826 boston's food writing club presents...
a menu of delicious writing
Appetizers
a collection of collaborative grocery lists
entrée
Everybody Likes Cake, Right?
Invader Zim Fan Fiction
Collaboratively written by Ashton Armand, Okasha Warsame, Omar Warsame, Abdullahi Salat, Sahra Warsame, and Christina Chaperon
Special thanks to Food Writing club co-leader, Emily Wu
Invader Zim of Planet Irk wanted to see humans destroyed.
Invader Zim was smart! He went to Earth and pretended to be human to steal all of the food and only leave cake. Everybody likes cake, right?
He made everyone on Earth fall asleep for days using a sleep bomb. While everyone was asleep, he brought his clones from Planet Irk to take all of the food. When the humans woke up, all food was gone except for cake. At first, people celebrated, because they loved cake and didn’t have to eat vegetables anymore… until they got sick of it.
When they went to the grocery store, every aisle was filled with cake. Farms had turned to mass production of modified wheat. People were outraged as they only had a limited supply of one food: cake. Meanwhile, Invader Zim was relaxing. He was investing in stocks and reading his favorite book, Diary of a Zimmy Kid.
A few years later, people had gotten used to eating only cake in their diet. Invader Zim had gotten what he wanted and left to go back to Planet Irk. He destroyed all the food he had stolen besides cake, and left behind a total mess.
Eventually, a virus started to spread easily. Eating only cake left them without enough energy, endurance, and health to combat it. Except for one person.
One person had hidden stalks of vegetables away by burying them underground so that no one could find them. Not even Invader Zim. This person was a vegetable hero. They were the only person who had enough strength to plant and grow more vegetables. The vegetable hero’s plants gave energy and a vaccine to those who ate the plants, which helped people get their energy back and get back to doing what they usually did.
Back on his planet, Invader Zim made a cake ray so he could have an unlimited supply of cake. He accidentally turned it to “Mega Super Turn Everything Into Cake Mode.”
Back on Earth, in the blink of an eye, everything turned into cake. People turned into cakes. The Earth was no longer round. It had turned into a cube cake.
desserts
a collection of sensory writing
The doorbell rings. The pizza man is at my doorstep with a box of my favorite PIZZA! I already know it looks good without even opening the box, and the smell starts to spread through the kitchen, which makes my stomach rumble. My favorite type of pizza is pepperoni since it tastes better than basic cheese pizza in my opinion. To be more specific, I like Domino's pizza since I noticed that the cheese tastes better than Pizza Hut's. Pizza Hut pizza feels like it has way too much cheese, which leads to me not eating the pizza. Also, Domino’s pizza looks better when placed side by side with a Pizza Hut pizza, which to me is true. Something that makes Domino's pizza really good is the garlic crust and how crunchy it is when you bite into it. The smell and taste of Domino's pizza never gets old for me, and it always makes me want to buy more from them since their pizza isn't disappointing to me.
by Alan Martinez
BBQ sauce is the last thing I add to my meal... everything is together now... I take a bite and taste the fries. Delicious... I dip it into BBQ sauce, and my mouth waters up... I eat two bites of the long... salty fry.... mmmmmm. I eat my salmon burger... the cooked salmon patty is warm like the toilet seat at home when I eat too much spicy food. I take a bite...the mayo drips down... the BBQ sauce mixes with it. I finish it and burp. That was a good meal, Mom!!
by Ashton Armand
Mac and cheese is yellow like a pencil with noodles that are short.
John is eating mac and cheese. He likes it. It’s his favorite food. A chef cooked it for him at a five-star restaurant. The crowded restaurant is in downtown Boston. There are a lot of people there and it’s expensive. It looks fancy, with diamond plates. He’s there with his friends, and he’s a billionaire.
He likes it because it tastes like nothing he’s ever tasted before.
His friends are jealous of his mac and cheese and they wish they ordered the same thing.
“That tasted sooo bad,” John said, even though his plate was completely empty.
by Abdullahi Salat