SPN Fanfic: Recommended Daily Intake (Conversation)

[caffienekitty]

Title: Recommended Daily Intake
Characters: Sam, Dean
Rating: GEN, PG
Word Count: 270-ish
Warnings: The assertions in this ficlet are not recommended by the Dietary Association of anywhere. Conversation Format.
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing.
Summary: Sam and Dean discuss culinary definitions.
A/N: This fic was inspired subconciously by part of ficwriter1966's latest post, and conciously by a stern discussion with myself.

Conversations
by CaffieneKitty

Recommended Daily Intake
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Timeframe:
Sometime during early Season one.
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"You need to eat more vegetables, Dean."

"Hey, I eat vegetables! I'm eating one right now!"

"...Dean, that's pie."

"Yeah!"

"Pie is not a vegetable."

"Is too! See! Pumpkin pie! Pumpkin is totally a vegetable."

"It's a fruit."

"Pumpkins are not fruit."

"When you eat the whole plant it's a vegetable. When you eat the plant's seed pods it's a fruit."

"...Is this like that tomato thing when you were eight?"

"Yeah."

"But you admitted a tomato was a vegetable then."

"You were sitting on my chest, Dean."

"Doesn't matter. A tomato's a vegetable, and so is a pumpkin."

"They're fruits."

"Vegetables."

"Okay, fine. Vegetable matter. But that does not make pie a vegetable."

"This pie is made from a vegetable. Therefore, it is a vegetable."

"Ketchup is made from tomatoes and it's not a vegetable. Or a fruit."

"Totally is."

"It's a condiment!"

"Still a vegetable. Ketchup is an even better vegetable than plain tomatoes."

"What? Why?"

"It's concentrated. I bet about a hundred tomatoes go into making a bottle of ketchup."

"...okay, you're probably right about the tomatoes, but that still doesn't make ketchup, or that pie, a vegetable!"

"What part of 'it's made of vegetables' don't you get, Sammy?"

"It's not though! It's got sugar and crust and whipped cream!"

"And vegetables. The rest is a garnish."

"Crust is a garnish?

"Structural element. Does not in anyway count against pie being a vegetable."

"What about whipped cream? You can hardly see the pie under all the whipped cream, Dean, how is that a garnish?"

"That? Is a protective insulating covering.

"Protective covering."

"Keeps the vegetable at the right temperature and protected from the elements."

"Really."

"Plus, it's dairy. Calcium. Good for the bones and crap."

"...You know what, Dean, never mind. Pie is a vegetable. Go nuts."

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(that's it)

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Comments

[charis-kalos.livejournal.com]

I always thought pumpkin pie sounded DISGUSTING, because in Australia we pretty much only eat pumpkin as a vegetable. Then I finally tried pumpkin pie at a Thanksgiving dinner and realised that it tasted nothing like pumpkin. It was sweet! (That night I also tried jello salad and decided that American cuisine is bizarre. Then again, I eat kangaroo and have tried whitchety grubs, so maybe Australians can't talk.)

I really enjoyed this, but it does make me wonder how Dean stays so healthy. And how he looks that good!

[caffienekitty]

I don't think I've ever eaten pumkin except as a pie component. Squash is served as a vegetable frequently in parts of North America, but not really pumpkin as far as I know. Personally, I consider jello salad an abomination.

Every region has their odd foods. Via Quebec, we have poutine, which is french fries covered in cheese curds and gravy.