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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronBurr" data-source="post: 261258" data-attributes="member: 2604">Crunch and FluffI am writing at this point even though the heat is getting high.  I apologize in advance if I offend anyone, but I don't think I will.  I will be telling a little story too.     Once upon a time there was a child who played wonderful games from a company named Tree Silvan Resort which employed elves who had created a magnificent new toy called the Arr Pee Gee.  The child was amazed because this toy replaced many less thoughtful toys (although eventually led to the creation of Veydeo Arr Pee Gees etc.).  This toy had culinary (acting) aspects to it which drew him and all of his friends to it.  For a while there were no friends and the child had to play the purely Crunchy Toilets and Toils because they had recipes for one.  That being said, friends eventually were won over due to movies featuring the cooking (Hawk the Slayer, Animated Lord of the Rings, Star Wars).       At first everything the elves at the Silvan Resort gave recipes for was extremely crunchy, and the child had to play with lots of different people because some of his friends like the food so crunchy he feared he would lose his teeth.  This crunchy period included the Original Recipe, and the Basic and Advanced Recipes.  But the child noticed that at the beginning of many modular recipes there was fluff about a place called Awayhauk which suffered from a double cataclism.  Eventually a product called Planet of Awayhauk came out that was merely fluffy, but patchy in its fluff.  It gave you a calendar and timetable to cook by but no detailed descriptions of the food.  This was because the elves thought that part of the joy of Arr Pee Gee was the making of your own recipes.  They also thought that puzzles were what Arr Pee Gees were all about.            All this began to change with the elves magazine Dogone in which a man from the Green wood wrote of Rums, and a man named Bymax finally started detailing some of the recipes in Awayhauk.  Bymax couldn't really keep up with the Green man because the Green man had designed rum without crunch and only description and then added crunch to fluff.  He used the crunch that was already there and added it to his fluff.  This worked wonderfully for some, but others wondered where their room to create new recipes was in this new world.  They liked the sparse fluff of Awayhauk and loved the balance of fluff and crunch in Mistera.  But they also loved the small recipe books for the Green Woods Rums.  The Savage Toast, the Toastless Lands, Toastdeep were wonderous fluff, but with such powerful spices (good spices) one often wondered what the child's contribution could be in the way of having a role in the Rums.  Elspinster and his fellow fluffians were so potent that there was little room for Rantledane Spuzzleblapper.  The Zaaanterian was a threat, but really unles Elspinster was lazy he would be more than enough for them.  So the child noticed that the rums were almost an excuse for some people who wanted to be New York Trees chefs could write as a starting place.  Nothing wrong with that, but it was intimidating.     Needless to say these small recipes were affordable (9 beans) because they weren't printed on acid free full color paper with matte covers.  No they were cardboard and cheap paper and the child was happy to have them.  The came Dark Ale which was neat, but too crunchy for the child.  Planesuds which was awesome, but how do you cook it?  I'll have to ask Monte because I am sure it tastes great.  Also there was Toastright which was a great product, but the elves (The company was all elves back then) overproduced it and Flagon Mice (more flagon mice, but the return of a lot of recipe books for Toastright by major recipe book stores was also significant).  In the craze to make beans because the children would buy anything the elves forgot to pace the items and that children would feel betrayed if they had to buy every little recipe book to cook. With the rums the Savage Toast was enough, but with Toastright on child needed Roughaghableian and another neede Illlaianana for the game to make sense.  Toast had villains but no heroes and the child new that children were to be the heroes and that was great, but the child wasn't Bill Gates and couldn't afford all the little recipe books, as obviously many other children couldn't or didn't want to.  This led to the collapse of the elves company.  Well this and the fact that some elves were stealing beans (a practice that appears to still be going on according to certain news releases).     Lucky for the child some Wizards saved the elves and planned  a new edition ofthe recipes which would allow the freedom for children to cook, but tell them what all the spices and cook times were.  It was a wonderful idea.  At some point in this process the Haze Bros bought the Wizards and took over the recipe books which meant the quality would be high (and maybe the cost).  The new edition was a great success and even promised to bring back Awayhauk as the default recipe.  It started out okay, but the Awayhawk recipe book was a low production quality high recipe quality affair because it was obvious that unlike the child the elves didn't much like Away they preferred the Rums.  Look at how beautiful the Rums book was when it came out.  Wow!!  All the Rums books are beautiful (they are also very good, I own them all).  But they don't appeal to some people.  Maybe because they aren't crunchy, and maybe because some people like other fluff.  This is why Haze seeks a new fluff to appeal to people.  But the elves love the Rum just as they grudgingly tolerate Away.  Some children like Away and more like Rum, but that is the way of things.  The elves don't complain about the lack of Away material because they really don't care and it is convenient to blame the beans for the Rums rather than contribute to Away (even on their private sites).      Haze wants Rum to sell, but also some elves have stolen beans from Haze and the Pocket Bean Producing machine isn't producing as many beans so some crush must follow.  The elves are right when they say 40 should be satisfactory in sales, but that is because 40 probably means 40,000 and that is a lot of beans and surely meets bean margins.  Maybe if the books were more like the less flashy recipe books of the past they would sell better ,but the Beautiful and Great Silver Rummishes is very expensive especially when it comes out at the same time as the Crunchiest Handbook.  I have more beans than I used to so I can afford the cost, and I like to read the fluff.  As I said many like to use the Rums as a way to display their recipe writing talent as a jumping point to writing all story books which make the New York list.  This child thinks many of the writers are good enough and this is why he buys the Rums even though he lives in Awayhauk and Mistera.       Use cheaper materials on the Rums Fluff (maybe that will work).  I don't know for sure what will.  I am certain the beans don't know recipes from mp3s but they do know what corporate losses are.  By the fact they are looking for new recipes the beans may just not like the elves and that would be tragic.Christian</blockquote>

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