DE: Lunch or dinner

[yakalskovich]

 What is your character's main meal of the day, and what kind of food do they usually eat for it.

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[sunbaked_baker]

For a character so involved with food, this is actually a difficult question to answer for Sunshine. Her schedule doesn't make it easy to have standard set mealtimes.

Her main meal utterly can't be breakfast, because her mornings consist of extremes - either she's up at four to be at work by four-thirty (which means eating something quick on the way out the door or grabbing something during a break at work when everything is in the ovens or otherwise not needing her immediate attention), or she's sleeping in until nearly noon to try and catch up on her sleep (which means skipping straight to lunch). Lunch may be less variable, but again it depends on what shifts she is working at the coffeehouse. If she worked the morning shift, she usually has the lunch shift off, so isn't generally rushed through that mealtime. Lunch would be something light but filling - sandwiches and sides, perhaps, salads or soups. Supper again depends on her work schedule. I want to say supper would be her main meal, but nothing about her life really lends itself to leisurely evenings, either. Canon has at least one instance of her staying at work until closing and then making herself supper when she gets home, and supper was just a egg and cress sandwich on some of her own bread. I suspects she eats on her feet, mostly, snacking a lot to keep going (some day I will go through her canon and count up the number of apples it mentions her eating - it's a lot).

So it's really hard to say! Which is a strange realization when talking about a character whose life is so closely tied to food.

[i_am_your_host]

For Emcee it's dinner, because someone else with more money than him usually buys it for him. It's often a meat and potatoes kind of meal, sometimes fancy, sometimes not, depending on who's buying. Sometimes Emcee skips meals altogether whether due to lack of funds, time, or appetite. He's used to going hungry and can ignore it or work through it, but he does try to weasel things out of the club's kitchen, and hoards small items like bread rolls and biscuits when he can.

[just_cant_lose]

Jim's is usually the first meal he eats after he wakes up, which can be any time of the day or night depending on what his mind or work is doing, and whether he's travelling. After that, he just eats as and when he's hungry, which can mean long hours, or a day, without food because he gets up in his head or absorbed in something else.

If he's playing a part he'll keep regular mealtimes (and is more balanced for it, who knew?), and he's not adverse to expensive dinners in fine restaurants. But he has no hard and fast rules on these things: food's food, and as long as hunger's not actually bothering him, he'll put up with whatever. If he's in one place for any length of time, he just pays someone to put a plate down in front of him every now and again, and it's generally pretty healthy. He grew out of his 'eat nothing but crap' phase by the time he was eighteen.

He does particularly enjoy a good cooked breakfast at times, though.

[onceaviking]

All the time.
Blood.

[cottoncandypink]

It bounces between lunch and dinner for Wilford, depending on how hectic his day is. Breakfast is usually a cup of coffee, and something sweet. Lunch bounces between vending machine junk, and whatever they can get delivered to the studio. As a rule, if lunch was especially small, he'll typically go out of his way to make dinner at home (unless it's the sort of day when he gets home stupid late, and then it's delivery again). That is one of the things he's found he likes about living in a huge city: someone's always open to deliver, even if it's really bad "Italian" food that looks like it all came out of a can. But when it's 1:00 in the morning, even turning on the oven is too much work.

I don't think he really has too many standards for food, in general, but what he cooks hat home tends to lean toward Korean, just because that's what he grew up learning how to cook. But there are also things like frozen pizzas and taco shells in his kitchen, because variety is nice, and fast food is always an option if he's out of the studio during lunch time.