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WHO: Lily barn! And visitors.
WHERE: Also Lily Barn.
WHEN: Day 58ish!

[ IT LOOKS LIKE SOME STUFF HAPPENED? seriously its been like a month are y'all alive-- ]

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[ Looks at Lethe ]

[ Looks at his food ]

I am preparing lunch?

You're gonna make Ananke cry. You've got to try something better than that.

What is wrong with this meal? It contains suitable calories and nutrients.

It's horribly unappetizing. You have taste buds! Have something with flavor.

Everything has a flavor. It is tedious to deal with, so I do not process inputs from Ananke's taste buds.

You're not doing anything better right now, are you? So something tedious is fine. Turn on your taste buds and tell me if there's something in particular you're interested in trying.

[ Sighs. ]

Ananke has suggested a "potato hash" with the mushrooms and additional smoked peppers.

[ehehehe his face lights up. success!! that's enough for him to start pulling out ingredients]

Ananke has good taste. It's not even that hard to make; I can show you if you don't already know how. You've got a huge database of information, don't you? Surely you've got recipes in there.

[ straightens up to watch with a kind of exasperated curiosity ]

I possess what Ananke refers to as "the bare bone basics." My programming ranks cooking skills a very low priority, so I have not expanded the list further.

Your programming should rank it higher. Good food can lift your spirits. It's essential to your mental health!

Aides is an exception to that because of his upbringing.

Query: Why does Aides' history grant him an exception whereas mine does not?

[opens his mouth

starts chopping mushrooms]

I didn't actually think about it that hard. Uh. If Aides gets too happy his magic goes haywire, so from a pure upbringing standpoint it makes sense that his parents didn't overly focus on food as a source of excitement. But we've also gotten him to try everything we've cooked, so it's only fair for you to do the same, isn't it?

... I cannot find fault in your logic, so I will allow this experiment to continue.

Thank you.

[sigh of relief]

Are we calling this an experiment now? It's just cooking.

It is cooking with the goal of testing my perception of flavor. Therefore: An experiment.

At least call it taste-testing. "Experiment" sounds too scientific for what we're doing. Can you cut the potatoes?

Query: Is cooking not a form of applied science?

[ He does get up to cut the potatoes, dicing them into near perfect cubes ]

Science classes and Home Economics are separate classes in high school.

[ Holds up a little potato cube ]

The cellular structure of this plant undergoes a change during the cooking process. The cell membranes are ruptured, altering the physical structure; the starches burst and swell; in hash: a maillard reaction occurs to create what is commonly referred to as "browning". All these must occur within precise parameters to be considered edible.

It is a science. Your high schools simply fail to recognize it.

[listens with the fascination of a parent listening to their kid explain what they learned at school today. dang the kids get a good education]

I don't think they teach that in high school. I'm not sure though.