fandomhigh | Food Appreciation [Week 3, Period 4, Mon. 9/13]

Monday afternoon meant food class and today they were back in the classroom. Seemingly without food. John was at the front, patiently waiting for the kids to show up. Hopefully they were hungry.

He started talking when class was meant to start as timing was an issue today. "Now that football season's started and someone's bound to have a party, I think it's important you all understand the most important food to any gathering here on Earth."

John paused, letting that sink in as he paced at the front of the classroom, waiting to see the man in blue appear in the doorway. Right on time. "Pizza! Today we're trying every kind I could get the guys down at Pizza Planet to mix up for us. So there's cheese, pepperoni, mushroom, veggie, meat explosion, and probably anything else you can think up." Because he was good at giving orders and had the pizza man setting up the boxes on the table while he talked. "There's also some stuff I wouldn't try, but you might want to. Like the everything pizza with and without sardines. Hey, I hear sardines are good for the heart. Who knew? Anyway, get eating and then I want you to compare methods. Is pizza better enjoyed folded? Cut with knife and fork? Is there a wrong way to do this? You tell me. Or, more likely, each other 'cause who wants to talk to the teacher, right?"

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Eat the pizza and answer the question, or just talk about anything you want.

Some people don't like getting cheese grease on their hands and so knife and fork is a good choice. What's your preference?

George was going to eat the pizza with his hands because that meant he could eat more of it faster. He was also going to sample every single one of the kinds. What? He was a growing boy. He needed his fuel.

"Knives and forks are sacrilege," Jane muttered, much happier to peruse what pizza looked good enough to eat with her hands.

"But they're so much fun!" gushed Ariel, with her speared pizza, clearly on the fast track to winning Jane over with a comment like that.

"Huh," Jane said, totally having not expected anyone to call knives and forks that ever. "Do you think spoons are a barrel of laughs, too?"

"Oh, absolutely," said Ariel, bobbing her head enthusiastically before she laughed and held out her hands. "And don't even get me started about sporks!"

No. Seriously. Don't.

Sorry about this.

"What's with sporks?" Jane asked. Every school needed a crazy person, right? Apparently Jane felt the need to engage.

And Ariel, really, was all to eager to oblige.

"Aren't they just the coolest?" she gushed. "I mean, how brilliant! A fork and a spoon, all in one! I mean, the only thing anyone could possibly hold against a spork is that it means that you have to forsake having a fork and a spoon, but sometimes it's a very easy sacrifice. I do feel bad, though; I mean, the fork and the spoon are so great on their own, why would you need a spork, but the novelty of it is just great."

"You eat pizza with your hands, period," Alex said before doing exactly that. "It's not a knives and fork food. That's dainty. And napkins were invented to wipe the grease off."

Yeah, Kate was more focused on eating than she was on discussing the merits of one way of eating over another. She thought it was context depended, anyway.

And right now she was using her hands because she had missed breakfast and she was hungry, dammit.

This was one food Helen was familiar with and liked very much so she just dug in - no knive and fork, just hands here.

Pizza! Ariel knew it would be something good! She hadn't guessed pizza, but she was very pleased to accept this, yes.

Also, she was eating it with a fork. Shut up, she freaking loved forks, ohmygosh. One or two might have found a way into her school bag, shh.

Nothing like stabbing a slice of pizza in the middle, lifting it up, and then nibbling on it as it hung from the fork like a speared fish. Delicious!

Edited 2010-09-13 14:46 (UTC)

"Depends on the pizza," Peter said, simply. "You try eating a deep dish stuffed pizza with your hands. You can't do it. It's a knife and fork job. Your average New York thin crust, hands only and folded too."

He knew a lot about pizza, it seemed.

It probably went against the spirit of the class for Calvin to stack his slices of pizza on top of each other before he started eating.

That didn't stop him doing it, though.

Pizza wasn't something Joolushko ate often. She'd never considered eating it with utensils, probably because she'd never seen anyone here eat it that way, which was why she had a veggie slice in her hand right now.

"I thought it was meant to be eaten held in your hands," she said. "I didn't realize utensils were ever used."

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