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What Do Aliens Eat? Food in Sci-Fi and Fantasy

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The Red Coast Bugs

When something is scarce, that means access to it depends on how powerful you are. In the series snow, piercer, dovid diggs character, in the very first episode, for seven years, all he's eaten is black colored process rations. And then he's brought to a train car belonging to a slightly more powerful class, third class mass hall, and he served grilled cheese and tomato soup. He's practically crying. Got another bull no, we've got a body. Becky chambers used something called red coast bugs as a shorthand for class. Most species look at these red coast Bugs as like eating cockroaches or something. They're vermin. Nobody really likes them

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