fandomhigh | Ancient Food Crimes; Friday, First Period [06/24].

"And so," said Summer, grinning from the front of the classroom as usual, "we've finally come to our last class...unless you take my follow-up during the next session, but, of course, I feel it's only appropriate, for our last official meeting of this session, to go back to the beginning and focus on what lead me down this horrible path in the first place: gelatin.

"Now, see, the nice thing about gelatin is that it's incredibly diverse. You can literally put anything in that shit, and, over the centuries, many people have, but it was really during the mid-century that people really decided to go buck-wild with it with the increasing popularity of commercialized gelatin brands like Jell-O. It was a really unique way to let their creativity fly and, boy did they. Now, since it's so ubiquitous, I could probably put anything in jello to present to this class, but I've decided to pick some real fan favorites and stunning choices to discuss today.

"So let's take a moment to talk about and discuss whether Spaghetti-os and Hot Dogs have any business being in this form, whether this jellied tomato refresher is really all that refreshing, how we feel about a noodle ring with creamed chicken, and finally, we explore 7-Up and Cheese.

"Also," she added, almost as if a side note, "it's not jello, but I also made these prawn stuffed apples, because it almost felt like a crime to finish off this class without including them."

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Like you may never have to put stuff like this in your mouth ever again!

Stark

Gray

Hannibal Lecter

Steve Rogers

Shane Gooseman

Guillermo de la Cruz

Because nothing quite makes these things sound even better than learning just a little bit more about how they're made and what all is actually going into them!

All jello, all the time, baby!

Plus random apples with prawns sticking out of them, because they deserve to be there even if it breaks theme.

Stark was eyeing all of the options warily.

"I feel like I ought to try something. I'm just not certain what..."

"It is," Summer agreed with a sage-like nod, "truly a question for the ages. Generally, I suggest maybe starting with the refresher. A bit of an apéritif for the rest of them."

Which was a response that clearly was taking for granted that there would be multiple dishes sampled on this particular day, obviously.

"Starting with?" Stark echoed. "Am I meant to have more than one?"

On purpose?

"I meaaaan," said Summer, "if you're having such a hard time choosing, it seems like the logical conclusion to just not actually have to choose at all, right? There's plenty here for everyone to try everything."

Even as she said it, though, she did feel that little twinge of guilt in realizing that, oh, shit, Stark might actually be able to be convinced to try all of them just because she asked nicely enough....

....but also, it was the last class. And she had been very good about not wielding that power too much so far...

Stark was hard-wired to want to please people.

"That's... not how I would have thought about it. I suppose I could." There would be cupcakes to follow, after all.

Steve was going right for the prawns and apples because the man had a secret death wish, apparently.

“I’ll be in your class next session,” Goose promised as he made his way through all the different options.

It wasn’t really a surprise at this point that he enjoyed everything but then he was quite a fan of jello by now.

Summer's pleased with what she picked for the final class, but still would like to take a moment of silence for all the wonderfully terrible recipes she didn't even get to touch this time around.

My well of Summer gifs is running dry, so have a random montage of her buffing up to go punch the devil:

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