Fortieth course [video]
[the comm is set up to take a shot of the expanse of a dining table. Also Sanji's waist as he walks past a few times - check out that. Um. Chain on his belt. Yeah. That. No, now there's something else: bottles are being set on the table, one after the other. A short bottle of frosted glass with Japanese writing on the label, then a very typical-looking wine bottle with a Napa Valley label, followed by Dewar's whiskey, a single bottle of Guiness, and a dark-glass bottle at the end without much labeling on it. Sanji speaks from off-camera through the entire thing]
Among the other ridiculous things people around here seem to believe about pirates, the one where all we drink is a lot of rum is at least not that offensive. Stupid, but not the worst. I happen to be a connoisseur of all kinds of alcohol and serve most of them onboard the ship. Zoro tends to prefer sake [he picks up the first bottle and wags it] even though he'll drink anything I've got on hand. This pinot noir reminds me very much of the native wines of East Blue I used to serve at the restaurant. We've also been known to enjoy whiskey, beer, and...well, all right, a little rum from time to time. [he passes his hands over the other bottles in turn. Visual aids!]
We drink for perfectly good reasons, too, not just to become drunken sots. You ever been on a heavy sea while drunk? It's not pleasant. I don't know why people think it's how pirates are, I can't think of anybody who'd choose to make their seasickness worse. No, we usually have a good reason for it. We drink with dinner, we drink to celebrate. We toast new crewmates, we seal promises...we drink to the dead. It's even used in important parley negotiations, I've heard. All very good, very natural reasons.
[a pause, and then the hand comes down on the bottle of whiskey and drags it away] And then there are those other reasons to get drunk.
[the other hand reaches to shut off the camera]
Among the other ridiculous things people around here seem to believe about pirates, the one where all we drink is a lot of rum is at least not that offensive. Stupid, but not the worst. I happen to be a connoisseur of all kinds of alcohol and serve most of them onboard the ship. Zoro tends to prefer sake [he picks up the first bottle and wags it] even though he'll drink anything I've got on hand. This pinot noir reminds me very much of the native wines of East Blue I used to serve at the restaurant. We've also been known to enjoy whiskey, beer, and...well, all right, a little rum from time to time. [he passes his hands over the other bottles in turn. Visual aids!]
We drink for perfectly good reasons, too, not just to become drunken sots. You ever been on a heavy sea while drunk? It's not pleasant. I don't know why people think it's how pirates are, I can't think of anybody who'd choose to make their seasickness worse. No, we usually have a good reason for it. We drink with dinner, we drink to celebrate. We toast new crewmates, we seal promises...we drink to the dead. It's even used in important parley negotiations, I've heard. All very good, very natural reasons.
[a pause, and then the hand comes down on the bottle of whiskey and drags it away] And then there are those other reasons to get drunk.
[the other hand reaches to shut off the camera]