Pickle_Jar wrote:I guess Dende meant Nameks don't have to eat to survive, but they can eat if they want to because something tastes good.
Most likely, yeah. Dende probably just meant that Namekians don’t need to eat food to survive, as water is enough to give them sufficient amount of nutrients needed. He said that Namekians “don’t eat things like these, and are fine with just water”. It leaves the idea that the Namekians can eat, but don’t to, quite possible. We humans don’t need candies and chocolates either, but that doesn’t mean we can’t put these things in our mouth and eat it.
Dende’s statement seems to imply that he and the Namekians on Namek don’t eat (at least not regularly), maybe they just feel it’s worthless to, much like how some people don’t like to smoke or eat unhealthy foods. Since Namekians are fine with just water, eating stuff is their equivalent of us eating things like candies.
In the son of Katatz’ case, he grew up on Earth, not knowing that he’s an alien due to losing his memories, he probably don’t know that his needs is different compared to that of the earthlings, so after observing people around him and finding out that they eat stuff, he did the same thing. After some time, he would get used to that habit, and would feel the urge to eat something in the same way people who smoke feel the urge to continue smoking (even if we humans don’t need tobacco to survive), which is why we saw Piccolo Daimao, his children, and Piccolo eat something.
