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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.
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Half-Life story arc[edit]
- "Hey, catch me later, I'll buy you a beer."
- ― Black Mesa security guard[src]
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- The Black Mesa Research Facility features numerous vending machines, selling sodas or snacks, using fictional brand names.
- A fast food outlet is visible along the Area 8 Topside Dormitories tram ride through the East Personnel Entrance. It sells tacos, pizzas, and other meals.
- 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.
- The Level 3 Dormitories also feature a cafeteria.
- 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.
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- 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.
Gallery[edit]
The cut Coca-Cola beverage machine.
The cut Minute Maid beverage machine.
The cut Fruitopia beverage machine.
The "Enjoy" beverage machine, textured by Yatsze Mark.[2]
The "Soda Pop" soda vending machine.
The 6 different soda cans.
Dreamcast models of the 6 soda cans.
Snack machine.
Alternate version.
The "Carousel Snacks" snack machine introduced in Opposing Force.
Captain Koso's Pure Highspeed Candy Bar.
"Big Tony's Pizza" logo, as seen in the fast food outlet.
"Tesla's Taco" logo, as seen in the fast food outlet.
Unused (and slightly broken) pizza box model meant for a cut mission.
Coffee machines in the Administration Center.
The large walk-in freezer in Sector D.
Ditto.
Cafeteria in Level 3 Dormitories.
Ditto.
A dead scientist in the cafeteria.
Half-Life 2 story arc[edit]
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- 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.
- Combine Dispensers are also used in the Combine Cities to deliver food packages to Citizens. One can be found in the City 17 Trainstation main hall.
- 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.
- Xen creatures are also shown to be edible: A Fast Headcrab is roasting in the Singing Vortigaunt cave, and Vortigaunts are seen preparing a Classic Headcrab at Black Mesa East. In Episode One, human resistance members are heard wondering why Headcrabs are called "crabs" even though they don't taste like them. The Vortigaunt Gary rips off Headcrab's hearts and drinks their fresh blood, and then cooks their body. He keeps Headcrabs captive in his hideout to be cooked later. He gives one of his cooked Headcrabs to Alyx Vance for "sustenance".
- 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. Russell 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.
- Alyx prepares a cup of tea to her father at White Forest.
- The cut Brickbat weapon was to throw several kinds of beer bottles. The cut Molotov Cocktail is also made of beverage bottles.
- Barney Calhoun still owes Gordon a beer.
- 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 Russell, they are provided in breadlines and don't taste as good as bakery bread.
- According to Russell, when he talks about how to make a club 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. Russell likes vodka, even though he describes it as "poison". Alyx has never tried it.
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- As seen in the Victory Mine, Antlion Grubs feed on human remains. The cut Sacktick was to do the same.
- Barnacles are seen feeding on birds.
Gallery[edit]
Beer bottle to be used with the Brickbat in the Half-Life 2 leak.
Ditto.
Early brush vending machine from the Half-Life 2 leak.
Early Pepsi vending machine from the Half-Life 2 leak.
>B vending machine.
Blue soda can.
The red soda can from Episode Two.
The yellow soda can from Episode Two.
Watermelon model.
Bottle of beer.
Carton of milk.
Chinese takeout container.
Metrocop on a fast food bag. The circle is also found on a hamburger box.
Combine food package.
Combine ration box of gelatinated calorie paste, egg flavor (800g). "Once seal is broken, consume within 9000 days".
Combine ration bar of desiccated sustenance bar, water flavor (100g).
A blue ">B" can near Kleiner in his lab.
New Little Odessa's kitchen.
Bridge Point's kitchen.
Fire and Antlions in the Nova Prospekt kitchen.
Portal story arc[edit]
- 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.
- The Repulsion and Propulsion Gels were originally designed as dietetic substitutes, but eventually were shown to be toxic, pulled from the shelves and turned into testing elements.
Gallery[edit]
Beans can be found in Ratman dens.
Water bottle found in Ratman dens.
Milk carton found in Ratman dens.
