In contrast to female pine cones, the young, male cones are small, soft and edible.
Pine needle tea is a good source of Vitamin C. They could, however, be available year-round in the Underground. Spruce tips, tender young needles, are edible, though only available in spring. Pine trees have some edible parts other than cambium and nuts. There are also limits on how much cambium can be harvested: stripping an entire ring of cambium off a tree will kill the tree. However, one cannot survive for long on just cambium, and eating too much of it will upset one’s bowels-for humans, at least. It’s most commonly (and historically) repurposed as a flour, and added to other flours. The cambium can be fried in oil and butter to make “bark chips” or “bark jerky”, or dry-roasted to make an almost crouton-like salad topping. According to Atlas Obscura, the cambium of most trees are edible and nutrient-rich. The cambium, the inner layer of bark between the hard wood and outer bark, is edible. (Assumed pine trees by default, though at this resolution it’s hard to tell whether they’re pines, spruces, or firs)īeyond pine nuts, some pine trees can be used as a food source. They resemble the Christmas, or rather Gyftmas, tree in Snowdin) (After all, Toriel would have to get those potted Typha from somewhere) (Short of magic, intensive breeding, technological intervention, etc.) It may be that Typha doesn’t grow in Waterfall, but in some unseen area (like “the Bay” Undyne mentions in a Papyrus call) or an unseen part of the Ruins/Home area. However, unless Waterfall has a day/night cycle and the protagonist happens to visit during the “night”, it’s likely too dark for Typha. Potentially, the crops could be alternated on farms.įrom what’s known of the game’s habitats, Waterfall seems the closest to its natural habitat of marshes. Assuming it’s Typha latifolia or a physiologically very similar species, its ability to grow in slightly brackish waters may mean it can grow in the same habitat as brackish-adapted seaweed/seagrass/“grooty” (see next post). Typha are generally not shade tolerant 2, but according to Missouri Botanical Garden 3, Typha latifola (common cattail) can deal with part shade. Typha are so well-adapted to colonize newly opened habitats, grow in abundance, and exclude the competition that they’re ecologically weed-like. With its variety of uses, it could very well be a major crop of the Underground.
Since the “hot dogs” Sans serves in his illegal hot dog stand is specified to be made from Typha, at the very least, knowledge Typha is edible isn’t obscure in the Underground. Typha can also be used for chair seating, building material, livestock feed, flotation vests, thermal insulation, paper, fibers for clothing, biofuel, pillow stuffing, and candles. Their starchy rhizomes (like roots) are nutritious, with a protein content comparable to American corn (or “maize”) or rice. The plant, often called a “water sausage” in-game, is both edible and versatile in a culinary sense. (There are many more plants of the Underground, but they are plants of unclear type whose edibility or use isn’t mentioned)Ĭonveniently, one plant of the Underground has a known genus: Typha.
(i.e., noodles are generally made from wheat flour, but in countries where noodles of rice flour are common, they’re likely not commonly called “rice noodles”) This is because some processed foods (e.g., Undyne’s spaghetti) could theoretically be made from unconventional sources and still referred to by the base name without specifying the ingredients. So what food crops grow in the Underground?įor the purpose of this analysis, I’ll only be analyzing raw foods, not processed ones made from unknown ingredients. With that in mind, prior to the invention of purely magical food monsters needed a reliable food supply underground. For the sake of this post, I will presume monster food is manufactured synthetically rather than by conversion of physical matter, and that it is a relatively recent invention. It is unclear when monster food was invented, or how it is manufactured. Yet, monsters are capable of eating human food.
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