Cheese
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| Name | cheese |
| Base price | 17 zm |
| Nutrition | 250 |
| Turns to eat | 2 |
| Weight | 2 |
| Conduct | vegetarian |
Cheese is a type of fleshy commestible that appears in SLASH'EM, SpliceHack, SlashTHEM, and Hack'EM.
Generation
In addition to random generation, cheese can be found in delicatessen shops.
Description
Eating a cream pie confers 250 nutrition, and breaks vegan conduct while preserving vegetarian conduct despite being fleshy.[1]
Cheese can be used to tame the various rats encountered in the dungeon by throwing it at them, which may be the reason it is considered fleshy.[2]
Strategy
At a weight of 2 aum, cheese has a nutrition/weight ratio second only to the lembas wafer, and non-vegan characters may consider it worth hanging on to. Cheese may also have some corner uses in taming rats, e.g. to avoid a potential death as a pacifist.
Origin
Cheese in the pre-modern age was generally made using rennet extracted from dried calves' stomachs, which is not considered acceptable to consume for many modern vegetarians.
