Game Mechanics: Gnome Kabobs and Dried Berries DNC

[guineapig]

Well food durations were introduced on April 17th, 2001 and stats were not added to food till well after that.

EDIT:

This was the same patch that added stats to food:

Food Changes:

Along with the other changes mentioned in the patch message, some player-made food items will now have an effect on your character beyond just keeping him from being hungry. We'll leave it up to you to discover the rest.

We've also added the ability to right-click food to 'force' your character to eat it. This will cause the food to be eaten immediately (though your character can only eat so much food at one time). Food eaten this way will only last half as long as food eaten naturally by the character.