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I'll put stuff here later but for now IT'S JUST CARLY'S POKEGEAR LEAVE MESSAGE BYE

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[fingersandteeth]

I wonder if there's any that are calaca or calavera, even if they're not in this region. I'd love a ghost type that was one of those.

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Cala...eh?

What are those?

[fingersandteeth]

Calacas and calaveras are representations of skeletons and skulls, respectively. I just thought there ought to ghost-types that... well, look Mexican, really. Whatever counts for Mexico here.

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OhHhhhhhh...

I mean apparently there's a 'France' and a 'USA', so why not a Mexico?

[fingersandteeth]

Good point. And Jack's got to have gotten his Abuelita from *somewhere*. Which reminds me, I should probably put some more on the shopping list. If I'm going to be living here, it's not just the two of us that will be drinking it, but my ghosts too.

[insidescoop]

Abuelita?

Hooh! Yeah, don't count the pokemon out on a shopping list, they'll make sure you don't forget a second time!

....

Especially the ghosts and fairies....

[fingersandteeth]

Melting chocolate to make proper hot chocolate with. I ought to bring it down for the ghosts. Mm, and get some flan as well.

Honestly, though, it's times like these when I wish my cooking skills weren't so basic. Normally I'm happy just getting takeout or letting Jack do it (like he did last night), but I feel like I ought to feed my ghosts properly and most of the foods the dead like best are ones I don't have a lot of experience with.

[insidescoop]

Eh!? That's what it is??

That sounds so chocolatey...and sweet...

I mean basic cooking is still pretty good right? And you can like...work your way up from there, it's not like we have the same foods here anyway! I mean...there were certain rules for cooking with beef, or pork, or fish yeah?

But. They just kind of have weird unnamed meat here...

[fingersandteeth]

It's probably pokemon meat that they don't want us to think too much about where it comes from, honestly.

And yes, Mexican hot chocolate is the best, Carly. Anglo hot chocolate doesn't even *compare*. When you visit us in Goldenrod next time, I'll make you some.

[insidescoop]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I mean obviously but

I don't even know what 'Anglo' hot chocolate would be like!! I grew up in Japan!!

(But that sounds super nice!!)

[fingersandteeth]

Oh, right, sorry. 'Anglo' just means... well, white English-speaking American? I, uh, don't usually use it as an adjective except with people I'm close to who aren't, well, that. Because people can take it wrong.

But basically, it's that stuff made from powder and water. No thanks.

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Ohhhhhhhhhh

Oh instant stuff...

I mean I feel like we have instant, but like...Fancy instant...

...you definitely use something other than water.

i cannot BELIEVE they got sidetracked into a rant on hot chocolate

[fingersandteeth]

Yeahhhhhh. I mean, cocoa powder has its place. I get that it's good for baking. But real hot chocolate is a thousand times better.

and yet...here we are,

[insidescoop]

I've just never seen a cafe melt a bar of chocolate, y'know?

But boy, the drinks there sure taste better than those powder mixes...

Re: and yet...here we are,

[fingersandteeth]

Oh right, you have all those fancy cafes in Japan. With maids and cats and things.

[insidescoop]

What you're describing is like, the Poke-Mart of themed cafes.

We have so many cafes.

There are owl cafes.

[fingersandteeth]

Owl cafes.

Is that the weirdest cafe you've been to?

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Nope.

[fingersandteeth]

Come on, you have to tell me.

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So when you hear cafes, you think, 'relaxing' right?

'Calming'.

[Carly what are you leading into,]

[fingersandteeth]

........ yessssssss?

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Horror Cafes, Steven.

Dungeon themed. And lab themed. All kinds of them, really!

And they Exist.

[fingersandteeth]

I mean, they sound pretty cool to me. I'd go to one of them.

[SORRY YOU GOT THE SECRET CREEPYMAN, CARLY.]

[insidescoop]

...Okay yeah it was pretty cool.

But relaxing is not what it is when staff poke their head through jail cell bars to rattle chains at you or shout spooky things!

This is still a cafe!

[fingersandteeth]

... okay. That's not relaxing. *Cool*, but not relaxing.