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 ==Cuisine==
 ===Food===
-====Mainstream Levantine cuisine====
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-A family-style fried chicken dinner, consumed traditionally on the King's birthday but popular throughout the year, is traditionally consumed with potato-based sides. "Callangrain", a spicy rice-and-sausage side shown to the left, has become increasingly popular for holiday and family consumption.<br>
-Mainstream Urcean cuisine is similar to that in other Levantine countries. Wheat is the primary cereal grain with about three-quarters of grain products made of wheat flour and many dishes use indigenous ingredients, such as turkey, venison, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, squash, and maple syrup which were consumed by Gaels as well as early Latinic settlers. In addition to wheat, rice and pecans are the minor staple crops of Urcea, with pecans serving as both a delicacy and as a major cooking ingredient.
-Characteristic dishes such as apple pie, fried chicken, pizza, hamburgers, and hot dogs derive from both native and Gothic sources. Freedom fries, Sarpedonian dishes such as burritos and tacos, and pasta dishes freely adapted from Derian sources are widely consumed. Urceans drink three times as much coffee as tea. Marketing by Urcean industries is largely responsible for making orange juice and milk ubiquitous breakfast beverages, making Urcea's dairy agriculture sector one of the world's largest. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Urceans developed many new foods based on increasing availability of refrigeration and greater exposure to global cuisines. During the 20th century, food production and presentation became more industrialized. One characteristic of Urcean cooking is flexibility, especially with regards to the fusion of multiple ethnic or regional approaches into completely new cooking styles in addition to the traditional styles formed within the country since its establishment. A wave of celebrity chefs began in the 1970s, with many more following after the rise of cable channels such as Stovetop Network.
-The Urcean fast food industry, the world's largest, pioneered the drive-through format in the 1940s. [[NoWaiter]] is Urcea's largest fast food chain, and [[Coria Clux]] is its second largest. Urcea's restaurant industry is a major contributor to the nation's urban economies, and diners are a highly recognizable Urcean dining institution. Many scholars believe the [[Ómestaderoi]] are largely responsible for creating the nation's first diners in the early 20th century. Throughout the 20th century, many previously new dishes passed into the mainstream enough so that they became part of diner fare by the turn of the millennia. The diner is now more numerous in the country than any other type of restaurant besides fast food chains.
-There are several traditional types of food descending primarily from Gaelic customs shared with most other southern Levantine countries. Perhaps most famous of these is corned beef, which is traditionally eaten exclusively on holidays, but also many lamb-based recipes including Gaelstew.
-====Coque====
-Unique to Urcea is the Coque cuisine tradition, a style of cooking which emphasizes slow cooked meats which are traditionally smoked. Likely introduced from Audonia in the 1500s, the Coque style was quickly adopted in the rural parts of Urcea and became associated with traditional lifestyles during the 19th century. Significant regional differences emerged historically between types of Coque, especially with regards to treating meat with either sauce, as is the tradition in southern Urcea and thought to be inherited from Caenish cuisine, or with dry rubs as is more common in the north and especially the Ionian Highlands.
-====Colonial cuisine====
-Since the 2020s and the beginning of The Deluge, cuisine from Urcean territories and protectorates in Crona have entered into popular consumption within Urcea. These cuisine styles are referred to as "colonial cuisine".
-====Foreign cuisine====
 ===Alcohol===
 {{wp|Beer}} is the most popular alcoholic beverage in [[Urcea]] by a significant margin, and per capita consumption exceeds more than fifty liters annually. The most popular kind of beers are {{wp|lagers}}, {{wp|hefeweizen|goldwheats}} and {{wp|pilsners}}. The number one selling brand of beer in Urcea is [[Royal Billion]], which it exports abroad. Many of the most popular brands of beer are domestic with hops and wheat grown in the province of Goldvale and brewed elsewhere. Wine, especially wines from southern Urcea and particularly from [[Canaery]], is growing in popularity, and the industry is a major source of economic growth in the [[Greater Canaery]] region and parts of [[Gassavelia]].
 ===Portions and sizes===
 ==Religion==
 A vast majority of Urceans are [[Levantine Catholic Church|Catholics]], which is the official religion of the state. Aside from being a major factor in Urcea's geopolitical dealings, the Catholic Church also proves to be, in many ways, the central organizing structure and focal point in Urcean society. Celebrations of baptisms are usually town-wide, and mass attendance far exceeds most other Catholic countries. Urcea also produces more Catholic priests than any other nation, many of which are then sent to minister overseas in countries with clerical shortages, particularly in [[Sarpedon]] but elsewhere as well. Religious toleration is the law and discrimination against other religious groups is forbidden, but is common in everyday elements of society.