Cold weather sets in: Soup of Legends?

Tolinar·11/5/2017, 6:04:28 AM·3 votes·2,061 views

(Lore Q)

We know so little about the eating habits of the champions! Which champions like which soups best?

Who likes tomato soup, for instance? Clam Chowder? Chicken and noodles? Beef stew? Split peas and pork? Minestrone?

Please enlighten us, O Rioters, so that we may eat as our favorite champions do.

16 Comments

Epicurus11/5/2017, 7:26:43 AM6 votes

Any soup Lissandra tries to consume freezes solid before it can pass her lips. This makes her very sad, and her plot to destroy civilisation and restore the Watchers is just an elaborate escapist fantasy to distract her from the grief of not being able to try spiced pumpkin soup.

Mundo just drinks battery acid. Mundo drinks what he pleases.

RiotBioluminescence11/5/2017, 8:36:30 PM5 votes

We do have at least one reference to soup:

https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/jhin-color-story/

The candied pork glistened on top of the five-flavor broth. The aroma entranced Shen, but he set aside his spoon. As the waitress left, she smiled and nodded in approval. The fat had yet to melt into the broth. Doubtless, the soup was already excellent, but in a moment, the flavor would be at its peak. Patience. ... Shen put his swords on the table. He looked down at the perfect bowl of soup in front of him. Little droplets of the pork fat’s oil shimmered on its surface, but he wasn’t hungry anymore.

Ralanr11/6/2017, 5:24:14 PM3 votes

Well food is heavily based on the environment of the surrounding area, not just animals but the resources to cook those animals (like the kind of wood/burning fuel or even stuff to make containers for cooking).

The freljord probably has no shortage of wildlife and fish to consume, so meat is probably common. Grains and vegetables (or heaven forbid, fruit) are probably a lot rarer and more often fought over (especially grain for a multitude of reasons). I don’t know if the freljord has fertile areas, but I’m assuming they have a harvest season unless it’s always winter. If it’s always winter, then they probably get grains through trading furs across ships (because Demacia won’t trade with them) which means they can have a wide assortment of grains for their meals.

Noxus probably has a lot of different dishes due to having lots of different territories. They probably mix a few dishes together, but this is more noticeable in the outer territories or in the war front where cultures mix. Noxus prime probably doesn’t mix dishes unless a high ranking military members request it at a dinner. The lack of good farmland however might make import dishes more common.

Demacia has loads of farm and hunting land which probably makes their diet the most realistic in a fantasy setting.

Piltover and Zaun probably have a lot of fish, but being big port cities have access to more grains, fruits, veggies, meats, and spices than any other faction and probably makes those dishes more common because of how small the city is. But being the techo city it is, they’ve probably advanced methods of cooking so higher ups or wealthy people have automatic stoves or something (someone with better knowledge of how cooking appliances developed could be better at explaining this).

Bilgewater is literally enjoying all the pleasures ship trades have to offer, but probably have a large amount of fruit in their diet cause scurvy. Actually I doubt they use bread much because mills need a steady supply of it but idk.

Ionia: look it’s basically how asiain cuisine developed.

Shurima: basically how desert dwellers found food.

Icatha: the Void ate it.

Bandle City: Tristana was cooking fish so Yordles eat. They probably have more modern ways of cooking given how Heimerdinger works with technology.

Who did I miss?!