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Camp Cook
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Whenever men work in the great outdoors, be they cowboys, miners, lumberjacks or soldiers, they work up a big appetite. And someone's got to feed them. In small outfits, the workers might take turns cooking up the vittles, but above a certain population, it makes sense to have a dedicated Camp Cook. Besides, someone has to drive the chuckwagon. Since the primary requirements for food in these circumstances is its volume, nutritional value (in particular, being high in calories) and an ability to be prepared fast, in large quantities, with primitive means and from easily preserved and efficiently stored ingredients, things like the food's look and taste take a back seat. In fiction, camp cooks tend to be a source of comic relief, with many a gag about their horrible cooking or coffee, and their inability to take criticism on the subject. While a camp cook in a encampment that is well-provisioned with regular supply runs might only have to fill in forms to order the food they need, in an isolated camp, during wartime, or if weather hampers re-supply trips, the cook will need to be The Scrounger (or connect with one) or use the Black Market, to get food and supplies that Fell Off the Back of a Truck. Many camp cooks are older folks, no longer able to do the main work of the camp, but often an ethnic minority is used instead. (In older works, this frequently is accompanied by truly awful stereotype humor.) Don't be surprised if the cook has a Let's Get Dangerous! moment near the end of the story—many are quite deft with their cooking implements. Also a common element of summer camp stories, especially of the Summer Campy variety. May have the appropriate nickname of "Cookie". A classic "bit" for the camp cook is ringing a metal triangle to announce that dinner is ready. See also Military Moonshiner and Team Chef. Nothing to do with Always Camp. (In which case, he'd likely insist on being called a chef.) In Real Life, the skill of the camp cook is crucial to camp morale. A crew that is well-fed with appetizing, nutritious food will work harder and better. As such, some logging and mining camps go to great expense to ensure that the food is good. Cooks have to be up much earlier than the rest of the camp to prepare breakfast and bake for the day ahead. The head cook for a large camp will have junior cooks and food preparers who report to them. During US history, cooks in the Wild West had to learn to improvise near the end of wagon trips, when supplies ran low. Some cooks would use locally-gathered game and produce to "pad" the ingredients in their pies and stews (one creative cook added cooked turtle meat to his apple pies when the apple barrel ran low). |
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In the backstory of Happy Days Howard Cunningham was his platoon's cook during World War II. | |
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Salty in Huge. He manages to make "fat camp" diet food actually taste good. | |
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Nickard Zidane in Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team is one in the style of a Wild West chuck wagon cookie, complete with cowboy hat. This despite the show taking place in an indeterminate future and in Southeast Asia. | |
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In a Heralds of Valdemar short story, a tower is under siege, and the soldiers guarding it know they won't last more than a few days. They also know- because of the Companion hanging around outside- that one of them will be saved and taken away from the tower. To lighten the mood, somebody snarks that they hope the one leaving will be the cook. | |
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In Life with Louie, Louie's father Andy would loudly and frequently remind everyone he served in World War II, but his story changed every time (If all of his stories were true, it would mean he was at Omaha Beach and Iwo Jima simultaneously.) When the actual truth comes out...turns out this was his job. | |
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Hop Sing of Bonanza. The Cartwrights' happy-go-lucky cook, whose blood pressure rose when the family came late for dinner. Cast here as the faithful domestic, the comedy relief character had little to do beyond chores. | |
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Fred from Camp Weedonwantcha. He's actually a very good cook for his age (he considers it therapeutic), especially in comparison to the last cook, who refused to serve anything besides imitation sardines. | |
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The Sea Wolf: Thomas "Cooky" Mugridge, heavy Cockney accent, filthy habits, not a good cook. | |
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In G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, one episode had the heroes encounter B.A. McCarr, who worked for Cobra as a cook, until they left him to die when the FLAGG sank. (He managed to survive, but really wasn't happy about them abandoning him.) Supposedly, his food wasn't all-too good, as it gave a whole unit of Vipers food poisoning. | |
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A rather dark example is Pamela Voorhees, Jason's mother from the Friday the 13th series and the killer in the first movie. She was the cook at Camp Crystal Lake's initial term of service, and not really a bad one, but she sought revenge against the counselors for her son's supposed death once the camp reopened. | |
