Indulgence is the name of the game - OPEN

[onaroll]

Who: Amelie and whoever wants to come
What: WORLD GOURMET TOUR
Where: Equestria

It's taken her the better part of a month to set up the transportation network, but Amelie finally has her hoops in pretty much every major city of Equestria now. She takes a moment to drop a message over the mirrors before finishing her preparations and stepping through a hoop to the center of town.

"Bonjour! This is Amelie; I was wondering if anyone wanted to join me for a little trip? I'll be going to various places using my portal hoops to sample the local cuisine; if anyone wants to join me I'll be in the center of town for the next half hour before I leave!"

Amelie is very much looking forward to spending an entire day traveling and eating, and that excitement is expressed quite clearly in her body language as she waits for anyone to show up.

Comments

[horse_nerd]

"Maple is delicious," replied Twilight. "I used to have it in the winter in Canterlot."

[onaroll]

“Ah! I’ve heard of that! You pour maple syrup over fresh snow, right?”

[horse_nerd]

"That's right! You bring the maple syrup to a half boil and then pour it into fresh snow. It makes candy." said Twilight.

[onaroll]

"That does sound good!"

Amelie finishes her sandwich and begins applying herself more seriously to her milkshake.

[explosions_are_awesome]

Finishing up with her sandwich and drinking her milkshake, Megumin licked her lips. "Wow that was pretty good. What's next?"

It was amazing the tiny foal-like pony could pack away so much, and keep up with Amelie's hedonism but Megumin was a very hungry girl.

[onaroll]

The next dish is brought to the table heaped high on an iron plate - a mound of fluffy orange croquettes, studded with bits of scallion.

"Sweet potato croquettes! I think they also have lentils and a little bit of cheese in them as well?"

[cidery]

Apple smiled as she took one of them onto her plate and started with the dipping sauce. "These are some of my favorite dishes in the restaurant," said Apple. "I hope you two like them."

[onaroll]

"He specifically wanted the sweet potatoes from Neigh Orleans, too..."

As Amelie bites into her first croquette, she lets out a little moan of delight.

[horse_nerd]

Biting into the croquette, Twilight let out a surprised noise. "This is really good! I mean, super good. I haven't had such good sweet potatoes in a long time."

[onaroll]

Nod nod.

"I can understand why he wanted these ones now, oui."

As she continues to eat, the next dish arrives - because of course it's not going to be one at a time, the entire point is crushing them with more food than they can possibly eat.

It's a single huge ravioli, covered in marinara, and Amelie's eyes widen as it's placed on the table.

"Ah! This is the five-layer ravioli! There's four more ravioli inside, like those little nesting dolls."

[explosions_are_awesome]

"More ravioli?" exclaimed Megumin as her stomach protested. "I think we're really going to be crushed at this rate."

"I don't think Applejack could manage this level of decadency," said Twilight faintly.

[onaroll]

"If I knew he was planning on this one I'd have ordered something else for us at the last stop..."

Amelie sounds faintly stunned, but she shrugs it off and begins cutting wedges of ravioli for everyone. As she does, there's another delivery, although this one is just a bottle of white wine, compliments of the co-owner Bucket List.

[cidery]

"That's fine, we'll just work on this together then," said Apple as she undid the cork on the white wine and poured glasses for everyone.

"It seems that we're getting the highest treatment, what did you two do to earn his trust?" asked Twilight.

[onaroll]

"Ah...we protected the restaurant when the robots attacked."

Hmm.

"Oh, right, didn't one of them aim at Bucket List? Oui, oui...and after I dropped it through a hoop Apple smashed it, I am pretty sure."

[horse_nerd]

"So you two are basically heroes to them," said Twilight with a smile.

[onaroll]

Amelie manages to suppress the instinctive flinch at being called a 'hero', but she has no doubt that Apple caught it anyway.

Well, she's at least a good enough actress to fool Megumin and Twilight, at least.

"Heroes go up on a pedestal; they're our friends."

[explosions_are_awesome]

"That makes more sense, friends reward you for being friends," said Megumin with a smile.

Apple did catch it, and simply rested her hoof on Amelie's for a moment.

[onaroll]

“Friendship is a really strong magic, honestly.”

Amelie takes comfort from Apple’s contact and smiles a little as she continues speaking.

“For Gems like us, literally. Maybe someday we can show you.”

[explosions_are_awesome]

"It is. It's the glue that holds ponies together too," added Twilight as Megumin tilted her head.

"Some kind of secret Gem power?" asked Megumin curiously.

[onaroll]

“It’s not really a secret, but it hasn’t come up yet so we decided it should be a surprise.”

[explosions_are_awesome]

"Ah okay. I'll see it when it happens then," said Megumin, satisfied as she ate her ravioli and sipped her wine.

[onaroll]

Feeling experimental, Amelie pours some of the sauce from the ravioli onto her croquette and nibbles.

As she’s busy with this unexpectedly tasty flavor combination, yet another dish arrives - a tureen of soup containing whole corn kernels floating in a clear, slightly golden broth. Amelie swallows her food, looks at the soup, and proceeds to explain.

“Corn soup! The stock is made by boiling corn cobs in a pressure cooker - I picked up the corn from Dodge Junction.”

[horse_nerd]

"Corn!" Exclaimed Twilight happily. "I love corn!"

Ladling out the soup to everyone, Twilight inhaled and sighed. "I love the smell of corn, the texture, it makes up one of our biggest exports too!"

[onaroll]

“One thing I couldn’t get in Waverly Bay or Kalos was corn juice. Papa and I used to drink it while watching movies on his days off...”

Amelie appears to have fond memories of corn as well.

[horse_nerd]

"Corn juice? I can get you that," said Twilight. "My favorite convenience store has some!"