Are Orks eadible?

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**Psienesis**

Yes, but we've also seen what happens when the Kroot eat the wrong things...

It ain't pretty.

**Archonate**

In the fluff section of The Farsight Enclaves book, during the Arkanusha War, it says that Kroot feasted abundantly and happily on the bodies of the Orks, and thereby evolved tougher skin to withstand the sandstorms.

**fluffstalker**

Melissia wrote:
Edible... barely.

But you're going to have to cook it well done and it'll wreck your tastebuds, because Orks are naaaaasty.

They don't taste very nice, does they, precious? No, not very nice at all.

**Melissia**

They taste like a rotten egg broken and poured in to a football player's gymsock after a long game. The football player has athlete's foot, and hasn't showered in days.

I mean, it's not like Orks bathe.

**Chute82**

Psienesis wrote:
Orks eat squigs. Their diet entirely consists of things they make from squigs. Squig beer, squig souffle, baked squig, fried squig, squig on the half-shell, and so forth and so on.

In Rynn's world (the Book) it talks about orks being observed by the Marine scouts eating human parts.

**Psienesis**

Black Library says a lot of things.

**Sir Samuel Buca**

Of course Orks are edible, Inquisitor Ramsey of the Ordo Caput has a great recipe in his best selling Codex Astarfish. In it he says that ork flesh has a strong flavour if heresy and goes well with a side of bolt shell to the face.

**sing your life**

welshhoppo wrote:
I'd imagine that orks would taste like Quorn.

I'd think they'd taste like beef, but mushroomy.

**TiamatRoar**

Didn't orks invade the kroot planet and subsequently get eaten by kroot even before the Tau arrived at their planet? I thought the implication was this was where the kroot got space flight capabilities and/or most of their green-ish color.

**Melissia**

Just because kroot can eat something doesn't mean that it's edible to humans.

**Kroothawk**

Like Hamburgers and other junk food are not edible for Kroot

**PrinceRaven**

tmo38 wrote:
orks wouldnt eat other orks just take their teeth

Clearly you've never heard of an "Orkburger".

**Shredder**

Orks will eat snotlings and gretchin. And squigs, especially face eating squigs, because the tastiest ones always fight back.

**Lexx**

The ultimate veggie burgers. Most sentients would not eat them. But as said. Kroot eat everything they kill barring a few taboo circumstances.

**sing your life**

Melissia wrote:

I mean, it's not like Orks bathe.

I don't think 99% of animals we eat bathe either.

**Psienesis**

That's because we don't allow them to. Most animals in the wild display some kind of cleaning behavior. The common rat, for example, will wash itself from nose to tail seven times a day.

**Gogsnik**

The scene from Bloodquest I mentioned earlier.

**Crickate**

IIRC there is a mention in a book about Orks themselves eating 'Ork Pie' if food is scarce.

**grendel083**

Well Orks can eat just about anything, they have about 5 stomaches!
Squigs, snotlings, Gretchin, other orks, scrap metal... It's all on the Ork menu.