Gorean food & drinks

There are some foods that are native to Gor, but the basic fare of the Gorean diet tends to be simple. Goreans are meat and potato people. Since so much of your time in the Taverns is spent serving, it would seem logical that you should become familiar with the food and drinks of Gor.

Black Bread : baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains, heavy and dark, served with clotted Bosk Cream or honey.
Bosk : large, shaggy, long horned bovine similar to the Earth cow; cattle; served as beef is served.
Butter : Churned from the milk of the Bosk or the Verr.

Cheese : Pressed from the milk of the Bosk they are sharp in taste and travel well resisting molds in their hard rinds.
Dates : These come from the City of Tor.

Fish : many different varieties of fish are consumed. eg parsit - a silvery fish having brown stripes and wingfish - tiny blue saltwater fish with 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fin; its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia.
Kes : a shrub whose salty, blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage.

Kort : a rinded fruit of the Tahari; served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg.

Larma : succulent fruit, rather like an apple; sometimes sliced and fried, and served with browned honey sauce; offering a larma, real or imagined, by a slave girl to her master is a silent plea for the girl to be raped.
Olives : are commonly from the City of Tor. (referred to as Torian Olives); also Red Olives which come from the groves of Tyros.
Peas : These are mentioned as a menu item, but not described but pease are peas.
Ram-berries : small, succulent purple berries.
Redfruit : similar in flesh and taste to apples of earth origins
Rence : a water plant, the grain is eaten and the stems harvested and pressed into paper or woven into cloth. The grain may be boiled or ground into a paste and sweetened; this paste can also be fried into a type of pancake.
Sa-Tarna : grain, specifically wheat.
Sa-Tassna : meat; food in general.
Slave porridge : a cold, unsweetened mixture of water and Sa-Tarna meal, on which slaves are fed; in Torvaldsland, it is called 'bond-maid gruel', and often mixed with pieces of chopped parsit fish.
Sorp : a shellfish, common esp. in the Vosk river, similar to an oyster; like an oyster.
Sugar : 2 varieties are commonly used, the Red Sugar and the Yellow sugar. It is believed that the Red Sugar is made from fruits and the Yellow Sugar from the juices of crushed cane stalks.
Sul : starchy, golden brown, vine borne fruit; principal ingredient in sullage, a tuberous vegetable similar to the potato; often served sliced and fried.

Sullage : a soup made principally from suls, tur-pah, and kes, along with whatever else may be handy.
Tabuk : Swift gazelle like animals known for their sweet meat and speed, the Tabuk is generally served roasted.
Ta grapes : fruit similar to earth grapes comes from the Isle of Cos.

Tarsk : porcine animal akin to the Earth pig, having a bristly mane which runs down its spine to the base of the tail.
Tumits : a large carnivorous bird of the plains, is hunted and eaten by the Nomadic people of Gor. Traditionally hunted with bolos the sport lies in wether you or the bird gets to eat that night
Tospit : a bitter, juicy citrus fruit.
Tur-pah : an edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves; grows on the tur tree; a main ingredient in sullage.
Vulo : a tawny colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon, which also exists in the wild; used for meat and eggs

These are some of the many beverages on Gor
Bazi tea : an herbal beverage served hot & heavily sugared; traditionally drunk 3 tiny cups at a time, in rapid succession.
Black wine : coffee; traditionally served with red and yellow sugars and powdered bosk milk, and in tiny cups, although in most taverns it is served in mugs. It is grown on the slopes of Thentis it is thought to have come from Urth on a slave acquisition run. If asked to serve it second slave means to serve it black.
Breeding wine :: a sweet beverage which counteracts the effects of slave wine, making a slave girl fertile; also called second wine, it is made from the extract of the teslik plant.
Chocolate : made from beans brought back on one of the early Voyages of Acquisition, this is the same as the chocolate of Earth.It is served in higher class establishments.
Ka-la-na : a very potent dry white or red wine, made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree.

Kal-da or cal-da : alcoholic beverage made of ka- la-na wine diluted with citrus juices and mixed with strong spices, and served hot.
Milk : can be bosk milk, verr or kaiila.
Mulled ka-la-na : Heated ka-la-na, with mulling spices. Usually garnished with a piece of ka-la-na fruit or tospit, served in a goblet.
Paga : (abbr. of Pagar-Sa-Tarna, lit. 'pleasure of the life-daughter'): a grain based, lumpy distilled hard liquor akin to whiskey; sometimes served warm, this is the drink most often served in Taverns.
Ale : Gorean Ale is closer to a Honey Lager than to an ale or beer...a deep gold in color, and brewed from the grains of Gor and hops imported from earth in the early years. It is traditionally served in a goblet.
Sul Paga : alcoholic beverage made from suls; akin to vodka.

Ta-wine : a dry wine made from Ta grapes from the Isle of Cos, served at room temperature, or warm, in a tankard or goblet.
Slave Wine : brewed from bitter herbs, acts as a contraceptive drunk once per month although a girl would not serve this wine a slave would be given this by her Master.
Water : spring water from the mountains or from the liana vine or carpet plants from the rainforest area inland of Schendi.