In Which There Is Self-Mortification via Custard

[bonelesspuppy]

Last year, the third-year home economics class subjected the staff room to coffee jelly and confronted me with the horrible fact that there is, in fact, a java-related foodstuff that I find unpalatable (and this is coming from someone who has, on more than one occasion, eaten coffee grounds). This year's kids passed on the jelly and went directly

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[_feckless]

Hey - we need to buy train tickets... soon? When will you be online to help us navigate the labyrinthine passageways of the japanese online train ticketing system?

[bonelesspuppy]

I'll be at the Board and online tomorrow morning. Saturday morning, too, if I can drag myself out of bed at a reasonable hour. :)

[crosswise]

Actually that doesn't sound like caramel, but that plum extract popular over there. But we don't really have a word for it, so maybe they call it caramel?

[bonelesspuppy]

I'd go for that if the teachers hadn't been referring to it as "kyarameru" and wincing when they tasted it. I think every single one of us left the bottom part of the dessert sitting in the cup.