wait wait i feel like you've talked abt it recently but cant recall: what is Poor Edward's favorite flavor of cake. I also want to know Reisz's prefs on flavor profiles, like do either of these guys have a sweet tooth, what does one enjoy when Parabola deigns to behave. i yearn to know these sorts of things (also maybe what are their fav foods so far in Edward's dream game Tomodachi Life and does that reflect any truth to them)
ok we'll go by parts here every question turns into an essay bc im physically incapable of not pulling out Context hsgdjhfghdjfk
Reisz's prefs on flavor profiles
Reisz' relationship with food is… unusual. One of the headcanons I have about their returned situation is that they do not have an actual sense of disgust bc their body, made of purifier life juice, doesn't need it:
They cannot get sick.
Nowadays they might be stupidly, immorally rich, but in the early game & first weeks of life they woke up with no money and a lot of hunger. This + the fact they had no memories of being socialized, which includes food customs, meant they ate (and still eat) anything they could get their hands on. They ate spoiled and rotten food and mould and mushrooms off the wall and bugs skittering in the street. Their sense of taste is fuuuuucked. Nowadays they Could cook but they treat food as energy sources first and foremost so they would rather eat the ingredients separately for convenience's sake. They're that weird. They even unironically love rubbery lumps
All this preamble to say: Reisz loves sweet & well-seasoned food the most! Because you don't usually find sugary tastes in the wild (no crops or fruiting trees in the streets down here) and seasoning is a Cooking Skill. Spicy flavours is a ++ too but that's more bc of their sensory seeking deal
Poor Edward's favorite flavor of cake, +
(Questions that led me to look up victorian cakes and the baking of them. good resources/reads btw: Victorian Recipes: Cakes & Teacakes & https://thepastisaforeignpantry.com/tag/victorian/)
His relationship with food is entirely shaped by his past growing up in the Orphanage. He has one of the biggest sweet tooths (teeth?) known to man bc I figure this was an entire flavour he never had access to while growing up in a prison. The act of feeding oneself at all is about power! And once he regained that power, he made sure to give himself only the best neathy society had to offer. Sometimes the best is imported teacakes. Sometimes the best is moss balls (<- canonical fancy food btw). Which is fine, bc I think his palate is quite sensitive due to spending more than a decade eating solely tasteless human rations (or whatever slop the inmates/orderlies were fed). When they were fed.
He's also really into stuff imported from the surface, naturally. He's picky - because he has the power to be. And am ngl I think he goes crazy for a good fruit salad. Heck, normal salad, even. Surprisingly healthy man!?
Anyway. Cakes and miis:
