A “culture of abundance” in which food and leftovers within the house are default available to all, with exceptions deliberately kept as rare as possible
That reminds me of an event during a retreat where a cake couldn’t get backed because they required chocolate that was brought to bake the cake was consumed beforehand. It was even baking-chocolate.
It seems like good cooking or baking leads to people buying specific ingredients and it’s bad if they can’t count on those ingredients not being consumed before the planned meal.
You might also want a mechanism to handle “staples” that individuals want. I have a few foods / ingredients I like to keep on hand at all times, and be able to rely on having. I’d have no objections to other people eating them, but if they did I’d want them to take responsibility for never leaving the house in a state of “no X on hand”.
The food policy strikes me as one of the more trivial and unimportant parts of the proposal. I’m not saying you’re taking it too seriously—I think that shared living spaces should have clear rules about who gets to eat what. It’s just that this particular food policy seems easily to change without changing the core “authoritarian” structure of the Dragon Barracks.
That reminds me of an event during a retreat where a cake couldn’t get backed because they required chocolate that was brought to bake the cake was consumed beforehand. It was even baking-chocolate.
It seems like good cooking or baking leads to people buying specific ingredients and it’s bad if they can’t count on those ingredients not being consumed before the planned meal.
Yeah, I think notes saying “do not eat” will suffice; the key is just to get people to use that coin only when it’s for a specific plan.
You might also want a mechanism to handle “staples” that individuals want. I have a few foods / ingredients I like to keep on hand at all times, and be able to rely on having. I’d have no objections to other people eating them, but if they did I’d want them to take responsibility for never leaving the house in a state of “no X on hand”.
The food policy strikes me as one of the more trivial and unimportant parts of the proposal. I’m not saying you’re taking it too seriously—I think that shared living spaces should have clear rules about who gets to eat what. It’s just that this particular food policy seems easily to change without changing the core “authoritarian” structure of the Dragon Barracks.
Funny story by the way, I really like it.
To add to the story, the person who wanted to bake the cake build the oven for baking it beforehand out of parts like an old washing machine.