Foods
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Some interestingly Neathy food and drink:
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Mushrooms of all kinds, made into spore-toffee, something resembling vegetables, or even wine.
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Dark-Dewed Cherries, a restorative fruit.
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Zzoup: Winewound chanterelles, exile's rose, paprika, pork stock, lament-onions, hanged men's tears, salt.
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Interesting organ meat, often served by devils. Pretend it's pig meat...
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Mrs. Plenty's Rubbery Lumps: originally from Mutton Island, now commonplace at the Carnival.
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Various types of zeefood: fish, cave-crab, and other little abominations.
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Hesperidean Cider, otherwise known as immortality.
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Solacefruit: delightful in small doses, deadly in large quantities.
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...and its evil twin, gaoler's honey.
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Darkdrop Coffee, a powerful restorative.
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Various kinds of mushroom alcohol: wine, absinthe, and other variations on a single theme.
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Various other alcoholic brews, like beer and ale, distilled from Surface grain. Well, we hope so.
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Hesperidean Cider: the drink of immortality, and the only thing that will prevent a denizen of the Neath from dying on the Surface.
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Tea is common in Fallen London. But this is very special tea: it's been steeped in the waters of the river Lethe. It'll make you lose your memory, or just abandon your current path in life.
Besides these, denizens of the Neath will often consume various types of Neathy seafood, as well as food imported from the Surface.
Nightmare-plagued individuals in the Mirror-Marches may be tempted by somewhat, well, nightmarish fruit: decadent, Surface-fruit-like plums, grapes, and cherries. Yum... until you choke on an expanding grapeseed. Or gorge on plums for an entire day, your hunger never sated.