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This page will list for You all the foods and drinks that I have for Gor, this is by no means all the foods and drinks on gor, but it should be all of the most common drinks. Please feel free to copy this information, but please also be sure if you share it with others to mention this site please.

Foods of Gor This page describes the foods found on Gor. If I find new items, or new quotes in the future, I will add them to this page. Note: not every item mentioned on this page can be found all around Gor (larma, for example, doesn't grow in Torvaldsland).

Sa-Tassna "Interestingly enough, the word for meat is Sa-Tassna, which means LifeMother. Incidentally, when one speaks of food in general, one always speaks of Sa-Tassna." Tarnsman of Gor, p. 43

Dairy

butter Churned from bosk or verr milk.

cheese

Made from bosk or verr milk.

creams

vulo eggs The tiny eggs of the vulo, small pigeon-like birds.

arctic gant eggs

Grains and Breads

blackbread

corn, maize

rice

Sa-Tarna Staple Gorean grain. Most sa-tarna is yellow, but a brownish variety grows in the desert. Sa-tarna is also used to make "paga" (short for Pagar Sa-tarna), a strong drink very common on Gor.

Sa-Tarna bread (yellow bread) Baked in flat, round loaves; usually with eight divisions per loaf, sometimes with four divisions.

slave bread

Meats

bosk Comparable to the cow or ox from Earth; it is called the Mother of the Wagon Peoples. There exist fifteen varieties of bosk.

kailiauk It is a staple of the Red Savages. "Kailiauk are four-legged, wide-headed, lumbering, stocky ruminants. Their herds are usually found in the savannahs and plains north and south of the rain forests, but some herds frequent the forests as well. These animals are short-trunked and tawny. They commonly have brown and reddish bars on the haunches. The males, tridentlike, have three horns. These horns bristle from their foreheads. The males are usually about ten hands at the shoulders and the females about eight hands."

marsh gant A waterfowl with long legs and broad wings that inhabits the rence islands.

pemmican "'Wakapapi', said Cuwignaka to me. This is the Kaiila word for pemmican. A soft cake of this substance was pressed into my hands. I crumbled it. In the winter, of course, such cakes can be frozen solid. One then breaks them into smaller pieces, warms them in one's hands and mouth, and eats them bit by bit. I lifted thecrumbled pemmican to my mouth and ate of it. There are various ways in which pemmican may be prepared, depending primarily on what one adds into the mixture, in the way of herbs, seasonings and fruit. A common way of preparing it is as follows. Strips of kailiauk meat, thinly sliced and dried on poles in the sun, are pounded fine, almost to a powder. Crushed fruit, usually chokecherries, is then added to the meat. The whole, then, is mixed with, and fixed by, kailiauk fat, subsequently, usually, being divided into small, flattish, rounded cakes. Blood Brothers of Gor, p. 46

tabuk Similar to an antelope, its meat has a sweet taste. There are several varieties of tabuk on Gor (common, northern, prairie)

common tabuk "Once I brought the carcass of a tabuk, one of Gor's single-horned, yellow antelopes, which I had felled in a ka-la-nathicket, to the hut of a peasant and his wife. Asking no questions, as was suitable given the absence of insignia on my garments, they feasted me on my own kill, and gave me fiber, and flints and a skin of wine." Outlaw of Gor

tarsk Described as a wild boar. Its meat has a salty taste. There are several varieties of this animal; the giant tarsk among them, which stands ten hands at the shoulder.

tumit A huge carnivorous bird of the plains.

verr Similar to a sheep or goat.

vulo A small poultry bird similar to a pigeon, raised for meat and eggs.

sausages

Fish and Seafood

Cosian wingfish A small, blue fish found in the waters of Cos. Other varieties can be found out at sea.

eels Several varieties are mentioned. "Many estates, particularly country homes, have pools in which fish are kept. Some of these pools contain voracious eels, of various sorts, river eels, black eels, the spotted eel, and such, which are Gorean delicacies." Magicians of Gor, p. 428

oysters Found in the delta of the river Vosk.

parsit fish A small, narrow, usually striped fish. There are several varieties. It is one of the ingredients of bondmaid gruel in Torvaldsland.

snails

white-bellied grunt A big game fish found in the Polar North.

white-bellied grunt, eggs of Comparable perhaps to caviar; they seem to be served as appetizers.