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Considering how she has a specialty camp stew, Caro of Lyrical Nanoha seems to have gotten this role in the Frontier Nature Conservation Corps. | |
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Boris from the remastered version of The Night Unfurls is one of the cooks in the company of the Black Dogs, though he is the only one named. Boris eventually becomes a Defector from Decadence and joins Kyril's Great Escape party to bring Olga to the capital. His role as cook doesn't change during the trek across the Badlands, but the others have to help as well. | |
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Roadblack from G.I. Joe first joined the army intending to be this, but he found military cooking techniques appalling, and transferred to the infantry. Many stories imply he still plans to become a proper chef after retiring. One issue showed Roadblock's range: as part of Training from Hell for prospective new Joes, he served up "mystery meat on a shingle" that had one candidate wondering how it got so grey, but after the trials were over, the three that made it onto the team were treated to an incredible feast. | |
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Chef McMuscli from Camp Lazlo is Camp Kidney's New-Age Retro Hippie cook who makes horrendous vegetarian dishes for the Bean Scouts. | |
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Big Jake: The opening scene shows two cooks at the McCandles ranch, an aging black man named Moses Brown and a younger, unnamed white man preparing a meal for the household and ranch hands. Both of them attempt to fight back and are shot down when the ranch is attacked by outlaws. | |
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Chef Hatchet from Total Drama, at least in the seasons that actually take place at camp. Unlike most examples, he's actually a good cook... when he cooks for the staff. It's part of his job to deliberately make terrible food for the contestants. | |
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In World of Warcraft, an Alliance expedition stranded on Azuremist Island includes "Cookie" McWeaksauce. Their limited resources have resulted in a somewhat limited menu: | |
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Starship Troopers 3: Marauder. Captain Lola Beck stops to talk to the cook on her spaceship, whereupon it's revealed that even in The Future the military will still be serving "shit on a shingle" (chipped beef on toast). | |
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Jebediah Nightlinger from The Cowboys, who also acts as Team Mom. Notably, his food is actually pretty good. | |
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George Washington Wishbone of Rawhide. A cantankerous man, he served as the wagon cook for Gil Favor's cattle drovers, alongside his unfortunate assistant Harkness "Mushy" Mushgrove III. | |
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An aversion to the notion that a camp's cook must be some sort of a wacky, harmless goof. Fallout: New Vegas has Cook-Cook, the, well, cook for the drugged-up and psychotic Fiends. He cooks up a surprisingly good stew, which is quite healthy for the Courier. He also is a twisted, perverse, Ax-Crazy cannibal who tortures people for fun. With a flamethrower. Noted by the Reasonable Authority Figure who sends the Courier after the Fiend leaders to be an utter Pyromaniac with seemingly no morals whatsoever. He also implies that Cook-Cook is a little too into his favorite Brahmin, Queenie, in the most Squicktastic way possible. So reviled is Cook-Cook that there are a couple of non-quest NPCs who will pay the Courier good money upon being informed that he's dead. | |
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Minor Warframe NPC Horrek is the camp cook for Kahl's Garrison after the latter frees him from Narmer imprisonment. True to form, he is an older Ostron man and the comic relief of the group, as his recruitment involved getting blackout drunk and doing something so stupid his wife locked him out of the house and left him to wander the Plains of Eidolon where he was captured. Horrek comes to from his bender three days later in a Narmer cage with nothing but a bucket (but no veil—apparently he was too drunk to brainwash). Kahl incidentally frees him during an expedition and he returns to Cetus to discover his wife still hasn't forgiven him even after his capture and imprisonment in a Narmer drunk tank. Lacking any better options, he becomes the Garrison's cook and spends most of his time making mystery meat stew and sampling various psychedelics. | |
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Schlock Mercenary has Ch'vorthq, who has a motorized whisk on one of his prosthetic arms and a habit of using it all the time. Most of the company prefer to eat out of the vending machines than suffer through his purees, whose delicate balance of ingredients is ruined by getting mixed so finely "you barely even need to digest it". Learning not to do that was a painful, incident-laden process. This gets Played for Drama later on, when Ch'vorthq points out that he would have laid off the whisk if someone had just bothered to tell him that his overuse of the whisk was making the food inedible. He also, rightly, points ut that he is a diplomat, not a chef, by training, that he needs criticism to improve, and that the Toughs have been eating food they didn't like for as long as they have is their fault, not his. |
