Junk Food in Caversiva

For **junk food in Caversiva**, many of these items are safe from total eradication by the Drastian Empire, thanks to the autochthons' valiant actions, meaning that stocking on potato chips and Twinkies and going to restaurants for a cheeseburger would be a slightly healthier (or less unhealthy in that case) institution or two. Some modern fast food items are saved from the Drastians' futile attempts to destroy the enslaved races' cultural and scientific databases while all of Caversivans now rely mainly on medieval junk food.

Horseriders (knights for example) can gallop their horses through the drive-thru and/or grab candy bars on their way to the castle while Caversivan fast food is also catered to travelers and the poor, and all are tastier than their postclassical Earth counterparts.

## Carbohydrates & Drinks

Bread is one of the most common foods in Caversiva, and even most households have their own grain, yet some who weren't satisfied with their own grain can even buy those from bakers, and while selling ready-made bread is great, bakers could do much more than that for their customers; for example, if someone brought their own meat to the bakery, they could have the baker wrap it in bread and bake it.

The idea caught on more efficiently than ever. Caversivan nations pass a law to ensure that they would require some more cooking education so they can make special breads should customers brought their own meat, fish, poultry, seafood or protein-rich plant-based products from home. Another fast food item, a bread bowl, is also more common in Caversiva, yet it wasn't invented for the first time since medieval Europeans did that.

They would serve soups and stews in a bowl made out of bread, which they call trenchers. The practice helps to bulk up a meal and is cheaper as it cut down on the need for dishes, but bread bowls aren't the only carb-loading option of Caversiva. In addition to being a staple of state fairs and aimless mall wandering, soft pretzels are also incredibly popular in all of Caversiva.

Three simple ingredients combined to create the twisted treat. Just mix a little bit of water, some flour, and some salt, and you've got yourself a filling snack officially approved by all Caversivan religions. Also, during fasting periods like Lent or Ramadan when religious folks avoid eating certain animal products, pretzels often take their place as a substitute. Monks would hand them to kids reciting their prayers while others would distribute them to the poor.

Outside of religion, pretzels become once more a symbol of luck and prosperity, and what's not to feel lucky about when you're chowing down on a handmade pretzel. Nothing completes a fast food run like non-alcoholic drinks served for all ages, because if you're treating yourself, you might as well go all the way, and while drinking alcohol has been a popular activity, Caversivans really like to drink non-alcoholic drinks, because they have unlimited access to clean water and non-alcoholic drinks.

Not even Lent had any effect on the common folks' thirst for memory or racing refreshment. Part of observing Lent means not eating meat, so folks would fill that gap in their regular diets with other things. Fish would become the alternative choice for all, served with any non-alcoholic drink of their choice. Lent provides solace from abstaining for many religious figures and many of those who don't like alcohol.

Thanks to non-alcoholic drinks, people are able to eat many meat substitutes that commoners can willingly turn to, like mock eggs, a dish that's made as a meat replacement during Lent. Making a mock egg is easy, even today. Just take a few empty egg shells, fill them with a mixture of almond milk, jelly, and crunchy almonds, then dye it yellow and choke it down with a mug of fruit juice, milk or soda, or a glass of water.

## Desserts

Sugar is one of those things Caversivans can take for granted, because they're easy to come by and are reachable for the masses, not the classes. Everyone of all classes don't consume sugar too often as it may cause cavities, except there's even Caversivan sugar where it does not harm your teeth almost at all. Other than candy bars, people would flock to the cook shops for treats sweetened with natural sweeteners, such as maple syrups, honeys, date pastes, coconut sugars and agave nectars.

Chocolate (cocoa or carob) is more common for Caversivan desserts, and fritters can come with fruits or vegetables, saffron, flour, chocolate sauce and any natural sweetener of their choice. Sometimes, fritters can be just fried dough stuffed with ginger, almonds and chocolate sauce, and topped with a delicious beetroot juice and any natural sweetener. Gingerbread, another popular item for satisfying the peasantry sweet tooth, also uses any natural sweetener, incorporating ginger, cloves, and pepper, giving it an inimitable sweet and spicy flavor, but when you're in the mood to throw money at a cholesterol spike, there's nothing quite like the funnel cake, a delicious combo of fried dough and powdered sugar.