Fruit

apricots

cherries

chokecherries

dates

ka-la-na fruit The fruit of the ka-la-na tree, also used to make a dry red wine.

larma, hard Similar to an apple. Also called 'pit fruit'.

larma, juicy A red, segmented fruit with a hard shell. Some people have compared it to a tangerine. Warning: many on irc consider offering of larma to show a desire for sexual conduct

melons Various sorts are mentioned, but only one is described.

nuts

peaches Not described, but both 'peaches' and 'yellow Gorean peaches' are mentioned. I do not know if they are different from each other, or if they are just the same peach.

plums

pomegranates

raisins Probably made from Ta grapes, since that is the only type of grape mentioned.

ramberries A small reddish fruit, similar to a plum, but with many seeds.

Ta grapes Purple grapes, often associated with the island of Cos, but grown in several other places as well. Also used to make Ta wine

tospit A yellowish citrus fruit, about the size of a plum, very rich in vitamin C. It's very bitter. There are two varieties.

Vegetables

beans

cabbages

carrots

garlic

katch Some people say it can be compared perhaps to spinach; others have compared it to

lettuce.

kes A small plant whose secondary roots are one of the main ingredients of sullage.

kort "and korts, a large, brownish-skinned, thick-skinned, sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width, the interior of which is yellowish, fibrous and heavily seeded. At the oasis, because of the warm climate, the farmers can grow two or more crops a year." Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37

mul-fungus A type of fungus eaten by the 'muls' (slaves of the Priest Kings) in the Nest.

mushrooms

olives Red olives from Tyros, and olives (not described) from Tor.

onions

peas Peas and 'Gorean peas' are mentioned, but not described.

peppers

pumpkins

radishes

rence A water plant that grows in the marshes in the delta of the river Vosk. It is used for many purposes, from food to making paper (each part of the plant is used for something).

suls Supposedly similar to the potatoes of Earth; described in the books as a starchy tuber plant. They are also used to make 'sul paga', a very strong peasant drink.

turnips

tur-pah " reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of tur-pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves of the tur-pah, incidentally are edible and figure in certain Gorean dishes, such as sullage, a kindof soup" Nomads of Gor, p. 217

Herbs, spices and sweeteners

honey

sesame seeds

salt Red, yellow and white salt are mentioned in the books. The red and yellow salts are found in the south.

sugar There seem to be at least four different types of sugar on Gor. The only colours mentioned, though, are white and yellow.

spices mentioned in the books: cinnamon; clove; nutmeg: garlic

Desserts

biscuits "Grunt, from his own stores, brought forth some dried, pressed biscuits, baked in Kailiauk from Sa-Tarna flour." Savages of Gor, p. 328

cakes, pastires, tarts various types

custards "The girls, carrying their trays, knelt before the table. () On one tray were assorted pastries; on the other was a variety of small, spiced custards." Guardsman of Gor, p. 239

puddings "Verr was roasted, and puddings made. Sa-Tarna bread was brought forth and heated." Slave Girl of Gor

Confections

candies hard candy, various flavors

chocolate self explanatory, cocoa beans imported from Urth and grown on Gor

flavoured ices shaved ice, I assume, flavored with sweet syrups

mint sticks small sticks of candy similar to peppermint, I assume

tastas Rounded candy mounted on a stick.

Soups, stews

slave porridge Sa-tarna meal mixed with water, also called 'slave gruel'. The Torvaldslanders call it bond-maid gruel and add raw parsit fish to it.

soup Soup, thick with shreds of hot bosk and porous chunks of boiled sul."

sullage A soup common on Gor, made mainly of suls, tur-pah and kes, and 'whatever else may be found'.