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How about a space-bound and sheltered character who has never really put any thought into where food—meat specifically—comes from, and now they're planetside and put to work in a real kitchen.

Who is this? Why are they there?

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Rick Griffin

Oh you're giving US a prompt, that's interesting My first thought would be one of the late landers on New Gerootec (after quarantine, the first settlement has been founded, etc) and he had just stayed behind on the WFII for various reasons of shutting various things down, but he's not needed up there anymore and comes down to join civilization. Not really having his old job available anymore, he's always wanted to get into cooking. He assumes it's more-or-less like it is on the WFII. It is not.

Marcwolf

I remember one interesting SciFi story where there was a cooking contest. One of the contestants made a fabulous dish that every body loved, and when asked what the secret ingrediant was he told them it was Garlic he grew in his back yard. The Host upon realising that this ingredient was 'Natural Grown.. In Soil..' promptly turned green and vomited... All the other ingredients were synthesized.

Edolon

Could it be Ava from The Castaway? (From your anthology story) Maybe not quite the real kitchen you were thinking of. But definitely could get into all the steps before meat ends up on the kitchen counter ready to be cooked if you wanted Sorta interesting and fun making a prompt to a prompt. Even if all my thought was a side story to an exciting short story that I very liked.

ArcadeDragon

Might be fun to have this character be disgusted, fight against it, struggle with the ethical implications. But in the end they melt away with joy when they take a bite. Maybe the ship they were on didn't have marbled meat, nor seasoning, and the flavor just blows this character away. This can add to the conflict. The character was maybe already leaning towards its not unethical, but now has gaslit themselves to thinking that's how she feels because of the taste.

Piedunk

A geroo who's got an unusual talent for cooking food krakuns love gets taken from their gate ship to come cook for the ship's commissioner in their home on Krakuntec and ends up as a personal chef-slave for them, which means dealing with a new home, a new job, and a new crew that they're put in charge of on day one.