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august 26, 2021
12:50 a.m.
square-k convenience store
[yunha] first of all, i would want dr. pepper.
[yunha] i don’t like sodas that much, but i love dr. pepper. it’s the kfc of sodas.
[grant] 11 secret herbs and spices? but liquid?
[yunha] exactly! it’s like cola and not cola, root beer and not root beer, spicy and not spicy.
[yunha] maybe it sounds dumb, but...
[grant] no, no, not at all! honestly, you're doing big-brain science over there, decoding all the flavors.
[grant] have you heard of hot dr. pepper?
[yunha] what?
[grant] hot dr. pepper. it’s a thing, i swear! like a sixties thing but some people are still into it. i'm not making it up.
[grant] and speaking of coffee and hot dr. pepper, one of my aunts drinks it in the morning instead of coffee.
[yunha] that’s so strange. why hot?
[yunha] won't it just lose the carbonation?
[grant] i don't know, i don't really want to partake in drinking it, but if i were a betting man, i would say yeah, that's probably the outcome.
[grant] anyway, continue! dr. pepper. i respect that. great choice. i'm loyal to faygo but i do fuck with dr. pepper.
[yunha] how can i continue after that sudden trauma?
[grant] would you like me to procure you a cold dr. pepper to rinse out the agony?
[yunha] no, it's okay!
[grant] well, the offer is still on the table! i'm not evil.
[yunha] anyway, the last part of my meal would be seolleongtang.
[grant] oh, that's ox bone stew, isn't it?
[yunha] yes! it's not even my favorite food, but if i knew my expiration date, i'd want to prepare it and eat it one more time.
[grant] why choose that then?
[yunha] it reminds me of my family. we had some, hm, difficult times, and i remember my dad making this for us, especially for my mom to improve her mood. it's actually her favorite food.
[grant] that's very sweet. like beyond sweet. it's more about invoking that feeling of love again than the literal food, yeah?
[yunha] of course. i would like to feel that love again and also share it, and thank my parents for everything.
[yunha] i wouldn't need anything else.
[grant] you really love your family.
[yunha] more than anything.
[yunha] okay, now tell me your final meal!
[grant] i can tell you the ideal one would not be as humble as yours.
[grant] i mean, my logic for myself is, like, alright, i'm about to slowly turn back into cosmic dust, with or without a consciousness somehow floating around the universe, so screw it, do whatever.
[grant] i'm already going "home," so why not go big?
[grant] so, it’s my last day on earth. i'm at my place chilling with my cat.
[yunha] you have a cat?
[grant] his name is turtle. he’s very cute. he wears sweaters. he was a stray. i picked him up years ago from underneath a dumpster at IHOP at two in the morning, and i nursed him back to health.
[yunha] aww, i always wanted a cat. like some cuddly, fat, fluffy cat.
[grant] you should get one! i highly recommend it.
[yunha] i can’t! not yet.
[grant] do you want to see a picture of turtle before i imagine my untimely death? funny, i was just saying to someone else earlier that i want a timely one.
[grant] there he is, right on my home screen.
[yunha] oh my goshhhhh, i love him.
[grant] he's the best. no joke. but again, last meal. turtle and i are chilling, and yeah.
[grant] i absolutely have to have my grandma’s macaroni and cheese. it’s perfection and also my favorite food of all time. uhh, let’s see, i think you almost always need potatoes with a meal. i'd be happy with my grandma’s colcannon, like mashed potatoes and cabbage. what else? i mean, not to talk about coffee again, but i do love it, so maybe a vanilla latte for liquid consumption. oh, and fuck, coconut cake is a must. that’s my grandma’s recipe, too
[grant] i'd also have pizza for sure. pineapple is nonnegotiable, it's going on there. pineapple, pepperoni, the whole works.
[yunha] so, you’re a big fan of dairy products and your grandma?
[grant] that about sums it up!
[yunha] did you, like, grow up on a dairy farm?
[grant] no, but my grandma did!
[yunha] ah, i see. it's all connected.
[yunha] so, you like talking about death?
[grant] i don't. it just seems to come up a lot accidentally.
[grant] but really, i asked you this question because it's just, i don't know, an interesting way to get at people's values in life?
[grant] and it was just what came out of my mouth first.
[yunha] we answered kind of similarly. what did you learn about me?
[grant] same values, different approaches, i'd say.
[yunha] by the way, my other value is pineapple belongs on pizza.
[grant] oh, thank god! finally, someone else agrees!
[yunha] corn is also really good as a topping.
[grant] man, i feel deprived now. where have you been the last thirty years? you could have told me such a feat of engineering exists!
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