Non-Alcoholic Drinks


Bazi Tea

"In turn, from the oases, the nomads receive, most importantly, Sa-Tarna grain and the Bazi Tea." Tribesmen of Gor (pg 37)

"From time to time the caravan stopped and, boiling water over tiny fires, we made tea." Tribesmen of Gor (pg 72)

"Tea is extremely important to the nomads. It is served hot and highly sugared. It gives strength then, in virtue of the sugar, and cools them, by making them sweat, as well as stimulating them. It is drunk three small cups at a time, carefully measured." Tribesmen of Gor (pg 38)

"...'Is it ready?' I asked. I looked at the tiny copper kettle on the small stand. A tiny kaiila-dung fire burned under it. A small, heavy curved glass was nearby, on a flat box, which would hold some two ounces of the tea. Bazi tea is drunk in tiny glasses, usually three at a time, carefully measured." Tribesmen of Gor (pg 139)

Bazi Tea is drunk from three small cups. It is heavily sugared. The nomads of the Tahari prize bazi tea and import it in great quantity, along with Sa-Tarna meal.



Blackwine

"I lifted the tiny silver cup to my lips and took a drop of the black wine. It's strength and bitterness are such that it is normally drunk in such a manner, usually only a drop or a few drops at a time. Commonly, too, it is mollified with creams and sugars. I drank it without creams and sugars, perhaps, for I had been accustomed, on Earth, to drinking coffee in such a manner, and the black wine of Gor is clearly coffee, or closely akin to coffee. Considering its bitterness, however, if I had not been drinking such a tiny amount, and so slowly, scarcely wetting my lips, I too, would surely have had reacourse to the tasty, gentling additives with which it is almost invariably served." Guardsman of Gor (pg 247)

"He sat, cross-legged, behind the low table. On it were hot bread, yellow and fresh, hot black wine, steaming, with its sugars, slices of roast bosk, the scrambled eggs of vulos, pastries with creams and custards,....." Beasts of Gor (pg 20)

"Yes, Mistress," I said. I took the vessel of black wine, removing it from its warmer, and put it on its tray, that already bearing the tiny cups, the cream and sugars, the spices, the napkins and spoons. I then carried the tray, with the black wine, hot and steaming, to the table and pit it down there. Susan then, as "first slave," took the orders and did the measuring and mixing; I, as "second slave," did the pouring. Afterwards I returned the tray to the serving table, and the vessel of black wine to its warmer. Kajira of Gor (pgs 405-406)

" 'Second slave,' I told her, which, among the river towns, and in certain cities, particularly in the north, is a way of indicating that I would take the black wine without creams or sugars, and as it came from the pouring vessel, which, of course, in these areas, is handled by the "second slave," the first slave being the girl who puts down the cups, takes the orders and sees that the beverage is prepared according to the preferences of the one who is being served.....The expression "second slave," incidentally, serves to indicate that one does not wish creams or sugars with one's black wine, even if only one girl is serving." Guardsman of Gor (pgs 244-245)

coffee; traditionally served with heavily sweetened and creamed in tiny cups, very much like espresso...although in most taverns it is served in mugs. Blackwyne is like Earth coffee...so most expect it to be served in a larger vessel than the scrolls indicate..more like the daily version of coffee than the espresso counterpart portrayed in the scrolls...It is grown on the slopes of Thentis and while once rare, is becoming more common throughout Gor...If asked to serve it "second slave", the slave serves it black.



Chocolate

"This is warmed chocolate," I said, pleased. It was very rich and creamy. "Yes, Mistress," said the girl. "It is very good," I said. "Thank you, Mistress," she said. "Is it from Earth?" I asked. "Not directly," she said. "Many things here, of course, ulitmately have an Earth origin. It is not improbable that the beans from which the first cacao trees on this world were grown were brought from Earth." "Do the trees grow near here?" I asked. "No Mistress," she said, "we obtain the beans from which the chocolate is made, from Cosian merchants, who in turn, obtain them in the tropics." Kajira of Gor (pg 61)

Made from beans brought back on one of the early Voyages of Acquisition, this is the same as the chocolate of Earth.It is served in higher class establishments. It is usually served hot in a heavy mug or cold in a goblet.



Juices

Juices may be made from any single fruit/veggie or combination of fruits/veggies. Juices like apricot and carrot can be served alone. Juices like tospit must be sweetened well before serving, as tospit is very bitter. Juices like ramberry come in such small quantities that they are only used in combination with other juices, as an accent. They are very thick and are diluted with larma, apricot, or peach juice before serving.



Milk

" The smell of fruit and vegetables, and verr milk was very strong." Savages of Gor (pg 60)

"I heard the lowing of the milk bosk from among the wagons." Nomads of Gor (pg 27)

"When the meat was ready, Kamchak ate his fill, and drank down, too, a flagon of bosk milk..." Nomads of Gor (pg 139)

Can be bosk milk, verr or kaiila. Bosk and verr are the most common in Torvaldsland, with a distinct preference among the Torvaldslanders for the sharper taste of verr milk.



Tea

Tea may be served in Kassau. Black tea has been imported, and some is even being grown on Gor itself, now, in the same regions as coffee and chocolate, whose climate it shares. Herbs may also be steeped into tea.



Water

I then rose to my feet and walked a few yards away, to a fan palm. From the base of one of its broad leaves I gathered a double handful of fresh water. I retuned to the girl and, carefully, washed out the wound. She winced. I then cut some leaves and wrapped them about it. I tied shut some leaves and wrapped them about it. I tied shut this simple bandage with the tendrils of a carpet plant. Explorers of Gor (pg 347)

...Another useful source of water is the liana vine. One makes the first cut high, over one's head, to keep the water from being withdrawn by contraction and surface adhesion up the vine. The second cut, made a foot or so from the ground, gives a vine tube which, drained, yields in the neighborhood of a liter of water.... Explorers of Gor (pg 310)

Spring water from the mountains or from the liana vine or carpet plants from the rain forest area inland of Schendi. Kassau gets fresh water from the stream that runs through the Village.