Local Cuisine

== Possible revised text ==
Date/Timing: early 2019 
Setting: DriftSci central, The Icebox; Anchorage, AK, United States 
Yancy works a hand free— 
A sour-looking Chuck, snugly bundled, opens the lab door. 
"Hi," he says lamely. 
"Doctor Lightcap's on patrol." 
"Um, yea." Yancy offers the warmer. "Brought you lunch?" 
"I'm not hungry." Chuck heads back inside. 
"Yea ...  Davis said my ass was forfeit if I came back with this." 
She fiddles with a computer. "You can leave it there." Waves vaguely at a table. 
"Okay." Yancy unpacks the warmer. "So, um, it's kinda unappetizing ...." 
Chuck glances over. "It always looks like that." 
He makes a face. "I bet it's nasty cold." 
"If I eat it, will you leave?" 
"Sure." 
Chuck sighs, 'I am going seriously out of my way for you, appreciate it or /else.' 
She slurps a mouthful, eyes locked on Yancy's. 
He swallows. "Please please please tell me that tastes better than it smells." 
"Nope." Downs another fork's worth. 
"How do you /stand it?"   
"Good for you." 
Yancy shudders. 
Chuck snorts, starts in on the second half. 
"So, uh, Rals'n me got yelled at by Pentecost again," he says, shifting his feet. "Did you know road stabilizing is a thing? Apparently it is. Straightening out a car accident in a Jaeger: good in the short term, maybe not so much in the long term." 
Chuck shlurps aggressively. 
«Not the right thing to say, okay ....» Deep breath. "It's going to be okay, of course; Pentecost sent down a maintenance team and the Shatterdome's paying for the city crew, too." 
Chuck downs the last of her lunch and stands. "You can leave now." 
Yancy rallies. "I brought a brownie?" 
She returns to the computers. 
Yancy packs up the warmer, minus the brownie. "I'll, uh, leave it here?" 
"You can have it." 
"Eh, one's enough for me, but thank you. See you around?" 
"I'll tell Doctor Lightcap you stopped by." 
"Bye!" Yancy flees. 
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== Original text ==
Chuck's stomach growls. 
"Fine, fine, fine, I'll eat." She pulls on another jumper and her coat, and opens the lab door. 
"Hi," says Yancy lamely. 
"Doctor Lightcap's on patrol." 
"Um, yea." Yancy offers the warmer. "Brought you lunch?"
"I'm not hungry." Chuck heads back inside. 
"Yea... Davis said my ass was forfeit if I came back with this."
She fiddles with a computer. "You can leave it there." Waves vaguely at a table. 
"Okay." 
(She doesn't see Yancy unpack the warmer.)
"So, um, it's kinda unappetizing..."
Chuck glances over. "That looks disgusting."
"It's even worse cold."
"If I eat it, will you leave?"
"You bet."
Chuck sighs, 'I am going seriously out of my way for you, appreciate it or /else.'
She takes one bite (left handed, cool!), gags, and carefully pushes the container away. "I'm not eating this."
"Please please please don't make me bring it back to Davis."
"Why not pour it down the sink?"
"Rationing?"  
Her eyes promise murder, but she didn't stab him with her fork when he nudged the container. 
"So, uh, Rals'n me got yelled at by Pentecost again," he said as she started eating. "Did you know road stabilizing was a thing? Apparently it is. Straightening out a car accident in a Jaeger: good in the short term, maybe not so much in the long term." 
Not the right thing to say, okay... 
"It's going to be okay, of course; Pentecost sent down a maintenance team and the Shatterdome's paying for the city crew, too."
Chuck slurps down the last of her lunch and stood. "You can leave now." 
Also not the right thing to say. 
"I brought a brownie, if you want." 
"That's fine." She returns to the computers. 
Yancy packs up the warmer, minus the brownie. "I'll, uh, leave it here?"
"You can have it."
"Eh, one's enough for me, but thank you. See you around?"
"I'll tell Doctor Lightcap you stopped by."
"Bye!"
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Category:Food
Category:Chuck D
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Category:Yancy
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Category:2018
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