But of course! Everybody needs to eat! I... think.

[There's some cause to secondguess himself on this. Some monsters, is it really eating or something closer to osmosis-style absorption? That's probably just linguistic semantics as far as this conversation is concerned. As far as he knows, everyone he knows had to eat something, in some way or another. And the topic of eating is another thing to brag about.]

And I was even taking cooking lessons, not so long ago, to improve upon my culinary prowess. Who knows what wonders of taste I would have unleashed soon?