Funnel cakes also come with fried cakes called crisps. Thanks to the abundance of natural sweeteners, the cakes are now a fairly common treat, thanks to the abundance of sugarcane, yet people still improvise their own recipes, such as milk fritters (which are just fried, sweetened cottage cheese). Waffles are also there in Caversiva, and are often sweet, and even Javanians and Cretians have access to natural sweeteners to make their own obelioses that taste more better than their Earth counterparts.

Flour waffle wafers are commonly known to be combined with cinnamon, honey and cream, and they to bought famous grid patterns of waffles with these former Drastian slaves to make the waffles become an optimal syrup-and-whipped cream delivery system that's celebrated by junk food connoisseurs centuries ago once more. Waffles are all street food, breakfast and desserts with modern toasters finally reinvented by autochthons whose valiant efforts prevented the Drastians from making sure that their enslaved races would start over as pre-Stone Age tribes should they succeed their revolts.

Everyone in Caversiva knows that sugar is unhealthy for the body, so they all mainly went back to honey and all other natural sweeteners, and this time, they would sweeten every meal with all of these (and not mainly sugar). However, people can crystalize their fruits and syrups with sugars, and even use them to season their meats. Everyone can cover a plate of fish and vegetables with enough Caversivan sugar, maple syrups, honeys, date pastes, coconut sugars and agave nectars.

They even have crispy crust topped with chocolate, berries, fruit, or ginger, and even sweet fruit-filled raviolis called cuskynoles.

## Meat Pies

Burgers are safely preserved for all of Caversivans to cook, but are sadly superseded (but not replaced) by meat pies due to their healthy nature. These became more popular once again, and this time, can come in different types and are often served with French fries and milkshakes. These savory little hot pockets are filling and portable, the mark of a blockbuster fast food item.

Unlike medieval Europe, spoiled meat and other rancid ingredients are not allowed to make meat pies due to their unhealthy nature. Cooks are also not allowed to use diseased meats, poultries, seafoods and protein-based plants in their pies, thanks to the autochthons' philosophy on ensuring that food are to be eaten if not spoiled. Cook shops thankfully have refrigeration so they can warm up pies that're frozen, and if there were any spoiled pies, they might waste them.

Poverty is not too desperate in Caversiva, just as food safety are always on the cooks' minds, so they could heap expired food onto the trash cans and ensure that no one would eat it with locks. They only reheat frozen or refrigerated food so they can sell them to customers, which would be pleasantly easy to ensure their health. Recycling bad food is punishable by law.

Not only that, undercooking and/or burning the meat is too punishable by law, so cooks must have to ensure that cooking time for making meat-based foods are complied by such cookbook's recommendation.

## Takeouts

Many cities are centers of trade and commerce. Poverty throughout Caversiva is low, unlike in Drastia, so for many Caversivans, it's an easy convenient, or even possible, to cook at home. Cooking equipment and fuel are exactly cheap. On top of that, the poor who couldn't have their own houses to either build or rent are packed into tenement housing that always have furnishings, essentially a hearth, beds and indoor plumbing systems (and with no TV due to the loss of modern technology).

Those poor people love to visit cook shops, and they sprouted around Caversiva to serve the planet's fast food needs. These 24-hour cook shops supply hot food to tourists and residents alike. They're open every day with menus that change depending on the season. Drive-thrus are also available for those who were driving on chariots or riding on horses, whereby cook shops offer more of a stroll-through experience.

Customers would walk up to the shops to purchase their favorite hot meal. Others would buy what they wanted and then take it home to eat later because scarfing a plate of takeout is not always what you want to do in public, except in parks and food courts. Cook shops aren't always limited in major cities. Other types of settlements are available to have restaurant streets too.

Every cook shop in and around Caversiva offer more variety, including poultry and fish, and may have become among the first to subscribe to Caversiva's adage that it's the smell that sells (other than fragrances). They'll have have their hearths outside the shop and would strategically throw food on the cook so that the smell would entice customers over to grab a quick bite.

All shops serve sweets, pancakes and breads, but the most popular might've been the shops that sell meat pies. Those delicious meat-based treats are a popular seller, and all come with French fries and milkshakes.