Celestia teaches Twilight Sparkle history · 3:37am Jul 17th, 2017
“—it’s funny that you should ask about that, Twilight. You see, the animosity between ponies and dragons began when one very smart dragon convinced one exceptionally dumb pony that rubbing butter all over their pelt would leave them shiny, sleek, and beautiful.” Pausing, but only to draw breath, Celestia ignored Twilight’s stupefied blank stare, she kept going. “All of a sudden, butter farmers became rather well to do, as there was a market run on butter, you see. Ponies were rubbing themselves down in butter, slathering themselves, and they were, indeed, sleek and shiny.”
Raven, sitting across the table, held up her hoof so she could snigger behind it.
“And then one day, this smart dragon shows up, and he has a fine meal of hot, buttered ponies. Self-buttered ponies. This destroyed the dairy market, you see, and I was livid. And from that point onwards, there has been some mistrust between us and the dragons.”
“Auntie,” Blueblood said, raising one fine, well-groomed eyebrow. “You forgot the part where the ponies ate bread and apples, so they would be self-stuffed when roasted.”
Does salivating make me a bad person?
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You are not alone admittedly.
Celestia trolls the Historical Society vol25
Sad part it this probably isn't a joke.
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Eh. Sounds legit.
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No, I myself salivated.
"Ooh! And don't forget about the frilly white paper booties that suddenly came into vogue at the same time!" tittered Cadance.
I'm sure Princess Celestia views the event with mixed emotions. One one hoof, so many pony deaths are very sad. On the other hoof, with all the stupid ponies dead Equestria probably had a golden age of progress and innovation for a generation or two.
"I'm back from the store like you asked, Twilight!" Seville trotted into the den where the rest of the ponies looked up expectantly. "Oh, hello. I didn't mean to interrupt."
"You're not interrupting, Seville." Princess Celestia spread one wing out and pointed to a nearby unoccupied cushion. "Have a seat. We were just talking about myths and legends."
"I have to go to the kitchen first, Your Highness." Seville sketched out a brief nod while Twilight Sparkle rose up, making frantic shushing motions with both her wings and forehooves. "You see, Twilight was out of butter, and it was on sale, so I picked up a few pounds of... Why is everypony laughing?"