Re (golden_elder) wrote in deities_dot_com, @ 2014-07-21 15:31:00 |
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Entry tags: | ~re, ~zeus |
Age Before Beauty (tag: Zeus)
The problem with Pop-Tarts was their availability. One generally didn't go to the Egyptian marketplace and find street vendors selling them. There were a few countries where they were more common, but among those, the best selection by far was found in the U.S. So every few months, Re took a trip and stocked up. Raspberry and cherry were his favorites, but his purchases were never limited to just those. Variety was the spice of life, after all.
If he got a few odd looks pushing a shopping cart full of cases of Pop-Tarts, Re just smiled in his friendly way and overlooked them for the most part. He had the look of a well-dressed yet senile man, so let them think what they would. They got their money, he got his Pop-Tarts, and everyone was happy. He also never went to the same town twice, because how boring would that be? They might go home, mention the old guy that bought a shit-ton of Pop-Tarts, and that would be the end of it. They'd go on with their day to day lives, and forget it ever happend.
This shopping trip he'd decided to visit Louisville. He had a bit of a hankering for some southern style cooking. Southern might be a relative term, but the cuisine was unique in that part of the world. So after shipping his Pop-Tarts off to his Cairo home with a wave of a hand, Re asked about for a place to have lunch.
Jack Fry's came highly recommended. He was told, in fact, that it was as Louisville as Louisville got, whatever that meant. Sounded a bit too much like a slogan to him, but he decided to give it a whirl. He hailed a cab and a short time later found himself inside a restaurant decorated with old photos. Quaint, was the thought that immediately came to mind. As he waited for someone to seat him, he looked at the historical representations of everything from old city streets to boxing to horses that had obviously once run in the Derby. He could respect the desire to record what had come before.