Delic Culture

Education
"When most nations refer to their dark ages, they refer to periods hundreds of years ago. When somebody mentions the Deltarian dark age, they mean today, yesterday and tomorrow." - Dr. Saluman Jafaar, Majatran historian

Cuisine
"A hungry population is better than a sober population" - Grófka Kvetoslava Nádašdyová, former Deltarian Minister of Agriculture.

An often condemned aspect of Deltarian peasant life is the constant famines, sometimes deliberately manufactured by the Government. It is for this reason that there are many jokes made about Deltarian cuisine consisting of nothing but the drugs and alcohol the Government ensures a large supply of. It is estimated that the average Deltarian peasant manages to consume actual sustinance only once every two or three days, usually consisting of lentils, fish, goat, or horse meat. Deltarians are also known to eat insects, rats, leather, bread baked from tree bark and other inedible materials, and other such unappetising fare.

Because of these harsh conditions, the peasantry are known to indulge heavily in mindnumbing and appetite-supressing drugs when food is not available (and often when it is). Extremely strong rum is brewed from sugar cane, and sometimes steeped with opium to create the famous Deltarian laudenum, the closest thing the nation has to a 'National Dish'.

For the nobles, on the other hand, Deltarian cuisine is varied and delicious. Spicy lentil, meat and fish dishes are a common staple, along with delicious tropical fruits such as mango and pineapples, and many pickled meat dishes. Roast pork is one of the perenial favourites, with horse and goat meat being considered 'below' that of the noble class. Ethnicly Deltarian meals make up only a small percent of the nobles diet, however, as they often import exhorbitantly expensive foreign foods to serve at their lavish banquets and orgies.