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"Sometimes I dream about cheese."
Rebel[src]

Food, both in edible and drinkable forms, plays several roles in the Half-Life and Portal universe. They can either play an aesthetic role, giving more depth to the universe, or be of use to the player. They sometimes have a specific brand.

Half-Life story arc[edit]

Fast food outlet.
"Hey, catch me later, I'll buy you a beer."
Black Mesa security guard[src]

Human-related[edit]

Main article: Vending machine
  • The Anomalous Materials facility features a small cafeteria with a microwave oven in which the player can ruin the meal, revealed later to have been a casserole belonging to Arne Magnusson.
  • Sector D features a cafeteria in the Administration Offices. Early in the game's development, the humorous idea of a food fight was proposed to occur in there, but the idea was eventually rejected.[1] The cafeteria has a large walk-in freezer which stores a number of hanging slabs of beef.
  • Coffee is commonly drunk by Black Mesa employees. Coffee machines are seen several times in food courts, and scientists sometimes ask if someone has seen their coffee cup.
  • Beer is also drunk by personnel, as security guards sometimes promise a beer to Gordon if they meet again, retconned as said by Barney Calhoun only.
  • Some security guards are fond of donuts, which is sometimes mocked by scientists. In the shooting range of the Area 3 Medium Security Facilities, a security guard is humorously seen holding a donut with his right hand, while trying to get his gun with the left hand, instead of simply putting the donut in the left hand, and grabbing his gun with the right hand.

Alien-related[edit]

  • While Xen's Healing Pools restore the player's health by simply standing in it, Bullsquids are seen drinking in them.
  • Xen creatures such as the Bullsquid and the Barnacle, are seen feeding on humans.
  • When a Pit Drone dies near another and there are no enemies nearby, the creature will show to resort to cannibalism, and briefly eat at the other creature's corpse.

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Half-Life 2 story arc[edit]

Vortigaunts cooking in Black Mesa East's kitchen.
"I don't know about you, but I'm ready to join Civil Protection just to get a decent meal."
Citizen[src]

Human-related[edit]

  • Food plays a pivotal role in the control of humanity by the Combine:
  • One Citizen in the City 17 Trainstation at the start of Half-Life 2 warns Gordon "Don't drink the water. They put something in it to make you forget. I don't even remember how I got here." It is never confirmed whether this is true or whether the Citizen is delusional, mentally ill, or otherwise mistaken.
  • Vending machines of "Dr. Breen's Private Reserve" (">B") can be seen around City 17. Similar to the Black Mesa vending machines, they also deliver cans, but they don't give health points to the player. Cans come in blue, red and, yellow colors.
  • The Combine provides its citizens with rations of egg-flavored "Gelatinated Calorie Pastes" and water-flavored "Desiccated Sustenance Bars". According to citizens, they have a bad taste.
  • Many Earth animals used as food by humans, including pigs and turkeys, have gone extinct.
  • Several fruits and vegetables are seen or mentioned throughout the games. Watermelons are seen prominently, and can be torn apart by the Gravity Gun; they also seem to be the diet of Lamarr as seen on Kleiner's Lab corkboard. The Black Mesa East kitchen also features carrots, red onions, herbs, a bag of beans, and some sort of stew/soup. Pumpkins can be found on the Outskirts, and function the same as watermelons. Russel has cabbage and cucumber in his fridge.
  • Empty food packaging can be seen littered around the streets and canals of City 17.
  • Some of the composite garbage props contain foods and drinks that can't be found elsewhere. These include coffee cups, soda cans, and fast food bags.
  • The picture of a Metrocop can be seen on a fast food bag.
  • The cut Brickbat weapon was to throw several kinds of beer bottles. The cut Molotov Cocktail is also made of beverage bottles.
  • During the City 17 uprising, starving Rebels fantasize about food, saying things such as "I could eat a horse, hooves and all." or "Sometimes, I dream about cheese".
  • Empty kitchens are found in several houses in City 17 or along the Coast. Nova Prospekt's kitchen and cafeteria are also seen, in block C1.
  • Fresh bread can be found in Half-Life: Alyx. According to Russel, they are provided in breadlines and don't taste as good as bakery bread.
  • According to Russel, when he talks about how to make a good sandwich to Alyx, he mentions variations of vegetable 'paste' is also provided and consumed by citizens.
  • The Golden Lion Distillery has thousands of preserved bottles of vodka and beer. Russel likes vodka, even though he describes it as "poison". Alyx has never tried it.

Alien-related[edit]

Gallery[edit]

Portal story arc[edit]

The cake, a radio and the Aperture Science Red Phone on the desk of the lobby of GLaDOS' chamber after the end of Portal.
"Cake and grief counseling will be available at the conclusion of the test."
GLaDOS[src]
Main article: Cake
  • The cake is featured prominently in Portal, as it is promised by GLaDOS to Chell for when she concludes the tests. The quote "The cake is a lie." by Doug Rattmann has become very famous in popular culture since then. A cake recipe is also frequently seen on monitors.
  • The Ratman dens feature several food and drink containers of water, milk and beans.
  • In Portal 2, GLaDOS is attached by Wheatley to a potato battery, capable of powering only her consciousness and most basic functions. The potato-based energy is introduced earlier, in the "Bring your Daughter to Work Day" experiments found in the Employee Daycare Center.
  • In the second Enrichment Sphere of Test Shaft 09, it is heard in the announcements that before the test Test Subjects were given coffee containing fluorescent calcium so that the staff can track the neuronal activity in their brains.
  • Near the end of Test Shaft 09 Cave Johnson goes mad and ends up going on an illogical rant about lemons.

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