voice.

[ex_striking429]

[ katniss is restless with illness, crabby with it. she wants to do something to get her out of her head, but she's worked herself too much already today, knows she's reaching a point where pushing through will only make her worse, not better. so she rests in bed, and tries to find something to talk about. she's not very good at small talk, often only exchanges a couple of words and then considers the conversation over, but there's one thing she could listen to people talk about forever. ]

Would anyone like to tell me about their favourite foods?

[ voice, because she still finds texting too fiddly. after a pause, she adds an addendum: ]

Be as detailed as you'd like.

Comments

voice ||

[consequence]

It's a bit simple, but I will never turn away macaroni and cheese. It can be out of a box and made with the powdered cheese and I'll still be fine with it.

[It's probably one of the few things that she was able to find cheaply, no matter where she was living.]

I've also started to get a taste for gumbo, but I wouldn't say I've made it one of my favorites. I just like knowing how everyone can make the same thing taste so different.

voice ||

[ex_striking429]

What's in gumbo?

[ she's never heard of it. she's never had macaroni and cheese, either, but at least she understands the component parts. ]

[consequence]

It's a stew, I guess. People start with their own stock from scratch and then add in different things. Beef, scallions, shrimp, different peppers and onions - whatever they want to go with for that batch. Then they use something to thicken it. A lot of people use okra to thicken it or this specific spice that's a powder. The easy way is to make a roux.

I've never made it myself, so all the little details I'm sure are lost on me, but it's one of those meals that can have a hundred different ways to add in all different sorts of things.

[ex_striking429]

I like stew like that. I knew a woman who used to keep a big pot of it bubbling for anyone to buy.

[ greasy sae, back in twelve. ]

She could add anything and make it palatable. One winter it was wild dog and rhubarb for three weeks in a row.

voice;

[seidhr]

[This passenger's voice flows, low and mellow, like nostalgic smoke.]

There lies before you a basket of apples. Apples with crisp white flesh and polished skins gleaming gold. There are boards stacked in rows of fragrant cheeses and pots filled with butter smoother than the milk which bore it. Eggs, pickled sour, or boiled and bathing in spicy mustard. Roasted onions, sweet and soft as fruit. Fish, salted or smoked, fish spreading open their bellies, offering you their meat, pink and orange, marbled with fat; and scores of shellfish, so tender inside their armour. Succulent lamb roasting whole, greasy hogs' heads and ox-tongues, legs of goat dripping fat while they turn over the fire, the flames spitting their delight. Mead-filled horns spilling joyful foam.

In your hands, a loaf of bread, whispering its warmth like a secret into your palms till your thumbs pry open the honeyed crust... then it spills all its softness to you like a lover's sigh.

voice;

[ex_striking429]

[ r u trying to seduce her, sir? ]

[ katniss doesn't know what to do with this, but it's so clear in her head. what's even better, besides the loving description, is that it's food she knows, food she might have eaten herself, if she were rich — not the fancy dishes of the capital, but still luxurious despite the simplicity, for the abundance if nothing else. ]

That sounds really good.

[seidhr]

It was. Every night, a feast, the like of which shall never be had in these wretched halls.

[Despite the way he doted on those visuals, there isn't much fondness here—only a sedate bitterness, which he'd likely express even if he weren't feeling so rotten. Whatever this ship-wide malady is, he's found himself woefully susceptible to it. (ps, yes. in a way.)]

Voice

[lafautedevoltaire]

I've been trying to taste every kind of fruit they have on board. I think my favourite is the fresh berries you can pick in the gardens.

voice

[ex_striking429]

Have you tried an orange?

[ oranges are the best ok, she'll fight you. ]

Re: voice

[lafautedevoltaire]

Sweet and tangy all at once.

[He's pretty excited to talk about food. He eats better here than he could ever dream of.]

[voice]

[likescats]

[the voice probably sounds a bit ...odd, like tombstones slamming and seems to just appear in your head as you hear it from the device. The topic it brings up is much lighter then that build up I promise.]

CURRY. I FIND IT IS LIKE BITING INTO A RED-HOT ICE CUBE. IT HAS BEEN A FAVOURITE DISH OF MINE FOR CENTURIES.

[voice]

[ex_striking429]

That's a clever description.

[ she hasn't had much spicy food, but she knows it immediately, even by a different name. ]

I once tried a dish that flavored shaven ice with a sweet, spicy oil.

[ which was... exactly like biting into a red hot ice cube. ]

[voice]

[likescats]

I DO NOT BELIEVE I HAD THAT. DID YOU ENJOY IT?

[voice]

[doggedly]

[extra miserable voice]

Meatpies. Chips and gravy. Crisps. Sandwiches, especially bacon, especially bacon with tomato. Massive soft pretzels. Peach Melba. Pizza. Why are you asking about food, don't you feel like you're dying?

[voice]

[ex_striking429]

I don't even know what half of those are.

[ she sounds amused by it, though. ]

Talking about food makes me feel better.

[voice]

[doggedly]

[He snorts, and in a tone of fondness mixed with a degree of admiration, adds--] You're mental.

All right, we'll keep talking about food. I'll guess which ones you've not heard of. First guess--pizza.

[vindictam]

Fresh baked bread. When it's out of the oven and it's all you can smell.

[ Not pilfered out of a long abandoned house, where he had to pick the mold out of it. He feels starved just thinking about it. ]

[ex_striking429]

[ katniss agrees, but it also tugs at her heartstrings a little, because bread for her will always mean peeta. ]

That's one of my favorites too.

[vindictam]

[ it means the royal kitchens to him, of home, and better things. ]

And yours, what is your favourite?

voice;

[timeisluck]

Ever had chocolate before?

Now that's something I could never get sick of. And it goes so well with pretty much everything.

voice;

[ex_striking429]

I've had hot chocolate. It was amazing.

voice;

[timeisluck]

[ Cheerfully: ] It's the best.

Solid chocolate is good too. I used to keep some with me at all times.

voice;

[spellmight]

Anything other than the local fare I've had. Ferelden boasts a tendency for the bland, the grey and the muddy.

( she sounds amused by that. )

I like fruit, and anything which has been marinated in a rich sauce. I never had either growing up.

voice;

[ex_striking429]

Sauces are good.

[ katniss agrees emphatically. ]

Especially the ones with a lot of different spices. My mother had a small herb garden, but that was all I could really expect for flavoring, growing up.

voice;

[spellmight]

Not just good. They are incredible. A rare luxury in Ferelden.

( compared to the dull grey things alistair cooked. blech. )

Agreed! I can't say I've ever grown herbs, but I do have an immense appreciation for them.

When you put it that way, you nearly sound Fereldan, yourself. I hope your food doesn't turn out grey and tasteless, at least!