Tin

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Name	tin
Base price	5 zm
Nutrition	(varies)
Turns to eat	{{{turns}}}
Weight	10
Conduct	{{{conduct}}}

A tin is a special kind of comestible that can be made by applying a tinning kit to a corpse, as well as being randomly generated. Tins of spinach can only be found or wished for; they cannot be made. Spinach will increase your strength attribute, unless it is cursed, in which case your strength will decrease.

Cursed tins are difficult to open, and blessed ones are easy to open. The best way to open a tin is to first wield a tin opener, which allows you to open it in one turn.

Once you have opened a tin, you will receive a message telling you what it contains, and will be given the choice of eating it or discarding the contents. If you choose to eat it, you will receive another message, of the form "You consume (food preparation method) (monster)" e.g. "You consume boiled sewer rat."

The possible food preparation methods are "deep fried", "pickled", "soup made from", "pureed", "rotten", "homemade", "stir fried", "candied", "boiled", "dried", "szechuan", "french fried", "sauteed", "broiled", and "smoked". Most non-spinach tins have low nutritional value, but tins of pureed monster have nutritional value 500, more than half that of a food ration. Rotten tins have negative nutritional value and will cause you to vomit. Cursed tins are always rotten, and tins made by you with a tinning kit are always homemade or rotten.

Eating a deep fried or french fried tin will give you slippery fingers which will cause you to drop your weapon. It is therefore unwise to eat tins in a shop without first unwielding your weapon.

Corpses that convey intrinsics will have the same probability of conferring that intrinsic when they have been tinned. Tinning makes poisonous and rotten corpses safe, however, as your character picks out the (sometimes surprisingly few) good bits for the tin. It is popular to tin dragons, as you will still get the intrinsic, but without the enormous meal.

Tins containing the meat of genocided monsters will not be randomly generated. If you wish for such a tin, you will get an "empty tin" instead. Tins created before the species was genocided will still appear as "tin of foo", but upon opening "It turns out to be empty".

Appearance

An unidentified tin will appear as a "tin". Once the contents are known, one of the following descriptions is adopted instead:

tin of foo meat

if foo is a fleshy monster

tin of foo

if foo is a monster suitable for vegetarians

tin of spinach

if the tin contains spinach instead of a monster (suitable for vegans)

empty tin

if the tin is empty (suitable for those going without food)

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Nutrition

The nutrition of a tin varies depending on the way it was cooked. below is a list of the possible variations of the contents of a tin.

Spinach: 600

Pureed: 500

Candied: 100

Sauteed: 95

Stir fried: 80

Szechaun: 70

Deep fried: 60

Dried: 55

Homemade: 50

Boiled: 50

Smoked: 50

Pickled: 40

Soup: 20

Rotten: -50