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Where do your OCs fall in the two ranks of the great pineapple pizza and mint chocolate chip ice cream wars?

Alicia hates mint flavored foods because she thinks they taste like tooth paste.

Kattar is rather indifferent, but he would eat mint chocolate chip ice cream just so he could gross Alicia out by kissing her directly afterwards.

Andrew likes most sweet things, so he's fine either way.

Jinho doesn't like sweets other than with sweet mixed drinks like Mudslides.

In the realm of pineapple on pizza, Alicia likes it, Kattar thinks it's kind of weird texture wise, Andrew likes it, Jinho thinks it's gross, but he doesn't eat pizza often anyway because he's forcing both himself and Andrew to detox.

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If you think of other controversial foods, you can share them here too, for us all to comment on.

My characters love both. Because if they didn't I'd erase them and draw new ones that did.

As for other controversial foods, the MC in Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days hunts deer. Hunting in itself is controversial to some people, but in one scene he eats the heart of the first deer that he killed. No, he didn't reach into its chest, pull the heart out, and eat it, but he did fry it up and eat it like regular meat. It was a rite of passage. And he loved it. And still does.

It's me. I'm the MC. And at first I thought that my brother and father were having me on about eating the heart, but it really is a thing, and it really is delicious.

The passage that describes it:

Finally supper was ready. Mark and Dad placed a plate in front of each of the guys with a pork chop, potatoes, and vegetables piled up. Mine looked different. Instead of a pork chop there was a couple of big, round pieces of meat with holes in them. The meat looked dark.

“What is this?” I asked.

Mark gave me that sly grin again, and Dad was looking at me with the same grin.

“The heart. It’s a rule. You have to eat the heart of your first deer.”

“What? No! That’s gross!” I protested.

“Sorry, but you have to” Mark said. I looked around and saw everybody looking at me expectantly. I didn’t care.

“No! That looks gross! I’m not eating guts!”

Everybody laughed. Everybody, that is, except Mark and Dad.

“Come on. You have to. Don’t worry about it, it’s just a muscle like any other meat. We’ve all done it. It’s actually delicious”, Mark said.

I didn’t believe him. I looked at the meat on my plate. It looked funny with those holes in it. Still, it did smell good.

Dad got serious. "Look, eating the heart is a ritual here, kind of a way of showing respect to the animal you just harvested. It's a way of showing that the animal did not die for nothing, that it will be eaten and not wasted. You may not ever eat heart again, but this is important."

I was still not convinced. I looked at Mark. “If it’s as delicious as all that, you eat some first”, I challenged.

“No problem”, Mark said, and reached over to my plate, picked the smallest piece (which was still fairly large), and popped it into his mouth. He chewed and swallowed.

“Tasty!”, he said.

There was nothing else for it. I had to eat it now. I picked up a piece and bit a chunk off. As I chewed it I considered its consistency: Very tender, not ‘grainy’ like regular meat.

And it was absolutely fucking delicious.

I gave Mark a thumbs up, then devoured the rest of the meat on my plate. The guys in the camp started cheering. I made a mock bow to everyone and sat down.

And the chapter you'll find it in:

My father and brother used to go hunting too, for wild hogs with my granddad down in Florida, are you that attached to mint ice cream and pineapple pizza lol? I like pineapple pizza (hush, don't tell) but I'm with Kattar, and rather indifferent about mint ice cream, though the chocolate chips are honestly too hard to properly enjoy them. They just taste like ice.

All my characters like Pineapple on Pizza. As for mint chocolate chip I never had chance to ask anybody I had no idea it was a contentious topic lol

they ALL like pineapple on pizza? now that's odd But yes, mint chocolate chip is controversial, a lot of people think it's awful, it tastes like toothpaste, xyz.

Hmm... I hadn't thought about it, but this is incredibly intriguing.

