I'm afraid it tends to be the failures that stick in my mind. Something that threw me so badly that I had to stop reading Ken Scholes' Lamentation, which I am sure is otherwise excellent, was the repeated description of characters eating "Cheddar cheese." I don't often stop reading books but that really, REALLY bothered me. Why not "sharp cheese" or "hard cheese" or ANYTHING but a comparatively famous English place-name in a secondary-world fantasy? I'm sure you wouldn't ever do this, I merely mention it as a datum.
I worry more about food if the situation is one of obvious scarcity. A lot of post-apocalyptic movies fail for me because I spend so much time yelling "What are you finding to EAT in this blasted desert/nuclear wasteland/crumbled city?!" at the screen. If people are travelling, are they carrying food with them or finding it en route? What are they cooking it in/with? If they're under siege, have they started eating the rats yet?
Lots of interesting suggestions in the thread already. Table manners, who's serving, what happens to the leftovers if any, can also all be interesting.
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Date: 2011-03-13 02:44 am (UTC)I worry more about food if the situation is one of obvious scarcity. A lot of post-apocalyptic movies fail for me because I spend so much time yelling "What are you finding to EAT in this blasted desert/nuclear wasteland/crumbled city?!" at the screen. If people are travelling, are they carrying food with them or finding it en route? What are they cooking it in/with? If they're under siege, have they started eating the rats yet?
Lots of interesting suggestions in the thread already. Table manners, who's serving, what happens to the leftovers if any, can also all be interesting.