Pizza Planet, Saturday

[carbsliftthespirit]

Pizza Planet was not exactly closed today and it wasn't exactly open for business as usual, either, but a (not-at-all-)secret, third thing, which was: hosting Friendsgiving. If someone really wanted to walk in and order a pizza Raiden would absolutely make that happen for them, but why would they bother, when they could walk in and partake of...well. After Rey had asked Raiden to help out with the food, things might have gotten out of hand, because this was Raiden, and this was Thanksgiving, and this was Fandom, so what if someone had never had pie before?

The doors were open, the tables were groaning with food (which Raiden had carefully arranged so that if people brought their own contributions to the feast there was room for them), and the specials board read:

FRIENDSGIVING!
Come one, come all!

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Arrive and Mingle

[carbsliftthespirit]

For your pre-feasting arriving and mingling needs.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[stykera]

Stark had skipped actual Thanksgiving on Thursday when he'd been suddenly inspired to call home and had talked to everyone on Moya for much longer than anticipated.

He wasn't about to miss this gathering though. Especially when Raiden was cooking and Summer was providing jello.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[carbsliftthespirit]

"Stark! Good to see you, man, how've you been?" Raiden asked when he caught sight of him.

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[beautiful_boc]

Boc was, of course, doing as he always did at such things by staying out of the way and nibbling on his food in a way that would hopefully not disturb any one else, but he couldn't help but let his eyes linger on Stark for a moment, in particular the general state of his buttons and seams at the moment in a careful, somewhat judging eye.

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[beautiful_boc]

It was already pretty difficult to get Boc to leave the warmth and comfort of his shop to venture out into a world he could only believe was filled with awkwardness and discomfort, and the cooling of the weather was not helping things. But he did, on occasion, get a bit hungry, and sometimes that meant having to be brave and take the risk of exposure to go fetch something, especially since he was still a little bewildered by phones and the like and didn't want to bother his staff too much, less they decide they've had it with him and drove him out.

Pizza, he felt, was one of the safer bets to be hand, especially since Raiden was kind, despite Boc knowing he likely baffled the guy considerably, so that was where he went that day, completely ignorant to anything else that had been going on...

...which meant, as these things were wont to go, he walked in, saw that there was something going on, and was just slightly too shocked to immediately just turn around and scamper off with an apology, and after that moment had passed, well...his stomach lodged in a firm protest against being so hasty in his departure, as well...

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[carbsliftthespirit]

"Boc, hey!" Raiden exclaimed. "Happy Thanksgiving! Or, well, that was Thursday. Happy Friendsgiving!"

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[sith_happened]

Anakin, as was tradition, had been up in Stars Hollow for Thanksgiving, carefully following his wife's spreadsheet of dishes to eat at each of the five Thanksgivings they'd attended and was sure he was, you know, never going to need to eat again but he'd promised Rey he'd stop by.

His eyes went wide at the display. "I don't know where to begin," he said faintly.

He needed another spreadsheet!

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[carbsliftthespirit]

"There's not really a wrong place to start," Raiden assured him. "Just do what feels right. Eat what you want." But there was so much of it, Raiden. "Thanksgiving doesn't really have rules, I think. I bet some people don't even have a turkey!" He thought about this further and concluded, "Probably vegetarians."

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[stykera]

"You survived all your dinners," Stark said. "Good. I might have missed you."

Eventually. Maybe.

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[napking]

Gray wasn't sulking. He was...okay, he was totally sulking, because it was unfair (to him) that Alastair had ruled that, as per family rules, Christmas did not start until after Raiden's Thanksgiving thing today was over, which was two whole days after Christmas could have started. The tree could have been up already! (Had this stopped him from watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer last night? No. No, it had not. That wasn't the point.)

He was still here, though, because no way he was going to miss that many kinds of pie.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[carbsliftthespirit]

"Are you still mad about the tree?" Raiden asked, not without sympathy, but also just a little bit like he thought Gray was hilarious. "You can help me put up the tree in my apartment tonight!" he cajoled.

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[pun_king]

"Gray!" Graham spotted him and was immediately concerned to get a load of that sulk on his face. "Heyyyy, roomie! What's the matter? There is way too much pie here for someone to have a frown like that on his face! Did you need me to get you some? I've tried them all, so I can definitely make some recommendations if you need!"

