Do Kerbals have prefered snack?

[ArtemisAZ]

Personally I think they're a pretzel type of species, darn things are good yo.

What are your head canons for what you think Kerbals munch on as we flings them towards the stars?

Edited February 29, 2020 by Krulliam

[Kernel Kraken]

There is a lot of speculation that they're plant- based, so I doubt they would eat vegetables. Maybe that's where all of Kerbin's animals went?

[kerbiloid]

As they are probably a coastal sea life, I always imagine their snacks like something like sushi/rolls with mollusc meat and sea plants instead of rice.

[Rocket Witch]

1½ inch cubes with the consistency of royal icing and a slightly chocolately taste. Colour can be anything; packets contain a bunch of cubes with random colours and Kerbals trade for their favourites. Most Kerbals like green and dislike purple, so the former always run out on the first day of a mission and the latter are found three days after capsule recovery half-melted under someone's seat.

I feel like Kerbals have this weird duality of being really fun (design and mannerisms) but also really cynical (company activities in part descriptions), so their food might be sweet and cute but also very commercially optimised.

Edited March 1, 2020 by Rocket Witch

[purpleivan]

Got to be some kind of ultimate combo, like a chilli dog, wrapped in cheese, deep fried and then coated in chocolate.

Probably topped with sprinkles.

 

[Fraston]

“Snacks” always brought to mind trail mix, pretzels, popcorn and nuts. 

“WHO STOLE ALL THE SNACKS?”

[Bej Kerman]

Crisps. Big, massive crisps with handles so the Kerbals could pick them up in their gloves and shove them in their oddly massive mouths.

[ArtemisAZ]

5 hours ago, purpleivan said:

Got to be some kind of ultimate combo, like a chilli dog, wrapped in cheese, deep fried and then coated in chocolate.

Probably topped with sprinkles.

 

Holy loveeroni Ravioli now that I gotta attempt making, I didn't like my coronary artery being intact anyways

4 hours ago, Fraston said:

“Snacks” always brought to mind trail mix, pretzels, popcorn and nuts. 

“WHO STOLE ALL THE SNACKS?”

Wait you're supposed to put popcorn in trail mix? What the heck rock have I been living under?

[razark]

Pretzels are horrible, and should never exist.

Spoiler

Dawn is in a few hours, if you wish to pick a suitable beach, island, or woodland clearing.  Bring a second.

 

[Greenfire32]

The best snack is a recently eaten one.

The worst snack is a recently eaten one.

[razark]

55 minutes ago, Greenfire32 said:

The best snack is a recently eaten one.

A minor correction:
The best snack is the one about to be eaten.

[kerbiloid]

Why should Kerbal feel sweet taste?
There are no fruits to taste, only trees and sea food. They should distinguish fifty shades of ammonia. So their snacks should be like semi-rotten molluscake in fish sauce.

Wait...
Kerbal snacks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hákarl

Edited March 2, 2020 by kerbiloid

[purpleivan]

5 hours ago, Krulliam said:

Holy loveeroni Ravioli now that I gotta attempt making, I didn't like my coronary artery being intact anyways

Well thrill seeking rocket riders need some thrill seeking snacks.

[Kernel Kraken]

8 hours ago, razark said:

Pretzels are horrible, and should never exist.

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Dawn is in a few hours, if you wish to pick a suitable beach, island, or woodland clearing.  Bring a second.

 

Meet me at the top of Mount Everest or the bottom of the Marinias Trench. I need no second.

Edited March 2, 2020 by Kernel Kraken

[Dirkidirk]

6 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

Why should Kerbal feel sweet taste?
There are no fruits to taste, only trees and sea food. They should distinguish fifty shades of ammonia. So their snacks should be like semi-rotten molluscake in fish sauce.

Wait...
Kerbal snacks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hákarl

there are no visible life forms in the ocean, which means there is no seafood.

Spoiler

I play on the Xbox. there are no trees.

Spoiler

In fact there is no visible life except grass and kerbals, which means they either eat each other or grass!  

Spoiler

On 2/29/2020 at 11:08 AM, Krulliam said:

What are your head canons for what you think Kerbals munch on as we flings them towards the stars?

chips, crackers, alien nuts, small amounts of candy. basically any snack you can think of, but a little different, because aliens.

 

 

[kerbiloid]

40 minutes ago, Dirkidirk said:

there are no visible life forms in the ocean, which means there is no seafood.

There was a hand-sized cephalopod in the trailer of (0.22? 0.23?) version.

I presume, it's a Kerbal larva, but anyway it needs its own food and can't find it on land.

Also Kerbals don' use ethanol in rockets. So, they don't have crops and fruits.

Edited March 2, 2020 by kerbiloid

[Dirkidirk]

7 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

Also Kerbals don't use ethanol in rockets. So, they don't have crops and fruits.

or they just don't use ethanol as rocket fuel for various reasons, or their crops can't be used to produce it.

Edited March 2, 2020 by Dirkidirk

[kerbiloid]

Just now, Dirkidirk said:

or they just don't use ethanol, or their crops can't be used to produce it.

They start career from barn,  and use the parts from the side of the road.
They must start from ethanol

If crops can't be used to produce it, these are not crops, as just a simple carbohydrate are required..

Besides the fact that Kerbals don't have farms and plant, but live in a kilometer from the sea coast.

[Dirkidirk]

1 hour ago, kerbiloid said:

but live in a kilometer from the sea coast.

because all kerbals live in the KSC. 

Spoiler

wait, hOw dO WE kNoW ThAt thEy Don'T uSE EthONAL ETHaNOl

 

[kerbiloid]

15 minutes ago, Dirkidirk said:

because all kerbals live in the KSC. 

Yes, they have built it in the most comfortable place.

15 minutes ago, Dirkidirk said:

wait, hOw dO WE kNoW ThAt thEy Don'T uSE EthONAL ETHaNOl

They don't write in random letter case.

[Dirkidirk]

1 hour ago, kerbiloid said:

They don't write in random letter case.

That don't answer my question

[kerbiloid]

2 minutes ago, Dirkidirk said:

That don't answer my question

ISP 350 s? Ethanol?

And notice, they start sciencing from running around KSC, i.e. from scratch.

And we can see no low-ISP liquid rockets.

So, they don't have moonshine.

Edited March 2, 2020 by kerbiloid

[Dirkidirk]

2 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

They must start from ethanol

NO THEY DON'T

2 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

If crops can't be used to produce it, these are not crops, as just a simple carbohydrate are required...

So carbohydrates don't exist?  Or the kerbin biosphere don't have it                            

[kerbiloid]

4 minutes ago, Dirkidirk said:

NO THEY DON'T

Any farmer would.

4 minutes ago, Dirkidirk said:

So carbohydrates don't exist?  Or the kerbin biosphere don't have it 

So the Kerbin biosphere doesn't contain the carbohydrates in easily extractable, concentrated form.
Like the pre-flower Earth.

Can you eat ferns? They are made of cellulose.
Can you make fern moonshine? Unlikely.

P.S.
"Home, sweet home!" means something other for Kerbals.

Edited March 2, 2020 by kerbiloid

[Kernel Kraken]

All of this mess of a discussion can be avoided by this one fact: they graze plant matter. Look at their huge, flat single tooth, perfectly designed for leafy greens.