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[Pan]

 Pretty straitforward. Why plump helmets? I get that they were a staple at first because of fast growth, many uses, and available all seasons. But why do people still use them when they are more experienced? I personally prefer Sweet Pods and Quarry Bushes, and never farmed a Plump Helmet past the first two weeks of playing (and after an article on the advantages of Q-Bushes have over Plump Helmets).

[Vinnie]

Probably because you don't have to spend much time focusing on them. Just order them farmed, occasionally cooked, and you never need worry about food shortages really. It's convenient.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Because they're good for diversity in the diet (of both the liquid and solid variety)

[Pan]

What about quality? Don't you all like high quality meals?

[Dariush]

I agree with Vinnie, I don't usually get forts to the stage where I can afford to get busy with farms, dyeing, weaving, etc. - I usually get bored/killed faaaaaar before that can happen.

[Jackrabbit]

My dwarves can eat bat guano and drink their own tears for all I care, as long as they get the face sculpted out of the mountain in a timely fashion.

My forts aren't so much well run fortresses as they are broken down hovels with a monument to bugger-all sticking out of one end that serves as a middle finger to the people who live near it.

[McDwarf]

High quality meals?
Hmm. . . trash compacting all non-masterwork food with an atom smasher so dwarves are forced to eat the best foods; that sounds like a good way to boost morale in the fort.
Would need a sociable cook who was friends with everybody else in the fort, so the dwarves could compliment the cook on the wonderful meal they just ate.

[Jake]

I aim to grow a little bit of everything in my forts, including surface crops, but plump helmets usually get more space devoted to them than any other underground crop because they're so quick to grow. No other underground food crop can be grown in winter, either.

The other crop I make extensive use of, however, is longland grass. It's easy to leave cooking on repeat and find you've got nothing left for booze, but longland grass can only be brewed or milled. It also seems to be the setting's equivalent of wheat, and I like the idea of rolling fields of corn outside my fortress.

[Uzu Bash]

Does milling give back seeds? I never seem to have any shortage after brewing/milling it all, and both the flour and beer are cookable. And a few master growers manage to pull a lot of it out of a 2x10 plot.

[Wastedlabor]

My dwarves drink sunshine and eat sunshine meals. Then they make engravings of dwarves trading with elves.

I feel evil.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Elves provide sunshine. For that, we can tolerate their kind.

[rephikul]

plump helmet grow in all seasons, grow fast and have multiple use. It's very useful. With that said, I grow sunberries and whipvines.

[FleshForge]

Does milling give back seeds?

Yes, the same way brewing does.  Cooking the plant leaves no seeds, but all the other processes ("process plants" too) leave you with seeds.

[KaguroDraven]

We love Plump Helmets becouse there are men made of them in the caverns, who we can kill. With the right modding we can then eat said people.

[Bromosapian]

We love Plump Helmets becouse there are men made of them in the caverns, who we can kill. With the right modding we can then eat said people.