everyone’s always talking about eating lalafell and calling them potatos

[CrispyUnicycle]

im here to tell you that you’re all wrong

viera are the ones you should be goin after, they’re rabbits after all, and there are tons of dishes made from rabbits

don’t eat hrothgar though

or else

[Vahlnir]

I think the term you're looking for is "popoto", not "potato". Why fix what isn't broken though? They have been an excellent food source for many years!

[WrenElessedil]

Even Encyclopedia Eorzea (both volumes) references Lalafell being eaten by monsters in quite a few places. Obviously they're a nutritious source of food, and it helps to keep the population from growing out of control.

[Urthdigger]

It's easier to vore the smaller races.

[Enla]

Rabbits are gamey and don't have a lot of meat. Potatoes on the other hand can be put in pretty much anything and still taste good. Even their starch residue is useful!

Though we could all just compromise and make a rabbit and potato pie to enjoy the best of both worlds.

[Sisohiv]

If you only ate rabbit for a few months you would starve to death. 0 nutritional value.

Potatoes might make good feed for a Midgardsormr mount or something but I agree, eating them ourselves is a last resort.

[CrispyUnicycle]

Though we could all just compromise and make a rabbit and potato pie to enjoy the best of both worlds.

i agree whole heartedly, the message is crystal clear

we should eat miqote and au ra along with viera

[BaconBits]

Stop playing coy and put me in a beef stew already.

[ItMe]

I am a Lalafell and I enjoy riding the goobbue mount even though they cannonically eat Lala.

[Enkidoh]

It's an old joke inherited from FFXI about the even more rotond tarutaru race (which lalafell are based on), a joke which the very meta-focused lore and writing teams in FFXIV are more than happy to run with.

And lets face it: even their name is phonetically similar to a real-life food!

Lalas have nothing to fear from me though - lalafell give me bad heartburn...