User blog comment:Unownshipper/Flora and Fauna of Rapture/@comment-94.197.15.128-20131023172437/@comment-6024608-20131024034345

Many of these things must have been grown locally, they are too commonly listed for them to be luxuries (Fontaines smuggling may have been a big operation but it couldnt be so big to provide this much stuff)   These are shown  well after the 1952 closing off of the City from the surface which shipments previous might have been capable of bringing in volumes of such things.

An interesting thing that might be explored (some future MMORPG) was the extent/details of the surface operations which Fontaine (and others probably including Ryans Operations)  had to have to collect and funnel goods into Rapture (pre and post 1952).

Testxyz (talk) 03:43, October 24, 2013 (UTC)