Characters favorite foods?

[Insertclevername]

Take note that with Future Trunks' favorite food vs. his younger self, there is a age difference. Taste buds and preferences develop over time.

Who would want to go from yakiniku to bento from a convenience store?

No, I think it's a great way to show the personality differences between the two characters. It's a subtle way of showing how hard life was for poor future Trunks.

I'm guessing the bentos would be mass-produced objects stored in capsules. What a future...

Yeah that's true. I used a bad example but you kinda see my point right?

Also, I'd imagine that bentos would be stored in capsules. That's probably what Trunks lived off of, Capsule Corp MRE-like capsules.

[chaosakita]

Actually, someone explained in the thread about the guidebook why bento was Future Trunks favorite food:

Another extra box explains why Trunks’s favorite food is convenience store bento: in Trunks’ future, the androids make it impossible to sit around and have a leisurely meal, and Bulma is too busy working on time machine to cook anything, so Trunks is stuck eating out of convenience stores.

I guess they still have stores in that future, huh.

[Pantalones]

Can Namekians even eat?

I know one of Kami's backstory bits mentioned that there was hardly any food in the snowy place he first landed... apparently he didn't have enough Namekian memories from back home to know that he didn't need anything but water, because if he knew that he could just melt some of the ice and snow and drink that. Of course, Piccolo at least had no idea he and Kami were Namekians at all until the Saiyans mentioned the resemblance much later on (I don't think Kami knew either until then, though I can't remember for sure), so not all that surprising that they wouldn't know every detail about how their own species worked.

So basically... they can eat, but don't need to, since they can survive on nothing but water. Pretty much all food has some water in it, especially fresh meat and fruit/veggies, so Nameks could still get by on eating "normal" food if they had to... but they only need the water in it, not the food itself.

[soulnova]

This is amazing!

Poor Mirai Trunks. They do show stores in the future (the dress store 17 destroys?) and the theme park fair so people could somewhat have some "normal city life" until the androids show up. It just seems that the economy and some cities are in shambles after an attack.

I guess that West City kinda turned into some kind of slums around Capsule Corp.

Tenshinhan: jiaozi/gyouza [Chaozu gets his name from this food], shumai [Pilaf’s flunkies Shu and Mai are named for this]
Chaozu: tenshindon [another name for tenshinhan, the dish Tenshinhan is named for; anyone else find a weird subtext to them being each other’s favorite food?]

They... eat each other....?

....

oh god why

[Insertclevername]

I always found that weird how there are carnivals going in that future when they're are killer Androids running a muck.

[soulnova]

Not so strange actually. People would like to find a way to forget of their hardships. Maybe that was the last Theme Park on the world.

[Eire]

People will try to maintain normality as long as it's possible- including entertainment. In ghettos during WWII theatres and cafes were operating literally till no one was left, in Soviet working camps prisoners were making musical instruments to play, even in Auschwitz people managed to sneak books and newspapers. I assume that even fighting for you life can be trying and people need a break to maintain sanity.

[chaosakita]

Haha, how about if we did a very psychological, non-shounen look about surviving during the times of the Androids?

[Insertclevername]

Okay, I guess you two have a point. All I know is I wouldn't be at no carnival if evil androids were roaming the Earth uncontested.

[Piccolo Daimao]

Okay, I guess you two have a point. All I know is I wouldn't be at no carnival if evil androids were roaming the Earth uncontested.

Unless you were like, "Fuck it, I'm going to die anyway; might as well have one last carnival ride."

[sonikku956]

I think that Namekians used to eat before the mass extinction of their race. I guess Guru altered his body so that his people would live for long periods of time without real food. Judging by those canines, Namekians were omnivores or carnivores.

[Piccolo Daimao]

I think that Namekians used to eat before the mass extinction of their race. I guess Guru altered his body so that his people would live for long periods of time without real food. Judging by those canines, Namekians were omnivores or carnivores.

Although you could say that the Namekians' fangs were for battle purposes.

[Insertclevername]

I think that Namekians used to eat before the mass extinction of their race. I guess Guru altered his body so that his people would live for long periods of time without real food. Judging by those canines, Namekians were omnivores or carnivores.

Although you could say that the Namekians' fangs were for battle purposes.

Perhaps for intimidation too.

[chaosakita]

I think that Namekians used to eat before the mass extinction of their race. I guess Guru altered his body so that his people would live for long periods of time without real food. Judging by those canines, Namekians were omnivores or carnivores.

Although you could say that the Namekians' fangs were for battle purposes.

Now I'm trying to imagine Piccolo biting someone.

[sonikku956]

I'm not sure if it was just Viz punching up the dialog, but I remember Demon King Piccolo saying that he was going to eat Ten.