Yinglets’ digestive systems can’t handle grain-based foods, which tend to accumulate in their stomachs and cause clogs.
Indrel have much hardier insides. Their primary stomachs break down food into a nutrient-packed liquid which can either be digested, or regurgitated and stored.
Think about this the next time you eat honey.
Honey is bee vomit yes, designed to be fed to their larvae. Also used as glue by early civilizations.
Lol gross. Dammit Yannit!
Not a big fan of honey, but not because it’s bee puke. It’s almost like it’s too sweet or something.
Well, it /is/ a supersaturation of honey, among other things. That’s why bacteria can’t live it it; there’s more water in the bacteria than the material around it and they implode almost immediately due to osmosis and die!
Honey does have the advantage of never, ever, going bad. They’ve found honey preserved since Egyptian times, and it was still good. It doesn’t mold, it’s naturally antibacterial, it doesn’t require refrigeration… it crystallizes, but that’s it.
Yeah…One man’s vomit is another man’s breakfast…….??? Never mind the “man” thing….Yuck.
Remember when they hated the sound of language because to them it sounded like vomit?
The idea of not being able to eat bread… now THAT’S upsetting.
Pizza and cereal are out? Nooo!
Worst thing about being a yinglet, you can’t haz pizza! 🙁
TvT: Sure you can. You just can’t use a traditional crust. Having become lactose intolerant in my mid-40s, and having relatives with a gluten allergy, has resulted in some interesting alternatives:
1. Use a slice of butternut squash, eggplant, or spaghetti squash for an individual-sized mini-pizza.
2. Portobello mushroom caps can stand up to heavy toppings, just make sure to support them with rings of aluminum foil or stainless steel cookie cutters to keep the bottoms from getting soggy.
3. Cauliflower pizza crust (grind the cauliflower until it’s got a rice-like texture. Cook and strain it. Add an egg as a binder so you can shape it like dough.)
4. Egg-crust pizza. (Basically an omelet with pizza toppings.)
5. Sweet potato crust, made with mashed sweet potato, almond flour, and eggs.
6. Broccoli pizza crust (similar to cauliflower crust, using eggs and psyllium husk as the binder)
7. Tapioca or coconut flour pizza crust
All of these things we have experimented with at one time or another, the idea being to use something grain-free. And fortunately I don’t have to give up on the cheese, as long as I don’t forget to take my Lactase pills.
Very inventive. Kassie may come calling for you pretty soon.
I do Collie Frower pizza crust a lot… But for yinglets, za problem isn’t grains or even wheat… Make cram of wheat up like Oatmeal we can eat it. But bread is too dry, like za hunny it just dry out our swamp living stomach.
YAYYYYYY YOU MADE FOOD
In a later page, it is said yinglets can eat a lot of different things. Is this changed canon from this earlier page?
Yes, found it. In page 56’s author’s note says that scavs have a stomach for just about anything. So I think the grain sensitivity might be obsolete?
I think it’s more that they *can* eat just about anything; copper, for instance- it just comes out the other end unchanged. Grains, on the other hand, actually gum up the works and have to come back up.
There is no way you can’t love Yannit. She finds something good in the weirdest things.