A strange little side quest
A little context makes Hot Dish more fun to place on the gaming map. 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. And then there is this: M.U.L.E. arrived in 1983 with multiplayer competition built around gathering resources and keeping a colony alive, an early example of resource-driven strategy play. So a round of Hot Dish is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer food history timeline.
