Voice; Orchestra 6

[catti]

[This message comes from cabin upper 1B and is just a voice message.

This catboy may or may not be sending this from one of the bunks.]

I'm bored. Pray tell me, denizens of the train, if you could have any food appear to you right this instant, what would you choose? If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would you choose?

Me, I would pick dzo buuz.

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[redmeguca]

You can't really expect me to choose just one, right? It's like picking a favorite child!

[catti]

Hmm...up to five, then?

[redmeguca]

Uh... Hmm... Eh... Agh, I give up. I can't bring myself to abandon anything I could actually eat.

[catti]

Hard to argue with that. How about a favorite food? Naught is abandoned this time.

[redmeguca]

Oh, now that one's easy. Mami-senpai's homemade apple pie, no doubt about it.

[catti]

Mm, apple pie...good choice.

[zombiemessiah]

Well if it's only one for the rest of my life I don't have a lot of choices as I have a few dietary restrictions. But if I could have food appear to me right this instant it would be a rare steak with a side of garlic butter potatoes.

[catti]

[Finally, an actual answer.]

...That sounds wonderful. What type of steak?

[zombiemessiah]

Do you have cows or bison on your world? Some big ungulate?

One of those. I miss those. In my world we're stuck to birds and fish. [Because they weren't affected by the virus.]

[catti]

Aye, we have a few of those.

...Might I ask what happened to the larger animals?

[zombiemessiah]

Most of them are zombies now. It was the animals too. Most mammals, anyway. Huge bummer.

...Man, the ocean must be extra nightmarish now if there are zombie whales. [He shudders. He didn't come across any, not even in Zona which was located in Hawaii. But man is that a mortifying idea.]

[dragoonrouge]

[Q'uila laughs.]

Feeling the cabin fever K'zeha? Dzo buuz does sound absolutely bloody fantastic right now.

I think the first dish I would pick the Bismark's tarte au citron.

[catti]

Not at all.

[He is suffering, save him.]

Oh! I haven't had that one in a long while! Delicious and...relatively kind to one's coinpurse.

[dragoonrouge]

[The suffering is so real.]

Mum's a culinarian at the Bismark, so I have cultivated the unique ability to dispose of failed food creations
'Tis a hard lot in life.

Oh! In your version of Limsa is there a sorbet stall near the aetheryte?

[catti]

'Tisn't unique unless you employ them in naval battles.

[He's kidding. Mostly.]

No...there are two confectionery stands, though.

[dragoonrouge]

Oh! We only have one sweet stall, you win some you loose some I suppose.

I shall need to buy some of the sorbet for you to try, it is divine.

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[dyingpro]

Are we talking about a whole meal, or just one item?

[As if on cue, Zagreus pops the last of the octopus sashimi he was eating into his mouth, and chews while waiting for the answer.]

[catti]

Your choice. One of each, if you'd like.

[dyingpro]

Well, if it's just one item... then... Persephone's baklava.

[His cheeks burn bright with embarrassment. Hopefully said Persephone is not listening!]

But if it's a whole meal, then that for dessert... and before dessert, a bottle of ambrosia, a gyro, and thin fried potatoes. I think they're called "fries"?

[catti]

[Noting for later.]

Gyro?

[dyingpro]

Yes, a gyro! It's... grh, it's hard to explain, but then again I'm not the best at explaining food to anyone. I just know what tastes good and what doesn't.

[It also doesn't help when you have a cloistered upbringing with a bunch of gods who don't have to eat.]

So a gyro, right, it's got this thin bread-like stuff, that's fried in a pan, I think. And then on top of that you put on this white sauce that's a little salty, a little sour, and with little bits of... green? Is green a flavor? And then you put lettuce and tomatoes and onion on, and then you add this seasoned meat, which... I don't know what kind it is, to be honest, I just sort of eat them when the Wretches drop them, or when Charon is selling them. But it's really good, I promise it is!

[catti]

Sounds like an omelet without eggs.

[Green is absolutely a flavor. Also don't mind that he's chuckling just a little in his response.]

