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How To Not Make Soup, Featuring Horizon Zero Dawn

Heyo. Zed here. So I had this thought that I’d start doing a series of posts about making real life versions of food from video games. This sounds like fun. I tried to figure out what game I should do first. I thought maybe Horizon Zero Dawn. Then I realized there isn’t food in that game. I did some digging and the health potions are made out of meat. From their description they’re made of a broth of animal ingredients that restores health. Cool. That sounds like a good place to start. Soup.

Then it got weird. Like, real weird. Like this thing doesn’t understand what meat is. The ingredients for the health potions are different ratios of bony meat, rich meat and fatty meat. Dude. Man. Dude. Man. You make broth out of bones. Only one of those meats has bones. Man. No.

Also you mostly get meat from hunting foxes. Really, again, not good. Foxes are apex predators. They’re not edible. And sometimes you get an item from one called a fox bone. They can be traded to one person halfway across the map from where most of the wildlife spawns for one specific item you don’t need. Apparently only some foxes have bones. Good to know. These people clearly did well in biology 101. Thanks. Not doing it. I need soup. Back later with soup.

Zed

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