"Vinegar and salt? I can do that for you." Kinner adds them to the fish and chips. He's learned to acclimate his cooking to the variety of species and cultures in the Nexus.

The cook comes out with the fish and chips, still warm, placing them on a table.

"Our biologist, Professor Blair, was the one who had the idea to unthaw the alien so we could study it. He didn't plan for anybody to be eaten, but it was a reckless thing to do."