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Somebody once said that an army marches on its stomach. We expect that is true for space programs as well! I'm planning on writing an actual planned-out story sometime during the next two months, and I need to come up with something to feed by imaginary Kerbal crew members. I'm accepting all entries, as long as they follow this format: (Name of product) (Company sourced by (Imaginary or in-game)) Source: Vegetables, Meat, Synthesized solid, Synthesized liquid, Organic liquid, etc. (Choose 1) A bit of backstory (e.g. sourced location, etc) Type: Fresh (Radiation sterilized), Dehydrated, Powder-format liquid, Powder-format solid, Hydrated liquid, or Paste. Radiation sterilization, pickling, and chemical treatment are possible preservation methods. Meal designation 1: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks (Choose 1 or multiple) Meal designation 2: Meat, Baked goods (In a non-crumbly paste form), Vegetables (Puree or fresh), Diary, Mystery (Choose 1) E.G. Name: Mystery Meat Formula #42 Company: Schnup Kog's pet food cannery Source: A blend of various mysterious meat products, with a generous helping of wintergreen oil added in. Backstory: A few years ago, a can of ordinary processed meat was dropped into a barrel of fuel-grade vegetable oils. Yesterday, we opened up one of them and found a bunch of cans of this lying around. After feeding it to an intern who reported no ill effects, it was deemed a good substitute for the potentially safer (But far more expensive) Standard Aerospace Ration MKI. Type: Chemically treated solid Meal Designation: Lunch and Dinner Meal Type: MeatTM I am aware that this has been created already, but I want to gather some more unique ideas by myself. Disclaimer: I will edit some entries to provide more depth to the backstory and to reformat them to more closely follow the original design. Basic Ingredients (Vegetables, condiments, grain. Mostly unprocessed, dehydrated stuff): Name: Mystery Mush Company: Watney Botanism LLC (By @TotallyNotHuman_) Source: Pulverized leftover foodstuffs Backstory: A mysterious botanist wanted to reduce food waste, so he collected food scraps, then macerated it, compressed it, and packed it tightly within a metal alloy tube. (Our scientists decided that some reasonably well trained astronauts could figure out how to cook this into something tastier. May contain traces of [REDACTED]) Type: Mush (Chemically-treated) Meal Designation: Torture food Potentially useable vegetable compound Meal Type: Paste Name: Synthmeat Company: Generic (By @0111narwhalz) Source: Synthesized muscular tissue Backstory: A generic term that applies to a meat product grown without the inefficiencies of the rest of the animal. Also known as vitromeat, because it was originally grown on glass dishes. Type: Radiation-sterilized, Kerbin-Grown fresh Meal Designation: Breakfast (bacon-like thin laminate), lunch (sandwich meat, cross-sliced thick laminate), dinner (thick vascularised steaks). Long-term ration Meal Type: Meat (?) --- --- --- Breakfast Menu: --- --- --- --- --- Lunch Menu: --- --- --- --- --- Dinner Menu: --- --- --- --- --- Drinks Name: Bubblyzine (Dehydrt.) Company: Bill Kerman Brewery & Co. (By @TotallyNotHuman_) Source: Synthesized Liquid Backstory: Originally stolen from the fuel tanks of a Dachlandish Ke-163B "Komet" rocket-powered jet plane (by a gang of tipsy fighter pilots), it has since been refined into a drier, less hydrazinic and more kerbling-friendly drink. Just add water! Type: Dehydrated Liquid Meal Designation: Drink Meal Type: Liquid --- --- --- --- Snacks --- --- --- --- --- Multiple-use Name: Standardized Air Branch Ration (Orange-Turkey) or S.A.B.O.T. Company: Centralized Republic of Carmenia Air Force (By me!) Source: Carmenian military research base #11 Backstory: A wholesome, delicious, and above all constipating MRE for pilots of the CRC's M-2 high-altitude spy planes, used during forays into suspicious territories due to the long nature of those missions, the SABOT ration is in the format of a large chunk of gelatinous orange sauce, with small chunks of processed turkey suspended inside. Later adapted for space use, with the orange sauce being substituted for a denser and more resilient blend. A less constipating variant has also been introduced, despite outcry from the scientists who originally formulated it. The taste is described as "sS-s-sour!" Type: Tinned ration Meal Designation: Breakfast (Blended with flour and baked), Lunch (Standard form, or as sandwich meat substitute), Dinner (Standard form, possibly supplemented with other foodstuffs) Meal Type: Meat/Vegetable --- --- --- --- Emergency-use (Items in this container are not to be used in non-contingency situations, though we have trouble imagining that anybody will want to eat these.) Name: KrautzenBerlinerKleister (Cabbage-flavored donut goo) Company: Kartoffel-Racket (K&R Foreign Foodstuffs) (By me!) Source: Pulverized sauerkraut jelly donut mixture composed of 23% preservatives Backstory: A mysterious but undoubtedly sour substance, made from an assortment of vegetable scraps and donut holes, macerated and packed into a small metal tube. Type: Chemically treated paste Meal Designation: Agony booth snack Emergency Food Ration #1 (Snack) Meal Type: misc.