A strange little side quest
The rules may be simple on screen, but the backstory around Double Cheeseburger Medium Fries is anything but tiny. Tomatoes helped turn Naples' flatbreads into the food we recognize as pizza, which had become an important food for poorer Neapolitans by the 18th century. The timeline takes another interesting turn: The Oregon Trail mixed travel, supplies, risk and survival decisions decades before resource-management systems became common in mainstream games. That long chain of experiments is part of why food history still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
