[His little joke, because of course they both know he's only selectively sensible. Can he be sensible about Rio, ever, at all? Absolutely not. He's going to swoon multiple times from how cute she is, it's already a done deal.
Anyway, they are on the hunt for this form, and he settles in to leaf through his half of the pile with laser focus... mostly, because his concerns about the dumplings are still there, bothering him nonstop. They're cooling? Right now? The imaginary slime quotient is rising in real time, like any boiled flour product left out to cool for longer than, say, five minutes. He's probably done actual threshold tests on how long a food can exist before he can't tolerate it anymore, but dumplings have only barely passed the "willing to eat that" test, so the data is insufficient.
He simply can't trust food he can't see all of at once, of course. All this to say that he does, of his own volition, reach over to pluck a dumpling off the plate and pop it in his mouth. He makes several faces around it. Were he not fully aware of the overall feebleness of his constitution he would try to swallow it whole.
lord have mercy i am here to tag about food neuroses
[His little joke, because of course they both know he's only selectively sensible. Can he be sensible about Rio, ever, at all? Absolutely not. He's going to swoon multiple times from how cute she is, it's already a done deal.
Anyway, they are on the hunt for this form, and he settles in to leaf through his half of the pile with laser focus... mostly, because his concerns about the dumplings are still there, bothering him nonstop. They're cooling? Right now? The imaginary slime quotient is rising in real time, like any boiled flour product left out to cool for longer than, say, five minutes. He's probably done actual threshold tests on how long a food can exist before he can't tolerate it anymore, but dumplings have only barely passed the "willing to eat that" test, so the data is insufficient.
He simply can't trust food he can't see all of at once, of course. All this to say that he does, of his own volition, reach over to pluck a dumpling off the plate and pop it in his mouth. He makes several faces around it. Were he not fully aware of the overall feebleness of his constitution he would try to swallow it whole.
Anyway, eventually,] It's flavorful.
[he didn't even dip it in the sauce]