New Plan, Step One: Provide For My Community [open]

[summerdude]

Magnus needs something to change, so when a Mansion calendar helpfully informs him that it's International Falafel Day back on Earth, he goes to the library for some cookbooks, and then to the kitchen.

He lays out ten different falafel recipes. He gathers the ingredients they list, as best as he can understand them. He has canned chickpeas and fresh chickpeas and dried chickpeas and chickpea flour and box mixes of falafel that say 'just add water!'

Cripes.

"I can do this," he says, peering at the assorted recipes intently for a good ten minutes, and then takes the dried chickpeas over to the sink to rinse and soak.

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[summerdude]

"Um, it's another drink, dude."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Yes, obviously, but what is it? None of these words together mean anything to me."

[summerdude]

"It's a soda. Like root beer and orange soda. Except it's red-flavored."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"What's that mean?"

Red is a color, not a flavor.

[summerdude]

"Try it, you'll see." Magnus holds it out.

[lanselos_du_lac]

Lancelot gives him a skeptical look -- he understands now that Magnus respects him, in certain ways, but he also knows that Magnus pokes fun in ways Lancelot doesn't always understand.

Still, he takes the bottle and drinks.

[summerdude]

"And????"

[lanselos_du_lac]

"I like this one better, I think," he takes another drink to test this out.

[summerdude]

"It tastes red, right?"

[lanselos_du_lac]

"It's very sweet."

[summerdude]

"Yeah, that'll be the high fructose corn syrup!"

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Most of these are too sweet-- but this would good now and again."

[summerdude]

"Soda is basically sugar, water, and flavoring," Magnus says. "Sometimes caffeine. So that'll be why they're so sweet." He pauses, debating, then reveals: "That one is Galahad's favorite, too."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Is it?" Lancelot seems thoroughly surprised.

[summerdude]

"Yeah." Magnus slants a look -- a slightly suspicious look -- his way, and then offers, "He likes the taste of red."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Hm. I can see why," thoughtfully.

[summerdude]

This is so weird, actually! Magnus takes a fortifying swig of his root beer and goes over to check the falafel about it. The oil is starting to bubble a little, so that's probably a good sign?

[lanselos_du_lac]

Lancelot takes another thoughtful sip, and then asks, "How does it look?"

[summerdude]

"It looks like a bunch of balls in a thing of oil."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Oh, aye," as if Magnus has said something profound.

[summerdude]

He pokes the oil with a fingertip. "Getting pretty warm."

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Needs must be very hot, yes?"

[summerdude]

"Yeah, that's the general idea." In fairness, it's probably actually fairly hot, if it feels warm to Magnus.

[lanselos_du_lac]

"Well. I can be patient."

[summerdude]

Magnus hoists himself up onto the counter next to the stove so he can keep an eye on things while he has his root beer. "Yeah," he says. "Sooooooo... what's new?"