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[Neoskel]

I actually really enjoy how dwarves will happily eat vermin that you catch. It's just missing a certain..um, flavor.

I think there should be a way to 'cook' vermin so that the dwarves aren't eating them alive, but not just making them all cookable live like lobsters. So why not a different cooking option specifically for vermin with the [VERMIN-EATER] tag (could also include fish vermin since dwarves will eat those live too).

Yum, two-legged rhino lizard onna stick.

[Areyar]

hmmm covered in dwarven syrup.

[Duke 2.0]

 Leprechaun on a stick?
 Fairy on a stick?
 Dragonfly on a stick?

[Neoskel]

 Leprechaun on a stick?
 Fairy on a stick?
 Dragonfly on a stick?

They don't have the [VERMIN_EATER] tag.

[penguinofhonor]

 Leprechaun on a stick?
 Fairy on a stick?
 Dragonfly on a stick?

They don't have the [VERMIN_EATER] tag.

Why should that matter? Why can we only eat the predatory vermin?

There should be a new tag, though, so they can't cook and eat insects. Maybe just the bigger ones, like pixies.

[Dame de la Licorne]

Maybe something along the lines of [VERMIN_COOKABLE]?  And then when that vermin is cooked it's given a name other than biscuit, stew or roast, something like a shish-kebab (spelling may be incorrect)?

[Neoskel]

 Leprechaun on a stick?
 Fairy on a stick?
 Dragonfly on a stick?

They don't have the [VERMIN_EATER] tag.

Why should that matter? Why can we only eat the predatory vermin?

There should be a new tag, though, so they can't cook and eat insects. Maybe just the bigger ones, like pixies.

The tag has nothing to do with the diet of the vermin. It has to do with the vermin as a diet. 

Maybe something along the lines of [VERMIN_COOKABLE]?  And then when that vermin is cooked it's given a name other than biscuit, stew or roast, something like a shish-kebab (spelling may be incorrect)?

Theres already a [COOKABLE_LIVE] tag as on the cave lobster, mussel and oyster, but yeah it  makes them minced.

[Draco18s]

 Leprechaun on a stick?
 Fairy on a stick?
 Dragonfly on a stick?

Beth-onna-stick!

Wait, Beth isn't around here.....
(The joke was before my time anyway)

[Mephansteras]

There should be a new tag, though, so they can't cook and eat insects. Maybe just the bigger ones, like pixies.

No reason they can't eat insects. Lots of human cultures do, after all.

[penguinofhonor]

There should be a new tag, though, so they can't cook and eat insects. Maybe just the bigger ones, like pixies.

No reason they can't eat insects. Lots of human cultures do, after all.

Yeah, but they would have to get a lot of them to make even a small meal.

[Demonic Gophers]

Depends on how big they are.  Considering the size of giant cave spiders, it doesn't seem unreasonable that large insects might be comparable in size to other vermin.

[penguinofhonor]

But giant cave spiders aren't vermin. I don't see what they have to do with any of this.

[Demonic Gophers]

In real life, spiders are very small, but in DF there are varieties of spiders that are very large.  Thus, our familiar standards of size do not apply to DF.  There is no reason why insects are necessarily any smaller, and less capable of providing a meal, than any other type of vermin.

That make more sense?

[penguinofhonor]

Yeah, I get it.

[JujuBubu]

But you allready get meat from giant cave spiders

what i don't understand is why you can't butcher everything ... why do I have to wait for the gobbos to rot until I can make arrows ?
mark their meat as unedible .. or something .. but let us prepare everything

ps. moghopper juice.