Loves Pineapple Pizza: Byxx, Curtis, Ramona, and Ryan
Despises: Pineapple Pizza: Iris, Zayzann, Warren, and Alden

Loves Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream: Iris, Curtis, Warren, Alden, and Ramona
Despises Mint Choco: Byxx, Zayzann, and Ryan

Khazmine doesn't get a vote, as she doesn't really eat food... :wink:

Looks like Curtis and Ramona are just team controversial

First I had to consider whether these foods even exist in the setting of my comic. Something like pizza probably does exist but I doubt anyone had made pineapple pizza yet. Pineapples are not native to Uniconta and would have to be imported from the Distant Isles. If it was prepared for him, Roland would probably try it and moderately enjoy this unusual meal, but I think the other characters would reject it outright for being too strange.

Ice Cream is a trendy dessert only recently gaining widespread popularity and mint is a widely available ingredient to use for flavoring desserts, but chocolate would be an exotic ingredient, probably only available to the rich or maybe for the middle classes on special occasions. I think Roland, Zyphy, Pinsa and well probably most characters in the setting would enjoy Mint chocolate chip. Crysta would probably reject chocolate as overly indulgent and decadent.

Talia’s a little iffy about pineapple on pizza. It’s not bad, but it’s just not her thing. She absolutely despises mint-chocolate ice cream, though.

Caster enjoys both, surprisingly enough.

Marie would probably hate both and criticize them in full detail while Cillian sits there, involuntarily subjected to her ramblings on food. He likes mint-choco, but has no strong stance on pineapple pizza.

I feel like Melissa wouldn’t care much. Food is food to her. Same for Elaine.

Mateo would probably enjoy both pineapple pizza and mint-chocolate, much to Johanna’s absolute… well, not disgust, but more like concern.

Cillian is a name I've never heard before. Where is that name from?

Captain Pigeon would eat crumbs of the pineapple pizza from the floor. he is a pigeon afterall.

The adult portion of my brain: Well, that sounds...interesting...

The bratty baby in my head: No broccoli! Broccoli bad!

Elsie: Cheese and jelly sandwiches

Roy: Nothing out of the ordinary

Ernest: Cream and cabbage. He just dips the cream of his butter with leaves of cabbage. The famine has done things to him.

Rosemary: Scones… With two wads of jelly and cream in the middle!

I don't think scones are controversial, unless we're talking about the war on carbs. Now cream and cabbage, that's a little odd.

Just me guessing the Blue Fedora is weird enough to like both mint chocolate chip ice cream and pineapple pizza, though they MAY not have been invented yet in her era.

Okay!

Both Otto and Blue like Mint chocolate chip... mainly because I do. :sweat_smile:

But, I feel like both of them have some sort of texture sensitivity with food, so they'd probably both hate pineapple pizza. I love it though. Blue is weird, but she thinks the pineapple makes the pizza slimy, so it's a no for her. She's kinda disappointed because it seems like something she'd like too.

Otto bakes and cooks obsessively. In terms of eating, he really goes for simple food that tastes really good. He likes Kimchi though. He makes it himself so that it's Kosher. He'll grill a cheese with it.

Blue loves the fancier stuff, food-wise. BUUUUUT, I regret to inform you that both her and I like those fried chicken feet they have at Dim Sum. :joy:

Why are fried chicken feet a problem? They eat chicken feet a lot in my country. Is Otto Jewish?

It's not! Just a lot of folks I know find it weird. And HELL YEAH CHICKEN FEET IS FREAKIN DELICIOUS I'M SO GLAD SOMEONE ELSE THINKS SO TOO.

Otto is Jewish...as well as Blue. I've had to do a bit of research on this for her, but I intended her bio mom to be Jewish (Biracial specifically).

@ThunderChicken

Lol, I don't prefer the texture of chicken feet, but the taste is just fine. I personally like offals, especially hearts and gizzards, but even livers, which some folks might think weird and gross too.

Given the setting of my story, only three people would really understand what the foods are but Ran and Nox love both mint chocolate chip ice cream and eating pineapple on pizza while Vervain is just perplexed by the fact people were willing to put fruit on pizza back then. The others don't really know as the food was essentially lost to time but might be recreated once again.

