La'ja'sa

right|300px La'ja'sa is the name of a fruit pudding originating from Za'ah, and is one of the few cuisines enjoyed by both artisans, nobles and even - according to rumour - the Devayani themselves. 
It consists of one layer of jelly (fruit spread jam) strengthened by sugar beets and honey, over which a top consisting of fruits, nuts, sugar, early ice-cream (where possible) or roasted ants is strown.
The pudding is eaten during the Rain Festival (Ve'yula), which (contrary to its name) is celebrated during the hot season, and is enjoyed primarily amongst children, as children are often not attending the same celebrations as adults. Adults do also consume it, before the main dish is carried in.
==Amongst the elite==
Puddings enjoyed amongst the elite can grow excessively large, with the jelly fragments being organised in artful forms and shapes like towers, trees, flowers, in the likeness of the human body. The pudding is then also generally containing cookies.
However, the elite are not eating the pudding, instead allowing it to melt on the tongue before spitting it down into a tray (which can be all from a chalice into the mouth of a slave).
==The play of the nymphs==
One particular form of pudding which is enjoyed amongst the lewd, perverse and excessively wealthy is to have pre-pubescent naked girls run around painted like butterflies, with fake butterfly wings, pretending to be Mú. Before the play, they have taken two enemas each, and in their anal orifices, sacks of nuts, fruit pieces or dried tidbits have been inserted. When the play culminates, the "nymphs of bounty" crouch down over the jelly (or over the mouths of their clients) and presses out the delicatesses from their anuses.
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