Among the Canaanites and Philistines, the meal is not divided into starter-main-dessert but revolves around the offering (šulmānu) placed on the god's table, followed by the shared banquet. Daily, one breaks emmer bread, dips it in oil, and eats olives and porridge. During great festivals (the marzeaḥ of Ugarit, a banquet brotherhood), mutton is roasted, wine is poured, and a portion of the meat sacrificed to the deity is consumed. The Gaza coast adds dried and salted fish, preserved for lean days and long caravan journeys.

Dagon is above all the master of grain: his name was early linked to the Semitic word for wheat. Emmer wheat, the hulled cereal of the first fields of the Fertile Crescent, is the king ingredient of his cult. It appears in offering cakes, daily porridge, and as cousin barley for beer. Where Dagon passes, the harvest rises.