FFXI objectively has the best food.

[Flying Mullet]

The culinary delights found in Castlevania SotN beg to differ.

[Loony BoB]

How can you not like... that...

Can you tell me a little more about how food is used in Final Fantasy XIV compared to Final Fantasy XI? Is it used in the same situations as a small, temporary buff to statistics?

I'm not sure about FFXI off the top of my head, but in XIV it's about percentages of stats being boosted up to a maximum of [x] for each stat. So, Eft Steak would raise your attack power by 7%, but only to a maximum of five. This means that different foods are more effective depending on your level and your stats.

[Mirage]

FFXI food is the same, after the food patch many years ago. Percentage based foods used to have no cap, but caps were added. It is common with stats such as +5 str, +22%attack (cap @ 250 base attack). There are some exceptions, or at least some foods where no one has been able to determine if there is a cap.

[Del Murder]

Korean BBQ exists in every world.

[chionos]

Korean BBQ plate makes no sense in a world where Korea doesn't exist. Disqualified.

Korean BBQ exists in every world.

AYE!

KBBQP > Meat Pukekabob

FFXI really has too much food.

Before they rescaled the food and put caps on anything some of the upper-tier rare foods were ridiculous. Not so much now.

[Mirage]

Oh I don't know. Red Curry Buns give quite a bit of attack.

[chionos]

What 140? Something like that. Relatively speaking, that's not so much any more.