Darktide players can't stop scarfing down fucked up, evil food

Folks, I'm worried about the rejects we have doing the Inquisition's work in Warhammer 40K: Darktide. You would expect these escaped prisoners, freed from a convict ship and put to work liberating the hive city of Tertium from heretics and traitorous soldiers. Unfortunately, we clearly can't trust this game's players with anything, because when presented with clearly nefarious foodstuffs squirming with maggots and sending off green stink lines, players overwhelmingly chose to gobble that shit down.

Let me explain. Darktide updates regularly, and most of those patches aren't big, revolutionary changes. This new rations event is small, silly, and not particularly deep. The premise is that the heretics have raided a supply convoy, and stole all our tasty rations. Players can run through missions with a rations modifier; as we kill enemies, they drop the foodstuffs, which we can then recover or destroy. Recovering them en masse summons angry enemy Ogryns, big boys who are furious that we're gobbling up their nosh. Destroying them inspires starvation riots.

Every day, Fatshark tallies the total numbers of destroyed and reclaimed rations, and modifies the event. For instance, the first day showed players recover 6,058,3832 rations, and so as a result players had to deal with waves of enraged mutants. It's just a good bit of fun to shake up the usual

I just have one quick question. hey, gang? You guys have eyes, right? You're looking at food that is giving off a big green stink cloud and swarming with bugs and you choose ... to eat it? I can forgive the humble Ogryn, where half the class' voice lines are about rations, nosh, and taking a sneaky bite out of things. But the rest of you are on notice. Does your kitchen look like a screenshot from a slobby Sims save game? Do you regularly eat food with the aura of Charlie Brown's friend Pig-Pen?

At least this in-game event has led to some lively jokes and memery on the Darktide subreddit.

Look, what's the worst that can happen? Sure, this is a setting about the cruellest and most brutal regime known to man, in a galaxy in which there is only war and the laughter of thirsting gods. The Emperor protects, buddy, so as long as he's on our side I'm sure this whole rations thing will work out. Don't worry too much about the noxious rations. Surely you will not regret rescuing six million tainted rations.