[text | @ t.pagoda]

[getjackedup]

The festival was cute. Nice little distraction for all of us who got dropped here out of nowhere.

We’re stuck here and have to get used to it. Sure. But who knows the best place to check out fresh foods and spices? I need samples. May as well be eating whatever they give me blindfolded until I know what’s in it. They could be feeding us alien donkey balls for all we know.

Just because we’re stuck in another world doesn’t mean we have to eat like heathens.

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@dodger/text

[smokedout]

for a second there i almost thought you were serious.

for real, don't knock donkey balls. long as it tastes alright, you got nothin to complain about.

[This man literally eats garbage when he gets the craving. Or just feeling cheap.]

[getjackedup]

Just because testicles can be done right doesn't mean I want to eat some ass balls without knowing it. That shit you want to know where it came from and how they got it. Quality bruh.

[smokedout]

quality's subjective. food is food. half the world's delicacies are fried bugs and stuffed animal guts anyway.

[getjackedup]

Quality is about skill and effort. Taste is subjective. Not fighting anyone about their tastes. Some people can't help having shitty taste buds.

@liches.get.stitches

[spellslots]

There's this market that runs once a week, I'm a big fan.

[And he sends the location as well as a link to the market's website, since he's getting the hang of this internet & pseudo-iphone thing.]

So far I've been able to find equivalents to most shit from home, plus some new stuff. Careful about the spices if you're not used to that sorta thing.

[getjackedup]

[He gets the message and immediately checks out the link, because it's what he's after in the first place.]

Noted. I can hold my own against some spices. I know my limits. Anything not worth trying?

[spellslots]

Depends what you're into, or not into. They got this fruit that tastes like fig, which personally I'd fucking avoid, but maybe you're into that.

[getjackedup]

Don't mind them. Taste better mixed with other flavors. Pretty bland on its own. Cranberries more my thing.

@damen, text

[goldcuffed]

[Damen almost responds in video because his giant fingers are not about that tiny-button life, but he manages to find the voice-to-text feature on his phone and hallelujah.]

Have you found the food to be that terrible? Everything I've tried has been wonderful so far. Save, perhaps, my own attempts at cooking.

[Then again, Damen is used to having a royal chef and has never cared much about what ingredients go into his food as long as he enjoys the taste.]

[getjackedup]

Didn't say the food was bad. I just like knowing what I'm eating. Call it professional curiosity.

[goldcuffed]

If it isn't bad, then does it matter that much?

Are you a chef?

@cjk [ text ]

[signifies]

Do you have any allergies?

[getjackedup]

Not to any foods. High iron ain't kind for the stomach but nothing else.

[signifies]

[ Clark sends a few names. ]

I've been going to these shops.

[ He can taste the subtlety of the flavours in his food. It's better with ingredients bought from here. ]

text | @altin.

[bringbackgold]

There's a few places I like to shop for ingredients. I prefer prepare all of my own food.

[getjackedup]

Nothing better than what you know you made with your own hands. Unless you spent all day making shit for everybody and their mama. Sometimes you want a little break, and I ain't getting that unless I know anything and everything.

[Not to mention that he's a bit of an overachiever with work and being able to scout new places for the best produce and cuts will definitely help with his new job as a sous chef. It's hard to do well when you don't know half the shit your kitchen is supposed to make.]

[bringbackgold]

I rarely cook for anyone else. Unfortunately,
the only way to really know is to make it yourself. There's easy things to do, I"m sure.

[ He's an athlete with a strict diet... so he always has to know. ]

@endsoftheearth, voice;

[earthy]

[Terra may someday reconcile with the idea of hunting and pecking small letters on this "smartphone" thing (or find a handy voice to text app), but today! is clearly not that day.]

We're not stuck here. [There's the faintest bristling in his voice. The subject is near and dear to his heart.] Not really. You just have to work for a while, then they'll try and send you back to wherever you came from.

[How long 'a while' is remains to be seen and will ultimately end up the mootest of moot points for Somebody when Somebody figures out he shouldn't go back to 'wherever he came from' but hey conversation.]

[getjackedup]

[It surprised him that someone was bothering to comment in voice but it's just not what he's used to. And it's weird to respond to someone's voice with text so he just goes with the flow. Weird, but whatever.]

Bruh, if you are somewhere that you are not able to leave until someone else finds a way to get you out, that's called stuck. I'll send you a link to the dictionary if you need it.

[earthy]

I don't need a dictionary.

[He might actually need a dictionary. If for nothing else, to discretely look up new words like "bruh".]

I understand what you mean, I'm just saying... We're not stuck stuck. [Argues semantics all day long. Or for at least another couple minutes.] It's not a permanent kind of stuck. You don't have to just... accept it all and get used to everything and... make this place your new home. If you don't want to.

[Pause.]

A lot of people seem to want to.

Video @the.boneless

[ragnarsson]

[No texts from the Viking. He can't read and is using the text-to-speech function to understand.]

We're lucky to have as much variety of food as there is. Where I'm from, some people only have salted fish to eat.

[For months on end, no less. If Ivar never ate another strip of salted fish meat in his life, it would be all too soon.]

[getjackedup]

[Video? How many people here don't know how to text. ...Probably more than he'd think about.] Good for you than that you got this cornucopia of options here to pick from. Being grateful doesn't mean being ignorant, man. Come on, use your head.

[ragnarsson]

I frequently seem to be the only one that does. Do you?

[The problem with Ivar is that he frequently thinks he's the smartest in any given situation. He's also proven right more often than not. He tilts his head towards Tolemi in a bit of a challenge. Go on, try to prove him wrong.]

@j.wick; voice

[adiuvio]

There's a farmer's market down on Fifth every weekend.

Picked up some fresh produce and meat there. It was decent.

[getjackedup]

Now that's what I'm talking about. Do they haggle or set price only? [Because he's learned all the ways to pick a part some produce and try to get the best for the cheapest.]