Apple Core 3: An Exacting Criteria

[downtoearthpony]

[Action A, grocery store]

[Applejack is at a grocery store, mostly to learn the lay of the land and get a few things she can afford with the strange money she's been able to scrounge up. There's not much in the basket she's carrying. Well, not much aside from all the apples.

She's about to head to the checkout when she finds herself in the candy aisle. She's just idly looking around when she notices one particlar product.]

Jolly Rancher? Never heard of that candy before... Oh hey, got some kinda apple-flavored ones? Hrrm, well Ah think Ah can afford some extra treats.

[She picks up a pack and notices another type of candy and figures to get them too.]

[Video, a little later than A]

[The video feed flips on with an angry looking Applejack sitting at some outdoor cafe table, wrappers and boxes of candy can be seen lying about.]

What is tarnation is wrong with you hue-mins?! These things all say apple on it, but none of them taste a lick like a real apple!!

[She gestures to one of the candies she picked up earlier, an Airheads Green Apple bar in this case.]

They're just sugar colored green and called apple! It's a disgrace, that's what it is! A disgrace to all things apples!!

And don't get me started on the actual apples Ah found in the stores! Just what are y'all doing that grows apples that taste so bad?!

[Action C, that evening at simple diner]

[So if you were thinking about having a nice, quiet dinner, you're out of luck. Applejack is argueing with a waitress, standing face to face with them as she glowers.]

Ah'm telling you, this isn't apple pie, this is an abomination of nature!! Where's the cook who made this?! Where's the kitchen?! Ah'll show you how it's done!

[The poor woman has no idea how to answer this and pretty much just cowering. Applejack is too wound up to notice, maybe someone should calm AJ down before they call the police...]

Comments

[Action C] - Because I don't know why I went with out Applejack CR for so long

[namedforcat]

[And he's just going to go over there and see if he can settle things down a little...]

What seems to be the problem here.

Oh man, and then I find this so much later.... T_T

[downtoearthpony]

[Applejack is still in the waitress' face as she answers the passerby.]

The problem is this thing they're trying pass as a decent dessert!

[She gestures at the plate on the table near her, a slice of apple pie with only one bite taken from it resting on top.]

Ah'm not joking about showing how it's done, let me in that kitchen and give me an hour and you'll see how terrible of a crime that thing is!

Dude, don't worry about it. /pets

[namedforcat]

That's no reason to assault the poor waitress however. It's not her problem, it's the kitchens.

[downtoearthpony]

Exactly, the kitchens! Which is why Ah'm demanding they let me back there! Ah'll teach them to make a proper pie if it's the last thing Ah do!

[namedforcat]

[Gaignun is beginning to wonder if AJ was raised in a barn, and not in the good way.]

That's...look, just complain and then don't have the pie. They don't have the insurance to let random people back into the kitchens.

[downtoearthpony]

[Of course she was raised in a barn! And she's raised barns as well! But what does that have to do with good apple pie?]

Ah already complained, but that's not going to help the others who have to be forced to eat these terrible things! If Ah don't show those cooks how to do it right, then who will?

[namedforcat]

They'll muddle it through, that's what patron comments are for. You get enough of them and the restaurant changes, like any other sensible business.

[downtoearthpony]

Ah'm starting to think they aren't sensible at all! And why should we wait when it's obvious the change needs to happen now? You make a bad apple pie, you learn to do it right!