Liquids should have been consumable in the vanilla. Seeing "eat sake" reminds me that I needed a mod to make the drinks something more than mere merch to sell for a small profit. Chris did have the bright idea to make the hunger bar controllable from 0.5 to 8.0 scale. After he did that - he could have renamed "hunger" into "sustenance" or something like that, with the barrels of water being cheap but heavy and bulky "food" for the characters. Oh well. At least Kenshi 1 is moddable, somewhat.