AUDIENCE: ALEX

[retellers]

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[chanteuser]

I’m not going to police your pizza. You can add — or not add? —- whatever you want.

[retellers]

I want it to taste good for my first one!

[chanteuser]

People eat things like pineapple on pizzas. Most things are fine.

[retellers]

Pineapple? [ WHAT IS A PIZZA ]

[chanteuser]

Don't worry, it's a pretty controversial choice.

[retellers]

There are controversial pizza toppings???

[chanteuser]

Yes.

... You can literally put anything on a pizza, but it doesn't mean you should. And people have Opinions [ you can literally hear the capitilisation there ] on them.

[retellers]

What kind of food is this??

[chanteuser]

Adaptable.

[retellers]

Should food be... "adaptable"?

[chanteuser]

Make a pizza with me and find out.

[retellers]

[ a beat ]

Okay!

[chanteuser]

[ ........ i guess i will not be bombarding you with another audience request. also is this francy. ]

...

Hm. I guess we could make one now? If you're not too full from the burger.

[retellers]

[ mystewy ]

It'll take a bit to cook, right? I'll be fine. Let's do it!

[chanteuser]

[ it's an official guess ]

[ god she has to make pizza dough now. please say there are premade bases so they don't have to wait 9000 years for the dough to rise ]

If you get out some cheese, and... ... well we can either make the sauce from scratch or use the jarred stuff. Whichever you prefer.

[retellers]

[ there are premade bases for your sake ]

Is the jarred sauce... worse?

[ they cannot cook? they do not know? ]

[chanteuser]

[ thank. she will get some out. ]

Depends on who you ask. It's fine, it's just a bit saltier than if I made it myself. It's normally healthier to make it from scratch.

[retellers]

If it's not that different, then let's get the jar one if it's easier on you!

[ they are hovering around alex watching her work ]

[chanteuser]

Okay. It would be easier, maybe we can do a proper sauce another day.

[ there is a lot of cheese here too. she's going to pop the oven on and let it heat up, and then point to the cheese. ]

So, we just grate or slice as much of whatever cheese we want, and then we add the sauce and the cheese on top, finish it off with some herbs and seasoning and then pop it in the oven to cook.

You can make it more complicated by making everything from scratch? But if you're using ready made stuff it's really quick and easy.

[retellers]

Ooooh! I can do the cheese!

[ they clap. they can HELP. slicing or grating cheese is easy??? off they go except. there will be no slicing because there are no knives so they get the cheese grater ]

So it's not so bad when the stuff is already ready.

[chanteuser]

[ swan you're doing amazing, sweetie. ]

Right? There are reasons you don't want to eat it all the time, but cooking like this isn't a bad way to start. It's kinda difficult to mess it up.

[retellers]

Right. So you just put it on the dough and put it in the oven? There's no secret to it?

[chanteuser]

Yup. That’s it!

[ bread with stuff on it ]

When you get more adventurous with the toppings you get more varied flavours, but this one is still a tasty enough combo.

[retellers]

That makes the whole BBQ chicken thing make way more sense.

[ though they are still dubious about it ]

[chanteuser]

It's just barbeque sauce on chicken, you know. It's not that wild.

[ remember the pineapple?

anyway sauce is going on the pizza base, and she's being decently generous with it because it's not like she had to buy this sauce herself. ]