fox [comrade/them]
They did change that, very early on. There was a bug with most characters romance score getting too high too early.
Anyways Gale’s whole thing is he’s a dude who got too big for his britches. All of the characters have some major, critical impact on the world by their continued existence except maybe Minsc.
A lot of “traditional” white American food rises from traditions of using government issued foodstuffs. Government cheese, spam, various concoctions devised from military rations. But quite a lot also comes from what immigrant communities were able to afford, which was generally the worse stuff. There’s also a not-insignificant number of white households that possessed no generational cooking knowledge because it was done by slaves, and thus had no culinary culture they could continue without the requisite skills.