Ran is not a fan of cilantro because it smells like soap to her while Nox eats it with no problem, Vervain doesn't mind it but will not eat it with every meal. Hans thinks it smells too much like it's cousins while Gretchen is too paranoid to pick at it when it gets found around the village. Alex grew up eating it from his mother's cooking while Edgren follows the same route as Gretchen and Hans due to the amount of poisonous plants that look too similar to it that grow near the village.

Funny you should mention mint chocolate chip ice cream...

So my two protagonists, Ragna and Ravening, the on-again-off-again-enemies-with-benefits disagree on everything except two things: The superiority of mint chocolate chip ice cream, and they share a co-crush on a character named Deirdra The Unyielding.

The mint chocolate chip thing is the first thing they agree on outside of their co-horniness for a 10 foot tall dragon mommy.

It's a play on words. Her background is a viking fighter from the north, her full name is Ragna Rokk.

I was wondering if it might relate to ragnarok actually lol

Ah, here's one:

Raw foods. Raw fish. Raw beef. Raw eggs. (Maybe even living foods) where do your OCs fall? where do you fall?

Personally I love sashimi. Raw eggs are okay in ice cream and things like that but in general I have texture issues (I get it from my dad)

For that same reason, Alicia would have trouble eating sashimi. She'd probably find it gross. Kattar can eat it just find and actually likes it, but he would also use it, again, to gross her out.

Now spicy food also has a two army war. I'm on team spicy, but like mild foods as well. Kattar is the same. Alicia can't stand spicy things. She has the tolerance for it, she just thinks it drowns out the other flavors and defeats the point of yk, seasoning the food.

In the Victorian era there were a lot of interesting flavors. Artificial flavors weren’t around until the early 1890s and are yet to be perfected so pretty much to flavor ice cream they had whatever they had around them. Pretty much berries, vanilla and all the natural sweet flavors like honey was for sweet flavors. It was of different texture than what we have today and was mainly sorbet. They would even have savory flavors such as artichoke and cheese?

Here are my character’s favorite controversial ice cream flavors!

Elsie: She likes plain vanilla but another flavor she likes is cucumber.

Roy: Roy loves anything strawberry flavored and he has yet to try tobacco flavor. It was a thing. His friends tell him to stay away from that.

Rosemary: Her favorite flavor is raspberry and that’s it. Though hazelnut she wouldn’t mind every now and then.

Ernest: Since he grew up very impoverished Ernest never could afford to make ice cream as a youth. He’s been trying all kinds of flavors and so far his favorite has been chestnut with chocolate. He’d like to try the coffee one and his friends let him eat it anyway. It’s just the flavoring.

Martin: He just melts ice. Nothing needed.

Well I guess that makes a little more sense, but it never stopped orbbot and cubebot from eating real food, though it nearly kills them every time

Melissa (Damsel in the Red Dress) (making her debut tomorrow!): Loves loves loves mint chocolate chip ice cream. Her husband tells her she's crazy her son thinks it's gross, but she doesn't care even a little bit. She also likes Hawaiian pizza but she eats it with a fork, separating all the ham and pineapples and eating those together before consuming the rest of the pizza.

Ahahaa let's see...

Zov'ha: Doesn't care, she eats very little. She'd probably avoid both the pizza and the ice cream as they are high-calorie.

Aekis: Lower sense of taste (Astraleids don't eat so they have lost the sense of taste, but can taste certain things like very bitter or very spicy.) Add chilli to the pineapple pizza, or dark chocolate to the mint ice cream, and he might have a taste.

Marana: Crazy girl will eat both... and a lot. Her bionic organs can process anything.

Subeya: She'd probably hate the idea of both. She's really picky in what she eats.

Sinovan: He'd probably get indigestion from eating either lol. No, he'll stick to fresh food.

I hope Zov'ha doesn't have an eating disorder of some kind