[Said without any hint of shame or jest. What, you think this is the first time she's seen humans get weird about the goo? They have no place to talk when they drink the stuff that gets squeezed out of cows. In time, all the humans she's known came around to eating goo — and Hunk even found ways to use it in his cooking.]
It's a type of food that we developed, one that's ideal for space travel: It provides all the nutrition that the body needs, and is so perfectly sustainable that it can be produced indefinitely aboard a single ship. ... and it's quite tasty.
It was perfect for long voyages on our early ships, and even after we were able to develop wormhole technology, it was too perfectly convenient to stop using.
forgive a little headcanon
[Said without any hint of shame or jest. What, you think this is the first time she's seen humans get weird about the goo? They have no place to talk when they drink the stuff that gets squeezed out of cows. In time, all the humans she's known came around to eating goo — and Hunk even found ways to use it in his cooking.]
It's a type of food that we developed, one that's ideal for space travel: It provides all the nutrition that the body needs, and is so perfectly sustainable that it can be produced indefinitely aboard a single ship. ... and it's quite tasty.
It was perfect for long voyages on our early ships, and even after we were able to develop wormhole technology, it was too perfectly convenient to stop using.