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fandomhigh2019-08-01 05:36 am
somethingwithturquoise) wrote in fandomhigh2019-08-01 05:36 am
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Retro Recipes: This Sh*t is Bananas; First Period [08/01].
A pixelated Summer stood in front of a pixelated kitchen with a bounty of pixelated bananas before her on the counter, with....sort of..a pixelated grin on her face. "Hey, everyone," she started, once she figured anyone who was going to make it all the way up to their mushroom-lifted school, like, what?, was there. Apparently, everything being on tall mushrooms wasn't going to stop her from teaching a class. Getting up here had been a good test of the work she'd been doing on that spaceship.
"So, this class, as you know, was designed to highlight the versitility of the banana, but this week is really highlighting the fact that one of the great things about the banana is that, no matter what the res on your reality may be, it's still pretty easy to pick a banana out as a banana, thanks to its bright color and distinct shape.
"The same," she continued, a bit wryly, "can't be said for other foodstuffs. And while it is tempting to just whip something up with bananas and mushrooms, which seems to be the staple foodstuff in this particular reality, we've all got enough stuff to deal with this week, so we're just going to stick with a classic that exists in mostly basic shapes and colors: banana split sundaes."
Actual food you can enjoy eating! Unless, she supposed, you were lactose-intolerant, which she should have thought about since she was, apparently, last week, but whatever.
"It's pretty easy. Cut your banana lengthwise so it can sit nicely in your little ice cream dish, pick out a few scoops of very obviously ice cream onto it, maybe drizzle with hot fudge, add some nuts and sprinkles, which you can mostly identify as such even without detail, I've even got whipped cream and cherries for you guys. Make it looks much like a sundae as you can, and then that's it. Chill out and enjoy them as long as you want for the rest of class, unless you're eager to get back out there and jump on platforms, I don't know, I won't judge. Any questions?"
"So, this class, as you know, was designed to highlight the versitility of the banana, but this week is really highlighting the fact that one of the great things about the banana is that, no matter what the res on your reality may be, it's still pretty easy to pick a banana out as a banana, thanks to its bright color and distinct shape.
"The same," she continued, a bit wryly, "can't be said for other foodstuffs. And while it is tempting to just whip something up with bananas and mushrooms, which seems to be the staple foodstuff in this particular reality, we've all got enough stuff to deal with this week, so we're just going to stick with a classic that exists in mostly basic shapes and colors: banana split sundaes."
Actual food you can enjoy eating! Unless, she supposed, you were lactose-intolerant, which she should have thought about since she was, apparently, last week, but whatever.
"It's pretty easy. Cut your banana lengthwise so it can sit nicely in your little ice cream dish, pick out a few scoops of very obviously ice cream onto it, maybe drizzle with hot fudge, add some nuts and sprinkles, which you can mostly identify as such even without detail, I've even got whipped cream and cherries for you guys. Make it looks much like a sundae as you can, and then that's it. Chill out and enjoy them as long as you want for the rest of class, unless you're eager to get back out there and jump on platforms, I don't know, I won't judge. Any questions?"
Re: Make your Banana Split Sundaes - RR, 08/01.
And this was why he would keep making breakfast on Mondays, and Nina would just be helping out with the cleaning. And why he wasn't about to go run off and have ice cream from Nina's world.
Even if it was sounding like ice cream made from just eggs would be a million times better for you, there, Lactose Boy.
Re: Make your Banana Split Sundaes - RR, 08/01.
"Nooooooooo??????????" Nina said, like he was the crazy one here. "Like, if you added milk and sugar to an egg, you'd just, like, make a mess??????????????????"
Really, now, Wayne. That sounded horrible.
"With, like, two eggs, though, I could make a cake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Again, just the eggs. "And if, like, I added sugar to that, it'd be a shortcake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I added mayo instead of the sugar, though, I'd get a cheesecake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Re: Make your Banana Split Sundaes - RR, 08/01.
