non-perishable and allows them to be sold from special vending machines. Terrabrew is popular among the most stereotypical of the hyperelite, who enjoy devouring small ecosystems.

89. Cultures

"Cultures" are a brand of traditional probiotic foods, popular on Venus, Luna and Mars. They are small cookies of edible plastic shaped like petri dishes, filled with sauerkraut, kefir, miso, yogurt or soft cheeses. The probiotic nature of the filling means that they cannot be preserved as long as most foods, so they are usually sold from vending machines maintaining vats of slowly fermenting bacteria, filling the cookies as ordered.

Plot Hook: Cultures vending machines are a good vector for bacterial infection. An unknown person or persons has inoculated a kefir vat with a retrovirus causing the bacteria to excrete the fear-instilling toxin Flight. Authorities have treated those effected, destroyed the vending machine and dismissed the act as Autonomist art-sabotage. Firewall, however, believes this was a dry run for a larger, much more lethal attack.

80. Sustenance Spores

Sustenance spores come in small, freeze-dried plastic pouches. Mixed into organic material, the spores will grow into large, puffy fungi, converting the organic matter into edible proteins and carbohydrates, with remaining inedible material sequestered as "pits" in the center. Once matured (after about 48 hours) the user can harvest large puffballs as a convenient, if tasteless, staple.

Derived from yeast and other fungi, sustenance spores were developed and marketed as a survival tool. One gram of spores could produce up to 10 kilograms of edible fungi, requiring only inedible organic material (such as dirt or rotten food) and a small amount of water. The resulting mushroom, roughly spherical with a hard core like a peach pit, can be eaten raw. They became a staple in impoverished areas of pre-Fall Earth, and a minor ecological disaster when biohackers, hoping to liberate the impoverished from having to buy the spores, made the fungi fertile. Some gatecrashers will still bring small spore packets in case they encounter a world with suitable organics.

68. Moon Worms

Alcohol excreting, worm housed, symbiotic bacterial colonies, usually just called "moon worms", have been a bane for military discipline and a blessing for isolated communities and egos. A moon worm, bought and stored in a desiccated, inert state, becomes active (although always still) when placed in water. If sugars are mixed into the water, the worm's symbiotic bacteria colonies begin metabolizing sugar into alcohol. A worm can be added to any bottle, jug or canteen of water, mixed with locally available sources of sugar and flavoring, and produce an alcoholic drink.

The worms can be the genetically engineered larvae of several species, usually whichever the local ectogenesis labs have the genomes for. They host colonies of engineered symbiotic bacteria whose purpose it is to eat sugars and excrete alcohol. The worm is virtually invulnerable and immortal: when dehydrated it enters a stasis that can be maintained for almost a decade before actual death. The worms were first created on Earth, but the details were lost during the Fall. Some scum swarms claim they maintain gene-lines of worms a half-century old, but this is probably just advertising and local pride.

64. Butterfly Parlor

Butterfly Parlors are one of Luna's most elegant and mildly disturbing high-class eateries, and look ready to move from trend to tradition. A parlor typically serves juices, teas, and carefully engineered butterflies called EatMes, who will attempt to crawl into your mouth.

EatMes are genetically altered in three ways. The most important is an attraction to saliva, which they treat like sugar-water. Second, an enhanced flavor, particularly heightened sweetness. Finally, they have bright and varied coloration, enhanced by a minimalist clear and white interior design. The EatMes fly unrestricted throughout the parlor, sipping from plates of sugar-water and regularly attempting to enter customers mouths, at which point they can be eaten. Many upper-class patrons enjoy the combination of a casual, cafe style atmosphere, enhanced by the elegance of the EatMes, with a key touch of perversion and barbarity.

8. Frute

Biomass is the most valuable materials in many habitats. Only the hyperelite can afford large, regular meals. The working pods and biomorphs subsist on maker-fare: nutrient pastes flavored and 3D printed in imitation of food. When they can afford real food, they prefer to maximize their money with food that is tasty but small and therefore affordable. Snacks have become the new frontier of cuisine.

The new hit on the food market, from Titanian microcorp Island Genetics, is Frute. Frute are miniature fruit, grown in bunches like grapes. Tiny apples, peaches, plums and oranges are available now, with bananas and pineapples in the works. Seedless and with minimal skin, Frute can be chewed and eaten whole. The plant (a large shrub) matures rapidly, and fruits almost every week, providing a steady supply. Frute can be purchased prepackaged, can be picked from public plants that automatically charge you for what you pick, or can be grown yourself. They have become popular houseplants in wealthier households.