• Kowowow@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    One thing that comes up in the original book is dracula is apparently a really good cook but in some lore the can’t really eat food so I like the idea of dracula learning to cook then just tossing out the rest of the dish once he’s satisfied

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      10 months ago

      That doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Firstly an aristocrat in the late 1800s, especially one who had been around for a long time, would not cook their own food, that’s servant work. Secondly, vampires don’t generally gain sustenance from food, so why would he care? Finally, if this dude can’t eat garlic I question his ability to make tasty food

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        10 months ago

        I think it was a a curry but I could be totally since it’s been a while and at that point in the book he was telling johnathan that he lived alone so he at least wanted him to believe that he cooked it

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          10 months ago

          I’ve only seen the 1931 movie but didn’t he have Renfield as a servant? Plus he had help when he traveled from Transylvania to London. So it still doesn’t make sense to me

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            10 months ago

            I’m pretty sure renfield doesn’t show up till london as he’s in a psych ward there and it was johnathon’s job to set up the buying of a heart plus the trip to london