USES THIS AS AN EXCUSE TO TALK ABOUT PONY DIETS AND CULTURE THANK YOU FAYE
anyway. pegasi are the most carnivorous. they're not obligate carnivores, by any means, but their diet is primarily meat and fish based. mostly smaller birds, since meat-agriculture in general doesn't include other ungulates [feels weird since yak and bison are like. sapient also. and those are cows.]
pegasi treat hunting as a social activity oftentimes. They'll make a game out of chasing pheasants and snatching seabirds. They teach their offspring to hunt by plunging into flocks of passerines and by grabbing the occasional hawk. hawk-hunting is actually a fairly common sport! communities of pegasi along coastal regions also tend to dive into the ocean to snatch fish, like some real-world gulls do!
Dash grew up away from seafaring skies, so he never got to go diving for fish, but he does enjoy hawk-hunting quite a bit! it was a particular hunt of a red eagle when he was a filly that made him realize he was an adrenaline junkie.
Pink grew up in a mining town on the edge of a mountain. The soil was too rocky for much regular agriculture, and so they subsisted off of far more meat than was expected for regular earth ponies. Mostly smaller mammals like rodents and rabbits. Chickens and eggs on the side, sometimes. Pinkie didn't get sweets growing up, so she is absolutely enthralled by them now!
AJ's the most herbivorous of everyone. Pretty exclusively eats plant-based meals. Mostly wheat products, but of course apples make up a consistent portion of her diet.
Fluttershy is vegan by choice! Despite the fact that perytons are not entirely herbivorous [though moreso than the average pegasus], she chooses not to eat meat.
Rarity, in her short-lived stint at high-society living, grew fond of the luxuries of life. Lots of expensive fancy meals with bizarre ingredients. But growing up she was a sucker for a good peach cobbler, and would die for a nice apple crumble. She has a bit of a sweet tooth for chocolate in particular!
Twilight lives off of the most starving college student diet of them all, arguably the worst one. She'll eat nothing but granola and coffee for two days (and only eat that because spike brought her the granola). Peanut butter on toast was the only thing she ate for three months straight, every single day. Spike also has a habit of bringing them bugs, lizards and small rodents to eat. Twi is incredibly grossed out by the idea of preparing her own food like that, but appreciates it nonetheless.
