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fandomhigh2019-01-17 06:17 am
uncertain_dume) wrote in fandomhigh2019-01-17 06:17 am
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Culture Shock, Thursday, Period 2
Sadly, there was no dog for the class today, but there was a pretty decent buffet spread set out for the students, because yes, the teachers were leaning pretty hard into fluff today after some heavy conversation they'd had two days ago.
Delicious and/or marginally traumatizing fluff.
"This week we figured we'd aim for something with fewer sharks," Kanan said, once it looked like everyone was settled in who would be, "and so we're leaning into things that people generally take for granted back home. Stuff they might not even realize they'll miss when they find themselves in a new place. And the easiest example of that? Something that changes vastly even from place to place on the same world, depending on the resources people have available to them? Food."
"Foooooood!" Summer stepped in with more than a little excitement. "Fun Fact! When I got here, I came from a world where sustience was provided with a government-supplied supplement of pills! So the fact that there was food here…real food...was a pretty big deal for me. And it really showed me how important something like food can be. But food from other places can be pretty weird, people might think the food you like might be weird, and it can all be a little hard to get used to sometimes."
"So today, Summer and I arranged for a meal consisting of some food you might find in my galaxy, some food you might find in her reality, and some food you might encounter here. If you want to tell the class about what the food is like back home, if there's anything about the food here that threw you, then by all means, share with us."
"It is kind of the point of the class, after all!" Summer sang in that still weirdly way-too-teacherly chirp. "So let's get started; I hope you're all hungry."
Delicious and/or marginally traumatizing fluff.
"This week we figured we'd aim for something with fewer sharks," Kanan said, once it looked like everyone was settled in who would be, "and so we're leaning into things that people generally take for granted back home. Stuff they might not even realize they'll miss when they find themselves in a new place. And the easiest example of that? Something that changes vastly even from place to place on the same world, depending on the resources people have available to them? Food."
"Foooooood!" Summer stepped in with more than a little excitement. "Fun Fact! When I got here, I came from a world where sustience was provided with a government-supplied supplement of pills! So the fact that there was food here…real food...was a pretty big deal for me. And it really showed me how important something like food can be. But food from other places can be pretty weird, people might think the food you like might be weird, and it can all be a little hard to get used to sometimes."
"So today, Summer and I arranged for a meal consisting of some food you might find in my galaxy, some food you might find in her reality, and some food you might encounter here. If you want to tell the class about what the food is like back home, if there's anything about the food here that threw you, then by all means, share with us."
"It is kind of the point of the class, after all!" Summer sang in that still weirdly way-too-teacherly chirp. "So let's get started; I hope you're all hungry."
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... Or queasy.
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Lecture!
Food!
Summer's Food!
Which was…..kind of her fault, but she wasn't about to go into that.
"Next up is a few boxes of Eyeholes cereal. That's right. It's cereal. That looks...and possibly tastes, I don't know, I've never actually eaten a real eyehole before...like the hole that eyes go in. This is an actual thing out there in the multiverse, folks."
It should be noted that anyone who was about to try the cereal was definitely getting attacked by a masked blue man in a purple cape, yelling into a megaphone about how you just stole his eyeholes. Despite having his eyes perfectly in tack.
"And finally," and possibly the worst of them all, "this one can be found even right here on this island, because it's pretty universal throughout dimensions, although the population is sometimes violently divided about its existence. I present to you: pizza with pineapple!"
She almost went with jello, but, come on, she couldn't always do jello, now, could she?
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And she fell into the middle on the pizza on pineapple debate.
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The masked blue man got thrown off and threatened with lightning, but okay, she'd stay away from those.
The pizza wasn't bad, though.
Kanan's Food!
"None of mine involve screaming men with megaphones," he promised, "but I did keep my offerings fairly simple. First up, my Captain's favorite, meiloorun melon." He gestured to a tray with a couple of the fruits sitting whole, but the rest were sliced with the rind cut off, so that there was no question that that part wasn't intended to be eaten. "They come in shades of purple, too, but today you get the yellow kind. Mostly because that's what I could get my hands on."
Live with it, kids.
"The next is one of my favorites," he continued, moving on to a small collection of saucers filled with what looked to be a blue pudding. "Blue milk custard. The milk used to make it is really blue, yes. This white cow's milk they have here on Earth is still weird to me. The blue variety comes from a creature called a bantha, back home. Think of... take an elephant. Add horns, remove the trunk, and then wrap them in a shag rug. The custard is far more appealing than the animal it comes from, just trust me on this."
There was a pause, and then, not to be outdone by fly ice cream, he added with a little smirk, "And finally, because we were in the Lothal sector the other day and I couldn't turn down the opportunity to make a pit-stop there, we've got Loth-rat pie. It's made with minced Loth-rat meat, which has a taste and texture kind of similar to rabbit, here on Earth."
And no, the fact that they were rats did not bother him. Eat your rat, students. Or just stick with the fruit, that was probably safe.
"I like it. But I also like pineapple on pizza, so your mileage might vary, there."
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She was not shy about the faces she was making at the rat pie.
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"What,not a fan of Loth-rat?"
Not like that, Kanan. Nobody should ever be a fan of it like that. You were clearly just a freak of nature who had spent too much time either eating Republic rations, eating literal garbage, or as a Loth-cat.
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He waved toward the melon instead.
"That's probably a little less iffy anyway."
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"The rest I'm used to. It's kind of nice to see it here," she said.
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"How long has it been for you? I was here over a year before I could get back home again."
He remembered how rough it had been. Keenly.
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"So," he ventured, finally, "provided Hera lands a job that does have need for demolitions, what kind of equipment and materials are you going to need?"
You know. Absolutely apropos of nothing.
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"How would you feel about a shopping trip, then?"
You know. For supplies. Not just because homesickness was horrible and he was slowly slipping into permanent dad-mode around here. Really.
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And then he nodded.
"Pick a day," he replied. "I'll make the time if I need to. Tonight? Tomorrow after my training? We could set aside a whole day on the weekend."
... The weekend would not pan out. Kanan would feel bad. But it was hard to fly a ship when you were shorter than the steering column.
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It was technically a freighter. Nothing like the Ghost, but more than enough to pick up some explosives for a homesick Mandalorian.
"And any time you need a top-up, let me know. I'll bring you along when I need to make my own supply runs."
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She shrugged. She'd seen worse. Why not try it?
Makes Your Own Food!
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Discussion!
Or just use this opportunity to complain about your teachers feeding you flies and rats. You do you, students.
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Talk to the Teachers!
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... He ate the pineapple first. There was a method to this sort of thing.
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OOC!