"Just what exactly is that oaf doing?" Sir Percival Hacklethorn mused while facing his opponent. This matchup had seemed quite fortunate for the preliminary round of the world cooking championship, yet Sir Hacklethorn had a nagging suspicion that his perfectly boiled lamb and his exquisite mint sauce wouldn't be able to hold their own in front of whatever monstrosity the American contestant was preparing. "Is that the fourth or the fifth steak that he's cut? And how come he used several pounds of potatoes already? Aren't the requirements limited to a dish for one person? Oh well, we'll soon see wether that bumbling idiot's attempts at cooking can hold a candle to my recipe. I'll just have to wait, maybe brew myself a nice cup of tea while everything cooks."
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"Now that's a proper meal!" Kyle "Big Chunks" Walker thought. The fries were being deep fried, and he'd deep fried the bread already. "Can't never go wrong with deep-frying, that's what my ma told me!", he yelled at no one in particular. He was building up the Ultimate American Burger, all 17 layers of it, and was almost ready to present it to the judges, it just lacked the Freedom Fries on the side and the surprise explosion for presentation. "Can't never go wrong with explosions!" His pa had told him on his last day on earth. That was very patriotic of him, dying on the 4th of July in a gigantic boom at the fireworks field. Kyle was confident that the judges would be awed by his presentation and that he'd advance in the next round to promote freedom, gunpowder and calories.