#pymodo

Okay so everyone in this world has the basic nutritional needs of a human and can consume all things a human can. They can all eat grapes or onions or chocolate and taste spice right?

So then species specific nutritional needs, abilities, and habits are added on top of that. Scout would experience a Human Type craving for like,,, chicken and tacos and shit but if he were to walk around outside and see perhaps an unguarded garden? With some crisp cabbages? He's gonna pick the damn thing off of the ground and eat it raw.

So Scout, Demo, and Soldier's diets are going to lean more towards vegetables and grains and fruits than the other mercs but not any more than what varies in humans. Well apart from the fact that most humans do not eat apples and oranges whole or bowls of unseasoned oats. I guess they also would not mind pellet feed either lol. Not only that but they all have the capacity to macerate (thicker enamel) and digest the silica in grasses (So can Heavy! Up to 90% of a Brown bears diet can be plant matter! SO can Miss Pauling but that's sort of an emergency thing to mice) (Grass is not very nutrient or calorically dense)

This also means that Scout and Demo specifically (as the only "true" herbivores) are going to experience an instinctual revulsion to raw meats, and blood/iron as a primary flavor. [Raw hamburger = EW YUCK. Cooked burger = yummy!!!)

You then of course compare that to the other mercs who are all primarily carnivorous. Things that would leave the average person disgusted (Unseasoned organ meats, raw eggs, brains, offal... dog or cat food even.) are going to be things that they crave; and of course they have the digestive systems to be able to do this safely. This usually involves having extremely acidic stomach to kill off pathogens. This also allows them to consume large quantities of bones, cartilage and hair [<- OR to have the ability to regurgitate hair] without the risks that it would carry for a human.

ALSO: Lactose intolerance and food allergies still exists. Damn it all...

In review;

Can Process High Silica Plants: Scout, Demo, Soldier, Heavy, Miss Pauling

Can Safely Eat Raw Meats: Soldier, Heavy, Medic, Spy, Sniper, Pyro, Engie, Miss Pauling

WILD CARD!!!: COULD THEORETICALLY EAT ROTTING MEAT: Pyro, Soldier, Sniper