Truly, I can understand if it's undercooked or burnt.
It's hard to navigate with older oven
But I don't understand how you can make something so pretty but so evil tasting
Yeah! And why is there a whole fish inside? Even if the recipe says you need a whole fish, doesn't it make sense to cut it or incorporate it in the filling? It's like they threw her common sense out the window.
I think they added the scene for comedic relief, but I think it's gonna look more funny if one of the monsters or Izek bit the pie and their teeth fall off because it was too hard. Not the "it tastes bad but I won't tell her because I love her".
this is just my own opinion, but i think it also plays in the role that Ruby was pretty much always 'babied' and she had to play along with it all her life. even in her past life, she was abused badly im sure she barely was able to do anything or taught anything in her life. ruby's entire life had her role as only being a pretty 'princess' js living 'lavishly' and especially cesare who was obsessively in 'love' with her and wouldve definitely wanted her to live at peace (even tho hes the one causing her pain) and seems like the type of guy who wouldnt want her to have to do anything. but i will agree the art was definitely over-exaggerating w the fish stuff tbh, i think thats why in the novel it was better bc im guessing her pie js tasted bad not so comedically absurd
I'm also not a huge fan of this trope but mostly only annoys me when it's dragged on for too long. Someone just tell them they suck so they get better! The gag isn't funny the fifth time around!
However, there is one instance of this trope that I came across that I actually liked. The character in question had the ability to eat anything so to her, her cooking was delicious. She just didn't understand that an ingredient that she added because it made the dish pleasantly spicy was, in fact, poison that would kill a normal person 10 times over. And also she needed to be told that humans can't eat rocks. So her insane cooking made sense. Also, she got better at cooking by working really hard at it. I thought that was well done and funny.
Girl nobles didn’t have to cook, they had servants for that, plus Ruby in her past life lived in a rich family where they had servants to cook as well probably, Ruby hated food because of her Bullimia and it’s understandable that she has never gone close to the kitchen.
And to those people who complain abt fish, fish is there just to show that her cooking is bad, if there was some greenish or blackish thing instead of a fish it would seem grosser. You guys complain abt everything it’s such a non issue just enjoy the read and silly moments
i don't really like the "this character can't/sucks at cooking" trope. Like, it kills the characterization of that person for me. I get that in her case she doesn't like eating and food in general because of her ED but like there's no reason you can't cook a decent meal with your resources. You're literally a princess living in a mansion, even if you had no help making that pie, you can just browse a cooking book and follow the instructions.
Hell, you're not even dumb, girl. You literally planned to make yourself look pitiful so they'd never suspect you of being a villainess.
Sorry for the rant. I just hate this trope with all my heart.