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[shockinglycool]

Flour. Salt. Vegetable oil. Water. Meat. Salt. Pepper. Potato. Oatmeal. Onion. Garlic.

...According to my English cookbook, those are the ingredients for a meat pie. I found a pie crust recipe that doesn't take butter, just oil. Although one of these days we really gotta figure out what that "churning" stuff is. The first couple of ingredients are

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[pilot_princess]

Meat pies!

[shockinglycool]

That's right. You said you were interested, right? Even if not, though, would you lend me a hand in making them? I mean that seriously. I don't know if I can make a pie crust one-handed.

ffff she's kind of disoriented at the moment

[pilot_princess]

Oh... um... wait...

When did people start putting meat in pies?

[shockinglycool]

Probably a couple hundred years ago.

[pilot_princess]

Okay...

I can't cook, though, Dominic never taught me...

[shockinglycool]

Don't worry. It's actually pretty easy, and I'm a great teacher, as it so happens.

[pilot_princess]

Reeeeeally?

So you're gonna teach me? Will you teach Dominic too?

[shockinglycool]

...

Yeah, I'll teach anyone who wants to be taught. The more the better.

[pilot_princess]

Cool! ...wonder where Dominic went, he's not answering...

[shockinglycool]

...

...Well, for now, maybe - should just leave him behind...?

[pilot_princess]

But I don't want to leave him behind...

[shockinglycool]

Right. Of course not...

What I mean is... just for now, for this minute, it's okay to think about - worry about - something else, you know?

[pilot_princess]

....what?

[shockinglycool]

...

Thinking about something else - like meat pies - for five minutes, an hour... that's okay. It doesn't... I don't think he'd mind. It's not leaving him behind... it's just thinking about something else for a little while.

[pilot_princess]

Um... okay... I don't get it, though... why?

[shockinglycool]

Because that's just normal. I mean, normally people go through the day thinking of a million things at once, so it's normal to forget about one thing for a little while because you're doing something else.