Certainly, this could be interesting as a plot device for the netbook. I'm not sure if it's something we should allow to go too far, however: if it's as hard to judge food's freshness as you're suggesting, that makes it sound like food has no smell, not just no taste. If that were the case, we'd wind up with all sorts of awkward questions by extension, like "Can a dog in Ghastria only track a rabbit if it isn't planning to eat it?" or "How can the ghouls sniff out where my character's hiding? I was born here, so I shouldn't smell like food!" or even "Are Ghastrians naturally immune to halitosis unless it's a Flavor Day?"cure wrote:since Ghastrians can't tell by taste that a given food has started to rot, and might pose a health risk, a lot of food that would be thrown out in any other land makes it onto the table in Ghastria; consequently there may be fairly elevated instances of food poisoning, of which a visiting FoS member might be a victim . . . .
Rather, it'd be easier to rule that food's lack of flavor is something that only applies when it's placed in someone's mouth, not when it's sitting on the dinner table. That would be slightly meaner (because people can still smell what they're missing out on
), and vastly simpler to deal with.
