Nobody Knows But Us

uchihabae:

Rice is not disgusting. They cannot be compared.

I’m not sure what sort of pathetic Uchiha immune system you have but you won’t die from eating mold, I’m not saying anyone should, but it would only make you sick at worst. While what you’re saying is that pumpkin is only fine when it doesn’t taste like pumpkin, which means it’s hardly pumpkin at all and, as such, confirmation that unaltered pumpkin is bad. As I’ve been saying.

Rice and pumpkins are both the same: Normal plant foods you can eat.

Poisonous mold can make you sick and depending on how sick you are and when, you could die. Pumpkin on its own is perfectly fine, I was only presenting my examples to showcase how they are not deserving of your hate as there are plenty of dishes that make the supposed pumpkin taste not as horrid.

uchihabae:

Rice isn’t disgusting. What sort of comparison it that?

Since you apparently can’t grasp this, consider the following instead; it’s not pumpkin, in this, but mold. Put a chunk of mold into some miso and the miso will taste like mold. it doesn’t matter how much it does, it doesn’t matter what the miso tastes like, because now it tastes of mold. Pumpkin soup, and-or soup with pumpkin in it, is bad because it tastes of pumpkin.

Rice is an edible plant just like pumpkin. The example thus used to draw the conclusion that both plant matter are not horrible to eat.

Mold and pumpkin are completely different things, however. In the context you could die from eating mild soup while you will not from eating pumpkin soup. Furthermore, if you hypothetically had a bowl of miso soup with perhaps a lot of miso or an additional heaping of soy sauce, it would drown the mold taste enough to make it bearable if you had to eat it. Which was my initial point that pumpkin soup is not so bad when there are other flavors to make it more bearable.

uchihabae:

… Of course he would. He’ll simply take over everything, mark my words. Take it back from him, Izuna. It was your idea, was it not?

That is a better idea. Those who feel they need a break from socializing with outside clans can simply retreat within their zone. There could be a spot to rest or continue festivities with their own.

Yes but he was a key factor in convincing Senju #2 to agreeing to the festival. Or the only factor. I’m not even sure how I would take it back from him.

See, it’s an excellent idea. That way there will be minimal bloodshed and maximum fun. Everybody wins.

… And is it important that this Senju #2 join the festival? Regardless, politely or impolitely tell him he cannot arrange things without your say-so.

Not to me particularly, I just enjoy the fact that he was so vehemently against it and now he agrees. I suppose I could but I feel he may take that as an invitation for partner work and collaboration.

Perhaps he was against it because it was your idea. Now it has been taken over by a Senju, and is acceptable. I can’t be certain.

You could tell him not to make anymore plans.

Oh, that's a good point. Now I feel more inclined to take the project back over again if only to spite him.

I could, yes. That would be an idea. He might have some good contributions though, as surprising as the thought may be.

uchihabae:

It’s bad. This is a simple concept. It’s not good.

And what exactly is so hard to understand; If it has pumpkin in it, it will taste like pumpkin. The exact level to which it does it basically irrelevant if it does.

Except it is not horrible. Also a simple concept. Pumpkin is like any other food, like rice.

If you can barely taste the pumpkin it does not matter so much. If it tastes mostly like meat and slightly like pumpkin, why would it be so bad? As long as the pumpkin taste is overwhelmingly small compared to the other taste I don't see the issue you have with pumpkin soup.

uchihabae:

Yes, I know, but it doesn’t instantly become a good thing to eat just because it’s healthy. Factors thoroughly outweigh it.

Obviously the point of putting something into soup is so that the soup tastes of the thing. So if it’s something with a distinct flavour, like… hm… let’s say pumpkin then the soup tastes like pumpkin. Thus: pumpkin soup.

Well, pumpkin on its own is not a horrible thing. Perhaps not so great in soup but it is not completely terrible as you've been insisting.

