(day 16) hewooo! can i request prompt fourteen for fran? (i’ll be giving you the freedom to choose the question/s instead.) ♡
Of course I can, my dear! I had a hard time settling on questions though, so I just did all of them and I hope you enjoy 😊 Thank you so much for sending in the request!
Send me a character and a number and I'll tell you about their food preferences!
1: Milk, dark, or white chocolate?
I honestly don’t see Fran as having a huge sweet tooth and even when he is craving something sweet, chocolate is not normally his go-to. When he does eat chocolate, it’s usually dark chocolate and his one chocolate weakness is Cote d’Or’s 86% dark chocolate bars.
2: What do they get on their pizza?
Fran actually ends up really love pissaladière, a type of French street food very much like pizza, with a really crispy crust, caramelized onions, anchovies, black olives, and some grated Gruyere and Parmesan cheeses on it.
3: How well do they handle alcohol?
Honestly, when he first started drinking, not at all. Fran’s a quick drunk early on and because of that, it’s not something he does a lot of. Even when he does learn to better tolerate his alcohol, he’s still pretty featherweight about it all and after a couple drinks, he’s definitely tipsy. Knowing this, and because he doesn’t really trust a lot of people, Fran normally chooses not to drink or nurses a single drink if he’s pushed to do so at social functions.
4: What would be their ideal birthday cake?
I feel like Fran isn’t a huge fan of cake overall. He’d rather, if a cake was needed, that it be something single sized and individual, like cupcakes instead. As mentioned, he’s not a huge sweets fan and while it’s nice to have a birthday ‘cake’, a cupcake is really all he needs. After that, it’s just a chore to eat.
I think it really does depend on where in the world he is at the moment. There are countries, like Japan, where he really prefers tea. There’s more of a culture around tea there that interests him and a wider variety of types of tea. However, in places like Italy, the coffee is simply heavenly, and Fran can’t get enough of it. On trips to North America, he gets his caffeine fix with soda though, especially since there’s so many varieties and types.
It’s burgers all the way. With a burger, at least Fran knows exactly what it’s made out of, while hot dogs he really has no idea what they’re made out of, how they’re made, and really doesn’t want to know because he feels he would probably puke if all that information came to light.
7: How do they feel about vegetables?
Much like most other varieties of food, there are vegetables that Fran really enjoys and vegetables he hates. He likes lettuce, carrots, raw beans, mushrooms, radishes, and cooked turnip. He really hates peas, both raw and cooked and cooked tomatoes. Raw onions gross him out, but he loves cooked onions.
8: What's their favorite kind of cookie?
Again, as someone who doesn’t eat a lot of sweets, Fran doesn’t really have a strong favourite cookie. He absolutely won’t refuse most if they’re offered, except for oatmeal raisin cookies. Raisins deserve to be eaten on their own, not put in cookies.
9: What's their favorite of the five tastes?
Fran is the kind of guy who really likes both creamy and savory tastes. He’s not a huge fan of sweets, can handle a decent amount of spice, likes some saltiness, but will almost always go for something creamy, like cheese and yogurt, or something savory, like steamed pork buns, which are a weakness of his. He prefers stronger flavours to delicate ones.
10: What's their favorite fruit?
In a silly twist, I really do think it’s apples. He loves the taste of apples and since there were apple trees near where he grew up, I think he enjoyed the luxury of going and picking them straight from the branch. Apples taste better that way, after all, at least according to Fran.
11: Do they prefer hot or cold food?
The contrarian that he is, the answer for Fran is neither. He prefers room temperature or slightly warm/cold foods. He’s big on a lot of finger foods, things that are easy to pick away at, and most of those aren’t served burning hot and definitely not frozen.
12: Are they a big eater, or do they tend not to eat much?
I do think Fran eats a fair amount for someone his size, but it’s eaten in little bits and pieces. He’s someone who eats several dozen small meals (that are more snack sized) than someone who wants to sit down to a huge and extravagant six-course meal.
13: What's their favorite drink?
We’ve already answered this for hot drinks but in terms of cold drinks, I think Fran really enjoys juice. He likes the ‘no sugar added’ fruit juices, the ones that aren’t artificially flavoured and overly sweet, so they’re normally more expensive but he figures it’s worth it for the better taste.
14: Ice cream or popsicles?
Fran, when he eats sweet treats, prefers popsicles. However, what he really likes on hot days is shaved ice. Sacre is his normal go-to since he really enjoys citrusy flavors.
15: Do they spell it "doughnut" or "donut"?
