Advent Drabble 7 - Christmas Flavors

[earlgreytea68]

For chocolamousse 

When you think about it, there’s a shocking lack of food in the Twelve Days of Christmas. Unless you count all the birds, which – John thinks about Perdy the partridge and decidedly does not count any of the birds in the carol as food. So that just leaves him with the maids a-milking, he supposes.

He is aware that he could make any number of Christmas foods – plum pudding, or a Christmas trifle – but it needs to be Twelve Days of Christmas-related. It’s romantic.

John makes them simple cups of steamed milk with honey and cinnamon. Sherlock, gratifyingly, gets it.

Comments

[chocolamousse]

Aaaaaaah, it's my prompt!

When you think about it, there’s a shocking lack of food in the Twelve Days of Christmas.
I never thought about it but now I do and I agree, shocking is the right word, tsk tsk, how disappointing, it's Christmas for God's sake!

The mention of Perdy made me smile, I love this verse so much.

Steamed milk with honey and cinnamon is a great idea, it's comforting and Christmassy and a nod to Sherlock's love for bees. Of course Sherlock gets it!

Thank you so much for this drabble, it tastes as delicious as John's milk, I love it! And now I crave a Christmas trifle. *drools a bit*

[earlgreytea68]

Thank you so much for the prompt! It made me look at the Twelve Days of Christmas and realize for the first time about there being no food! Amazing!! What an oversight! But John's solution sounds delicious to me frankly. :-)

Happy Holidays!

[chocolamousse]

Happy holidays to you too and thank you again for the drabble and for not balking at writing for this verse year after year. There's a (very very slight) possibility that I'm hooked on this fic!

[rereader]

John’s solution does sound lovely. (And we had snow flurries today in NY!)

[rifleman_lincoln]

Oh that's lovely - milk for John and honey for Sherlock. The perfect combination.

And yes, it's weird that there's no food in the 12 days of Christmas . . .

[earlgreytea68]

Considering what a big deal food is for the holiday!!