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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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[redwinekindofgirl]

Nothing. [Julie makes a face.]

And not even in a good way, like how some things just don't really have much of a taste but they're still kind of okay? It just... tastes like nothing. You really have to convince yourself you're eating something.

[stupid_monkey]

[Tilts his head to the side, trying to figure out what that would be like.]

Like Tofu? Can't ya dip it in something?

[redwinekindofgirl]

Like... more like chalk. Like a square of chalk that sucks all the moisture out of your mouth. You can try one of you want, I have hundreds.

[But he might regret it.]

Nothing to dip it in. Soy sauce doesn't have that great of a shelf life when it's not stored properly.

[stupid_monkey]

Bleh! I ate chalk once by mistake. I don't want to eat anything that tastes like that.

I didn't know that 'bout soy sauce. It usually lasts us between villages...unless we finish the bottle. [We = I]

[redwinekindofgirl]

Yeah... well, it's been a few years since anyone was making any.

[Been a few years since anyone was making anything, as far as she knows.]

[stupid_monkey]

[That makes absolutely no sense to Goku. He tilts his head and gets really close to the camera as if that would help.]

Huh? Why would they do that? Soy sauce goes with everything. Well not everything. Not cakes and stuff.

[redwinekindofgirl]

[It doesn't help. Julie shifts back a little from hers in turn.]

No one's been making anything for a while. The world's gone to hell.

[stupid_monkey]

[Nope, still confused.]

So's mine, but we still got soy sauce. Your world must really suck.

[King of tact!]

[redwinekindofgirl]

Yeah. Yeah, it really does.

[No argument there. She shrugs one shoulder.]

No industry, no civilisation, just a bunch of people sitting inside walls, waiting to die.