"That, I'm not sure about."

"One hears about people being put on bed rest, presumably that's also bad - maybe if you're not breathing by machine and sometimes picking up a fork and shifting your feet around that helps at all?"

"Yes, any kind of voluntary movement at all is better than none...but I think the bedsores thing might extend to people on extended bedrest, too."

"Even if they can roll themselves over?"

"I'm not sure."

"I guess a lot of bedrest conditions are ones where you cannot do that."

"Indeed."

"Baklava?" Isabella asks, glancing at their empty plates.

"Sure."

They split a baklava. It's yummy. Subsequent kisses are honey-flavored.

Mmmmyes. 

"The greek habit of flavoring things with honey is magnificent--have you had loukoumades?"

"I haven't unless they have an Americanized name I'd know them by!"

"Honey puffs."

"How do you puff honey?"

"You don't, you puff dough and then soak it in honey."

"That does sound good. I wonder if Greeks get tired of honey or if it just tastes like how sweet things are? Or, for 'Greeks' read 'Greeks prior to the global economy', I imagine now they have access to white sugar."

"I imagine that when one only has the one source of sweetness it just tastes like sweetness. I don't think ancient Greece had maple trees or sugar beets, and I know sugarcane doesn't grow in that climate."

"You know the thing about how abolitionists used to grow maple trees? So they wouldn't need cane sugar."

"I did not know that! It makes perfect sense, though."

"I'm actually not sure you can get that much maple sugar out of one symbolic tree planted in your yard but maybe they just ate way less dessert than we do today."

"I think most people historically ate way less dessert than we do today."

"Poor prior generations, all the infant mortality and none of the dessert."

"The past was an unpleasant place to live."

"Yup. I wonder what'll stand out about today in five hundred years? I guess there are more and less optimistic answers to that."

"Factory farms."