[David, in the meanwhile, was wondering how to explain this.]
When I was 13 going on 14, two big things happened in my life - James came to live with us, and we were downsized for the last time.
[Technically speaking, the part that had been downsized had been Dr Jane Clark's part of the Les Infants Terrible project, and she'd had plenty of other things she'd been dipping her toes into even at that time, but never mind that.]
- So we moved again, and all of a sudden, we had less the 60 people living in the same building, including all the guards and the research assistants and the janitorial staff.
...And then, the other problems started - There was something wrong with the food HQ was sending us, for whatever reason, and Dr Clark said that she wasn't going to waste her time trying to eat unedible food, and that we should go to the supermarket and buy the food we needed to the problem cleared up.
[David smiled again, remembering the first time he'd gone to one of those mega sized supermarkets, a wide eyed James at his side.]
[So. Much. Stuff.]
...And then Sergent Kim wanted to make kimuchi, and Sergent Watanabe said that if Sargent Kim was allowed to make kimuchi he should be allowed to go buy some natto, and then Mrs Thaksin said that she would take over part of the cooking since she'd had some experience, but she was a Thai curry lover as it turns out -
And all of a sudden, the our everyday food became much more international. Not to mention... interesting.
[So many different kinds of food and so many sauces to go with them.]
[David smiled, then, remembering something else.]
- I wasn't allowed to eat the same stuff the rest of the people were eating at first -
["At least I don't have to keep track of his diet"
The research assistant had sighed, looking at James standing in line at the cafeteria.
"They decide what they're cooking right on the same day, can you imagine?"]
But then they caught James giving me some of his food, and Dr Clark decided that I should be allowed to eat with the rest of them, even if it made my diet hard to keep track of.
- And the problems with HQ cleared up after a while, but Dr Clark decided that we should just keep buying our food, since we had much less people they we used to anyway.
[David's smile faltered a little, then. When had he realized that James probably wasn't even mentioned in their budget at all anymore? That everything that James needed was probably being paid out of Dr Clark and Commander Zero's pocket money?]
[Their own little personal project.]
[And then he smiled again, a bit artificially.]
...And that's how we both learned how to love kimuchi, natto, and also Thai curries. Oh, and bean stews too. Lots of rice dishes. Hamburgers. Japanese food, korean food...Oh, chinese food, too.
- We're not picky, as long as it's good, I assure you...
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When I was 13 going on 14, two big things happened in my life - James came to live with us, and we were downsized for the last time.
[Technically speaking, the part that had been downsized had been Dr Jane Clark's part of the Les Infants Terrible project, and she'd had plenty of other things she'd been dipping her toes into even at that time, but never mind that.]
- So we moved again, and all of a sudden, we had less the 60 people living in the same building, including all the guards and the research assistants and the janitorial staff.
...And then, the other problems started - There was something wrong with the food HQ was sending us, for whatever reason, and Dr Clark said that she wasn't going to waste her time trying to eat unedible food, and that we should go to the supermarket and buy the food we needed to the problem cleared up.
[David smiled again, remembering the first time he'd gone to one of those mega sized supermarkets, a wide eyed James at his side.]
[So. Much. Stuff.]
...And then Sergent Kim wanted to make kimuchi, and Sergent Watanabe said that if Sargent Kim was allowed to make kimuchi he should be allowed to go buy some natto, and then Mrs Thaksin said that she would take over part of the cooking since she'd had some experience, but she was a Thai curry lover as it turns out -
And all of a sudden, the our everyday food became much more international. Not to mention... interesting.
[So many different kinds of food and so many sauces to go with them.]
[David smiled, then, remembering something else.]
- I wasn't allowed to eat the same stuff the rest of the people were eating at first -
["At least I don't have to keep track of his diet"
The research assistant had sighed, looking at James standing in line at the cafeteria.
"They decide what they're cooking right on the same day, can you imagine?"]
But then they caught James giving me some of his food, and Dr Clark decided that I should be allowed to eat with the rest of them, even if it made my diet hard to keep track of.
- And the problems with HQ cleared up after a while, but Dr Clark decided that we should just keep buying our food, since we had much less people they we used to anyway.
[David's smile faltered a little, then. When had he realized that James probably wasn't even mentioned in their budget at all anymore? That everything that James needed was probably being paid out of Dr Clark and Commander Zero's pocket money?]
[Their own little personal project.]
[And then he smiled again, a bit artificially.]
...And that's how we both learned how to love kimuchi, natto, and also Thai curries. Oh, and bean stews too. Lots of rice dishes. Hamburgers. Japanese food, korean food...Oh, chinese food, too.
- We're not picky, as long as it's good, I assure you...