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Jan 2024

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

Zov'ha lived in the wilds for many years. She learnt to control her hunger because food was not readily available and she needed to hunt or scavange. So she has a famous saying that is mentioned in the book: “A famished body is more aware.”

She continues to maintain that even now. She eats, but only enough to satisfy her hunger... no more.

Eliza: Loves mint chocolate chip ice cream, but she's kind of a picky eater and doesn't like fruit or vegetables, period.

Aaron: Likes neither, but will tactfully say that everyone has different taste.

Ruby: Thinks both are disgusting, and will not hesitate to inform Eliza that mint chocolate chip ice cream is the illegitimate child of of tooth paste and green food coloring.

22 days later
22 days later

So, several of my characters like alcohol. That's a food/drink that's definitely up for debate.

Alicia uses alcohol as an unhealthy coping mechanism tbh, but Kattar rarely drinks.

Meanwhile Jimin and her dad both drink (it's one of their many daddy daughter things) but with moderation, while Jinwoo can't stand the taste of beer.

8 days later
11 days later

Let's see, Andrew and Jinho are both big fans of offals, like me. They often cook their own meals for or with each other, and offals are a go to they both like and make often. Really, they are very tolerant people who will usually quietly eat whatever the other decides to make, but they try to make things that they both like as much as possible.

Mrs. Moon likes offals as well, not just in fancy forms like pate, but as their individual forms too.

Alicia quiet honestly doesn't mind the taste but she feels really weird and disgusted going out of her way to just eat the organs of an animal. She also doesn't like the texture of liver, finding it pasty.

Kattar loves offals just like his mother, and will maybe scare and unsettle Alicia to an unkind degree through his relish of them.

In the realm of alcohol, Jinho drinks, Andrew doesn't, but that makes sense because one of them has to drive. Andrew is a little childish in a lot of ways and an old man at the same time. He doesn't drink tea or coffee, preferring milk and juice, and he can't stand the taste of alcohol. He also has a very low tolerance (Jinho got him drunk semi-unintentionally once by giving him a mixed drink where Andrew had no idea how much alcohol he was actually consuming.)

Mrs. Moon doesn't mind an occasional glass of wine but she never has a free enough schedule to not be able to drive.

Melissa likes offals but is the only member of her family who does, so she rarely cooks them. She and her husband will occasionally drink alcohol though during their date nights (when those take place at home.)

@ThunderChicken

Melissa Xochitl's husband and son go hunting together, but as they don't like organ meats, they always feed them to the dog.

Juana King will tolerate mint chocolate chip ice cream without comment, but she doesn't particularly care for it. She is convinced she might like it if she found a good version of it. Pineapple pizza is good in her opinion, and she orders pizza occasionally for her grandson who is living with her and her husband while he's in college. She's just fine with offals and in fact, makes beef heart tacos occasionally. She doesn't drink alcohol just because she doesn't care for it.

8 days later

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They both love mint chocolate chip ice cream. Sweet foods are <3 no matter what it is. They have some lovely friends who are a gay couple who own a bakery/coffee shop, so they'll try anything these two literally bake up. Ice cream is a frequent showstopper, such as in profiteroles.

Well, both Psychoborg and Astra are lousy cooks, so if no one cooks for them, instant food it is. In the case of Psychoborg, he loves udon and TV dinners. In the case of Astra, she likes fruit with cheese and crackers. Every now and then, she has been known to like frozen pizza.

In the case of Prometheus (the monster), he likes apples and cookies a lot. Sometimes, he'll go through an entire box if he's lost in thought. For Igor, he grew up in the woods with his mom and dad who were hunters. He has been known to hunt every now and then himself, but he never hunts more than he can eat. His favourite thing to hunt and eat are ducks.

Warrick has the strangest taste in food of all. He eats ketchup straight up! He's an android so it won't do anything to him, but it's still strange.

Dr. Jekyll loves chocolate and other sweets yet never gains an ounce. Mr. Hyde loves bourbon, bread and butter, and bananas. Louis the cockatoo loves crumpets.

Word will eat anything and everything which is why he is so fat. However, his favourite thing is homemade pizza. Babycakes loves marshmallows.

I don't think Astra and Psychoborg's tastes count as controversial. Now eating straight condiments might be a cause for debate.

Well... it's controversial in the context of the fact that Astra is a rich girl who eats quite well thanks to having a private chef, but can't do anything beyond toast or microwaving lol

I doubt most people would consider that strange either lol. Many people rich or not can't cook at all.

true, what could be considered controversial depends on the person

9 days later

Leia Taylor (Rigamarole)

Status: Die Hard

Position: Team Pineapple Pizza, Team hunting and fishing, Team Mint Chocolate Chip

Leia Taylor is a pretty big fan of mint chocolate chip ice cream with marshmallows and chocolate syrup stirred in. She'll sometimes eat this while boredly watching football or basketball with their dad, and random Disney sitcoms she doesn't care a whole lot about. She also likes pineapple pizza.

They're both too young for alcohol, but their dad has some friends who fish and hunt, so they often eat deer and freshly caught fish, though they don't participate in getting it themselves.

Her little brother Riley liked pineapple pizza and deer and fish, but doesn't eat much of anything these days.

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14 days later

Riley Taylor (Rigamarole)

Status: Meh

Position: Team Pineapple Pizza, Team hunting and fishing, team Mint chocolate chip ice cream is gross.

He shuns most sugary foods and carbs unless he's in binge mode, when he'll eat frozen candy bars by the stone. This is definitely unsafe, but the story is about his recovery from bulimia. He just doesn't like mint chocolate chip ice cream, he thinks it's texture is gross and it tastes like dye and all tooth-pasty. He's not very passionate about it though and isn't bothered by other people's preferences very much, though he'll tell you "you know that stuff is gross right?"

He does like deer and fish tho.

Miss Butter’s favorite food is ketchup. Yeah just straight up ketchup :relieved::sparkles: by itself. Although she enjoys it on most foods too, but that’s goes into normal territory. But then maybe she would eat it on a slice of toast and that’s a bit weird…. But her late butter bee’s Favorite (TM) food was ketchup so she likes eating it because it reminds her of it and the good memories she had with the little creature 🧈 :bee: