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[micycle]

PIZZA MARKET RESEARCH SURVEY #1

1. What are the best pizza toppings (and nothing weird like anchovies)?

2. Thin crust or thick crust?

3. Do you like orange soda?

4. Do you know how replicate orange soda here?

5. What are your preferred pizza eating hours?

6. How often would you use a horse-based delivery service? Would it depend on what kind of horse showed up at your house with the pizza? Would it matter if the horse was fucking terrifying?

Thank you all for your input.

Comments

[nothinglikea]

But what's pizza? Other than some kind of food, that much I gathered. I apologize, but I'm from 1912 and I've never heard of pizza before.

[micycle]

[Oddly enough, it isn't the lack of pizza knowledge that Mike zeroes in on - it's the year. More than two years since Deerington shoved an alternate past into his memories, and he can still smell the metallic tang of the ship's corridors.]

It's a big round piece of bread, only you put stuff on top of it before you bake it, like sauce and cheese and slices of meat. Then you slice it and eat it with your hands.

When in 1912?

[nothinglikea]

[and if she closes her eyes, she can still smell the fresh paint. the feel of never slept in linens under her fingertips. the endless din of the First Class dining room with a string quartet only discerned if one paid close attention]

That actually sounds good. I'm unused to eating with my hands, but I assume it's an ability I'll need to get accustomed to.

[...oh, shit. what does he know? why is he asking that? no one else knew anything, unless she gave away too many clues herself. usually the year went by without comment]

April.

[micycle]

Most food tastes so much better when you eat it with your hands. It's a scientific fact.

[It feels stupid to assume they have this in common. There was a whole world full of people in April 1912, and only a couple thousand experienced the sinking.]

I'm not from 1912 but I've sort of been there. The place we were before here could change and make you think you were somewhere else, and it stuck us on the Titanic. I guess you know about that?

[nothinglikea]

Mother would have a fit if she saw me eating with my hands. Therefore, I'm entirely in favor of it.

[while the Titanic loomed large in Rose's frame of vision, and it likely always would. too many things had happened there which she can't let herself forget.

and she reads the next text, her blood running cold] I've heard of the Titanic, yes. It was difficult to not hear about.