Gobble Period
Gobble Period, Table Week, Feasting Time, are all names for a common holiday effecting Cauven and even some connected places beyond. It developed in late-period Cauven, with a combined idealism from a few large vyllk families and corporate food farms. Essentially companies that sold both food and vyllk alike, began pitching an idea of family union around a massive feast just for the sake of gathering and eating. As it proved favorable, it was shifted into a week-long event for the 'truly caring families'. All the while the holiday was built around vyllks making food, eating it in abundance, and hoping they would gain the weight to sell themselves off for a boom in the meat market.
However as a multicultural place, and to hide intentions, the holiday rapidly expanded into other markets and species, eventually became a large worker break and holiday where even foreign races would see families, or even travel back to where most of their family lived in other universes or planets. Yet this extensive practice not only solidified a longer holiday for travel disputes, but also helped uptake the distribution of vyllkard meat on the day itself to sell to legal cannibals and foreign races as a holiday special. Humans and ryclin found a custom tradition to often order willing vyllk that were trained and priced for the holiday occasion. Special holiday vyllk would be obligated to spend time with the family, cooking heavy food portions for themselves with leftover snacks going to the family's daily feast, and upon demand the vyllk would offer itself in the feast. Often ryclins buy quite a few to have one for every true attendant, filling their house full of a temporary and edible guest list of vyllk. Some knack for profiting on tourists and socializing is a present side-effect. Yet the agenda of the holiday was to concentrate more vyllks on fattening foods and promoting a later self-selling effect. It tends to prove successful, with most vyllk gaining between 2-13 kilograms off just the week itself, though plenty lose it shortly after in more extensive studies. On average data, 1.7% of Cauven's whole adult vyllk population are a full success to continue putting on weight started from this holiday timeframe, and eventually selling themselves off to be farmed. Combined with banquet sales, the holiday is responsible for marketing booms during & shortly after. This is debated as a problem or an 'evil holiday' by a few small outlets, but the output of population tends to still hold things at a balance, and was part of the initial cause for the holiday itself given how quick a vyllk family can grow and want to gather. As an added bonus, its been studied a work morale boost in some industries returns good performance after the time off, counting a positive industry effect for even non-vyllk participants.
However as a multicultural place, and to hide intentions, the holiday rapidly expanded into other markets and species, eventually became a large worker break and holiday where even foreign races would see families, or even travel back to where most of their family lived in other universes or planets. Yet this extensive practice not only solidified a longer holiday for travel disputes, but also helped uptake the distribution of vyllkard meat on the day itself to sell to legal cannibals and foreign races as a holiday special. Humans and ryclin found a custom tradition to often order willing vyllk that were trained and priced for the holiday occasion. Special holiday vyllk would be obligated to spend time with the family, cooking heavy food portions for themselves with leftover snacks going to the family's daily feast, and upon demand the vyllk would offer itself in the feast. Often ryclins buy quite a few to have one for every true attendant, filling their house full of a temporary and edible guest list of vyllk. Some knack for profiting on tourists and socializing is a present side-effect. Yet the agenda of the holiday was to concentrate more vyllks on fattening foods and promoting a later self-selling effect. It tends to prove successful, with most vyllk gaining between 2-13 kilograms off just the week itself, though plenty lose it shortly after in more extensive studies. On average data, 1.7% of Cauven's whole adult vyllk population are a full success to continue putting on weight started from this holiday timeframe, and eventually selling themselves off to be farmed. Combined with banquet sales, the holiday is responsible for marketing booms during & shortly after. This is debated as a problem or an 'evil holiday' by a few small outlets, but the output of population tends to still hold things at a balance, and was part of the initial cause for the holiday itself given how quick a vyllk family can grow and want to gather. As an added bonus, its been studied a work morale boost in some industries returns good performance after the time off, counting a positive industry effect for even non-vyllk participants.
Observance
Families tend to gather around food as the baseline festival event. Older pitches carry a custom idea around that its also a mild anti-tech holiday, about taking down barriers of holographic chatting, and authentic family gathering. For roughly a week, most families are let go of work pressures, and allowed the time to gather in large community groups around homes or temples for continuous feasts and social interaction. Some ryclins, humans, and other races might even plan a meeting outside the original planet, marked as a time to travel back and stay a while elsewhere with family. In vyllk cases, its more localized and about greeting and over-eating for a straight week. With other native Cauven families, it became an easy reason to organize special displays or holiday vyllkard meat purchases, sometimes with rules about shutting down certain appliances or digital conveniences.
In other small celebratory incidents, cooking channels run specials and competitions, and most media is switched over to concentrated news on recipes, cooking, farm-sponsored education channels, and the occasional travel information and safety assistance. Souvenirs are set up in some small gift dispensers for outer-planet visitors. Temples will typically host special gatherings for those with smaller or low family connections, expecting some to have family that was already eaten, or may be away in distant places that don't release for the holiday. However most of the holiday is subtly about further maximizing profits around vyllk, with most separate industries given a break or turning to lower automation. Grains, and sweets are cheaper to expect/provoke a lot of vyllk families buying and eating a bulk quantity of it. Meanwhile the vyllk meat is marked up as a holiday premium, as are a rare few other items that pander to a non-vyllk demographic. Some sacrificing vyllk are trained ahead of time on serving their clients for the holiday before their consumption.
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