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[redwinekindofgirl]

Sooooo, guys, girls, others. What's the grossest thing you've ever eaten?

[Don't mistake this for her not being concerned about Caedra, and not being concerned about generally everything, but a recent conversation and a recent find has piqued her curiosity enough to ask the question.

For her own answer, she holds up a small, white, chalky-looking cube.]

This one's mine. It's called 'carbtien', and it's basically what we live on back home, because we can't grow enough food for everyone. It's military rations, and I don't know what they put in it, but it doesn't taste of anything and when you try to swallow it, it's like your brain forgets how swallowing works.

[Julie snorts softly and drops the cube down out of sight.]

I found a big bag of them just lying around a couple of weeks ago. Weird, right? I guess I'll keep it safe for if we ever end up starving or something. You might not thank me, though.

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[hardwearing]

[ Hey Julie, hey. She's talking about something that isn't Caedra or the swarm of arrivals that are going to break his friends' hearts, and he totally has an answer.

His response is very matter-of-fact, like he will not be swayed here. ]

Survival pills. It's like if you ranked the military meal options... mess is at the top. Then MREs. Then if you've gotta live off those nutrition block protein bar things... fine, you've gotta. Those are probably a lot like what you're holding, actually.

[ But that wasn't the answer. This is: ]

The absolute worst case scenario is if all you've got is survival pills. They made us all try one during basic and I think I'd rather go digging for alien bugs before resorting to those things. I don't know what they actually do for you, my CO claimed it was just supercharged vitamins and "dense nutrition" but they're awful.

[redwinekindofgirl]

[Yes, everyone is concerned about the frozen psychopathic bitch-demon and the influx of new people (Julie hasn't seen anyone she knows, and is equal parts relieved and disappointed), but this feels like an easy distraction topic. It seems to be working.]

No offence, Wash, but the more I hear about your military, the more it sounds like it sucks.

[Just saying, you know?]

That's what these things are supposed to be. All the nutrition you need in one handy, awful cube.

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[64th]

[ Cashmere looks vaguely embarrassed. ] You wouldn't believe me if I told you. It was much grosser than whatever that is.

[redwinekindofgirl]

[Hi there, face twin!]

Try me. I bet I believe you.

[am_i_a_monster]

[Abigail looks at her sadly.].

That's a dangerous question. You don't want to know.

[redwinekindofgirl]

[Okay, she's already heard 'human-meat-pies' so this is just met with a snort of amusement.]

Wouldn't ask if I didn't want to know, and I don't know why you'd bother saying anything if you weren't gonna tell me anyway.

[unphase]

[she leans towards the camera, looking mischievous]

Durlan food. Never. Again.

[she squints at the screen, trying to make heads or tails of what Julie's showing her]

What is that? It looks disgusting. And like you'd have to drink a liter of water after you were done choking it down.

[redwinekindofgirl]

Don't know what they're made of. [Julie lifts up the bag she has, which is clear plastic and full of a few hundred of the small white cubes.]

But this would probably keep the whole of Hadriel fed for... I dunno, a few weeks at least. They're gross, but they'll keep you alive. That's really all they've got going for them.

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[such_a_teez]

Oh, I've been spoiled for choice in strange foods. Disgusting really is subjective, but the cold jellied eel dishes I've had have been less than pleasant. I didn't particularly enjoy hot vinegared eel either. There was hot blood from the slaughterhouse, supposedly it would heal me when I was ill. [Tyki shakes his head.] It didn't. I'd do quite a lot to avoid that again.

[Tyki has no interest in trying that cube.]

Still, I'd probably have a nice miserable meal of hot blood and cold eel and pork innards too before eating something like that ration of yours.

[redwinekindofgirl]

[Your list of gross foods seems to contain a lot of eel, sir. She makes a face at the mention of blood but, hey, with the knowledge that people come from strange, different worlds to hers she manages to bite back drawing attention to it.]

I'm not gonna lie, dude. I bet eel tastes better than this. I'd pass on the blood, though.

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[utulien_aure]

My first thought would be seel eyeballs, but it may be that I simply was not raised to eat them.