Normally doughnuts aren’t actually something Fran talks a lot about or writes about, so the English spelling of them hasn’t really ever came up. He uses the spelling of whatever country he’s currently living in, along with the word for doughnuts in that language though.
16: How are they at cooking?
Fran can make finger food, things that don’t really rely on cooking too much. He makes an absolutely gorgeous charcuterie board, to be honest. He can make basic cooked meals, like ramen and pasta but past that, his cooking skills decline. It’s not that he’s a bad cook when it comes to the technicalities, because he’s not. If he could just stick to a recipe, he’d be fine, but the problem is that Fran likes to experiment while cooking to some very…insane degrees (Ken swears he once saw an Eldritch beast arise out of a pot that Fran swears was just a soup).
17: From best to worst, how would they rank the Starburst flavors (cherry, lemon, orange, and strawberry)?
Fran goes against popular opinion that the pink Starbursts are the best and tells everyone that Starbursts suck and are hugely overrated on the candy front. They get stuck in his teeth, are a pain to eat, and they don’t even taste that good, in his opinion.
18: How do they feel about spicy food?
As mentioned above, I do think that Fran can handle a fair amount of spice and even enjoys it. However, he wants his food to have flavor, to have a kick to it. He doesn’t want his whole mouth to burn or feel like it’s melting off. Spice shouldn’t get to the pain level in his opinion, not unless he’s the one offering that kind of food to unsuspecting victims friends.
19: Do they have any strange eating habits?
There’s so many strange things about Fran that you would expect him to have so many strange little eating habits too, right? Except he really doesn’t. The strangest he gets is his habit of talking while he eats and holding full conversations while he eats, but that’s more just bad manners and less a strange eating habit.
20: How do they take their steaks?
Fran really enjoys a perfect medium rare steak. However, because most places are absolutely horrible at getting that perfect ‘it’s cooked but just slightly still pink, soft and almost melting in your mouth’ steak, it’s not something he’ll order often. The reviews for the restaurant have to be amazing for him to be willing to give it a try, as a badly cooked steak is honestly one of Fran’s big pet peeves food wise.
21: What do they get on a burger?
He’ll ask for the works, but then he’ll ask for the kitchen to hold the onions, hold the pickles, go light on the mustard, and make sure the bun doesn’t have sesame seeds on it, please. So not the works at all.
22: Do they watch cooking shows at all?
I don’t think that Fran is someone who really watches television. He was raised by a grandmother who was strict about the amount of television he was allowed to watch, and which shows were appropriate for him to watch. He watches a lot more television when he gets with the Kokuyo Gang, but still not a lot. He can only sit still in front of the television for about an hour to an hour and a half at a time before he gets antsy and bored and needs to get up and do something more mentally and physically stimulating. Food shows aren’t something he’d normally ever think of watching, but he might watch an episode of one of Gordan Ramsay’s shows if someone else had them on.
23: What's their favorite snack?
Fran is a simple guy when it comes to snacks. He enjoys chips and fruit as a kid but his favourite as he gets older is really just a good cheese plate. Cheese, some grapes, maybe some meat on there if he’s feeling super fancy. It’s filling, delicious, and easy to do up so why not, right?
24: What's their favorite ice cream flavor?
When he does want ice cream, he likes fruity flavoured ice cream. Strawberry is always a solid choice, but his favourite when he’s in Japan are Lemon Gyunyu Soft’s.
25: What's their favorite meal of the day?
Fran doesn’t have a favourite meal of the day. He’s never stopped to actually think about it at all, honestly, and even if he had I don’t think he could have found an answer. As mentioned, he likes a lot of small little meals throughout the day instead of the standard three meals a day, so it’s a little harder for him to choose.
Crepes! So, really, the technical answer is neither. I mean, if he was absolutely forced to choose, he’ll take a pancake, roll it into a tube and eat it that way, but he prefers crepes.
27: What's a food they find particularly comforting?
Fran’s grandmother made the most amazing tartiflette you could ever imagine. She’d make it any time Fran was having a rough day, because it was his favourite of her dishes. Because of that habit of hers, he came to associate the dish with comfort and love so that is his favourite comfort food.
28: Do they put marshmallows in their hot chocolate?
No. Fran finds marshmallows to be almost painfully sweet, so he wouldn’t add them to his hot chocolate. He’d rather flavoured hot chocolate, something with peppermint in it or hazelnut, rather than adding extras on top of traditional hot chocolate.
29: If they were a food, what food would they be?
Despite not being a huge fan of sour tastes, I do think Fran would be a sour candy, something like Toxic Waste candies. They’re super sour to the point where your face puckers, enough to make some people spit them right back out. However, keep going and you’ll find some sweetness hidden under all that sour and that sounds just about right for Fran in my opinion.
