cafeteria | mid afternoon | wednesday | 31 march

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After his class (where he'd played an awful Simon), Jonas had slipped into the cafeteria to grab some food and do some idle reading. Unfortunately, the book got ignored while Jonas poked at the rather odd looking concoction on his plate. The server had said it was butternut squash casserole but Jonas couldn't help wondering if that was true or not. It just looked so strange.

Jonas nudged the food with a fork, half expecting it to come to life. When it didn't, he felt some relief but still not enough to eat it. For the first time in his life, Jonas actually thought his cooking might be safer than trying something he didn't recognize.

[open, of course! i had squash on the brain]

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"Are you sure that's FOOD?" Kurt asked, making a face at the casserole.

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"I'd assume so," Jonas said, poking at it again and looking up at Kurt. "Would they be serving it if it wasn't food?"

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"Well, no," Kurt admitted. "But it doesn't look OR smell like anything I'd want to eat!"

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"It's supposed to be some sort of squash casserole," Jonas explained, looking up at Kurt, still confused. "Have you ever eaten squash?"

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"It was hard to avoid, back home," Kurt answered. "That doesn't mean I like it."

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"Will it make it me sick?" Jonas wondered. He was hungry but the food looked so...strange. "Or should I forgo this meal and just eat what I have in my room?"

Which wasn't much.

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Kurt gave him an odd look. "It's just squash," he told Jonas. "Don't they have squash where you come from?"

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"Possibly," Jonas said, shrugging a shoulder. "I was never involved in food preparation. All food was distributed so I don't really know what went into certain meals. I don't recognize this as anything I've had."

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"A-ha! That's because it's all mashed up," Kurt told him. "Squash is a kind of vegetable -- it's perfectly safe. Just not all that tasty."

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"Right." Jonas eyed the casserole for a minute or two longer before he chanced a bite. That chance had him immediately scrunching his face up in distaste. "That's...not good at all."

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"And once again, the American teenager is forced to choose between healthy food and tasty food," Kurt commented. "I think for me, today is a vending machine lunch day."

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"I believe I have some leftover pizza from this weekend in my room," Jonas said, already planning on finishing that off. "I figured out how to order when we couldn't really leave the dorms."

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"What's there to figure out?" Kurt asked. "You just call and order!"

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"For you, I'm sure it is easy," Jonas told him, shrugging. "I'd never really done it before. Not on my own. We didn't have pizza places or takeout food where I'm from."

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Kurt shrugged. "And now you know how, so it is easy for you, too!"

He gave Jonas a thoughtful look. "I don't remember -- where ARE you from?"

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"It's a place called the Community," Jonas told him, picking at the casserole some more. "I don't think you'd know it. So far, no one does."