Pizza Planet, Friday

[carbsliftthespirit]

Raiden was reasonably certain he had not ordered this many potatoes. He was reasonably certain nowhere that wasn't one of those spiral potato on a stick places at the fair (oooh, he could really go for one of those right now) needed to order this many potatoes.

It was cool, though. Potatoes were delicious, and you could totally put carbs on carbs if you weren't a coward.

"Have the vendors always been this flaky?" he asked one of the staff as he ran potatoes through a mandoline. "Is it because we're on an island?...What do you mean, 'Just wait'?" Hadn't the scrapple been enough?

Specials
Sweet Potato & Kale Pizza
Potato Pizza with Creme Fraiche & Bacon
Baked Potato Pizza

Pizza Planet is open.

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[hatesparadise]

There wasn't a Steve this week, oh no. Of course not. This week was Danny procuring the pizza for them.

Because Steve was an otter.

"I can't believe I'm asking this, but do you have any seafood pizzas?"

[carbsliftthespirit]

Raiden paused for a moment, considering, before he gasped in delight and asked, "Is the pizza for your otter? So it can hold it? With its little otter hands?" This might be the cutest thing ever.

[hatesparadise]

"That would be Steve," Danny said as Steve the otter definitely took on a smug aura at the attention. "And yes. Far be it for me to interrupt our usual meal options on date night."

[carbsliftthespirit]

"Oh! Hi, Steve!" Raiden said to the otter before turning his attention back to the human half of this pair. "You must be Danny! I've heard so much about you!" Wait, had they met before, or had Raiden just seen him talking to Steve at that beach party? He couldn't remember. He was going to wipe a hand on his apron and offer it to shake anyway.

[hatesparadise]

"That would be me," Danny said, taking his hand to shake as Steve clutched at his pants to feel important. "And you're the reason a Mountain Dew pizza was inflicted on me."

[carbsliftthespirit]

"No, no, Halloween," Raiden protested. "Halloween was the reason for the pizza." Because it was scary. "I thought it wasn't that bad, really," because yes, of course he had eaten it.

Excuse him while he died at the cuteness of Otter Steve. Okay, he was back. "Seafood pizza, let me think...we don't have any on the regular menu, although maybe we should, with this bein' an island and all. But I've done a couple of specials and we might still have some crab in the freezer? Or maybe some tuna. I could throw something together. I can check?"

[hatesparadise]

"I'd appreciate it," Danny replied, seeing how Steve was so enamored with the pizza here. Guy was earnest about it. "If not... maybe some calamari with--" He sighed like he was being forced to expand his horizons. "--one of the specials."

[carbsliftthespirit]

"Steve said you're a classicist," Raiden remembered. "The one with creme fraiche is a very traditional Alsatian pizza, just sayin'." The man knew his pizza. "Oh! Calamari, that gives me an idea...just let me see if we have any saffron..." He wandered off into the kitchen.

[hatesparadise]

Steve tugged on his pantleg again, which prompted Danny to call after him, "Thank you!"

[thatwaslucky]

Pizza was a reward today.

"The specials are intriguing," Rey decided.

[carbsliftthespirit]

"Potato pizza is delicious," Raiden promised her. "Carbs can be friends!"

[thatwaslucky]

"Were carbs not supposed to be friends?" Rey asked.

[carbsliftthespirit]

"Some people seem to think so. That Atkins guy has a lot to answer for, if you ask me." If he was even a real guy. Raiden had no idea. "Hi, Rey! How's it going?"

[thatwaslucky]

"It's going good. I'm still friends with carbs," Rey smiled. "How've you been, Raiden?"

[carbsliftthespirit]

"I've been good!" Raiden told her with a grin. "I'm always friends with carbs." Hungry, Gluttony muttered. "So is one of the specials in particular catching your eye?"

[thatwaslucky]

"I don't know everything on the middle one," she said, eyeing them. "So I'm learning towards that. Good decision?"

[carbsliftthespirit]

"Is it the creme fraiche or the bacon you're unfamiliar with?" Raiden asked her. "Because if it's the bacon then I'm sorry that I've failed you thus far, but also, that's an excellent choice. Creme fraiche is a lot like sour cream, if you've had that. Bacon is...bacon is life."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"I don't know if I've ever had potatoes on a pizza," Annie observed, tilting her head at the specials when she stopped in today.

But all of a sudden, potatoes on a pizza kind of sounded great? (There were probably very few things you could put on a pizza that wouldn't be great, right?)

(...right?)

[carbsliftthespirit]

Possibly Annie had missed some of their previous specials.

"It's delicious!" Raiden promised her. "Hi, welcome to Pizza Planet!"

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Hi!" Annie beamed at him, before a flash of recognition crossed her features, and she tilted her head. "This is a weird question, but...is your name Thor?"

He was not acting or talking like either of the Thors she had met, but that didn't mean much. And she felt like she would have heard about it if Thor moved to town.

(Annie really had missed a lot the past few months, yes!)

[carbsliftthespirit]

"Oh, no," Raiden said. "I'm Raiden. I get that a lot, though...at least since I got here and met Jane. Not--not before that. I have no idea what Thor looks like at home."

A few years from now he would meet a demon hunter named Thor who looked a lot like Tom Hiddleston, but that was just a human guy.

[defenderofdesmoines]

That was really weird in a meta way. Also: lucky Raiden.

"Now, Jane I don't know," Annie admitted, frowning in thought and deciding no, she did not know a Jane. "But two different friends of mine had versions of Thor show up for an event last year, and you are the spitting image, dude. Raiden, I mean."

But with shorter hair. And not as much of a cape situation, which was sort of a shame. Annie loved a cape.

"Annie, hi," she added, remembering her manners and moving over to extend a hand. "It's nice to meet you."

[carbsliftthespirit]

Raiden wasn't much for capes for everyday wear--they got in the way of his wings--but the capes last week had been super fun!

"Nice to meet you, too!" Raiden said as he enthusiastically shook her hand. "Jane's a Thor, too. Not the one I look like, that would be weird. Although I guess a guy could be named Jane, too...anyway, the Thor I look like is her ex and now she has powers so she's also Thor? Something to do with her magic hammer. I think I got that right. Anyway. Were you interested in ordering one of the specials?"

[defenderofdesmoines]

"...huh." The only part of that that sounded familiar to Annie was the hammer, since that had been a thing with both Thors (and her own super-strong drunk friend who had totally thought she could play with Mjolnir and was wildly incorrect.) But apparently being Thor was transferrable? That was cool. And a little weird, but if this was the same universe as Wanda and Steve and Marc and Steven -- well. Maybe it wasn't that weird.

She shook her head, as though to clear it, and addressed the more pressing question at hand. "You know what, Raiden, I think I would love to order one of the specials. Which one's your favorite?"

When in doubt, ask someone more experienced in the art of potatoes on pizza.

[carbsliftthespirit]

"Oh, they're all good," Raiden assured her. "The creme fraiche and bacon one is the most traditional, of course, and the sweet potato one is kind of seasonal, but I think I'd go with the baked potato pizza, if I was picking." But why pick when you could eat all three, was his attitude.