#corvuscorona

Pizza Puffs and Italian Beef exist in Florida, brought to my neighborhood by angry Chicago ex-pats who are nearly as surly as the Brooklyn ex-pats making Pizza across the street from them.

You know, I thought about this for a second and it is absolutely the most a) Chicago and b) Florida thing I’ve heard in a hot minute. OF COURSE the retirees want their pizza puffs and OF COURSE Chicagoans were willing to drag them there. 

levynite replied to your post “asteroiideae replied to your post “I’ve been trying to explain the...”

what are pizza puffs? they sound amazing! are they anything like curry puffs?

So, I had to google a curry puff and a couple of different foods came up, one of which is similar -- but they’re all basically “filling in a thin dough” so it’s kind of yes and no. There’s a good article about the pizza puff here, which has lots of photos and cross-sections, but essentially it’s a tortilla stuffed with cheese, pizza sauce, and a “topping” (usually sausage, but I’ve had pepperoni), folded shut, and deep-fried. 

I’ve had the signature “Itaco” pizza puff and it’s fine, but there used to be a place at the very edge of downtown that made them with some kind of puff pastry instead of tortillas, and those were AMAZING. 

corvuscorona replied to your post “asteroiideae replied to your post “I’ve been trying to explain the...”

OHHH DID YOU KNOW portillos lemon cake was only recently reintroduced after having been discontinued for years! someone online missed it and put a bounty on the recipe and somehow it snowballed into the restaurant saying "oh we didn't know you all liked it so much" or whatever and bringing it back. a success story!! I still like the strawberry shortcake better though ��

Yes! That was why I initially tried a slice. There was an error with my order that meant I had to wait around a while, but I wasn’t bothered, so I didn’t yell or anything, and we made small talk about the lemon cake coming back. When I got home and checked my order they threw in like, an entire other meal and a slice of cake for free, and since then whenever I go back I end up with a slice of cake in my bag that wasn’t on my order :D 

fruitgoat replied to your post “I’ve been trying to explain the regional foodstuff known as Italian...”

I think Portillo's ships some meal kits nationally. I know I had to look this up for at least one Boss at some point... Oh, I remember the problem; the smallest kit is for 8 sandwiches and will still run you $80.

aaAAAAHAHH Thank you so much! I only recently finished DRV3 myself and I pingpong around fandoms very quickly so I’m glad I managed to land on drv3 at the right time for you, haha! I really love shuuichi and kokichi as well and I my thoughts tend to settle over what the characters must have felt so a lot of what I draw tends to focus on that!

10. Do you make outlines for your works, even your one shots? 

KIIIIIIND OF? mostly no. I’m very seat of my pants when it comes to my “plots” which is why my current project is uhhh. kind of at a standstill rn as I work out the middle parts jdfshfdsk (what I’ve posted isn’t even up to date, this is like. later). I DO have a rough outline out of necessity but “rough” is being very generous. and I never outline oneshots or short stories. I write them in one sitting on a whim or not at all basically

11. Have you made playlists for any of your characters?

I already answered these, but that won’t actually stop me. 

9. What do your fic bookmarks say about you?

Apparently “Angst” is the most used additional tag on my bookmarks and. yeah. that seems about correct. Second up is ‘AU’, but I feel like that says more about the prevalence of AU’s than it does about me. Third is Hurt/Comfort, which I didn’t actually think I liked, but what do I know?

10. What’s a theme that keeps coming up in your writing?

I’m really interested in the processes of thought that happen when people change their minds. I was raised very conservative and then at some point the world titled on its axis and I was liberal, and I’m very interested in modelling the internal processes that go into something like that, the different procedures that go into accelerating or preventing such a change.

You are welcome, I am glad I filled you with dread.

@gloriousmonsters sometimes you gotta make sacrifices just to get the raw power that birthday cake breakfast gifts you. Also, was it your birthday cake and what kind was it, I have to know