Gamer Grub: What do you eat and drink while playing?

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Gamer Grub: What do you eat and drink while playing?

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At least in America, Pepsi co aggressively markets Mountain Dew and Doritos as the ideal gaming drink and snack. Mountain Dew I get, being a sugary over caffeinated soda, but I don't really get how Doritos have any business near a keyboard or gamepad given how messy they are. Bawls apparently used to be a mainstay of PC gaming, but I've only ever seen it at Micro Center and a specialty candy store at a nearby mall.

Anyway, I was curious what you guys eat and drink, if anything, while playing or preparing to play video games. Would also be particularly interesting to see how preferences differ between regions given how diverse the userbase here is.

Personally having OCD I won't even have a bottle of water let alone snacks or soft drinks near my gaming setup, and honestly with my shit metabolism and excess weight I don't have much room for snacks and sugary drinks in my diet, but I do frequently down iced coffee if that counts for anything. If I had to think of an ideal gamer snack I think it would be nuts, like honey roasted peanuts or smoked almonds in a little tube or cylindrical pouch so you can just pour the nuts down your gullet without getting your fingers coated in seasoning or salt.
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I think my friend BIL devours cheetos while doing HARD GAMING. 8)
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A nice simple lager
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I crunch up a bag of Cheetos until it's a fine powder with a Ninja chopper, then I take a 2 liter bottle of Mountain Dew and pour out 2 cups worth so I have plenty of room to funnel in the Cheeto dust without overflowing. I screw back on the cap and drill a small hole and run some tubing into the bottom of the bottle. I keep this at my feet and run the tube up to my mouth so I don't have to stop gaming.
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drauch wrote:I crunch up a bag of Cheetos until it's a fine powder with a Ninja chopper, then I take a 2 liter bottle of Mountain Dew and pour out 2 cups worth so I have plenty of room to funnel in the Cheeto dust without overflowing. I screw back on the cap and drill a small hole and run some tubing into the bottom of the bottle. I keep this at my feet and run the tube up to my mouth so I don't have to stop gaming.
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I rent a medium-scale crop dusting aircraft, filling the tanks with 500kg of powdered Cheeto prepared in advance. On the day of gaming, I charter my old NAM buddy, Wharf Rat Steve, who buzzes my house and the surrounding neighborhood unleashing the hellish orange payload.

Then I go out on the patio and fire up my Game Gear to enjoy some Sonic 2. :cool:
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:lol:
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Occasionally I'll have a glass of water in the kitchen before heading to my room for games.

That's it.
cave hermit wrote:At least in America, Pepsi co aggressively markets Mountain Dew and Doritos as the ideal gaming drink and snack.
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Cup of tea. Nothing else
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Depends on the time of day, what I'm playing, and my mood.

Coffee, black. Usually for the mornings. Sometimes beer, occasionally scotch.

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800ml of tea with plenty of honey.

I do my snacking during TV/movies mostly.
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Coffee, hot or cold (iced).
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TEA

Cave, Fence pulled an all nighter the other day and he's such an idiot who never drinks hot drinks of any kind... that the following day he tried to keep himself awake with a coffee.
..so he puts two tablespoons of instant coffee, two tablespoons of sugar. Thought that was normal

he had to shit 8 times.
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Sometimes pizza, but I seldom ever eat while gaming. I prefer to enjoy one of the two things at a time.
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Blinge wrote:TEA

Cave, Fence pulled an all nighter the other day and he's such an idiot who never drinks hot drinks of any kind... that the following day he tried to keep himself awake with a coffee.
..so he puts two tablespoons of instand coffee, two tablespoons of sugar. Thought that was normal

had to shit 8 times.
lol @ this story

also wtf, who doesn't enjoy tea and/or coffee. that guy is a pure sociopath
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When I work on making progress in a real-time game I consider challenging, my most serious attempts are shortly after my waking up, on empty stomach, drinking hot water only. Basically - fasting. Not the best time and conditions for one's singing voice, but the sharpest reflexes and real-time awareness in my day-and-night cycle.
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FinalBaton wrote:also wtf, who doesn't enjoy tea and/or coffee. that guy is a pure sociopath
ahahahah. he once yelled exasperatedly down the mic " who wants a HOT drink!?!? "

*scratches head* true bro, i can't think of anyone..
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I don't eat while gaming. I either drink tea or water.
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evil_ash_xero wrote:I don't eat while gaming. I either drink tea or water.
Ditto; hot tea when it's chilly, ice water or iced tea when it's muggy.
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I generally game in the evening, so, beer. Lots of beer, which may explain my lack of progress in more arcade-orientated titles :D
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