"That's not--!" he started, but, sometimes, like a faulty engine, Wayne had trouble getting started once he was really flustered up. "Now, how ya gonna---I mean!" For a moment there, he couldn't even form words, just an offended little sound. "I'm almost afraid to ask, Nina," but he was going to say it anyway, unable to hold back due to his sheer indignation, "but if that's how you think it works to make regular cake and short cake and cheesecake, I really gotta wonder how's it is you think a person goes about makin' pancakes..."
Re: Make your Banana Split Sundaes - RR, 08/01.
Besides, like, who could argue when a dozen eggs would make six cakes and that was beyond cost effective, right there!
Pancakes, though, weren't quite as cheap. And had no eggs in them. Nina considered him as she ate more of her sundae.
"Well," she said, with the air of someone who thought this was totally obvious and completely weird for being asked about it, "obviously, to make pancakes, you take one tomato and one shellfish and cook them with sugar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
…Yes.
Re: Make your Banana Split Sundaes - RR, 08/01.
And that was...well, that was just the end of the line for Wayne. That was about on par with some of the stuff Ms. Smith was making them cook in this class, which he already felt pretty bad about, because it just seemed to be an insult to food and the people who ate it.
Which, you know. Was everyone.
Unless, at this point, Nina was just making fun of him, and he didn't much appreciate that either.
"Nina!" He really did pretty much bark this time, face glowering in a frowning squint, and if he'd been sitting right now, he'd have pushed his chair back pointedly and stood up. "Be serious! You don't make pancakes out of tomato and shellfish!"
Re: Make your Banana Split Sundaes - RR, 08/01.
The sugar, though, was very important. If the sugar got left out then you wouldn't get pancakes, but rather you'd get pizza instead.
Re: Make your Banana Split Sundaes - RR, 08/01.
Re: Make your Banana Split Sundaes - RR, 08/01.
"I didn't do anything wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't help how we cook back home and we make pancakes with tomatoes and shellfish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And we make ice cream with just eggs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All the yelling at me isn't going to change how it works in my world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Re: Make your Banana Split Sundaes - RR, 08/01.
Especially once Wayne opened his mouth to make a rebuttal, and Summer swiftly cut him off.
"Wayne," she said, in that firm voice she had to use sometimes with her dad or her grampa, which said a lot about Jerry and Rick, that they were about the same level as a petulant, stubborn sixteen-year-old year old. "Chill out, or go take a walk! You're really going to sit there, all covered in pixels, and still get all butthurt about a world where tomatoes go in pancakes? Like savory pancakes aren't even a thing? It's not even that weird, you were putting sardines in bananas last week. Come on!"
...oh, god, she was being such a teacher right now. It was super gross but also kind of thrilling.
Re: Make your Banana Split Sundaes - RR, 08/01.
It was impolite to yell at girls, and he was going to be outnumbered on that front, besides. So if his options were to chill or take a walk....he was going to go take that fucking walk.
So, after one more pixelated glare and making a firm point of turning away from the discussion and toward the door, Wayne went ahead and stomped out of the classroom, shoulders squared, thumbs tucked into his belt loops.
He was lactose intolerant, anyway!
Re: Make your Banana Split Sundaes - RR, 08/01.
Hmph.
"I wasn't making anything up," she said, half-way between petulant and grumpy herself. "It's not my fault he didn't like the answers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Re: Make your Banana Split Sundaes - RR, 08/01.
But she did pass a sympathetic look over toward Nina, though, because, god, if she hadn't been fifteen and impressionable and kind of a people-pleaser herself at one point.
"I wouldn't worry about it too much," she offered. "You can't help other people's attitudes, especially when they're bad."
But after this week and last, Summer...might be a little worried about what might happen with Wayne next week. He might just riot. Burn the whole place down...
But then she couldn't help tilting her head a little curiously.
"...tomatoes, shellfish, and sugar to make pancakes, though, huh?...really?"
Looks like someone had a new way to torture the staff at Luke's on Sunday now. Mwa ha ha!
Re: Make your Banana Split Sundaes - RR, 08/01.
"Yes," she said, nodding firmly. "And you, like, can't forget the sugar!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you forget the sugar, you'll wind up with pizza, and that's delicious, but that's definitely not perfect, fluffy pancakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!"