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Casey Ryback is the cook aboard the USS Missouri in Under Siege. While not much is said about his cooking, the fact that he used to be a Navy SEAL helps him use various kitchen implements to neutralize the mercenaries who have taken over the ship. | |
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Vorkosigan Saga: In Lois McMaster Bujold's Shards of Honor, Yeoman Nilesa is this for a large number of Barrayaran soldiers (young men who clearly miss "home cooking" and have evidently not been shy about letting the yeoman know their opinions of his culinary offerings). He is correspondingly surly and hostile. When the protagonist (who has just spent a considerable period hiking through a wilderness with nothing to eat but packets of instant oatmeal and artificial blue cheese salad dressing) samples his food ("a stew-like substance, and real bread with genuine vegetable oil spread") she sincerely declares it to be delicious, causing a rather startling change in poor Nilesa's attitude. | |
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In Dragon Age: Origins, Alistair immediately asks Morrigan if she can cook once finding out she's going to join the party. After being angrily chewed out by her (and snarked at by the player character), he quickly says that it's because his cooking would kill everyone. Who precisely ends up as the actual camp cook is never revealed. | |
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The Phule's Company books by Robert Asprin had Sergeant Escrima, whose grasp of English seemed to vary wildly between books. Short, short-tempered, comedically "foreign", master chef and master escrima fighter. Did we mention short-tempered? For the love of God, don't criticize his cooking. | |
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In The Gatling Gun, Tin Pot is the Bolland's ranch cook, and is a dab hand with mechanical contrivances. He is the one who manages to get the eponymous gun working. | |
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In a more humorous vein, there is his spoken-word piece "Moose Turd Pie", which is his re-telling of a "Shaggy Dog" Story concerning a man's attempt to get replaced when he is unwillingly made camp cook of his railroad work crew. | |
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Mess Sergeant Rupert Gardner of the Normandy SR-2, from Mass Effect 2, is a classically incompetent, over-the-hill military cook. His food is universally ridiculed by the crew, although he claims it has more to do with the rations Cerberus provided (buy him some ingredients, and the crew's morale increases noticeably). He's also voiced by the same actor as resident Butt-Monkey Strawman Political Donnel Udina, for extra humor value. | |
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Corporal Scallot, the quartermaster in Monstrous Regiment. His specialty is "scubbo", a stew made from whatever's available, but if nothing's available, he can also cook legs. (Although he thinks eating your own legs probably makes you blind.) The role is later taken by Shufti, who turns out to be a lot better at it. | |
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In Holmes on the Range, the ranch Big Red and Old Red end up on is served by "the Swede", whose cooking is decent and whose accent is impenetrable. | |
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In the Seinfeld episode "The Fatigues", it's revealed that Frank Costanza was a camp cook in Korea. He was the best cook in the army, until one day his platoon received a supply crate of meat that was expired. In his hubris, the thought he could salvage the meat with the perfect combination of spices, but went too far and made the food too spicy, making all of the soldiers sick. He is plagued by PTSD-like flashbacks of that night, and refused to ever cook again. | |
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Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade: Lowen is implied to have this role in supports. No explanation for how people eat if he happens to die. Justified since he's also implied to be the son and grandson of former Pheraean royal cooks. He's not the only cook in the cast, Rebecca is a pretty good one too. Predictably, Lowen is one of the her potential boyfriends. |
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Mass Effect: Mess Sergeant Rupert Gardner of the Normandy SR-2, from Mass Effect 2, is a classically incompetent, over-the-hill military cook. His food is universally ridiculed by the crew, although he claims it has more to do with the rations Cerberus provided (buy him some ingredients, and the crew's morale increases noticeably). He's also voiced by the same actor as resident Butt-Monkey Strawman Political Donnel Udina, for extra humor value. In Mass Effect: Andromeda, this role is taken by Drack, the resident krogan. He takes up residence in the ship's kitchen, and apparently his roasts are considered amazing by the rest of the crew. |
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A recurring character in Lucky Luke, one example being in "The Singing Wire". One gives this advice for making coffee: Grind the beans, add water in the mug and set a horseshoe on top. If the horseshoe sinks, add more coffee grounds. | |
