How To Be Civilized, Friday, Period 3

[1000yearstoolate]

"This week we're going to have an easy class," Seivarden said, smiling at the students. "This might seem like a silly thing, but as I know most people on the island have a problem with it, I felt it needed to be adressed."

She gestured at a table where food has been arranged, a selection similar to what you would find at a Fandom picnic. Mainly finger food.

"Never, ever, eat food with bare hands. Not even with a knife and fork of course, but definitely not finger food. There's cutlery available, although of course you can eat pastries with your hands, but don't stain your gloves like a five year old."

Looking around the classroom, Seivarden continued: "Well, that should be easy enough. And of course there's tea for you all."

[Wait for ODC OCD is up]

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Eat food

[1000yearstoolate]

At least you get a nice afternoon snack. Mod picnic food, eat finger food with cutlery or just try to avoid staining your gloves.

Re: Eat food

[bookbeltof_love]

See, the nice thing about Traditional Morning Breakfast was that at this point Nina had a lot of experience in eating her breakfast with gloves on.

Nina had salad, a sandwich, and some popcorn.

And, like, eating popcorn with a spoon was actually neater than eating it with her hands anyway, so this wasn't proving much of a challenge for her, even if she did feel silly eating a sandwich with cutlery.

And was eyeing the chips speculatively.

Like, they were too big for a spoon. Stabbing them with a fork would result in chip-bits everywhere, and a knife would result in the same thing.

Not eating them was probably the more civilized thing to do and yet…

Re: Eat food

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden gave Nina an approving nod. "Have you tried that before?"

Re: Eat food

[bookbeltof_love]

"I haven't," she admitted honestly. "Since, like, it's not really the done thing back home????????????? But I must admit that I think I might prefer eating it this way…………"

It was so much tidier!

Re: Eat food

[1000yearstoolate]

"I'm glad to hear that."

She might have a ridiculous taste in gloves and make silly radio broadcasts, but at least she had some potential.

Re: Eat food

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina did like being a lady whenever she could be.

Like, around all her nonsense.

"Out of, like, curiosity," Nina said, "what utensil would you use to eat chips??????????????"

Re: Eat food

[1000yearstoolate]

"You can eat them with your hands if you wear gloves," Seivarden said. "As long as you don't grab them by the handful."

Re: Eat food

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae's socks-for-gloves were already a sort of dingy grey from use, did that count as being stained? They were at least pretty uniformly dingy grey?

They would not remain questionably-stained for long, though, because Mae went right for the drippiest, spilliest, stainingest foods she could find.

". . . Now everything tastes kind of like lint."

Re: Eat food

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden turned away looking slightly nauseated.

"Perhaps try something made of plastic next time."

No, she wasn't being serious.

Re: Eat food

[thishouseishaunted]

At some point, she might learn to stop giving Mae ideas.

“Plastic’s bad for the planet.”

This would not stop her when she had to find hand coverings at the last minute next week.

Re: Eat food

[1000yearstoolate]

"Yes, because this is an uncivilized planet that can't deal with waste," Seivarden said. "Not my problem."

Re: Eat food

[thishouseishaunted]

"I mean," Mae said. "You are living here."

Re: Eat food

[1000yearstoolate]

"Not for long enough for people to make the whole planet inhabitable," Seivarden said.

Re: Eat food

[thishouseishaunted]

"How do you know? Anything could happen at any moment."

Re: Eat food

[1000yearstoolate]

"That's not the point of this class," Seivarden said. "Take your philosophical questions to someone else."

Re: Eat food

[thishouseishaunted]

"The point of this class is stupid," Mae said. "What do you think fingers are even for?"

Re: Eat food

[unusual_sith]

This really made Lana wish she'd thought of fingerless gloves. Ah, well.

She was going to eat a sandwich. With her (gloved, alas) hands, because that was how you ate a sandwich.

And she had a blue-milk latte with her.

Re: Eat food

[1000yearstoolate]

"That could be eaten with a knife and fork," S ivarden pointed out. "Not that it's completely unacceptable to eat it with your hands as long as you're wearing gloves."

Re: Eat food

[unusual_sith]

"You could drink with a spoon," Lana said. "That doesn't mean you should. Sandwiches are designed to be eaten with your hands."

Re: Eat food

[1000yearstoolate]

"That's a matter of opinion," Seivarden replied. "But as I said, you can eat them with your hands. It just comes across as a bit provincial."