So who wants to help my lazy ass out with some ideas/headcanons for Cardassian street vendor food or things that might be served at a carnival/festival?
I feel like I have came up with things like this before but all that’s coming to mind atm are candied bugs and meat on a stick type stuff.
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What kind of things do you have in mind?
For the next installment of “Deuces”, Julian is going to take Garak on a holosuite date using his infamous “cardassian lizard daddy catching” carnival program (that he’s spent so much effort cusomizing) but I’ve been blanking on good foods to use
Well, I have this headcanon that Cardassian children are carnivorous and don’t become omnivorous until they hit puberty and their dietary needs change. So I would say lots of meat, particularly fish. If they drink fish juice, then I imagine fish is a staple of Cardassian diets. When I write, I use dried, cured, and/or flaked fish a lot. So maybe something like small flatbreads with flaked fish, pickled veg, and yamok sauce would be a good carnival food. Candied scorpions on a stick - very tangy and mildly sweet, take forever to eat because the candy coating is so tacky. Small, roasted insects served akin to popcorn. Thinly rolled graincakes (think crepe) filled with fluffy zabu-milk cream.
My headcanons about Cardassian candies and treats abide by one main rule: you don’t eat with your fingers (ew!) so it has to be either on a skewer or easy to pick with some kinda little fork or chopsticks.
@kissmeinkardasi and I have included fish, but also a lot of eggs of various sorts, including small hard-boiled eggs glazed or frosted with cream or spices.
Taran swirls are a Cardassian delicacy: sugary swirls that melt on the tongue, colorful and tasty, delicious with yujee fuzz-cream (it’s a brownish grey color, and taste could be compared a bit to cane sugar with a hint of eucalyptus).
Kori balls: assortment of little bread balls, which dough contains pieces of fish or meat; usually accompanied with cream or yamok sauce to dip them in. They’re a very common food, typical in workplaces for lunch, but they can get more feisty with themed spicing or glazing (ie: cenabyra blue color on Tret Akleen Day, to celebrate the blue flower of cenabyra bushes, symbol of Akleen).