[Attemping to be fair, here.]

If given the choice, though, I would never have them again. Or any kind of seel meat, at that.

[redwinekindofgirl]

You had me at 'eyeballs'. [Julie replies with a grimace in her voice. God, some of the replies she's got are enough to make her dry heave.]

What's wrong with the meat?

[nodogsonthemoon]

A magical, evil rock.

It didn't turn out super great for me.

[He did not enjoy being turned into a tube boy.]

[redwinekindofgirl]

... Okay, I gotta ask.

[She feels like she may regret asking, but she has to.]

Why were you eating a rock in the first place?

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[stonebird]

Acorn paste. It is horribly bitter, but, as you said, surviving is better than dying. (She wrinkles her nose at the sight of the cube.) Tongues are sensitive; it would be nice if they could stop tasting for a short while in times of desperation.

[redwinekindofgirl]

[Surviving is better than dying, though Julie wouldn't have always agreed with that assessment. A good number of times, dying had felt preferable.]

Ugh, right? You'd think that would be a great evolutionary thing, but no, we just have to taste all the gross shit we have to eat just to keep living.

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[puzzlingly]

Fish roe.

「His nose wrinkles at the thought, actually.」

I think they call it caviar now?

[redwinekindofgirl]

Doesn't sound too bad. I mean, all the rich people are eating it, right?

[Or, they were, when being rich mattered.]

But rich people eat weird stuff.

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[circumitus]

Live cockroach.

Ate other bugs before, but that's the one that seems to gross people out the most.

[Rey, however, doesn't seem to give a crap.]

[redwinekindofgirl]

[She actually snickers quietly at hearing that.]

Hah, gross. I think it's the 'live' part that's the worse. I mean, you just went for it, legs wriggling and everything?

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[stealyoursoul]

The soul of a Malchai monster. [He learned the hard way that he couldn't eat the souls of other monsters for sustenance.] I threw up this black stuff for like half an hour afterwards.

[redwinekindofgirl]

[Soul, huh. What are you, buddy.]

Okay, you got me. What's a Malchai monster?

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[storyseeker]

Natto, on a trip to Japan. It's fermented soy beans, but that makes it sound way better than it actually is. Kinda resembles cold cat barf, really.

[redwinekindofgirl]

Yeah... you're right, it does sound better than it is. Though, gotta say, I'm suspicious of any food that starts with the word 'fermented'.

[It doesn't sound right.]

That's a... really specific thing to compare it to.

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[stupid_monkey]

One time I ate a whole ball of wasabi. It burned for hours!

[redwinekindofgirl]

Wasabi? Like, that horseradish stuff you get with sushi? Oh my god.

[Her whole face says 'why would you do that?!']

[devilsandangels]

[ Alfred has to think about this for a long moment. ]

I don't think that I've ever had anything gross to eat.

[ Standards are different where he's from after all. ]

[redwinekindofgirl]

Uh...

[She makes a face at him.]

I don't know what you want me to say to that, dude. Congratulations?

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[knifecollecting]

Grave dirt.

[Maybe don't ask why.

Please.]

[redwinekindofgirl]

[Grimace.]

I feel like I don't wanna know, but I also really wanna know.

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[shithefuckup]

I dunno. Kind of hard to tell what's the worst after eating trash all my life.

[As in, legit trash. It's all he's known, okok.]

[redwinekindofgirl]

[She opens her mouth, then closes it again.]

Do you mean literal trash, or metaphorical trash?

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[imhisaunt]

Oh don't you eat that, Julie!

[Fretting ahoy!]

I have some nice scones if you're hungry. Or I can make you something else.... I have....

[He begins rummaging around, clearly missing the point]

...I have some of these purple things [He holds up mysterious vegetables] ...and some fruit....

[He thinks its fruit. At least it tastes like fruit]

[redwinekindofgirl]

I'm not gonna eat it now.

[He is definitely missing the point, but she can't be too irritated about it. It's just his way.]

I'm asking a question, gramps. It was just an example. Gonna keep these things safe, though.