you get to write the scene!

[lagilman]

okay, you get to help.

EtA: PEOPLE! Pick ONE! Glares. You People. Cannot. Follow. Directions. Sheeeesh)

EtA2: anyone who has ever worked a) in Customs or b) in any capacity of shipping/receiving, please e-mail me at the usual address? thanks.

[Poll #1043042]


(I fkcuing LOVE my job.)

Comments

[stevenagy.livejournal.com]

I've got to go with the prime rib, though the chocolate-covered espresso beans sounded just as anti=fish. After all, it is a sea serpent. Last thing you'd want is a caffeine-hyped sea serpent ... or perhaps not. :-)

[nick-kaufmann.livejournal.com]

I think the espresso beans could lead to more comedic situations. If that's what you're going for!

[debg.livejournal.com]

Espresso beans. Can you imagine a sea serpent wired off his arse on the double caffeine whammy of chocolate and coffee?

[hilleviw.livejournal.com]

A good NY pizza is likely to have anchovy, and the pizza parlour will certainly have anchovy, ergo no sea serpent interest if it's tired of fish. Chocolate-covered coffee beans, however...oh, yes. As far from fish as possible.

[lagilman]

anchovies. mmmmm.

[djonn]

If I have to pick one out of the three I checked (I assumed that the point of the checkboxes, rather than a radio-button, was so that we could pick more than one), I go with the prime rib. Sea serpent = carnivore, even in NYC.

OTOH, it being NYC, pizza runs a close second. But it had better be the right pizza -- double anchovies, and you do NOT want to find out what happens if you try to foist off Domino's on a hungry sea serpent.

[wojsvenwoj.livejournal.com]

loot froops!

[debg.livejournal.com]

Oh, and by the way, I would think your sea serpent might just have a jones for those big black and white cookies. Also, for hot pastrami.

I'm just saying.

[djonn]

Hot pastrami, oh yes! (OTOH, a sea serpent that keeps Kosher? Oy gevalt.)

[debg.livejournal.com]

Give it a guilty taste for shmaltz! Or chopped liver!

But seriously, I love the hot pastrami dinner, followed by chocolate espresso beans. Dark chocolate of course, so he can claim it's a health food.

(Why yes, I did live in NYC for nearly eight years...)

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

As a Chicagoan, I cannot praise New York pizza, which is way too flat. Pizza should be a meal. I checked garlic onion bialy and prime rib because I think the sea serpent should have a nice prime rib on bialy sandwich. And stoopid LJ underscores bialy because it doesn't think it is a word.

[rovanda.livejournal.com]

Pizza, pizza, pizza! You can put anything on pizza, including chocolate covered espresso beans :-D Maybe in a nice alfredo sauce with cilantro on top to give it a bit of color. For some reason, the image of a jaded sea serpent noshing on pizza just amuses me no end...

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

Not sure this helps, but I did a lot of research on customs for my last book. My husband used to work shipping and receiving.

Di

[jesterjoker.livejournal.com]

The Froot Loops tempted me.

But prime rib, because it's meat. I'm not sure why I mean by that. :P

[jslinder.livejournal.com]

I did a corporate mailroom and a Candy/Tobacco warehouse? Close enough?. Um, what's the usual e-mail address? :)

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I also like prime rib and pizza as good alternatives to fish.

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

But he's obviously a pseudo vegetarian, so he would go for the garlic-onion bialy.*VBG*

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

Although it's running a distant fourth, I have to go with fruit loops.

You've got texture. They're crunchy. Sea serpents don't get a lot of crunchy (bones don't count), and so the same quest for novelty that surely contributed to bringing it ashore will drive it to pursue new textures.

Then there's the shape. Sea serpents dig toroids. You get to go for the whole Freudian thing here. The yin and yang of serpent and fruit loop.

And then there's the color range. Wow! Sure, you've got lots of colors on a pizza, but not like this. And all the colors are given equal time (which is not true of pizza colors). There's room here for political musing; fruit loops are inherently democratic, which contrasts with the dynastic realm of sea serpents.

Hmm... I seem to have given this waaaay too much thought.

If only there were anchovy flavored fruit loops, this would be no contest. Alas, the anchovy is neither a fruit nor a loop.

[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

I vote pizza. Because I'm dying to see the sea serpent try to figure out how to fold the slices of super-thin NY style pizza so they can be eaten. :-) Very dextrous, that serpent. I think flickering tongues and particularly sinuous shimmy of his head must be involved. ;-)

[anisosynchronic.livejournal.com]

As for why a garlic-onion bialy...

1. It's a jaded NYC sea serpent...
2. It could be living elsewhere, it's not. Pizza can be had just about ANYWHERE on the US coast, and north and south of it, too. Bialys, however, are very geographically limited. Especially, pizza is all over dock areas and restaurants and sub shops on the beaches, waterfront, etc. Prime rib is also available at waterfront restaurants all up and down the coast though not as ubiquitous as pizza.
3. Chocolate-covered expresso beans are less common on the waterfront (though tourist trap areas are likely to have them), but they involve having to have grinding teeth, and they're small... they wouldn't get crunched and crushed and the sensation/flavor released in the sea serpents mouth, but would probably stay integral down far into the digestive system at least--birds pass all sorts of seeds through their systems still viable, that sprout, so why not sea serpents...
4. Fruit loops--the outer sugary taste the sea serpent might get, but not the crunch, see "grinding teeth" issue above.

[wojsvenwoj.livejournal.com]

what's a bialy?