Gyiiks open massive kitchen / temples on the Thranityr homeworld. They are delighted in being able to produce, along with their human counterparts, feasts for all the castes of this species. And teach them how to create such feasts themselves. -- Anon Guest
[AN: It'd have to be A Thranityr homeworld. They have several by now.]
They didn't exactly come in peace. They came in generosity, which is marginally better. Every Gyiik ship was both kitchen and larder, which honestly saved a great deal of time. They didn't need to set up to cook. They could cook while setting up. Though moving the deep fryers took expert care and a few stasis fields.
They always had a batch out before they shifted a fryer. That way, they could get another batch on when it was in its new place.
They also made sure to have plenty of Terran cheese. Earth made some of the best fats, and the Gyiiks had invented a vaccine to counter the occasional incidence of lactose intolerance.
Nothing in any of these kitchen had been anywhere near a Terran peanut. Not even the Gyiiks.
The Gyiiks knew what they were doing. They had a great love of food in all its varied forms. Their preferred serving size was enormous, and flavour was king. They also had a great love of calorie dense foods.
Having four hands made the production process a lot easier. Knowing the Gyiikish Kitchen Dance certainly helped, as even four hands was not enough for some tasks. It was an assembly line, and a performance, and a feast. Which the perpetually-starving Vorax truly appreciated. The Thranityr farmers also appreciated it, bringing in raw foodstuffs for the experimental kitchens to work with.
And it was there, in the open-air temple to the Goddess of Plenty, that the scanners discovered the cruel truth of Thranityr biology.
A near-microscopic parasite that caused most of the Thranityr's capacious appetite.
They all had a choice to make.
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