Chapter 202 - Food Etiquette

Shallot was sitting at the table with his team. Tucker, Caboose, and another person were bringing a lot of food. They had been bringing food for the last five minutes.

Everyone had started eating while Tucker brought Shallot's food to the table.

"So, what do you all plan to do for the next month?" Neptune asked.

Ozpin told all the students that all the students would get a break for a month and a half. Sun's team had to head back to their school.

"I plan to see my parents," Blake said as she wanted to tell her mom that she was pregnant.

"Me and Nora are going out to hunt for a certain Grimm that has been responsible for attacking villages." Lie Ren said, explaining what they were going to do.

"How strong is the Grimm?" Coco asked.

They had recently been looking around for information about shape-changing Grimm. It was the reason for failing their last mission. She thought it could be the same one as their previous mission.

"Was it capable of changing its shape?" Yatsuhashi asked, getting what Coco was hinting at.

Lie Ren didn't remember the Grimm having the ability to change shape as it was very hard to miss. It seemed like two separate Grimms fused. One-half horse while the other was a humanoid Grimm on for the upper half.

"No, that's not the Grimm that we are going after. The one we are planning to take down is the Nuckelavee Grimm." Lie Ren said.

"Yeah, we are going to destroy it this time!!!" Nora yelled, hoisting a chicken leg into the air.

Shallot had gotten his food and was getting ready to eat while putting his hands together to eat.

"What is he doing?" Sage asked, seeing Shallot holding his hands together.

"It's food honor from what I've heard from Weiss," Pyrrha said while picking up her spoon for some soup she ordered.

"What's food honor?" Sage asked.

"It's also known as Food Etiquette is both a customary and philosophical practice of etiquette that teaches gratitude for ingredients and a strict method of eating is complicated but necessary ways to bring out the authentic flavor and potential of specific components." Shallot explained after lowering his hands.

Ruby was eating some sweets that she had ordered, but she started to drool when she saw Shallot's plate.

On Shallot's plate was Sweet Potato Crostini with Prosciutto Honey Roasted Figs. He had decided to get this as his Hors d'Oeuvre.

Yang elbowed Ruby's side while trying to also focus on her food. She can't have her little sister drooling in a place like this. It wasn't a high class, but everyone could see that it was higher than average.

When she tasted the food, she could see why the price was higher than other places even though it wasn't a classy restaurant. She wondered if this place did delivery and catering.

She wanted to have a party celebration since Summer had returned. She was a great mother to her. Even if not by blood, she felt more like to daughter to her than her mother.

Jaune was amazed at the Garlic Steak Bites he had in front of him. It was tough to chew the last time he had steak, but it tasted as it would melt in his mouth. He never tasted meat that was so tender.

The others of Sun's team, besides Sage, were eating. Sage was thinking about the food honor that Shallot had explained.

"Does everyone on your team follow that?" Sage asked.

"No, only Shallot is like that. I tried doing that before, but it was too much work while eating." Blake said as she had a bowl and plate with different fish meals.

"Can changing the way you eat the food increase the flavor and taste of the food?" Sun looked up, interested in it.

"It can depend on what the food is. Machine processed food doesn't change as no emotion is put into it." Shallot explained.

"Does a banana taste different based on how you eat it," Sun asked.

"That depends on how the banana is grown and where. Since you want to know, the banana or anything grown also has to be treated differently." Shallot explained.

"So there is a science behind it?" Scarlet asked.

He wondered if he could get more nutrients from the foods he eats to grow stronger without doing more training.

Scarlet was wondering if this was the reason that Shallot was so strong.

"Is your use of Food Honor the reason that you are so strong," Sun asked while Shallot was eating the Figs in front of him. There was a tray of forty of them, usually enough for this size group. Shallot was eating the entire thing himself and had already ordered a soup to go after it.

"Cluck, Cluck, Cluck!!!"

*BANG*

"GOD DAMNIT CABOOSE!!! WHY DO YOU HAVE A LIVE CHICKEN!!!" Everyone could hear Church screaming from the kitchen.

"You said we were out of chicken Church. I went and got a chicken that was fresh like you asked." Caboose came from the kitchen.

"When did they leave to get more? I didn't see him go out of here." Tucker asked as he was busy taking food to tables.

"That a pretty good-looking Cock you got their Caboose." Everyone heard a higher-pitched male voice come through the door at the front.

Everyone turned to see someone with similar armor to the rest of the staff. The main difference was that it was pink while the others were all different shades of blue.

Yang burst out laughing hearing that while Sun was trying not to laugh as he still had food in his mouth. Neptune was drinking water when he heard that and spat it out, flying across from him, hitting Weiss.

Neptune realizing what happened, was screaming inside his head while Weiss looked at her outfit.

"What are you doing here, donut!" Church yelled from the back while looking around the corner. He felt as this was his worse day.

"We crashed here and found a signal that was coming from you all." Donut said.

"We didn't come from a ship, though?" Tucker said while placing some food on some tables for people.

"We followed the signature of Chuckles." Donut said in his high-pitched voice.

"How did you even find our shop." A female voice came in from behind Donut.

They had on the same type of armor like everyone else, except Grey instead.

"That great sign that you have outside let me know that you all were here." Donut said.

"The name Church's Spartan Restaurant did give us away," Tex said while pushing Donut out of the way, walking toward the back.

"I didn't see that sign? I was talking about the one on the side of the store." Donut said.

"Oh, that was mine. I wanted everyone to see my art." Caboose said, tilting his head up.

"He's daydreaming again, isn't he?" The new person said while going into the kitchen.

"Yes, Captain Caboose is the best, hahaha!!!" Caboose started laughing to himself.

"Does that answer your question, Tess?" Church said.

Weiss had stood up and started walking away from the table. She already knew where the washroom was from when she came here.