What if the entirety of ASOIAF is actually a recipe book detailing how the people will survive the winter on an unlimited supply of fried calimari? This has been foreshadowed in the books. GRRM spends pages and pages and pages detailing what characters are eating for no apparent reason. But what if there IS a reason?…

It’s like George is just plucking stories at random now, a desperate dungeon master whose game starts in an hour and can’t run Tomb of Horrors again.