darkbaptist: (I caused the apocalypse)
Hikawa ([personal profile] darkbaptist) wrote in [community profile] compnetwork2012-11-21 11:33 am

1st Conception - Video

[The communication starts with a hissing sound, like you'd hear in a low burn, and then focuses on the source of the noise: two skillets being set down on the burners of a stove. Around the counter viewers can make out cooking ingredients: a stick of butter, margerine, salt, eggs, chocolate, a whipping spoon. After a few seconds Hikawa begins to speak.]

As odd as it might seem to introduce myself in such a way, I would like to take a survey. A survey dealing on culinary tastes, you might say, to see what people would prefer.

It will be a simple choice focusing on two types of simple egg dishes. Most people seem to enjoy eggs, whether they be scrambled, poached, sunny side up, or what have you. But now matter how you might enjoy them there is a single base for all of them: butter.

[On camera the man takes a knife and, cutting a part from the block of butter, puts it into one of the skillets where it begins to melt.]

Not only does butter add flavor to the egg, but it keeps it from sticking to the pan and being burnt. But for the sake of those who perhaps don't like butter, let us try another substance to take its place. Let us say...chocolate.

[Hikawa breaks off a chunk of the chocolate in front of him and puts it in the other skillet. It begins to melt, sizzling a bit. Afterwards Hikawa breaks four eggs, putting two in each skillet and stirring each one as he continues to speak.]

While one might experiment in cooking, cooking also has rules that in the end cannot be denied if you want a satisfactory meal. You can replace some things in a dish, but you can't replace others, and if you go to far in your experimentation you make a dish none can enjoy instead of all.

So tell me. Which would you prefer. The eggs made with butter-

[He focuses the camera, showing a skillet of neat, well-made scrambled eggs.]

Or the dish made with chocolate?

[The other skillet, however, is not fairing so well. Much of the chocolate has burnt and stuck to the sides of the skillet, while turning the eggs it has mixed in an ugly brownish color. It seems to have failed as well to keep the eggs from sticking to the pan, as much of the eggs themselves is burnt into the metal of it, leaving streaks of white and yellow gunk along with burnt brown.]
booyaka_boom: (Huh?)

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[personal profile] booyaka_boom 2012-11-21 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
*Hey - for Selphie, this is just like watching some cookery show or something. She's never thought of chocolate with eggs before, and she looks quite excited as she watches.

But then... Then he shows the result and she pulls a face*

Eww... That looks really gross...
second_destiny: (Nervous)

[Video]

[personal profile] second_destiny 2012-11-21 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
...Is this some kind of a trick question?
a_pirate_meant_to_be: (Eheh whoops)

[personal profile] a_pirate_meant_to_be 2012-11-22 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
I don't suppose there's a third option, is there? I'm not in the mood for eggs.
forceofnature: (Annoyed)

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[personal profile] forceofnature 2012-11-22 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
If you're going to poach those from a chicken, you can at least eat the darn things instead of being a pretentious twit.

Humans.
Edited 2012-11-22 02:35 (UTC)
a_pirate_meant_to_be: (disbelief)

[personal profile] a_pirate_meant_to_be 2012-11-22 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
Sooooo you're NOT offering any, then.
a_pirate_meant_to_be: (Wha?)

[personal profile] a_pirate_meant_to_be 2012-11-22 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
So what's the point of making two pans of stuff then? Although admittedly that one with the chocolate probably would've worked better as an omelette.
Edited 2012-11-22 06:02 (UTC)
kagami_arrow: (ix. the hermit)

[personal profile] kagami_arrow 2012-11-22 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Okay you are just getting stared at. So hard.

It's like you're talking to someone that's never had-]


I don't know. I've never had this thing you call "chocolate".

[Oh.]
a_pirate_meant_to_be: (disbelief)

[personal profile] a_pirate_meant_to_be 2012-11-22 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, I can't help it if I find food more interesting than vaguely cryptic moral questions.
universebeware: (Shut up. I'm thinking. Unlike you.)

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[personal profile] universebeware 2012-11-22 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
Neither, really. My systems cannot process those materials.
rewindtime: (Default)

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[personal profile] rewindtime 2012-11-22 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
It would work better if you used the chocolate and eggs together to bake a dessert.
second_destiny: (Uh okay?)

[personal profile] second_destiny 2012-11-22 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
That's what I mean. Who the hell would ever pick the chocolate? That doesn't even look edible!
forceofnature: (Confused)

[personal profile] forceofnature 2012-11-22 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)






......Huh.

Um. Well. Then let that be a lesson to you about wasting nature's bounty. Hmph and for shame and all that.
second_destiny: (Serious)

[personal profile] second_destiny 2012-11-22 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know about that. I've never seen anyone who ate like that.

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