What does a sugar bomb rate on the pH scale?

Emy · Nov 27, 2015

Pham Thi Anh Sang

"Um, no, no, I don't," the girl admitted. "But I heard that it really is just chocolate and um adding lots of liquid stuff. I just thought it was probably milk because it would be silly to add water and then add milk like that. Right?" It sounded pretty straight forward to Anh Sang, at least. After all, if it was so hard to make, then why was it everywhere?

"But there's lots of fancy flavored hot chocolates," she pointed out, as they approached the kitchen. "I guess most people would use plain stuff to start but I don't think that's the only right way to do it."

Romi · Nov 30, 2015

It did not sound simple to Anastasia. Not at all. She let out a little 'hmmm' and looked deeply skeptical at the very idea. "I believe milk might burn? If you just heated it up. I am sure there is something else to it, and it seems like it would be much smarter for you to investigate a recipe before you waste your time and ingredients."Technically speaking it was no skin of Anastasia's back if Sang failed horribly, but she wasn't in the business of discouraging young people from doing inventive ideas, even if they were very poor inventive ideas.

"Before you do anything, you should look into it, and make sure you have all the required materials, and are practicing whatever it is safely."Anastasia was mostly unaware of how odd and gibberish that sounded, because it would have flowed so much better in Russian.

Emy · Dec 3, 2015

Pham Thi Anh Sang

"Does milk really burn?" Anh Sang wasn't one to normally question people older than her but the idea just seemed silly to her. "But milk is liquid, right? It's all watery and stuff! I don't know how it would get fire." Although, she guessed that there was maybe something to this whole researching thing. It was what she had done with Wei, after all.

"Um, okay?" Maybe her English just wasn't good enough to understand the rest of what the older girl had said. Anh Sang could feel her eyes glazing over a bit from how much she didn't understand there but shook it off quickly. "I kind of have a hard time doing recipes, though. All of the measuring things here seem to be in those weird English measurements and I can't do that."

Romi · Dec 5, 2015

Aanastia was no master chef, but she was fairly sure that milk could burn. After all, liquids could burn. Oil was a liquid, and itburned.

"You can set things on fire even if they're liquid. Water won't burn, but other things will. You should go online and look up a recipe with instructions." She paused, considering the issue. Most likely it was an issue of american measurements - Americans seemed to make up a very large portion of the internet, and they all seemed to use the strangest measurements. "I can find you a russian one and translate it?" Then the measurements would all be correct.

Emy · Dec 10, 2015

Pham Thi Anh Sang

Liquids that could burn. That sounded like magic, which, actually, just served to reinforce the fact that it was probably true. After all, Starlight Academy was a magic school on a magic island filled with magic people.

"Um, are Russian recipes any good?" Anh Sang asked innocently. "I've never tried any of them before." The only real impression she had of Russia was that it was very cold and the people looked angry and liked to drink a lot. And something about lots of fish.

Romi · Dec 10, 2015

Anastasia was a tad patriotic, in large part because there were so few Russians. There were a lot of western Europeans, and a lot of Americans, but there seemed to be a smaller number of Russian people than one might expect. It made her feel like she had to stand up for things like Russian cuisine, which people knew very little about.

"Of course." Anastasia replied without hesitation. "Russian cuisine is very diverse, since we're such a large country. We have a lot of soups, porridges, and a variety of meat. Pelmeni is very good. Shashlik is also very tasty, although I mostly like the lamb ones." Most Russian recipies didn't make it out of Russia, and a lot of them were similar to European ones that tended to eclipse them overseas. Varenye was close enough to jam that most people just called it jam, for example, and explaining the differences was fairly hard.

Emy · Dec 10, 2015

Pham Thi Anh Sang

"Um okay!" Anh Sang smiled for a few moments before tilting her head to the side. "Um, what's pel-me-ni? And that other thing, exactly?" The girl already had enough problems with plain old English has it was. Stick a fourth language -fifth maybe? Did Osakaben count as its own language or was she supposed to write it off as just a funny way of speaking standard Japanese?- into the equation and that was a little too much for her brain to take.

She scrunched up her nose in thought. "None of these really sound like hot chocolate, though?" It was a plain old guess. Did Russians even have hot chocolate? Those really old Mexicans did, even, so maybe that was a yes?

Romi · Dec 10, 2015

Anastasia had expected to have to explain, even if the explanations tended to get a bit muddled. "Pelmeni are minced meat wrapped in a thin dough. They're a type of dumplings. I believe the one you would be most familiar with would be either potstickers or ravioli."Pelmeni tended to be smaller though, and rounder as well. Pelmeni were unfortunately a huge pain to make, although they had more variety than the ravioli or potstickers she'd found on the island.

"And Shashlyk is a type of kebab. It's normally cooked outside and you can buy it on the street while you are out and about. It's supposed to be lamb, but sometimes it's pork or beef, and you'll often get onions or bell peppers mixed in." She could at least make Sashlyk, but it also wasn't very hard to make. You just cooked chunks of meat.

"And no, neither of those is like hot chocolate. We have cocoa, but it is not so different from the american beverage." Well, a bit thicker if you were talking the good stuff, but cocoa itself tended to be identical to what Americans would get.

Emy · Dec 10, 2015

Pham Thi Anh Sang

Listening to Anastasia's explanation, Anh Sang mentally shortened it to Russia has good meat and meat is delicious. Therefore, Russian food was probably delicious except when it wasn't. Needless to say, she was thrilled to have such a genius conclusion.

"Oh, so could we try cocoa, then?" She asked. "How exactly is that different from hot chocolate anyways? Is it that one of them has marshmallows and the other one doesn't?" Then again, she hadn't been planning on adding any anyways. Did that mean cocoa was what she had been trying to make all along?

Romi · Dec 10, 2015

Anastasia's face actually twitched from it's usual blank mask. She hadn't actually meant they should make Russian cocoa. It wasn't much different. And more importantly, she didn't actually know how to make it.

Small details.

"We should go to the library and check on the computers. I'm sure someone will have a recipe online. Or you could find a cookbook." Although Anastasia preferred a simple google search over having to dig through who knew how many cookbooks to find one that had a proper hot chocolate one.

"It seems like it would be better for your campaign if you simply went to the store, picked up some instant hot chocolate, and handed that out. You could hand out more of it, since it would be less expensive, and reach more people." Why, exactly, was she giving someone else advice? She was supposed to be campaigning here.

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