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Title: What is the best grain?
Post by: Mars on October 08, 2011, 02:33:44 pm
I'd go with wheat, since its probably the most versatile, and I think rice requires more water.


Before anyone asks. . . I was bored.
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: BlueFlames on October 08, 2011, 03:05:51 pm
Your wheat can suck it.  I was born in Louisiana, so a meal isn't a meal without some form of rice.
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: watsisname on October 08, 2011, 03:10:55 pm
If minecraft has taught me anything it's that wheat can be grown errywhere!
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: LordMelvin on October 08, 2011, 03:33:24 pm
Speaking as a grain, I feel it is incumbent upon me to support wheat. Bread, Pizza, Waffles, Cake, Flapjacks, Scones, Cookies, various sauces and, of course, Pasta aside, the h2o required for its growth makes it a clear winner over rice, corn loses out due to its monocultural nature and significant topsoil depleting effects - doubly so in light of the instabilities inherent in a recently terraformed environment, Oats are insufficiently flexible, and barley should be brought along as a small-scale secondary crop, primarily for use in 'recreational beverages'.
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: Mongoose on October 08, 2011, 04:09:36 pm
I vote for malt and hops, personally. :yes:
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: Al-Rik on October 08, 2011, 05:16:34 pm
Barley, because you can make beer with it  ;)
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: Nuke on October 08, 2011, 05:18:46 pm
id rather have whiskey than beer, or perhaps sake.
damn this is a hard one.
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: Sololop on October 08, 2011, 05:31:05 pm
Rice, because I like it.

OM Nom nom nom
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: Mars on October 08, 2011, 05:38:17 pm
Not as much corn love as I thought there might be
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: Nuke on October 08, 2011, 06:02:48 pm
corn is rather versatile. aside from being useful for food, you can make oil from it, you can make sugar from it, alcohol for consumption/fuel. very useful plant. wheat is good for consumption. rice is good but the farming of it requires a lot of water and labor, i wouldnt take it to mars. wheat is good in terms of dietary requirements and has many culinary uses. really i think corn is what id take, just on the grounds of how versatile it is. i very much doubt they would send you with only one crop though. part of it would be an experiment to determine which crops would survive best in the martian soil, so a large number of different species of seeds would be taken.
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: Sushi on October 08, 2011, 06:05:39 pm
Quote from: Nuke on October 08, 2011, 06:02:48 pm
corn is rather versatile. aside from being useful for food, you can make oil from it, you can make sugar from it, alcohol for consumption/fuel. very useful plant. wheat is good for consumption. rice is good but the farming of it requires a lot of water and labor, i wouldnt take it to mars. wheat is good in terms of dietary requirements and has many culinary uses. really i think corn is what id take, just on the grounds of how versatile it is. i very much doubt they would send you with only one crop though. part of it would be an experiment to determine which crops would survive best in the martian soil, so a large number of different species of seeds would be taken.

Corn is pretty crappy nutritionally though.
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: Pred the Penguin on October 08, 2011, 08:53:27 pm
Ah who cares, we're only sending the people off to Mars to die anyways. I say keep all of the food for us still loyal to earth and let those martians figure it out for themselves.
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: MP-Ryan on October 09, 2011, 12:16:12 am
Corn is the easiest to genetically manipulate into different varieties (with diverse growth and nutritional characteristics) through artificial selection, which is why it got my vote.
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: JGZinv on October 09, 2011, 12:34:09 am
Quote from: Pred the Penguin on October 08, 2011, 08:53:27 pm
Ah who cares, we're only sending the people off to Mars to die anyways. I say keep all of the food for us still loyal to earth and let those martians figure it out for themselves.

...and then the martian colonists create Gundams to destroy the earth...  After Colony 195...
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: bobbtmann on October 09, 2011, 01:16:24 am
Quinoa is pretty nutritious, if you consider it a grain.
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: Black Wolf on October 09, 2011, 03:05:43 am
Clearly wheat. And the best booze is made from sugar cane anyway.
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: Bobboau on October 09, 2011, 03:11:23 am
wheat, why is this even up for discussion?
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: Mars on October 09, 2011, 10:24:17 am
Quote from: Black Wolf on October 09, 2011, 03:05:43 am
Clearly wheat. And the best booze is made from sugar cane anyway.

A man after my own heart

Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: Scourge of Ages on October 11, 2011, 10:41:23 pm
Wheat. There is no competing with fresh-baked bread. And none of that corn bread business.
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: z64555 on October 11, 2011, 11:15:09 pm
Quote from: Scourge of Ages on October 11, 2011, 10:41:23 pm
Wheat. There is no competing with fresh-baked bread. And none of that corn bread business.

Corn Bread... ah never mind.
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: Wobble73 on October 12, 2011, 07:46:12 am
Wheat for bread and pasta dishes! You'd have to take potatoes too, for consumption and for making Vodka!   :nod:
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: T-LoW on October 12, 2011, 08:36:25 am
Rye! Because no beloved rye bread without it in good ol' Germany.
And you can also create (some sickening) booze out of it, of course!
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: z64555 on October 12, 2011, 06:14:57 pm
Odd,
Spoiler:
Barley's getting a lot of lovin'...
Title: Re: What is the best grain?
Post by: Mars on October 12, 2011, 06:31:24 pm
Quote from: z64555 on October 12, 2011, 06:14:57 pm
Odd,
Spoiler:
Barley's getting a lot of lovin'...

That's wheat, barley is the only one with no love.