Let's make Food and Drink better

[Walrus]

Necro, but will there be anything on nutrition or such?
Maybe make better food give better health benefits and healing?

Yes, giving food more of a healing benefit reduces everyone breaking into medbay to steal medicine after they've been budged down to yellow health. I'm going to plug Mozi's idea again because nobody seemed to notice it the last time this thread was brought back to life (and because it's very good).

here's a big dumb thing I wrote up about making all food useful, I spent 30 minutes trying to code it before getting distracted by a shiny and wandering off

http://pastebin.com/6TB1sNVW

The favourite food idea seems very similar to heirloom items and doesn't seem like it would be difficult to add in at all.