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What function does juice serve in the body of fruit? Is its role comparable to blood or is it simply the most plentiful liquid-like substance?

I have absolutely no idea what function juice serves in the body of the fruit.

I am finding the Google to be devoid of useful results as well, and the online encyclopedia has a wonderful article on fruit anatomy that talks very little about juice or its function.

Bother.

Well, it's certainly philosophical!

Maybe it's more like saliva?

I'm not sure which I prefer, the thought that I am drinking its blood--or, pardon the colloquialism, that I am "swapping spit" with it.

Circle of life!

What do you do when you kiss someone? It's not that weird.

Well, I don't kiss fruit.
(Literally speaking.)

But the whole...idea feels very. Vulgar. If you think too hard on it.

OMG, I forgot you're British. You have higher standards of poshness than a lowly pleb from backsand Arizona.

While we may not have an Arizona, let me assure you Britain is not Downton Abbey or Mary Poppins or whatever you may be picturing.

You just happen to be talking to a gay southerner; of course I have standards.

I was picturing Winston Churchill and your royal family and, like, Idris Elba.

Those are all British, right?

Idris Elba is from the East End. He'd probably disapprove of being called posh.

In a manner of speaking, I guess the royals are British.

So... posh means something different than 'high-class British person'?

How are the royals not British?

Posh implies luxury in excess, usually with a certain amount of snobbery and upper class condescending. Like Buckingham Palace. The Ritz. Victoria Beckham.

Whereas Idris Elba-- Well, I don't know the man, but he presents himself as somewhat charming and his roles are usually a bit tough; that combination of strikingly handsome and good in a suit that I think makes him a good James Bond sort of fellow. (Oh, but he is rather scrummy in a suit~!)

They are, but I would hardly consider them representative of the whole of British people.

So you're telling me Posh Spice is posh?

Funny how that works out.

Does British society work that way? Can a Spice Girl become part of the upper class?

My dear boy, Britain runs on capitalism just like the United States. If your family is wealthy enough, you are whatever class your wealth and lifestyle denotes. In terms of wealth, Mrs. Beckham and Mr. Elba are likely equals. Upper or upper middle class doesn't automatically start handing out peerages and estates. They're just wealthy people.

I believe she was named Posh because of her attitude, but I can't say I was up on gossip rags at the time.

So Posh Spice and Idris Elba are the same class, but Idris Elba is not posh?

He can be posh to you if you'd like him to be posh.

I feel like you're assigning poshness based on simply being British and therefore having a "fancy" foreign accent, and having money, instead of their public impressions. Posh has a certain "better than you" carriage to it. Even Mary Poppins thought she was "practically perfect in every way."

Ya... I'm lowest class American. There's rich people and not rich people, and that's really the only way to look at wealth over on this side of the pond.

I like my blood with a splash of rum.

What fruit blood goes with rum?

Pineapple. Makes you feel like you are in the tropics.

Do you add coconut?

I don't really know how mix drinks work.

And have chunks floating around in your drink? Nah! Coat the rim of the glass in coconut flakes. If you are feeling really fancy get one of those little pink umbrella's to float in it.

You've never been to a paradise themed bar before have you?

Why put coconut on the rim? Always thought that was a strange place to put it.

I have ADHD and PTSD and those meds do not mix with alcohol. Outside of juvenile experimentation with beer or straight liquor, I really don't have much experience with alcohol.

Decoration.

[ A frown. ]

Oversharing a bit. I never asked for your medical history.

Why would food only be used as decoration and not consumption?

That is nowhere near a complete detailing of my mental medical history. But people usually assume I don't drink because of an addiction and then they act weird. And embarrassment is one of the worst literal secondhand emotions to feel from other people.

Cause that's what people do... You're the guy that goes around actually eating the parsley garnish on a dinner aren't you?

You could have been a teetotaler for all I knew. It's none of my business.

Seems wasteful. Very American.

I have no religious convictions.

Very human.

And that's not exactly a religion...

Sure.

In America, temperance is pretty super mixed with religion. And that is not a look I want to express in this climate.

[ After a long blank stare, he begins speaking softly and with a slight shake of his head. ]

I... never said anything about temperance I said teetotaler, there's nothing religious about that. It means you don't drink. Maybe you don't like the flavor, maybe you get tipsy too quickly, maybe you are on meds that don't mesh well with alcohol, doesn't matter!

I'm trying to decide what you mean about the rest of that... Cause I'm a demon? I'm not going to swallow your soul if you accidentally sound religious.

What? My opinions on religion have nothing to do with you.

Then why did you bring them up? This was a silly conversation about fruit blood.

Because in America, the teetotaler movement isn't not religious, outside a few exceptions to the rule. Like everything else in this fucked up country, extreme religious ideologies are mixed up in everything and ruin everything.

And I am not about any of those religious nuts.

No, I can see that. You're a different kind of nut.

I could stick around and argue but there are better things to do. I'm going to go grab myself one of those pineapple rum cocktails and toast the fact I'm no where near as bitter as you.

Ciao!

[ He waves at the screen and signs off. ]