<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148593.msg7238134#msg7238134">Quote from: Blinkin on 17-11-2012, 19:00:54</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Technically, it's "Brunch" and should be sometime near noon, Mars time. <br/><br/>The shuttle landed just before 0800 local time (8:00 AM) and it took between 3 and 4 hours to offload and move the supplies into the hanger. Some went off to find their quarters and others lingered or went off to check their work areas.<br/><br/>Not everyone was involved in offloading the shuttle, and they either already had breakfast or went to work... The time issue is academic as the best that will realistically be achieved is that everyone is in the same part of the same day... So, the exact time is mute.<br/><br/>There is some confusion on the communal dining room and the food offered. Chrystal may disagree with my own point of view, but with less than 24 hours on the surface of Mars, the time it would take to unpack and store frozen, freeze dried, dehydrated (unlikely considering the water situation) and non-perishable food stocks should take at least that long to finish. The first meal on Mars was a fairly basic soup with some pretty basic fresh baked bread (what we americans call biscuits or simular type of bread). I say this because it takes no more than 30 minutes to produce in quantity and soup can be produced in about the same amount of time in the same quantities. If you consider that everyone's stomach has been empty for months, it's also probably all it can handle for the first few hours.<br/><br/>Back to the kitchen situation though."Breakfast" might be a more elaborate affair, but I think that there has been a misunderstanding on how communal kitchens work. You don't get to order what you want... eggs will be powdered and coffee will be a rapidly disappearing item and probably instant as well. There is a serving line, like a cafeteria, and probably a couple of options to choose from that has been carefully selected based upon research and records of personal taste so as little food as possible will be wasted. There is no grocery store for about 10,000,000 miles, afterall.<br/><br/>What I would expect (again, someone will disagree with me) is scrambled (powdered) eggs, some hot cereal such as oatmeal or grits, perhaps something like pancakes/waffles perhaps. fresh bread of some sort and a beverage that can be mass produced relatively easily that may range from coffee, tea, reconstituted orange juice or something similar to plain water.<br/><br/>For the short term, meals will be like this. Once foodstores are properly inventoried and the kitchen staff knows what they have to work with, meals will become more expansive, but it will remain a basic cafeteria set-up. I would expect morning and evening meals to be fairly harty, but lunch may be something light like a sandwich or soup (or both). Ordering from a menu will not happen until the colony can produce it's own food. This may take a few weeks for some grains to a few months for meats to a couple of years for fresh fruits. Some produce such as melons or items that require a lot of water may not appear for years. I do suspect that technology has adapted to produce faster crops with larger yields, but the vast majority of it is still in the form of seeds and we have 1 farmer in the form of a horticulturist and he also seems to be working on algie to plant on the surface and a very limited space for growing things.<br/><br/>I hope this made some sense. I'll now take disagreements and criticisms. lol<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>So this is a polite way of saying. Fix your post Lizzie. >.< got it.