Fire Fly Feast Cherry

Six zebras pull a gold encrusted carriage with blacked out windows though the parting crowd. When it finally stops swaying a chubby man in a purple cassock clutching an ornate bowl emerges, he is the high priest and the Fire Fly King's top food taster.

He waddles over to the podium, idly stabbing something in his bowl as the crowd kneels all around. Suddenly he catches one and stuffs it in his mouth, you hear a crunch like fresh carrot and then another jumps from his bowl, it lands on your arm and jumps off again to freedom!

It was a locust!

And the priest chews away obviously enjoying his little hopping treat. Everyone else is kneeling, so perhaps it would be best if you kneeled too?

(All kneel)

Then the high priest speaks, mouth open and chock full of mashed up locust, chomping away like a washing machine and begins to speak.

'I am the high priest, and it is my ordained task to preside over my lord, The Fire Fly King's dinners.'

'It is decreed' he says 'that The King must never, ever' and he waits a second before continuing, 'EVER eat the same meal twice, if he were to do so, then a terrible calamity would befall him.'

He pauses for a moment scanning the crowd, his tiny dark eyes deep set in a pudgy white face, looking like bright beads pushed into wet clay.

'YOU have been chosen as the King's sacred tasters' and he points at you with his chubby fingers.
'YOU have been trusted with the King's life.'
'YOU will choose a single meal which the Fire Fly King has NEVER tasted before.'

At each point he stabs at his bowl making the point that if you choose badly then you will be skewered just like one of his locusts!

'Chosen tasters' he says, 'all rise'

(Everyone stand up)

A ceremonial knife longer than your arm and encrusted with jewels from hilt to tip is placed in priest's hand.

With a lazy motion he raises it high and then brings it down onto a taught ribbon, this is the signal. Simultaneously a flag is raised, a bronze bell swung and an hour glass is turned with its sands beginning to pour from one chamber to the other, counting down the hour.

It is the signal you have been waiting for, so you pick up your notes and head over to the chefs and their kitchens throughout the arena. Your team must choose a dish of food which the King has never eaten before and then wonder just how on earth are you going to do that!

Now take your marking sheet and head out to the field kitchens to find something exotic as if your life depended upon it!

As you approach the stall you see snake slushy it looked like sewer water and poison the chef put some eyes and blood in like ketchup the chef gave it to me and You eat and drank it was a bit good but in total you gave it three out of ten. It tasted like Pepsi cola and swimming in a pool full of money

You went to the next stall and you see spider sausage
You go to order a minute later the waiter comes with your order you started to eat yum you shouted in a high voice You gave it a five out of ten I love it then you go to the next stall


and you see pig pepper you go up and order you go sit down till the waiter gives it to you and eat it in 5 chews lovely you said You can't wait for more food I give it ten out of ten
You walk to the next stall

you see locus pie you order for the fourth time and wait for five minutes you eat and eat but then You spat it out I gave it one out of ten you went to the multi store and brought every thing again but with ankles stew you gave it all ten out of ten

It was the best day for you it gave you a nasty blood blister on your mouth but it all tasted nice you go home and make twenty posters about the best shop you have been to for twenty years you put up a new poster for that shop every day they even brought you a movie because you made two hundred people gose there every day and it will always be your favriot restraint in the world

As you approach the stall there will be loads of balloons which are diffrent colours and there were flags with foxes and Moses on them. In the tent there was a table with two chairs behind it so that the Tom and Tilly would beable to sit down and not stand up so there legs didn't hart. And on the table there was some roasted fox and some moose milkshake and some red bages with foxes and Moses on them.

As you approach the stall you see a banner with a sheep on it and some plates stacked up like a tower and a giant cooker, then then the chef did the most incredible thing ,he got a sheep and stuffed it into a massive blender and blended it you can see a lot of blood in the blender then he poured the mixture into a cup and gave it to a robot the robot then walked over to you and gave it to you, you paid and looked at it it looked vile suddenly a gust of wind breezes by and spills your drink but you drink it anyway,it tasted like lamb chops as a drink but soon you tasted the wool but it wasn't so bad, then you start walking to the next stall.

