(02-16-2022, 03:56 PM)robkelk Wrote: "Six burners, four ovens, and a big fridge. It's a start, Donaldson-san... but where are the bamboo steamers? Where are the woks? Where's the mixer?"
"There's a mixer on the bottom shelf of the prep table."
"Oh, there it is. It's a household mixer, just like the household blender. They'll do for now. If that's the prep table, why does it have a coffee-maker and a microwave oven sitting on it?"
"I couldn't figure out any place else to put them. We were lucky to be able to squeeze this much commercial gear into the kitchen, Mako-chan."
"We need some cupboards, or at least some shelves. I'm going to be needing a lot more equipment than just what's here. And can we get a bigger sink, please?"
"Where would we put it?"
And if it was Benjamin, this would be where he gets that oh-so-serious look (the kind where the cartoon character pushes their hat down onto their brow to enhance the glower they're wearing), says "Hrmph", and goes straight to his computer to start laying out a design for new kitchen.
And he will somehow manage to Tetris in everything Makoto wanted, though at a cost of having the absolute minimum space needed to move around inside. As my brothers might say, "It's not even a two-butt kitchen." (Referring to how many butts you can fit in there without undue hindrance to food prep.)
And if Makoto were to complain? Ben would simply grin and say, "Mako-chan. You of all people should know this. What you order is what you eat."
(This would be especially funny if others overheard the exchange and announced that Ben just brutally murdered a Sailor Senshi like it was nothing. I bet it'd be the cause for another epithet for Benjamin to go with all the others he has.)