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The character of "Cookie" in City Slickers. Perhaps more memorable for the eulogy he gives at Curly's burial than for his cooking. | |
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"Charlie" in the original King Kong, a particularly painful faux-Chinese performance. | |
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In Final Fantasy XV, Ignis cooks meals for the party when they're camping outdoors, with his cooking being a skill that can be leveled so that he can provide better meals to provide better resting bonuses. | |
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The travelling Heterodyne show's cook in Girl Genius. (Unnamed in the original comic, called Taki in the novelizations.) His main job is, however, not so much cooking food for eating as making pies that are used for more... ballistic purposes during the shows. He's a Spark, as well, so he makes even more bizarre creations. Such as his Calming Pie, which actually works on heroine Agatha when she's caught up in a moment of supreme vengeful rage. He's still working on his Unified Pie Theory. | |
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Pvt. Igor Straminsky of the 4077th MASH. Technically, Igor just serves the food, he doesn't cook it (as he's quick to remind the other characters when they complain). There was an actual cook who appeared in a couple of episodes, however. Even Hawkeye and BJ are stunned into silence when British and Canadian personnel praise the quality of the food as being infinitely better than anything their own cooks can serve up. |
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In Monster Hunter: World, the chef for the Hunter's camp is the Meowscular Chef; a scarred muscular Palico who cooks the player, and presumably other people who live in Astera, delicious meals. Despite not seeming to be able to talk beyond meows, he'll cook the player various stat-enhancing meals in a fun, fancy animation. | |
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A saying from a Known Space short story: "Food will win the war, but how do we get the enemy to eat it?" And then, the main character of the story proceeds to win a battle by hacking the autochef after her ship gets taken. | |
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Camp Lakebottom has Rosebud, a surly old lunch lady who uses all manner of revolting ingredients when cooking up meals for the campers at the eponymous summer camp. | |
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Chop-Chop had this as his speciality for the Blackhawks, until modern retcons turned him from the Ethnic Scrappy into a full member of the team. | |
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They Fought for Their Country: Lisichenko is the cook for a squadron of Russian soldiers fighting the Germans in World War II. When Piotr sees Lisichenko digging a foxhole in the front line with the rest of the men, Lisichenko says they can't be expected to hold out without him, then brags about the sheep and cabbage he was able to steal and will make into borscht after the battle is over. | |
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When The Time Warp Trio are sent back to The Wild West, the first human they meet is known only as "Cooky." Given his description and personality, it seems quite possible that he, or one of his close relatives, lived through the Twilight of the Old West and eventually took a job with one Lyle Tiberius Rourke. | |
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Cookie was the circus cook in Frontier Circus. He plays a major role in "The Shaggy Kings" when the circus' food supply is poisoned. | |
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One of Ford Cruller's alter egos in Psychonauts is the Camp Cook for the Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp, where the game takes place, and he also runs the camp store. He even has an odd juxtaposition of competency; his food is never done whenever you visit him, but the camp store is always open and stocked with at least Psi Cores and Dream Fluffs, even during a crisis. Guess we know which job he really likes. | |
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"Cookie" from Forbidden Planet has food so bad it drives Robby the Robot to drink. | |
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In Robin Hood: Men in Tights Latrine is at first mistaken for a witch, she's using all sorts of gooey ingredients, including "eyeballs of a crocodile". A moment later the viewers learn she's actually the cook. | |
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Ratlings in Warhammer 40,000 often act as cooks for the regiments they are attached to. However, being essentially Hobbits in Space!!, they are actually pretty good. | |
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The cook of the We're Here in Captains Courageous, by contrast, is a literal Magical Negro, who has recurring visions of the men Harvey and Dan will grow into. He also speaks Gaelic. | |
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Warhammer: Before the Ratlings, the Halflings in did the same thing. In the Mordheim supplement, which focuses on mercenary warbands in the eponymous ruined city, hiring a halfling chef actually increases the size of your company. Empire armies used to include the Halfling Hot Pot artillery piece which Halfling Chefs use to hurl cauldrons of soup at the enemy. Ogres basing their religion on eating, their cooks actually serve as their priests, practicing Gut Magic which depends on what the caster ate. |
