Well, although you can't eat it, gold has been considered to be of value for a good couple of millenia. Why? because you can't print more of it. And a gold coin can represent more food that you can carry with you.

Fiat money is consists just dead trees with ink on them or worse, it's created digitally.

The story goes that over half of the current USD money supply has been created in the last 4-5 years or so... can you say inflation?!? :O

Please cite historical examples showing cases where a person with physical gold in their hand, went hungry if food was available in the area they were in.