30: What kind of foods do they hate?
It’s been touched upon here and there throughout these headcanons, and will continue to be, but I’ve mentioned what types of certain things he doesn’t enjoy. As hinted, Fran also does not like super sour things, super sweet things, or super spicy things. Pretty much, the stronger and more intense and overpowering a flavour is, the less likely he is to really enjoy it.
I do see Fran preferring soup, just because there are a wide variety of soup in his opinion and it’s easier to eat on the go. You can simply drink soups out of a travel mug, for certain types at least. But salads to Fran are always the same – just a bed of greens with some different toppings for the most part and while he enjoys them when he does have them, he’d eat soup more than he’d eat salad.
While Fran ordinarily buys neither for himself, if given the choice he would take a muffin over a cupcake any day. He really likes carrot muffins and any muffin type that features berries in them.
33: Do they spend all year waiting for pumpkin spice lattes to come back?
No. Complete no. Fran might be basic in some other ways, but he really doesn’t get the pumpkin spice trend as a whole. He can eat a good pumpkin pie, if it’s offered, but even that isn’t something he actively seeks out. He likes pumpkin soup, but only if it’s offered or on the menu somewhere. He just thinks the trend is weird, not his thing, and would definitely make fun of those who get so excited for pumpkin spice lattes to return.
34: Do they eat food even after it's been dropped on the floor?
Yes. Not even going to lie, Fran definitely would eat food that’s been dropped on the floor, as long as it hadn’t been sitting there for hours or anything. Why not? A couple seconds on the ground is no big deal to him.
35: How do they feel about food touching other food on the plate?
It really doesn’t bother Fran too much. He might sometimes pretend it does, simply to be annoying and get reactions out of other people but it’s really just fake outrage or faking being bothered. He figures his food all ends up in his stomach all touching and being digested, what’s the big deal about it touching on a plate?
36: What would they do if someone took a bite out of their food?
Now this one? This one pisses Fran off. He might not show it at the time…in fact, he probably wouldn’t show just how upset he was at all. What he would do is be petty as anything, making sure to really torture the offender in any way he could for the following days until the person was just absolutely going insane.
38: Do they prefer their noodles al dente, or do they like them softer?
Fran prefers them slightly softer than perfect al dente, but not soft enough to have turned slimy and mushy. Somewhere in the middle is the perfect sweet zone for his palette that he has perfected by the time he’s an adult. He refuses to make pasta any other way, even if the people he’s with prefer it al dente or super soft.
39: How do they feel about bacon's explosive popularity?
Fran honestly doesn’t care. He personally thinks bacon is overrated but he still eats it and enjoys it so he can’t blame other people if it’s their favourite food.
40: What's their favorite kind of candy?
Again, Fran doesn’t have much of a sweet tooth. When he does want candy though, he really likes those fruit snacks made for kids in a variety of fun shapes and colours. He’ll have to buy some if there’s a character or something on the front of the package that he really likes.
41: Do they eat everything they make, or do they tend to save leftovers?
When he’s making food just for himself, Fran tends to only make portions big enough for him. He doesn’t like the thought of wasting food. While it might take him a while to eat everything, since he tends to pick at things here and there, he does eat everything he made and there’s never any leftovers unless it’s someone else who made the food for him, and they portioned things too largely.
42: Do they chew gum at all?
I feel like Fran used to chew gum semi-regularly until he really started living with the Kokuyo Gang for an extended period of time. He likes gum but he stopped chewing it, just because Ken chewed gum so often, so much, and so loudly that it really got under Fran’s skin. Now any fruity gum is something he strongly associates with Ken, the sound, the smell, the packaging and he’s not someone like that dog, so he won’t do the same things.
43: Have they ever eaten something that wasn't edible?
Most definitely. Fran was a curious and weird child, and he wasn’t afraid to try eating things, just to see what they tasted like. Coins, dirt, bugs, his grandmother’s earring once, and paper, he’d try them all.
44: How much cheese-in-a-can would they put on a cracker?
None. Cheese in a can is meant to be squirted straight into your mouth, right? At least, that’s the way it’s meant to be consumed by Fran…well, that or just spraying it at people passing by or spraying it into Ken’s shoes…either or works perfectly.
45: When it comes to Oreos, do they prefer the cookie or the cream?
When Fran eats Oreos, on the rare occasion he does, it’s in this order – separate the cookie and the cream, roll the cream into a smooth little ball, pop the cream into his mouth where he sucks it until it dissolves while he throws the gross (to him) cookie parts into the garbage.
