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Bring royal jelly taste more in line with reality #40171

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Summary

SUMMARY: Content "Bring royal jelly taste more in line with reality"

Purpose of change

A quick survey on the internet, even among sites that promote its claimed health benefits, suggests that royal jelly tastes horrible.

Describe the solution

Set the "fun" value to -5, on par with wax and soybeans; slightly more fun than dried beans and slightly less fun than tofu.

Describe alternatives you've considered

  • Leaving royal jelly with its fictional deliciousness
  • Setting the fun value even lower, since it actually sounds worse than wax
  • Also removing the dubious healthy modifier

Testing

  1. Spawn royal jelly from debug menu
  2. Consume royal jelly
  3. Morale screen says -5 Disliked royal jelly

Additional context

#39782 removed the magical cure-all properties.

A quick search on DuckDuckGo yields these quotes:

"It tastes strong melted plastic with bitter and acidic taste in the end."
https://www.reddit.com/r/HealthyFood/comments/3t1zom/what_does_royal_jelly_taste_like/

"Overall, it tastes somewhat spoilt, with acidic, faintly sweet, strong bitter-medicinal, even sour flavors."
https://www.natureword.com/tag/what-does-royal-jelly-look-like/

"It is naturally bitter and tastes slightly sour."
https://stakich.com/blogs/thebuzz/royal-jelly-the-how-to-guide

"I swallowed the royal jelly pills sometime ago,when it was bitten open,it seems like custard cream with a raw taste of crushed fish eggs ."
"Its gross but tolerable. It tastes like whisky to me"
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090318210333AAdH3Tv

The consensus on the internet, even among sites that promote its claimed health benefits, is that royal jelly tastes horrible.  As such, this change brings its Fun on par with wax and soybeans, slightly more Fun than dried beans and slightly less Fun than tofu.
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GOFLUMPYOURSELFPORCAY commented May 5, 2020

No, it doesn't taste bad per se, just some people wouldn't like it. it tastes slightly sour, and very very creamy. I honestly prefer royal jelly's taste to most sour candies.
I think this shouldn't be merged.

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ghost commented May 5, 2020

The royal jelly of the game is made by mutated bees. Therefore maybe split the item into ones made of Earthly bees and ones mutated by the Blob?

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