*eyes widen* Hundwed Acwe Wood…. *he looks around confused for Pooh bear, sitting up on his little knees*
dwergaz
Got some bad news for you, kiddo.
little-baby-hector
*plops down on his bum and looks up at the familiar person* Hihi
dwergaz
The Hundred Acre Wood… it’s way too far away to be accessed on foot. What you’re looking at is simply a picture, or a decal. It is not a true sign.
little-baby-hector
*tears well in his eyes* I’m big boy I won’t cwy… *imagines Pooh far away*
dwergaz
You are possibly the strongest baby I have ever seen.
Some chocolate for your troubles?
little-baby-hector
*crawls backwards scared* Dat chocwit hab teeth!
dwergaz
No, no, Hector. It’s just beans… the fundamental material of chocolate.
[ OOC note: does Hector have any food allergies? Not trying to metagame, but I don’t want to accidentally poison him. ]
little-baby-hector
*tilts head curiously* How is chocwit made? *doesn’t have any allergies*
dwergaz
Basically they boil up the beans until it bursts, which makes cocoa liquor… raw and pure chocolate. From there the artisan chocolate makers will add milk and sugar and then all that’s left is to put it in the foil chocolate bar wrapper, or chocolate chip bagg.
I can take you on a tour of a chocolate factory sometime, kid. I don’t usually just give them out to little abandoned orphaned baby boys, but… ah, hell. We all need to live our life, eh?
little-baby-hector
*stops paying attention and starts tugging on Dwergaz shoes out of curiosity during the lecture*
Chocwit factiwy? *snaps back to attention and stands up on his* I wanna go!
dwergaz
Salute me, Hector…
little-baby-hector
*giggles and stands down* Fank yew fow yew sewvice! *tries to salute but slaps foreheads instead*
I made a more advanced recipe here for all y’all that want something that looks more like a tide pod here, but that recipe is… intricate. So for all y’all who want just a simple detergent pod like these juicy looking packets, I’m here for you!
Two components: edible plastic and juicy inside
First, the Plastic:
Ingredients:
2 packets (14g) Knox unflavored gelatin
6 tbsp water
Parchment paper
rectangular brownie pan
optional: ½ tbsp 7up or sprite
Instructions:
Boil the water, add gelatin mix (optional: add soda for flavor). Stir in until mix is completely melted. Let cool slightly. Cover brownie pan with parchment paper, and pour a very thin layer of gelatin mixture onto parchment. Place brownie pan into fridge and let sit overnight until hardened.
The next day, the juicy inside:
Obtain your favorite flavor of jello. Follow the instructions on the jello mix to make the jello, but don’t put it in the fridge. Let cool until room temperature.
Put it Together:
Remove edible plastic from the fridge and gently remove plastic from parchment. Cut into 5x2″ rectangles. Fold rectangle in half to create 2x2.5″ rectangles. Seal together long ends and use indirect heat to melt sides together. Leave the short end open. Pour room temperature jello into pouch and seal final end with indirect heat. Let cool in fridge a few hours, and then enjoy.
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If any of you guys really have feelings for tide pods please use this recipe and don’t eat the real detergent pod. Stay safe friends!
I love it when I click on a recipe link because it sounds yummy and instead of a recipe I get a several page dissertation on a food blogger’s boredom with her marriage and lies she was told in childhood
this ending in a recipe literally changed my fucking life i thought i was being spread some fucking truisms abt the ugliness of marriage but it was literally a preamble to creme brulee brownies. writing is fake
I knew what this recipe was going in. You don’t see a recipe bragging about how few ingredients it uses and think “surely this will be delicious.” You think “It’s 1 AM and this looks like a vehicle to carry sugar into my body.” So none of what I’m about to say is on Ms. Davison, or her recipe.
There is a place in Terry Pratchet’s Discworld called the Great Nef desert. This is a desert so dry that even water isn’t wet in the Great Nef. Within this desert is the Dehydrated Ocean, a body of water in an uncommon fourth state of matter. This dry water forms silvery grains and resembles a powder more than a liquid.
There is a kind of wizard in Discworld called a hydrophobe. These wizards are raised from birth without ever coming into contact with liquid water. They are sustained only by the dry water from the Dehydrated Ocean. The result is a fear and hatred of water so ingrained that it allows these individuals to literally repel water, which is then used to power hover craft for crossing lakes and oceans.
When I first read this description in The Color of Magic, years ago, I wondered what kind of food the hydrophobes ate. When a hydrophobe sits down to their breakfast of corn flakes and a mummified orange, with what do they butter their stale, overdone toast?
Finally, in the pile of yellow dust I pulled from my oven after 7 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius, I have my answer.