Ancient Food Crimes; Friday, First Period [05/27].

[somethingwithturquoise]

For all the mess her kitchen had been made into yesterday in her desperate attempts to always feel like she needed to outdo herself, Summer had ultimately decided to go a little simpler for today's lesson, and honestly? She felt much better doing it. Truth day definitely had a way of wearing you down, even when you embrace its absurdity fully, and she just wanted to keep it light today.

Still (hopefully) ridiculous and bewildering, but ultimately light.

"Today," she started, once it was time to get everything going, "I wanted to focus on how the last century could take something as unassuming and simple as, say, a melon or a head of lettuce or celery, and try to....dress it up in a way that is absurd, unnecessarily, and, perhaps, even criminal. So allow me to introduce you to three real, actual recipes that people made and, presumably, consumed, and we're going to give them a try and figure out whether or not such things deserve to be thrown into food jail once and for all.

"Allow me a moment to present to you a stuffed melon covered in cream cheese, a stuffed head of iceberg lettuce, and, the most offensive of all, I think, especially since nothing is even stuffed here, but we have boiled celery with pimento. That last one was a 'calorie counter' recipe, which is apt, since I'm pretty sure it would put you off from food entirely.

"So come on up, let's explore the reasons why these foods even exist in the first place."

Cupcakes, Friday 5/27, Period 2

[stykera]

“Welcome back,” Stark said from where he stood at the front of the room. There was a box in front of him, like last week, and he hadn’t double-checked the contents again, like last week.

“I hope yesterday wasn’t too painful for anyone,” he said. Was he avoiding looking at someone in this class? What? Why would he do that?

“If it was you can, ah, ‘eat your feelings.’ Or stress bake. I’ve been told I do that, sometimes. Both things. I thought orange cupcakes, today. So,” he opened the box in front of him, “orange ingredients to choose from.”

“Oranges, orange soda, orange juice,” he said, holding up each one, “sweet potatoes?” Those got a slight frown. “Carrots for carrot cake, mango, cantaloupe…curry powder?”

If Stark were making eye contact with one of his friends today he would certainly be looking at her right now.

“These things were not all in here to begin with. I’m certain of that. Well. There are many flavors to choose from, I suppose. And some premade cupcakes if anyone wants those.” Had he maybe been stress baking last night? It was possible! “I’m happy to help, should you want assistance.”

Completely Safe Science With Beaker, Friday, May 27, 2022

[meepmeepmeep]

Beaker, all of his hair in place again, stood behind the table that was set up with a trashcan full of paper. Next to it: a flamethrower.

Clearly this would only go well.

"Meep meep meep meep meep meep--" Beaker began, launching into a long and completely incompressible lecture about this amazing new fireproof paper he'd helped to invent.

"Meep!" he concluded triumphantly, reaching for the blowtorch and shooting it at the wastebasket.

The paper burst into flame.

"MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!"

The fire suppression system would kick on soon enough.

Cooperating with People you Hate, Friday 4th period

[unusual_sith]

"Welcome back." Lana eyed them all. "Last week we got a taste of what everybody's inclinations were, so this week we're going to hopefully start overcoming them. The task is to get from here to there." She pointed at the far side of the Danger Shop, where there was a platform. "To get there, you will have to walk or pull each other across the rope bridge," which was over a pool of water, "then walk through the sand, which is a simulated mine field - you can see where the mines are from the other side. Then climb the wall or get pulled up to get to the platform."

She gave them - especially a few of you - a look. "Whoever has the most points at the end wins. You get five points for making it to the platform. You get another two points for each time you help another person. You get another point for every time you let someone help you. And if you pressed the red button last week, you're starting ten points down."

She crossed her arms. "Get started."

Library - Friday

[onlyajones]

Jo was definitely relived that she had managed to avoid speaking to anyone yesterday because she would have been mortified if she had told anyone anything about Malory Towers or her home.

So she was content to settle in for hopefully an easy library shift, she didn’t have to many books to reshelve and the library seemed to be rather quiet today so she decided to take the opportunity to get some reading in, since it had been a while since she had picked up a book to read.