There is a reason I said there were options other than pumpkin soup. Such as soup that tastes like one thing but has pumpkins in it to make it less unbearable for people like you who bear inexplicable hatred for pumpkins. Thus pumpkin soup or soup with pumpkins isn't that terrible.

uchihabae:

… Of course he would. He’ll simply take over everything, mark my words. Take it back from him, Izuna. It was your idea, was it not?

That is a better idea. Those who feel they need a break from socializing with outside clans can simply retreat within their zone. There could be a spot to rest or continue festivities with their own.

Yes but he was a key factor in convincing Senju #2 to agreeing to the festival. Or the only factor. I’m not even sure how I would take it back from him.

See, it’s an excellent idea. That way there will be minimal bloodshed and maximum fun. Everybody wins.

… And is it important that this Senju #2 join the festival? Regardless, politely or impolitely tell him he cannot arrange things without your say-so.

Not to me particularly, I just enjoy the fact that he was so vehemently against it and now he agrees. I suppose I could but I feel he may take that as an invitation for partner work and collaboration.

uchihabae:

I’m not saying it isn’t good, I’m saying technically healthy properties don’t automatically make it something you’d eat. Bark. Pumpkins.

So. If you cut a pumpkin into pieces and then put them into, for the sake of apparently necessary simplification, water. And you left them, the water would taste of pumpkin. Idiot. Because bits of pumpkin disintegrate into the liquid. It’s the same, you’re wrong.

And what I'm saying is that one of pumpkin's redeeming features is that it is healthy, which some would consider a good thing on its own.

If you cooked it with nothing but water and pumpkin, obviously it would taste like nothing but pumpkin. If you mixed in other things then the soup would take on the flavors of those things and the pumpkin would not be so prominent as long as it is not completely dissolved. That's how soup is make. Obviously.

uchihabae:

I have tried it. It tastes like pumpkin. Which is why it’s bad. Being healthy doesn’t automatically make it good, bark is probably healthy, do you eat that too?

And it’s not regular soup if it has pumpkin in it. The pumpkin-string-flesh-gloop dissolves and contaminates any liquid it is allowed to permeate into. Clearly.

Arguably, healthy is good. Bark isn't normal eating food, pumpkin is. Therefore it isn't that bad.

I'm pretty certain pumpkins don't dissolve. They got soft, yes, but if you don't boil them to the point of no return they don't dissolve that much. I think. You're making pumpkins to be a lot worse than they are.

uchihabae:

Disgusting, thick, weird blood-mucus looking slop? I’d bet it’s your favourite food.

It's quite healthy, you know, and it makes for good projectiles. The flavor isn't half bad either, it tastes like pumpkin. You should try it.

Besides, there are soups other than mashed-mucus-pumpkin soup. There's regular-soup-with-chunks-of-pumpkin soup or soup-with-pumpkin-as-a-side soup.

uchihabae:

… Of course he would. He’ll simply take over everything, mark my words. Take it back from him, Izuna. It was your idea, was it not?

That is a better idea. Those who feel they need a break from socializing with outside clans can simply retreat within their zone. There could be a spot to rest or continue festivities with their own.

Yes but he was a key factor in convincing Senju #2 to agreeing to the festival. Or the only factor. I'm not even sure how I would take it back from him.

See, it's an excellent idea. That way there will be minimal bloodshed and maximum fun. Everybody wins.

uchihabae:

/He’ll narrow his eyes for a moment, contemplating the offer./ Will there be a list of main events for each day? I would not enjoy missing something on a rest day, if I could have been there.

A ban zone is perhaps completely necessary. It may be filled with hostile Uchihas hoping for someone to break the ban, however. So long as each stays on their respective sides of the ban zone.

I'd imagine there would be. Senju #1 seems to have taken over the planning of the festivals but I'm sure I can obtain a schedule at some point in time. Perhaps I can even put in some events of our own interest.

It would be beneficial for Uchihas who are still hostile to new clans as to prevent fighting during the festival. To make it seem fair, we could implement ban zones for all the clans participating that way if anyone from any clan does not want to make contact then they can stay in their ban zone.