I was whirring up zucchini in my tiny food processor wanna-be, and decided to give some to the Finsters, so I put a spoonful on the usual clay-colored dish and took it over to the Finsterium. Tea had been watching me, and was hovering in mid-air in front of the door, waiting. Let me repeat that: Tea was hovering in mid-air in front of the door, waiting for me. Neat! He was the first to check out the diced/grated zucchini, but the other five Society Finsters were right behind him. Yum!

As usual, Frank and Sally weren't interested at all. Except for Evil things, the Societies will check out something new right away. They're very curious birds, but Frank and Sally are timid. It took about a year of being in the Finsterium for the White-headed Nuns to eat anything except seeds. They'd watch the Societies snacking on lettuce, corn, etc. Eventually, they started hopping over to the vegetables, looking closely, and saying "These aren't tasty seeds." After a few months of that, they finally tried them. Now they eat lettuce regularly, an occasional piece of corn, but that's about it besides seeds. Still, not too bad.

I offered Peanut a bit of zucchini in my hand. As usual, he tasted it, and then proceeded to ignore it. But knowing how much he likes to eat food from spoons and things, I offered him the bowl of the food processor. He started squeaking, he grabbed a piece, and flicked it on the floor. After flicking about 20 zucchini bits onto the floor, he got tired of the game, and walked away. I'm hoping he got a molecule or two of vegetable inside of him.