Given the time pressure, I’d expect Iron Chef Dialog to opt for something which doesn’t require writing so many footnotes.
I am expecting a translation puzzle from at least one of the competitors, if not both.
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Slouching Towards Bit-Bahiani!
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Mousse is a most acceptable cake ingredient. Layers of cake, layers of mousse? Heaven.
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The Iron ChIF, the prompt, and the language (Dialog) are very complementary of each other! I imagine two out of those three things were intentional.
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Certainly it’s intentional that Iron Chef Dialog (Draconis) is an expert in Dialog!
As for the challenge ingredient, three options were given to the two chefs, only one of which involved language. Each chef was allowed to eliminate one, and Pacian got second (i.e. final) choice, so he knowingly picked an ingredient in what is basically Draconis’s home turf. (He’s a fearless challenger, for sure.)
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I meant “Dialog” (dialogue) and language.
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ISTR that an essay, in reply to the generic criticism about movie creatures/critters (that must be physically compatible to the human who wear the prop…) delves in an elaborate reasoning about speculative exobiology, pointing that four limbs, prensility and an head was the “optimal balance” for a sentient being. Sadly I don’t remember much about this.
Personally, I think that sentient being with wings are to be assessed thru the core formula of areonautics, Lift/Drift, so IMVHO a world’s gravity is also an evolutionary factor, so sentient birds/bats are feasible in a world with low gravity and an atmospherical density not far from Earth’s.
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
The real questions are: Will C. E. J. Pacian add a fairy cake or an interdimensional spider cake? And will Draconis include a Hittite baker in their game after all?
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An interdimensional spider? Is it going to run off with the loot—surely all adventurers have loot!—between its pedipalps?
If you think about it, aren’t these all subcategories of shenanigans? 
Well, fairies are presumably extradimensional,,, and if they had eight legs they would be kind of like spiders,,,
I wonder if interdimensional spiders would purchas names?
Interdimensional Adventurer of Mystery: “My ‘I am not a spider’ t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.”
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Jinx! I posted something similar in the main thread. Fairy cake sounds nicer. Do you juice the fairies? Grind them up? Caramelize them?
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I’ve heard the protagonist of Fate say that you only need to cut off their wings and grind those down to a fine powder. Don’t worry. They’ll grow back. Usually.
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I had imagined cakes made by interdimensional spiders or fairies (if the protagonist of Pacian’s game will indeed be a fairy), but cakes made from spiders would undoubtedly be an interesting culinary experiment. Another possibility is that the interdimensional spider is disguised as a cake, and that’s how no one noticed it.
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“Why is one of our party members a cake?”
"It’s good at sponging off the rest of us?”
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Now I’m imaging some Zeuhl-ish music with an IF tie-in.
Sometimes the puns that sail past at the time are the best ones. Also, sailing past protects then from being shot down by nearby pun-haters.
-Wade
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What were the two rejected ingredients?
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For now, that’s a secret. Those two options have gone back into the pool in case there will be a season one. (Only Draconis and Pacian have seen them, so they could theoretically be used in another episode with a different defending Iron Chef.)
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EDIT: otis supplied the response while I was typing.
-Wade
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