[X] <Persuade (60%)> Try to convince Melinda into telling everyone.
-[X] Ask Coral first and then move on Melinda. You are curious and it would be harder for Mel to refuse if someone answered first.
[X] Change the subject.
-[X] Ask Ruby why her team doesn't seem to have any food in front of them.
"So, Ruby..." you suddenly change the subject, "Did you guys eat before us? I noticed your team doesn't have any food in front of them."
"Oh yeah, we ate before class this morning." Ruby answers, "We're just here to hang out."
"So what did you eat?" Coral asks.
"I-I'm not going to--"
"We had a pancake breakfast." Argent answers, "Though I must reaffirm that if we had to have had a sweet breakfast made of batter, I would've much preferred waffles. Not stating that the pancakes were bad, though, but the flawless geometry of the waffle is something that cannot be surpassed by a mere pan-fried cake."
"Heresy!" Nora exclaims.
"Oh no, not again..." Ruby whimpers.
"Like I said before, pancakes are the best breakfast food, especially Ren's. How dare you mock such perfection!"
"Please explain to me how you believe pancakes are better." Argent adjusts his glasses, "With a pancake the syrup and butter are free to spread everywhere and create quite the mess, but a waffle can hold pockets of syrup and butter in its perfectly square receptacles, making it comparable to a honeycomb and preventing a net loss of syrup to the plate. Waffles are also crispy, and tend to become less soggy than pancakes when exposed to syrup for the same duration of time. Additionally, they can be applied to breakfast sandwiches better than pancakes, which are simply way too flimsy to serve the same purpose. Therefore, with all due respect, the evidence clearly suggests that waffles are the statistically superior choice for breakfasts of this nature."
"But you can't stack waffles! That's what makes them lame! You can stack as many pancakes as you want, though!"
"Yes, but that would result in a large percentage of plain, dry pancake, as only the top pancake and the sides of the stack would get sufficiently coated in syrup. Waffles are significantly more syrup-efficient."
"Well, that's why you layer the syrup with the pancakes!"
"What sane person would do that? That would rapidly make them soggy."
"You can also make pancakes shaped like whatever you want!"
"I fail to see how that is a relevant reason to suggest their superiority. It's still a pancake no matter what it resembles. Again, I fail to see how you view them as the superior food..."
"...Ren, can I break his arm?" Nora frowns.
"I don't think that would be wise..." Ren shakes his head.
"Alright fine, let me prove it to you a different way." she clears her throat, "Everybody, tell me, right now: Pancakes or waffles?"
"Pancakes." Yang replies.
"Oh, definitely pancakes." Coral nods.
"I'm staying out of this." Melinda answers.
"Same." Blake agrees.
"I'd... rather not get involved either." Pyrrha glances aside.
"I don't really have an opinion..." Jaune rubs his head.
Anyway, an argument for hashbrowns is that they go well with things you'd never put on a pancake or waffle. Stuff like ketchup, hot sauce, mustard, hot sauce, relish, hot sauce, or hot sauce are all fair game for hashbrowns along with syrup and butter, while many of the things you put on a hashbrown would never be put on a pancake or waffle in a million years. Therefore hashbrowns are more versatile.
Yeah, but when people talk about pancakes/waffles, they're not talking about potatoes, they're talking about pancakes/waffles... if you get what I mean.