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<blockquote data-quote="ryryguy" data-source="post: 5069870" data-attributes="member: 64945"><p><span style="color: DarkOrange">"Oh, I'd appreciate it,"</span> Castofle responds. <span style="color: DarkOrange">"Even if you just remember that you <em>did</em> eat - I mean, I'd love to hear some recipes! Love it! - but I really just want to know, was there food there at all?"</span> </p><p></p><p>Without waiting for an answer, Castofle continues with rising excitement, gesturing frequently with his hands. <span style="color: DarkOrange">"See, this may sound silly, but... back when I was a student, learning how to cook, we - me and the other students - would sometimes talk about what food might have been like in the Astral Sea, in 'the time before time'. Just sort of playing around, you know, speculating. Some people thought that maybe there was just one perfect type of food, that combined all the qualities of all the food that there'd be in our world. Eating it would be like eating everything all at once. That doesn't make sense, I mean if you just throw everything into a stew, the best case is everything'd kind of cancel each other out and it'd be totally bland - best case! Actually it'd probably just be horrible!</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange">"So they'd say, maybe the perfect food didn't blend everything, it just was the one dish that was the absolute best dish you could possibly make? But I had a different idea. What I thought was, it'd be more like there'd be a perfect <em>cuisine</em>, see, that made use of every type of ingredient and spice and technique and presentation that would ever come to be. It would fuse together all those things into unimaginely heavenly food! Things would be brought together from different cuisines that have never met, will never meet in our world! And there'd be like a huge, never-ending banquet table with all these amazing dishes, where all the gods and angels and primer-, primo-, um, <em>primordials</em> could feast whenever they wanted - "</span></p><p></p><p>Castofle stops short and makes a sour face. <span style="color: DarkOrange">"Once our teacher heard us talking about this. <em>He</em> said what we were saying was ridiculous. He said, if the time before time and the beings who were there were truly perfect, they wouldn't have eaten anything. Because if they were perfect, and there was no time, they'd never hunger, or thirst. He said - I remember his exact words - 'That is why though we strive for perfection, we can never completely achieve it. A truly perfect dish would melt away on the tongue, like a mirage. The diner would not need nor want to eat ever again.'"</span></p><p></p><p>He pauses, and for the first time, the chef appears a bit self-conscious. <span style="color: DarkOrange">"Like I said, pretty silly,"</span> he says defensively. <span style="color: DarkOrange">"I'm no philosopher! But since then I've just been curious about that."</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Castofle listens with an interested though baffled expression. Clearly he's rarely, if ever, considered such matters. At the end of Chaku's words, he brightens. <span style="color: DarkOrange">"Oh! I get it! What you're saying, it's, it's kind of like a recipe! Hmmm..."</span> He scratches his beard. <span style="color: DarkOrange">"But if the ones with armor are sort of like your crust, then shouldn't they go on last? No? Well, I guess if it's like a popover..."</span> Looking around at the adventurers' expressions, the chef stops. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange">"Sorry. Um, by the way, I meant to say before I got distracted, thank you all for coming and going to get those beans for me. I'm sure it'll be nothing, Hedra's just paranoid. Ummm..."</span> he turns towards Chaku. <span style="color: DarkOrange">"Mister, I didn't get your name. Are you from the north of Ea? We get some great fish from up there, good pork too. It hasn't been coming in as much the last few years though, too bad."</span> Obviously, Chaku is not the only one with a preferred subject of conversation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ryryguy, post: 5069870, member: 64945"] [color=DarkOrange]"Oh, I'd appreciate it,"[/color] Castofle responds. [color=DarkOrange]"Even if you just remember that you [i]did[/i] eat - I mean, I'd love to hear some recipes! Love it! - but I really just want to know, was there food there at all?"[/color] Without waiting for an answer, Castofle continues with rising excitement, gesturing frequently with his hands. [color=DarkOrange]"See, this may sound silly, but... back when I was a student, learning how to cook, we - me and the other students - would sometimes talk about what food might have been like in the Astral Sea, in 'the time before time'. Just sort of playing around, you know, speculating. Some people thought that maybe there was just one perfect type of food, that combined all the qualities of all the food that there'd be in our world. Eating it would be like eating everything all at once. That doesn't make sense, I mean if you just throw everything into a stew, the best case is everything'd kind of cancel each other out and it'd be totally bland - best case! Actually it'd probably just be horrible! "So they'd say, maybe the perfect food didn't blend everything, it just was the one dish that was the absolute best dish you could possibly make? But I had a different idea. What I thought was, it'd be more like there'd be a perfect [i]cuisine[/i], see, that made use of every type of ingredient and spice and technique and presentation that would ever come to be. It would fuse together all those things into unimaginely heavenly food! Things would be brought together from different cuisines that have never met, will never meet in our world! And there'd be like a huge, never-ending banquet table with all these amazing dishes, where all the gods and angels and primer-, primo-, um, [i]primordials[/i] could feast whenever they wanted - "[/color] Castofle stops short and makes a sour face. [color=DarkOrange]"Once our teacher heard us talking about this. [i]He[/i] said what we were saying was ridiculous. He said, if the time before time and the beings who were there were truly perfect, they wouldn't have eaten anything. Because if they were perfect, and there was no time, they'd never hunger, or thirst. He said - I remember his exact words - 'That is why though we strive for perfection, we can never completely achieve it. A truly perfect dish would melt away on the tongue, like a mirage. The diner would not need nor want to eat ever again.'"[/color] He pauses, and for the first time, the chef appears a bit self-conscious. [color=DarkOrange]"Like I said, pretty silly,"[/color] he says defensively. [color=DarkOrange]"I'm no philosopher! But since then I've just been curious about that."[/color] Castofle listens with an interested though baffled expression. Clearly he's rarely, if ever, considered such matters. At the end of Chaku's words, he brightens. [color=DarkOrange]"Oh! I get it! What you're saying, it's, it's kind of like a recipe! Hmmm..."[/color] He scratches his beard. [color=DarkOrange]"But if the ones with armor are sort of like your crust, then shouldn't they go on last? No? Well, I guess if it's like a popover..."[/color] Looking around at the adventurers' expressions, the chef stops. [color=DarkOrange]"Sorry. Um, by the way, I meant to say before I got distracted, thank you all for coming and going to get those beans for me. I'm sure it'll be nothing, Hedra's just paranoid. Ummm..."[/color] he turns towards Chaku. [color=DarkOrange]"Mister, I didn't get your name. Are you from the north of Ea? We get some great fish from up there, good pork too. It hasn't been coming in as much the last few years though, too bad."[/color] Obviously, Chaku is not the only one with a preferred subject of conversation. [/QUOTE]
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