Nethack is one of the wildest. So many hardcoded edge cases and wild interactions.

From the wiki: "Food rations have a 1/7 chance of being rotten when eaten if they are uncursed and older than 30 turns, or else are blessed and older than 50 turns, while cursed food rations are always rotten. Food rations can be thrown to tame domestic canines and felines and pacify domestic equines. "

I recommend trying Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup also. The devs are constantly refining the game to increase the fun factor and aren't afraid of removing decades old features to do it. E.g.: In more recent versions there is no food hence you cannot starve to death (a questionable game mechanic in a type of game lacking any real "economy").

https://crawl.develz.org