Harbor Tandoor, Baltimore, Maryland, Thursday Evening

[mustbeawitch]

The food of India was not, of course, unknown in Lydia's time, but it was the sort of thing one found at a very few establishments in London, not in the likes of Meryton, so she was rather excited about today's destination for Supper Club.

She was less excited about the anticipated spice levels, but she was sure she would be able to find things on the menu that wouldn't burn her delicate English taste buds off.

She had sent out a message with their destination well in advance, so hopefully everyone would be able to find the place, and inform anyone new who might want to come along of where they could be found.

Welcome to Supper Club, everyone!

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Re: Arrive and Mingle

[mustbeawitch]

A tan? Couldn't be Lydia. "I'm afraid I'm...well, not entirely ignorant," Lydia admitted. "My class went to India last semester, but I found much of the cuisine to be a bit...spicy."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[deathsmajesty]

Oh dear.

"Do you know what level of spice you can tolerate, darling?" Liliana asked. "You can start there as a baseline."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[mustbeawitch]

How to put this delicately? "How much do you know about nineteenth century England?" Lydia asked Liliana. "Don't mistake me, certainly we had spices!" The Bennets weren't poor, regardless of what the Ladies Catherine de Bourgh of the world might think. "My mother kept a very fine table. But the English use spice rather...differently than some other parts of the world."

They were late adopters, you see.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[deathsmajesty]

All those wars over spices just to ignore them...

"Oh, very little," Liliana said. "I'm learning about this plane in a very haphazard fashion. How did you use spices?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[mustbeawitch]

"Carefully," Lydia said, which was one word for it. "It wouldn't do to waste them, after all. So many of them have to come from so far away, they can be quite dear. I suppose that's why you see so many spices in the Christmas baking," she realized. "It makes it more special."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[deathsmajesty]

"Ah," Liliana said. "So they were reserved for special occasions only?"

Somewhere, a shiver just ran down Ignis' spine.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[mustbeawitch]

"Oh, no," Lydia protested. "We weren't poor." Look, she'd tried to say it the normal way and Liliana hadn't gotten it, so now she was saying the quiet part loud.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[deathsmajesty]

Wait, did that mean poor people had even less of a spice tolerance than Lydia did? The horrors.

"So which spices graced your table?" Liliana asked. "Since it does seem like it was not enough of an inclusion to get you used to them."