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Cookie from Beetle Bailey. His food is pretty bad, but fortunately for him, Sarge will eat everything. | |
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Airman Darren Becker of Stargate Universe. The low quality of his food is usually blamed on the absolutely crap ingredients he has to work with. | |
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Asterix: In Asterix the Legionary, the cook is first met when Asterix and Obelix go to complain about the food (bacon, cheese and corn, cooked together to save time; only the Briton likes it) and end up dumping him in his own cooking pot. After that, he gets much more imaginative with his menus (somehow managing to cook up seafood soufflé while in the African desert), while the two Roman officers stick to the traditional grub. | |
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The Unknown Soldier: Poor Corporal Mäkilä is the cook for the main characters' unit, and most of what he produces is tasteless at best and inedible at worst. However, it is shown that Mäkilä is a pretty decent cook when he has something to work with, but that the ingredients at the Finnish army supplies, most of which are wartime surrogates, aren't really "something". Either way, the main characters heap endless abuse on poor Mäkilä for something which is only tangentially his fault. | |
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Lucky Eddie is the cook for Hägar the Horrible's crew, and he's terrible. In one strip he cooks rodents. ("Just add more ketchup!" he suggests.) Hagar forbids him from cooking for his actual family, and in one strip, Lucky Eddie himself is unwilling to eat his own food. | |
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Jonny Quest TOS episode "The Sea Haunt". Charlie, the Chinese cook the Quests find aboard a deserted ship. | |
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Zachariah, the African-American ship's cook in The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. Not a comic figure; the mentor role he plays toward young Charlotte skirts Magical Negro territory. | |
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Greasy Sae of The Hunger Games series becomes the Camp Cook for Area 13. Her specialty is beef stew made from dog meat. | |
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Jebediah "Cookie" Farnsworth of Atlantis: The Lost Empire. A big believer in the power of grease. His faith in vegetables, on the other hand, is far smaller. | |
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Simon Pearson from Red Dead Redemption II is the cook for the Dutch Van Der Linde gang, a former Navy man at that. He'll happily accept any meat and game that Arthur brings back to camp so he can cook it, and he'll even help craft valuable items for the player or the camp. Once Dutch starts going insane, Simon quietly leaves the gang and eventually gets married and becomes the shopkeeper for Rhodes' general store. | |
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Before the Ratlings, the Halflings in did the same thing. In the Mordheim supplement, which focuses on mercenary warbands in the eponymous ruined city, hiring a halfling chef actually increases the size of your company. Empire armies used to include the Halfling Hot Pot artillery piece which Halfling Chefs use to hurl cauldrons of soup at the enemy. | |
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Junior Stoke in The Pale Beyond is the Temperence's cook, and is thus responsible for food preparation aboard the ship (and at camp, once the crew is forced to move onto the ice). Cooking ingredients are given to him to feed the crew during any given week. | |
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In Mass Effect: Andromeda, this role is taken by Drack, the resident krogan. He takes up residence in the ship's kitchen, and apparently his roasts are considered amazing by the rest of the crew. | |
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Neelix from Star Trek: Voyager. He's shown to be quite adept when he has the right ingredients and can be coerced into following the recipe. However, many of the foodstuffs on Voyager are either makeshift substitutes or completely new to everyone. Also, Neelix loves to experiment in the kitchen, is much more fond of spicy food than most of the crew, and tends to cook to his own tastes. | |
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In the Yu-Gi-Oh! game, the Marauding Captain seems to have this job in his identity as Marmiting Captain. | |
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Subverted, inverted, and averted, simultaneously, by Men of Honor. The main character is a Black American man who is one of the cooks on a Naval ship because at that time (the 1950's) racism wouldn't let a Black person be anything else in the navy. Even when his act of defiance gets him reassigned as a rescue diver on the ship, The Captain won't allow him to bunk with the divers, ordering him to remain with the cooks. When the same captain recommends him to be a deep sea diver, the racist instructor demeans him by calling him "cookie". | |
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In The Odd Angry Shot, Harry has an ongoing verbal feud with the squadron cook over the questionable quality of the food. | |
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