[dyingpro]

[Have a multi-colored squint, K'zeka, as Zagreus tries to figure out how the hell one can make an omelet without eggs... or whether this is a bizarre riddle that can be solved only by the wisest in the land. Universe? Whatever.]

... well, it's folded over like one, I suppose? But it doesn't have any eggs in it. Unless you need eggs to make the pita? That's the bread stuff everything goes in.

[Guess who is just learning how to cook things on the Train. Who needs to know how to cook on your home world when you have a Head Chef ghost living in your kitchen?]

[catti]

I don't think bread has eggs in it.

[K'zeka's still giving voice responses, so Zagreus doesn't get to see his own mismatched squint back.]

'Tis a sandwich, then.

[dyingpro]

Well other pastries and things have eggs in them, so I thought bread might as well.

[Squinting intensifies]

Wha- no, it's not two pieces of bread with stuff in the middle, it's one piece of flat bread, and the sides are folded around the stuff in the middle, and it's wrapped in foil. It's not like any sandwich I've heard of.

[He in fact knows three: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, grilled cheese sandwiches, and yaddon tail sandwiches. All of those have two pieces of bread!]

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[catti]

[He hits video this time for the response, so Zagreus gets to see his look of confusion as well.]

'Tis still a sandwich if it has bread and filling. Or a pie.

[Well, bread and whatever foil is. Is foil a food?]

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[mynameisallen]

Mitarashi dango.

[Didn't even have to think about it really.]

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[catti]

Those are the sweet and sticky dessert kabobs, right?

[That might not be entirely the right word for them, but it's close?]

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[mynameisallen]

That would be correct. They are delicious.

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[flameinthedarkness]

Gakepunchimoirasu double cheese instant ramen cup! [The limited edition one that came with a sticker for each member of the idol group to collect. Idia had managed to grab them all, but as with anything limited edition, once it was gone he had missed them. Hell, just any instant noodles where all he had to do was add hot water would be well welcomed here. That really was the extent of his ability to cook.]

Oh, oh, and a DIY candy kit. The ones you mix with water. One of those too. [He loved those.

As for only one food, hmmm.] One food? Ah... snacks? [That counts, right? Whatever, he's going to pretend it does.]

[catti]

[There is so much to unpack there.]

Cheese...noodles? How are they instant? How do you make candy with just water?

[Is there such a thing as culinary sorcery?]

[flameinthedarkness]

A-Ah, well, it's cheese flavored, not actual cheese noodles. [That would just be cheese, wouldn't it?] Instant noodles are already partly cooked, so you put boiling water in them, and the flavor packets, and let them cook the rest of the way. [They're amazing.

Also K'zeka clearly need to be enlightened into DIY candy kits.] It's not just water, but you need water to make them. You get a pack with molds and powdered candy mixes, which you mix with water than push into the molds and make them look like other items. Like sushi, or hamburgers, or little cakes. [They're also amazing.]

[so_dark_a_road]

I'd pick my mother's vegetable stew! Too bad she's no longer on the train.

[catti]

If she returns, you should ask her how to make it.

[so_dark_a_road]

I should, if she ever returns. But I can guess. Although my cooking will never be as good as hers is.

What's in that dish you mentioned, dzo buuz? And what exactly is it?

[catti]

Dzo meat and dough. They're dumplings, about the size of an adult's palm.

[so_dark_a_road]

Sounds delicious. Can you cook it yourself?

[catti]

I could try. I can't assure it would be edible; I'm a fighter not a culinarian.

[so_dark_a_road]

I can relate to that. The train put me on cooking duty this month, though I, too, am a fighter and not a culinarian. It's done it before. [ Snerk. ] I guess everybody will just have to put up with my recipes for things other than octopus. I refuse to cook that.

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[pleple]

...mm. As much as I like ice cream... I feel like we need to qualify that whatever you choose can sustain you from a nutritional standpoint.

[catti]

Hmm...we'll say it can.

[At least for the purposes of this hypothetical.]

[pleple]

Then perhaps, as long as I don't need to pick just one flavor.

[catti]

How about up to five?

[He gave Kyoko that many, it's only fair to give the other kid that many.]

[pleple]

I think I could get by with that.