Owen's Thanksgiving Musings

[donutsweeper]

Title: Owen's Thanksgiving Musings
Pairing/Rating/Warning: none, rated G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Owen's not enjoying Thanksgiving as much as everyone else
Author's note: Eighth in the powdered sugar crack!fic series. To figure out the secret ingredient Jack used for his bread pudding look at the recipe here.

Owen pushed the food around on his plate.  It wasn’t that bad, but it wasn’t particularly good either.  The turkey was dry and there wasn’t any gravy.  The green beans were squeaky, the black bits in the stuffing tasted odd, and bread pudding?  He’d always hated the stuff.

He looked up when Tosh commented about it being warm in the room.  The others seemed to be rather enjoying the meal.  Ianto looked lost in a blissful fog and Gwen was doing something with her turkey drumstick that should be illegal. 

Wait a minute, what was secret ingredient in the pudding?

Comments

[hellenebright.livejournal.com]

I can feel my arteries clogging and my feet falling off just looking at that recipe.....

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Isn't that recipe just a smidge scary?

[hellenebright.livejournal.com]

It is - especially when you make english bread pudding (as opposed to bread and butter pudding) with an ounce of sugar to half a pound of stale bread.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Gone on Owen love (OMG did I really just use those 2 words in the same sentence?) force some down - you *know* you want to!

I really don't want to know what she's doing with those drumsticks either!! :O

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

poor Owen, he's always left out of alien donut loving

[unfeathered]

Awww, bout time too! :-)

What I want to know is: where's Jack???? *g*

[fandom-me.livejournal.com]

Under the table - that's why Ianto's blissed out.

Um. Sorry. Yes. FANTASTIC drabble and I grinned.

[eumenidis.livejournal.com]

The way Owen's luck is running, he'll turn out to be in the .001% of lifeforms in the universe those donuts don't work on.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

or he'll never even get a chance to try them. I almost feel sorry for the poor boy

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

LOL! These continue to be just tons of fun. And let me just say that "squeaky" is the best description of frozen green beans ever.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

isn't it? I really am not a huge fan of green beans so had to just slip that in there... :)

[issuesgrrrl.livejournal.com]

NO GRAVY? ::is aghast at the sacrelige!:: You can cover a multitude of cooking sins with gravy (and it has almost as many uses as a stopwatch!)
;^)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

gravy MAKES the thanksgiving meal what it is- you need it for the turkey and potatoes and stuffing and well, everything. But I think Jack was a little to focused on the bread pudding to remember about the gravy...

[cloverdilly.livejournal.com]

I thought this was wicked cute and funny. My only thing is this, and I probably just missed the explanation somewhere: why are a bunch of Brits celebrating Thanksgiving? I'm just going to blame Jack.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

In theory Jack's American, so I figured, why not let him make everyone dinner. It's all an excuse for the alien donut bread pudding anyway...

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

holy. shit.

I'm going to Krispy Kreme when I get home.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

makes you look at kripy kremes in a in a whole new light, doesn't it?

[wildchildcait.livejournal.com]

i also have to ask...as thanksgiving is not celebrated over here....would owen even see the point of having a thanksgiving meal

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

well, when the boss provides it and says 'I went through a lot of work to make this for you' I assume he'd eat it. It's dinner and free afterall

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

*Grins* eat it, Owen! Don't get left out again!

I don't want to know what Gwen is up to with her drumstick o_O and... squeaky green beans? I hate those!

Fun stuff, as always!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

aren't squeaky green beans the worst! Poor Owen, he's just never going to win when it comes to alien donuts, is he?

[secbeth.livejournal.com]

*hugs Owen* I love this... you know I had donuts at work today!!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oooh, donut! Hopefully it was a normal earth donut, but either way, good for you!

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Hee, poor Owen. I was rooting for him to finally get some this time.

I remember you said the word count was fighting you on this, but your food descriptions are *perfect* and admirably succinct. And Gwen and the drumstick, yikes! :)

Yay! I'm still digesting my Thanksgiving dinner, or I'd already be planning a trip to the donut shop in the morning. Alien threat be damned.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Owen'll get them eventually, but it's much more fun to tease him with them then let him taste success (literally and metaphorically). Drabbles are weird. So is worrying about word count. One of these days I'm going to save a drabble in all its various forms, edits and rewrites just to compare them

there's always time/room for donuts tomorrow. Or the next day