Was his recommendation going to be all of them?

How did you knoooooow??

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[thatwaslucky]

Rey had come with a salad and cups.

Look, when Raiden was doing the food she knew she couldn't compete, but she could at least provide uncooked vegetables.

And cups. Parties always needed cups.

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[carbsliftthespirit]

"Oh, a salad! Great idea! I knew I was forgetting something," Raiden exclaimed. He'd thought maybe it was another potato dish. You could never have too many kinds of potatoes, after all. But vegetables were important.

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[heroic_jawline]

Steve was there with rolls because who didn't like more bread at the holidays? No one!

"This looks--and smells--amazing," he said.

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[carbsliftthespirit]

Raiden's opinions on carbs were well-documented, and were essentially 'yes.' More bread was always welcome! "Thank you!" he said proudly. "It came together really nicely, didn't it?"

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[doctorgingerspice]

The stretch of time from Halloween through to Thanksgiving had been somewhat stressful for Will the last few years, what with that whole being kidnapped and nearly dying thing and the associated fallout. As a result, he hadn’t really done much to celebrate earlier in the week.

He hadn’t been intending to celebrate today either, but he’d been walking Kol and had spotted the sign, and then a familiar face or two inside, and now he was inside, holding on to the leash of a dog who was barely containing his excitement over being somewhere with all these people and all this food.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[carbsliftthespirit]

"Oh, hey!" Raiden said. "Happy Friendsgiving!"

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[pun_king]

Being the roommate of a brother counted enough as a friend, right? And he kind of knew Summer! But Graham definitely fit into the All category on the sign, so with that in mind, he strode in confidently, eager to enjoy all the food, with his main goal being on not having so much turkey that he just ended up falling asleep from too much of it like on actual Thanksgiving!

Eat!

[carbsliftthespirit]

Yes, Raiden had deep fried a turkey (without needing the intervention of the fire department, sorry, boys). But in addition to the turkey, there was...everything else: ham & tofurkey, gravy, both homemade cranberry sauce and the kind shaped like the can, four kinds of dressing (cornbread, sausage & apple, oyster, and wild rice), sweet potato casserole (with the little marshmallows) and butternut squash casserole (with brown sugar and pecans), green bean casserole (from scratch, of course), mashed potatoes and potatoes au gratin, brussels sprouts, collard greens, corn pudding, mac & cheese, rolls, cornbread, and biscuits...and, of course, the apps: deviled eggs, a baked brie, and sausage balls. Oh, and Thanksgiving pizza. Of course.

Over on the dessert table, there were eight kinds of pie (pumpkin, sweet potato, apple, pecan, chocolate pecan, chocolate cream, maple cream, and cranberry), a pumpkin cheesecake, and a banana pudding.

The items that were friendly to various dietary restrictions were helpfully labeled as such, with little paper flags and pens provided for people to label anything they added to the table.

Raiden was still afraid he'd forgotten something important.

Re: Eat!

[thatwaslucky]

Rey had known that Raiden would give his all here, but she'd underestimated. Vastly underestimated.

And now she was trying to figure out where to even start, as plates were only so big.

Drink!

[carbsliftthespirit]

Please hold for the co-host with the Jello.

Re: Drink!

[somethingwithturquoise]

The host with the jello? Who could that possibly be??

Shut up. It was only natural that Summer would want to provide at least jello shots for her contribution to the Friendsgiving, especially since she figured Raiden was absolutely going to go hog-wild on the food. The selection was small and actually somewhat modesty for her, especially since the focus really should be on the food, but what better time to pull out the aptly named Thanksgiving shots? And, of course, two different kinds of tiny jello pies, some pear and cranberry, and a variety of simple flavors but all in little turkey shapes. Some might even be turkey flavored! You'll just have to try some to find out!

She also whipped up a couple batches of chaider, one with bourbon and one without, but also, it wasn't like there weren't also less cool but equally quenching moddable drink options to be had, too!

Further Post-Meal Mingling & Cleanup

[carbsliftthespirit]

You should not have eaten that last slice of pie, but it was worth it.

OOC

[carbsliftthespirit]

I went to two Thanksgivings on Thursday and I think I'm still recovering.