Grading Hell Theater: food quirks
Grading Hell begins today, and I'm guessing does not stop for the rest of the semester. I have lots of good ideas from people, but first, one of my own.
Let's talk food quirks. You know what I mean: jelly on eggs, tartar sauce on fries (I blame the year I spent working at a Frisch's for that one; also, only Frisch's tartar sauce will do). I, for example, like my pancakes a little underdone. When a character in Under the Dome referred to another character liking his waffles with a little batter still runny in the center, I grinned in recognition. I actually like almost all baked goods slightly underdone, and also dense. When someone talks about cake being light and airy, or pie crust being light and flaky, I sigh in disappointment.
So, what are your favorite characters' food quirks?
(Note: in honor of halfmoon, female characters are extra spacial welcome, although it's not a requirement, of course ;).
Alexis Castle tells her dad that she outgrew wanting ketchup on her mac-and-cheese when she was three, Dad, really, but since he's already made her a bowl, she'll eat it, don't worry. Someday, he's going to find out that she never eats mac-and-cheese at school, because she can't put ketchup on it there without being mocked, and it just doesn't taste right any other way.
When little Odetta Holmes was very, very good, her mother would make her a special treat: chocolate chip cookies without the chocolate chips. It had to be her mother who made them, because no cook or housekeeper ever believed that she didn't want at least a few chips. But she didn't. She really liked the taste of the cookie, and even a few chocolate chips tended to overwhelm the flavor. Years later, on the few occasions that Susannah let herself miss her old life, it was those cookies, made the way only her mother could make them, that she thought about.
Your turn!
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Let's talk food quirks. You know what I mean: jelly on eggs, tartar sauce on fries (I blame the year I spent working at a Frisch's for that one; also, only Frisch's tartar sauce will do). I, for example, like my pancakes a little underdone. When a character in Under the Dome referred to another character liking his waffles with a little batter still runny in the center, I grinned in recognition. I actually like almost all baked goods slightly underdone, and also dense. When someone talks about cake being light and airy, or pie crust being light and flaky, I sigh in disappointment.
So, what are your favorite characters' food quirks?
(Note: in honor of halfmoon, female characters are extra spacial welcome, although it's not a requirement, of course ;).
Alexis Castle tells her dad that she outgrew wanting ketchup on her mac-and-cheese when she was three, Dad, really, but since he's already made her a bowl, she'll eat it, don't worry. Someday, he's going to find out that she never eats mac-and-cheese at school, because she can't put ketchup on it there without being mocked, and it just doesn't taste right any other way.
When little Odetta Holmes was very, very good, her mother would make her a special treat: chocolate chip cookies without the chocolate chips. It had to be her mother who made them, because no cook or housekeeper ever believed that she didn't want at least a few chips. But she didn't. She really liked the taste of the cookie, and even a few chocolate chips tended to overwhelm the flavor. Years later, on the few occasions that Susannah let herself miss her old life, it was those cookies, made the way only her mother could make them, that she thought about.
Your turn!
This entry was originally posted at http://cereta.dreamwidth.org/752892.html. If you can, please speak there.
have spoken there.