50th Recipe [Text, Goldenrod City]

[cyan_maid]

So, first of all, I want to emphasize how grateful I am to be back in a time and place with hot showers, and wish everyone luck in that upcoming tournament thing - it looks intriguing, but it's a bit too close to the baking busy season for me to give it
a serious entry. Yes, there is a baking busy season, it is a real thing and I take it very seriously, and if I'm going to be selling at the Goldenrod Market this year, I need to plan accordingly.

But in preparing for that, I came to think about the prevalent flavors of the encroaching season...namely, pumpkin spice. I don't dislike it myself, but I don't know if it really deserves all the hype it gets? You know, the...very oddly dedicated fanbase who line up at Starmiebucks from the moment the menu updates for the largest drink sizes of pumpkin spice whatever they can obtain? Or when Christmas comes around, everything gets flooded with peppermint - again, it isn't something I dislike, but why is it the prime holiday flavor when there's so many others?

I suppose I'm just wondering if there are flavors people like that come out around autumn and winter that don't get as much appreciation that people would want to see more of. There's apples, of course, and caramel, but what else? I'd love to hear your opinions.

Comments

[nevercaught]

Well, sometimes you needs must eat strange things, so you don't have to resort to eating other sentients. Suffice to say, that sounds like one of those cases.

[That's why we were clearing this up!]

[bloodyroses]

WHY WAS HIS FACE COVERED IN CORN SMUT IF HE WAS PRESUMABLY NOT CORN

FUCK

DID I SOMEHOW NOT KNOW ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF CORNCOB PEOPLE

[nevercaught]

[That was not exactly what he meant... but we can go with that. He was just thinking of the strange things one eats in the Underdark during times of scarcity to avoid eating chattel slaves.]

You are from another plane, so there very well may be corncob people on yours! I have learned that there are always stranger peoples out there than anyone anticipates.

[bloodyroses]

good LORD

and I thought Corncob Johnson's wrath was infinite enough without them

But clearly it's infinite plus one

[nevercaught]

Who is Corncob Johnson?

[bloodyroses]

God of agriculture, apparently he also curses people with horrible plant blight curses?

And then his clerics are absolutely nuts.

[nevercaught]

I would say that that is a strange name for a god, but Mad Monkey exists.

[bloodyroses]

Mad Monkey sounds like either the best or worst god ever, and I'm not sure which it is.

[nevercaught]

Unfortunately, I do not know much of him, other than he is himself a monkey.