fandomhigh | Friday, August 12th, 2022

Friday, August 12th, 2022

"Morning, everyone," Summer greeted everyone from the front of the classroom with her usual pre-torture grin on her face. "Hope your stomachs enjoyed getting a little break from weird ass foods of antiquity last week, thanks to me being a squirrel. Which, by the way, has historically been on the menu for thousands of years, but out of....I don't know....respect? for our nosy little rodent plague, I kindly decided to skip that particular food this semester.

"That said, something about spending a week as a squirrel also made me a little more reluctant about making stuffed doormouse for this class this week, which was definitely on the agenda, because the ancient Romans looooved that shit, but, there was one incongruously present fauna on this island that showed up on a lot of ancient tables that we will be sampling today. No, not the porgs, I'm not a monster, but instead, flamingos.

"Specifically," she continued, moving to reveal the dish, "their tongues.

"Now, eating bird tongues seems to have really gone out of fashion in the last centuries, with the occasional exception of duck tongues, which I've also made today so you can compare, but I assure you, no Fandom ducks or flamingos were harmed in the production of today's offerings. They also were fond of flamingo meat, as well as parrot, so I've got a little roasted flamingo for you to try, as well.

"Please note," she added, "that flamingo tongue the dish shouldn't be confused with flamingo tongue snails, which are honestly super adorable and pretty, but, I'd be hard pressed to mention snails without also mentioning that ancient Romans also really liked snails. Especially this Apicius guy. Which, I mean, you know, definitely stuck around in modern times, escargot is a thing, but I also decided to bring to you guys his recipe for milk-fed snails, which is basically sponging snails with milk so much that they get so fat they can't retreat into their shells any more, so you then fry them up and eat them, which, if anything, should open up a nice discussion on if some of the real crimes involved with some foods we eat have to do with what's done to the animals it comes from. Why do I have no problem frying up bird tongues and gorging snails on dairy, but balk at stuffing dormice and squirrel stew and frying porgs? Why did mid-century Americans feel it was okay to slather mayonnaise onto literally everything? What about modern hipsters and bacon? I think, if anything, it just comes to show that today's trends are tomorrow's culinary crimes, and that's just really somethng interesting to think about...

"Anyway!" She beamed at them after a bit of a pause for, you know, tossing in some actual philosophical discussion or whatever at everyone that morning. "Bon appétit!"

stykera

“Hopefully no live animals in the box this week,” Stark said, eyeing the box of ingredients warily once everyone had arrived in the classroom. “It doesn’t seem to be moving, at least.” He tapped the box with one finger, hesitantly, then gave a small, satisfied nod when no noises came from within.

“Only two classes left, counting today, so today we’ll be working with brown ingredients. Maybe even the brown things I meant for us to have today.” Stark lived in hope, somehow.

“Oh, good, this is meant to be here,” he said, pulling out some salted caramel. “Caramel is a good choice. Potatoes...are not so good. But not terrible. That may be fine? I don’t know. Oh. Maple syrup. That’s fine. Very sweet. And there’s cinnamon and I like that too. Maybe you could mix them?”

Maybe the potatoes were an aberration and this basket would be fine! Or… “Why are there mushrooms? Those don’t go in dessert,” Stark said with a sigh and a despairing look at Summer ~~assuming she was there~~. “Neither do these mushrooms!. Please don’t use mushrooms.” Summer.

“What else is here…” Stark frowned at the box before peering back in to it. “Peanut butter! Much better. And chocolate. This is good. Much better. And Nutella is good as well. But then I always like chocolate.” Try to contain your collective shock, students.

“And we have cashews. I suppose that’s find, and almonds which are also fine. Pretzels could be fine, too. I think. And I have something called cookie butter? That sounds promising at least. But the pine nuts seem less promising. And…chickpeas?”

Stark sighed and shook his head before tipping the box over and giving it a good shake in case anything else was in there. “That seems to be everything. I think. I hope.”

He was going to judge you if you used those mushrooms. He might be willing to allow the potatoes. Maybe.

tellmehowstuffworks

Yennefer greeted the class with a brisk, "Today we're going to talk about peer pressure," and that was as far as she got before she had to consult her notes. "Which is...pressure from your...peers." A very helpful explanation, to be sure.

"Ah yes, the dangers of... peer pressure," Jaskier added, also a bit lost on that one. Was it because they were the popular kids or too headstrong to follow a herd? A true mystery! "Which can destroy a relationship. We think. I never met any of the other Witchers to confirm."

"Nor did I," Yennefer admitted somewhat reluctantly. Did Geralt think his family was too cool to introduce them to? Was that it? "Peer pressure is when your...peers...which apparently means your little friends, not the nobility, in this context...pressure you to do something you don't want to do because..." again she had to consult her notes. "'Everyone else is doing it,' or, 'All the cool kids are doing it.' Good grief, are those reasons? Don't fall for peer pressure. It's clearly very stupid."

"So, perhaps avoid that," Jaskier suggested. Like the idiot who went out into the world and latched onto a tragic hero who smelled like onions and brute forced his way to fame.

"Break up into pairs," Yennefer suggested, "and one of you can attempt to convince the other one to do something, and the other one can practice saying, 'No,' over and over. And perhaps the first person can meditate on taking 'no' for an answer the first time, just a thought." She waved a hand dismissively. "Go on, then."

unusual_sith

"Right, time for the last line!" Lana announced cheerfully. "This one's a bit more difficult to take out of context, particularly if you don't know what the Force is."

The board said, The Force shall free me.

"In Sith - and Jedi," she added with a nod to Anakin, "philosophy, the Force is the name we give the life force of the universe. Everything in the universe is connected via the Force. It exists in everything. Living things generate it, and some can feel it and even tap into it. And before anybody asks, whether nonliving things such as droids can is an occasionally lively debate.

"The Sith conceive of the Force as a power that is there to be used, whether that be to manipulate the world around us or to obtain guidance in future endeavours via feelings and visions. So, the first aspect to discuss today is, if you take that as its meaning, how could that free you? Are there ways in which it might not? And for the rest, whatever power you see as paramount, be it the Force conceived of differently," another nod to Anakin, "or God," a nod to Libby, "How might that free you?"

onlyajones

Jo had letters from home, including a parcel that was full of sweets and chocolate … she had definitely not been expecting so much but then again it was her father and Charlie Jones didn’t do things by half.

After she had gone about the tasks that she had to do in the library that morning, she sat down at the desk to read her letters and to go over the selection of treats that she had received to see what she would be able to bring with her tonight.

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