Challenge
What Food Are You?
If you were a food what would you be? Describe yourself as an ingredient or an entire meal in detail. Only you will know how you taste. Explain you're reasons for why you are that food and tell us about yourself. Maybe you whisk up a secret or perhaps you open the fridge of your life. You may just want to peel back the layers of a unique tick that makes you, you. What you serve to us, write it in the form of a delicacy, a dessert, a savory snack, or pick something blander like a potato. Bonus points for more than one course, and partial bonuses for each side dish. Any form is welcome. 500 Word MAX. Happy Writing!
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Jambalaya
I’m a mess of shit in a bowl,
spicy, smoked,
maybe left on the stove a little too long
and not stirred quite enough
so the bottom sticks to the pot
and no matter how hard you try,
you just can’t scrape it out,
and if you tried,
you’d scratch up your favorite bowl.
I’m andouille sausage and shrimp and crawfish and rice and vegetables,
a little French, and yes a little African
because my children, the people I love the most in this world
are brown-skinned and beautiful.
And it’s all mixed together
in a brown rue,
looking like a jumbled mess,
and tasting delicious, savory,
comfort with a kick.