The lack of time or absence of food-preparing facilities--for example, while on a lengthy hunt--is no impediment to having a good meal. A larger animal may be sliced into pieces or a section of a plant may be broken off. This food is often described as Soj tlhol ("raw, unprocessed food"), as opposed to Soj vutlu'pu'bogh ("food that someone has prepared"). What makes the food tlhol is not that it has not been heated but rather that no one has done anything to it; thus, "unprocessed" might be a better translation than "raw". On the other extreme is Soj qub--literally "rare food, uncommon food" but used as the Klingon equivalent of haute cuisine, food usually served only on the most formal of occasions.

Other than that which is served alive, the best meat is ghoQ (fresh, just killed). A vegetable or fruit that is baQ (fresh, just picked, just fallen off the plant), on the other hand, is not as favored as one that is DeH (ripe, though overripe might be closer to the mark) or even QaD (dry, dried out).

SEE ALSO: nIt be plain, be pure, be uncorrupted, be unsullied (n) watlh be pure (v) non be rotton (v) vut prepare food (v)