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[explorationist]

Has anyone ever tried chard? If you haven't, it's a really... er, "amazing" vegetable. Plus, it's green. I think? And it's my dad's special version of it.

If you want to try some, I'll be in the kitchen. Eating... it.

[Yes, Coraline will be serving her dad's special slime-chard, but there is no way that stuff is touching her lips]

Comments

[modernholmes]

Chard is a vegetable in the same sub-family as the garden beet, although chard.is cultivated for it's leaves instead of it's roots. Chard is high in vitamins A, K and C.

[explorationist]

...Yeah, exactly. You're like a walking dictionary.

[modernholmes]

It's useful to know that kind of thing. [Just in case someone ever tries to poison the salad.]

[explorationist]

I don't think it's something you'd want to go around saying every day though.

[thedicearecast]

I don't think you're going to have many takers.

[Poor kid. Who hasn't tried to not eat their vegetables growing up? Amelia can sympathize, but she can't give the girl false hope.]

[explorationist]

Yeah, me neither. This stuff sucks.

[thedicearecast]

So then why'd you make it? Or wish for it, or whatever.

[explorationist]

Why not? Is there anything better to do?

[rockthehula]

Ew!
That looks... blegh! Gross!

[explorationist]

That's cuz it is gross.