As you approach the stall you see a banner with kittens flicking pythons painted on. The chef then did the most incredible thing He cut the juicy skin of a python and cobra and put in dryed snakes blood and a snakes tounge and mixed it all together and added in some rotten egg.It looked disgusting but you had a spoon of it and it tasted like Ice cream with chocolate in it. It was incredible, like being on a roller coaster at top speed.It was the perfect meal for the fire fly King.

As you approach the stall there are flags with lady bugs on and red peppers on the flag.There are some badges on the tent it has lots of red on the badges.
The tent was a bright red with a table inside and a small wooden chair behind the table.
To get a lady bug pepper to you ,you get a mini hot air balloon with some tissue underneath your lady bug pepper and some tissue on top.Sometimes you might hear the lady bugs buzzing around inside the pepper.

How you make lady bug peppers is you crush the lady bugs but not every single lady bug make sure you leave three or four and don't let them fly away. Then get the pepper make sure it's red, cut the top of the pepper off, then stuff the crushed lady bugs inside. Cook the pepper and the crushed lady bugs when it looks a bit brown then add the living lady bugs. Then put the top of the pepper back on it make sure it is firm.

Then you have ladybug grub.

This would be excellent for the king.

As you approah the big stall it is a flamingo carriage going to every house it had a big basket for all of the money. It has pigs on the flamingo a multicolour flag at the top and it says pig pizza come buy a pig pizza

The chef chopped up the muddy pigs nose and ears and mixed it up with pig blood ad then from a little box marked chicken teeth he added a little sprinkle just for good measure.

It tasted amazing like a shampoo strawberry cake, this will be good for the king.

Back at the podium the flag is lowered as the last grain of sand falls through the hour glass timer. The high priest is reclining on plump purple cushions looking fat and bored.

There is one long table set out in a line in front of him and you place your offering on it. As you do this three servants wheel over a small crane which they swing over the priest and begin to clip into his reclining cushions. At a simple nod they hoist him up until his feet begin to dangle then carry him over to the offerings, yours is last in line.

The first one reads 'Sticky Ant Pant Pudding' and a servant then puts a fork into the gooey cake and feeds the priest just like a baby, but the priest doesn't chew for long, he spits it out into a waiting copper dish.

'8th August, St Pucid the unfortunates celebratory dinner, second sitting' he says followed by the word 'execute.'

Is that the date the King gets to eat this you think? But no, the guards drag that team of sacred tasters away in a very rough fashion indeed!

Next up is 'Woodlouse Falafel' and again the same thing happens.

A fork of the food is lifted into the priests mouth, he tastes it for just a second then spits it out before saying 'the King ate this on the 6th September, St Leonids celebrations, fourth sitting.'

Then he says once again 'execute.'

Guards approach the quivering group as they begin to plead for their lives!

'Next' and the crane swings the high priest down the table, dish after dish is tasted, and after each a date and celebration reeled off when the King ate this before, followed by the terrible word 'execute!'

Next up is 'Wire Worm Waffles' it's the last one before yours and is a beautiful plate of mini waffles, drizzled with a glistening fiery sauce which is steaming nicely and looking rather appealing. The worms themselves are quite easy to see and the priest readies himself for more disappointment.

He sips a glass of water to clear his pallet as a fork of waffle is placed in his mouth. The crowd hold their breath, three chews is all it gets before he spits it out, and pronounces.

'19th July, St Alfred's feast, the King ate this as a canapé. . . . execute!'

The pudgy priest is then craned along the table to your offering, he peers at it but his clay features are really hard to read.

A fork is lifted and the priest is fed baby style once again.

He takes a bite, you just don't know what to do, if it's bad then you'll be executed just like all the others!

He begins to chew, the crowd is silent. . . . he then chews some more . . . then some more, and rather than spitting it out, he swallows, does that mean he likes it!?

'13th February, The Fire Fly Kings birthday celebrations.'

Oh no has the King has already eaten this meal?

But the priest continues, 'this will be a fitting dish for that date.'

Thank goodness what a relief, it would appear you have chosen wisely.

'Now that concludes this session, I suggest we reconvene at 2.30 for the second selection.'

Rather pleased you've escaped execution, you ask the person next to you what he means by second sitting. 'Oh later today you've got to go back out tasting again and find a new dish for the King.'

Oh no not again, you think to yourself, this is impossible, but there is no escape!