I worked out a small issue on APoS, specifically in Book One but also Book Two. I acknowledged that it's important the reason Brendan eats the first meal he's aware of at his aunt's -- a chicken drumstick well-fried -- using a knife and fork is because that's what he does when he's invited into Joanna's house. He's escorted her and her friends home after the celebration fleadh and let her parents think he's a Protestant from the Fountain area of the Bogside so invite him to dinner. Joanna's brother, Charles, is suspicious, but Brendan puts up a good front and deliberately eats a chicken leg in the same way he saw one of his repair clients do.
He fixed an elderly lady's television and she shared the remains of a chicken dinner with him. He was fascinated by how she picked the meat off the bones by using only a knife and fork, so he jokingly uses that to make himself seem even more refined than he really is. Everyone's surprised, but it works...and when he heads home it's with the request he call, again. But then Charles remembers where he's seen Brendan before -- at the bus depot cleaning his hands in snow in the gutter -- so chases him down with some friends and starts to beat him. Brendan manages to get away almost unscathed.
The dinner at Joanna's is all input, now. And I added a note on the first title page to figure out the best place to add Brendan seeing how to eat chicken.
As for Kingston, this is one of those towns were getting anywhere means circling around and around just to cross from one side of the main drag to the other, and it will never be known for its cuisine. I finally had dinner at a 5 Guys and bought lunch for tomorrow at Target. It worked, fortunately, since we'll be 40 minutes away from anyplace with food.
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