Hah!

[alt_pansy]

Apon a time (once) there was a girl with apple cheeks and an affable (did I use it right?) air who liked ambling around the park and angling for fish, even though she hated eating them, because fish are slimy and gross. She was awfully sweet, and was always generous.

Then her parents died, because that sort of thing happens all the time in fairy stories. So she was all alone.

Awwww.

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[alt_pansy]

Glorious, glorious food was waiting for them. Beatrice ate with gusto. There was gator from America, lightly battered and fried, and greens, and grouper, and gefilte (which tasted awful) and a great big pudding.

Francis and Esther heaped generous portions on Beatrice's plate, while Francis complained about his gout and Esther looked glamourous.

[alt_sally_anne]

What the heck is gator? Oh, never mind, you can tell me later, back in a minute with the next installment.

[alt_pansy]

It's short for alligator!

[alt_sally_anne]

People actually EAT alligators?

What do they taste like?

[alt_pansy]

Dad went to America after he was done with school, and he had all sorts of weird things to eat while he was there, and that was one. He said it tasted part chicken part fish.

[alt_sally_anne]

Your Dad went to America? How did you never tell me about this?

Do you have any pictures from his trip?

[alt_pansy]

It was only for a few weeks. He went all over the place for a whole year, China, and India, and Africa too. When he was in America, he went to Louisiana and out west and things to meet with some Potioneers he'd been writing. They were doing really nift things with alternative ingredients. Some of their letters were in that box of dad's stuff that I got this summer.

[alt_sally_anne]

That sounds utterly nift.

I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

My mum got a fellowship after she took her NEWTs to do advanced study at some wizarding school in Switzerland. Anyway, she was going to do it but then she got pregnant with me.

The funny thing is if she HAD done it they'd have been out of the country when everything happened.

[alt_sally_anne]

Wait, gefilte? How do you even pronounce that?

I think you're making these foods up.

[alt_pansy]

I found it in the dictionary!

Hang on, let me look it up again. It's pickled fish or something. It sounded utterly foul.

[alt_sally_anne]

Ew.

There are things that are good pickled but fish is sort of nasty already.