Fallout 200yr old food logic.

[Krillock]

i know "videogame logic" but presuming cola that is 200 years old, that wouldnt have boiled away from the nuke; would it still be edible?, and i would doubt that any canned food would still be edible atfer 200 years due to the poor storage conditions .

[Lord General Nacho]

Originally posted by $#@%!NG RONALDO:

Ugh the cover the ♥♥♥♥ outta this in Fallout 3. Nuka Cola is still being made, and a mysterious ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ runs around filling all of the machines. if you collect all the super rare bottlecaps he gives you a present as well. C'mon guys....

*New Vegas, not 3

[Ensign]

Originally posted by The Amazing Cube:

Gotta remember though some vaults had food processing units, its quite possible that something that seems old could have been made only a few years prior and the "fresh" fruits that have existed since around the time of three were made with project purity so theres some stuff that isn't prewar

You know you make a great point. In fallout shelter (which idk if its cannon) you could build facilities that made nukacola. Im sure out of the hundreds of vaults in the u.s there must have been atleast 8-20 vaults that opened to the world and traded thier cola for supplies and weapons.

[One Old Soldier]

The Davy Crocket Is quite a real weapon[en.wikipedia.org]

[Silamon]

Originally posted by Nachoguy5:

Originally posted by $#@%!NG RONALDO:

Ugh the cover the ♥♥♥♥ outta this in Fallout 3. Nuka Cola is still being made, and a mysterious ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ runs around filling all of the machines. if you collect all the super rare bottlecaps he gives you a present as well. C'mon guys....

*New Vegas, not 3

and wasnt that sunset sarsaparilla?

[Jedi]

Originally posted by Ensign:

Originally posted by The Amazing Cube:

Gotta remember though some vaults had food processing units, its quite possible that something that seems old could have been made only a few years prior and the "fresh" fruits that have existed since around the time of three were made with project purity so theres some stuff that isn't prewar

You know you make a great point. In fallout shelter (which idk if its cannon) you could build facilities that made nukacola. Im sure out of the hundreds of vaults in the u.s there must have been atleast 8-20 vaults that opened to the world and traded thier cola for supplies and weapons.

Cola, food/water.

[SmokyMtnRed]

Duh, the radiation preserved the cola and canned food.

[SickTag]

They used to have jet cars and flying robot minons and suitcases that could turn the wasteland into the garden of eden, so I think that trying to relate it to real life is kind of pointless.

[Jedi]

Originally posted by Silamon:

Originally posted by Nachoguy5:

*New Vegas, not 3

and wasnt that sunset sarsaparilla?

Vegas had both
But yes, he's talking about the sunset sarsaparilla star bottlecaps

[One Old Soldier]

Originally posted by Ensign:

Originally posted by The Amazing Cube:

Gotta remember though some vaults had food processing units, its quite possible that something that seems old could have been made only a few years prior and the "fresh" fruits that have existed since around the time of three were made with project purity so theres some stuff that isn't prewar

You know you make a great point. In fallout shelter (which idk if its cannon) you could build facilities that made nukacola. Im sure out of the hundreds of vaults in the u.s there must have been atleast 8-20 vaults that opened to the world and traded thier cola for supplies and weapons.

Even if Shelter isn't considered 'canon', bear in mind that Festus, even hundreds of years after the war, is still bottling and loading Sunset Sasparilla in vending machines throughout Nevada.

[burtod]

Originally posted by Grarfileld:

Interesting that Randkin mentions radiation, as a recent study said it could replace pasteurization as a means to sterilize food. I didn't look into this however :P

IRL radiation has been used to sterilize and preserve food, especially fruit. In come the protests who claim lingering radiation (false) and breakdown of nutrients (sure, why not) so it never really took off. But it was effective.

Fallout is all its own universe, I love the crapsack world of tomorrow.

[gamertaboo]

Originally posted by Shahadem:

Originally posted by ÆMEN:

Fallout lore states that they had preservatives that kept food good for a very long time.

So they had the technology to make a preservative that keeps food good for 200+ years but mastering the modern computer interface was beyond them? I'm calling ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on that one.

Lol this and the cars and stuff. I used to think that this was all set in like an "alternate past" but it's supposedly 2077 in-game.... Why does it look like the 50's in 2077?

Don't get me wrong, I still love it... Just kind of weird.

[Haunt Fox]

7I seem to remember when I was in army cadets, the boil-in-bag ration packs the Canadian military uses were supposed to be have been irradiated, to keep the food that much fresher (though these were usually Magic Pantry or Freddychef brand items.) I'm not sure if it's true or not (and at the time, there was something wrong with a batch of cheese-in-tube, so we weren't allowed to eat it if we got it) but that was what the rumour was. Did the idea of eating irradiated food bother us much? We were teenagers, of course it didn't.

[Krillock]

Originally posted by McGarnagle:

Originally posted by ICE T:

i know "videogame logic" but presuming cola that is 200 years old, that wouldnt have boiled away from the nuke; would it still be edible?, and i would doubt that any canned food would still be edible atfer 200 years due to the poor storage conditions .

This is like complaining about the believability of geology in Skyrim, when there's dragons flying around.

A) i wasn't complaining, i was clearly asking a common question.
B) Skyrim is a terrible example to support your argument about realism.

[Silamon]

Originally posted by burtod:

Originally posted by Grarfileld:

Interesting that Randkin mentions radiation, as a recent study said it could replace pasteurization as a means to sterilize food. I didn't look into this however :P

IRL radiation has been used to sterilize and preserve food, especially fruit. In come the protests who claim lingering radiation (false) and breakdown of nutrients (sure, why not) so it never really took off. But it was effective.

Fallout is all its own universe, I love the crapsack world of tomorrow.

Which is exactly the point. Fallout is a part of scifi known as Retro Futurism, its more about what people in the 50s thought would make sense in the future than what makes sense now.
Think about it from that perspective.

[Todd Howard]

Originally posted by gamertaboo:

Originally posted by Shahadem:

So they had the technology to make a preservative that keeps food good for 200+ years but mastering the modern computer interface was beyond them? I'm calling ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on that one.

Lol this and the cars and stuff. I used to think that this was all set in like an "alternate past" but it's supposedly 2077 in-game.... Why does it look like the 50's in 2077?

Don't get me wrong, I still love it... Just kind of weird.

It's supposed to be the ideal "World of Tomorrow" gone wrong.