"I am very fortunate that I have already read the Wikipedia page on espers five times. And otherwise been interested in this sort of thing for ages. Or I might not have known that psychological backlash admits of a little malleability, and I can't really read right now so I wouldn't have been able to look it up even before I appeared here."

"...I can't believe you have Wikipedia but not cultured meat.   - Sorry, uh - could you not have had someone read it to you?  Or summarize it in their own words?"

"I think it will work if you read things to me, but your Wikipedia doesn't have anything about espers, now, does it, and it didn't occur to me or Ren before I vanished."

"Right, but it might have if you hadn't already read it five times?"

"Maybe it would have, sure."

"Do you think it's better for me to read you things than what we've been doing?"

"Maybe, yeah, I'll probably interrupt you all the time though."

"That seems like a thing we can do sometimes but I wouldn't want it to be the main thing, I think.  - Heyoo, what's the verdict."

Xavier returns from down the hallway.  "There's some venison sausage, which at least wasn't farmed, if that makes a difference to you.  And plenty of cultured options which nonetheless are not pepperoni."

"See, no, I'm pretty sure farming is way better than being a wild deer and getting shot at the end, I just think it's gross.  I could go for some grilled chicken 'n' cheese and tomato soup?"

"That sounds good to me."

"Then that's what it will be."  He sets to it.

"What if we were sitting down."  Ari pulls Haru over to the chairs by the counter.

He can sit in a chair next to her if he's hugging her arm and leaning on her shoulder. "Then tautologically we'd be sitting down."

"Soooooo truuuuuuue.  - We could continue to odd a see but now I'm kind of more interested in hearing more about things where you're from."

"Sure, what about it?"

"I don't know!  Have you noticed any other differences that I haven't been around to hear?"

"Uh - I might forget something, today's been a lot - concussion thing, truth serum, cultured meat, governments working on contacting other universes for decades, I think you've been present for all of these discrepancies."

"We have cultured eggs and stuff, too.  Those at least are more recent; it took a while to get stuff that was good enough at doing the shells.  Meat we've had for, literally my whole life, like before I was born.  But you still have Wikipedia, it's not just that you're way lower tech..."

"I guess our tech took a turn from what it might otherwise have been when dungeons started kidnapping people and industry started exploiting exotic materials removed from dungeons...why would you bother culturing the shells?"

"They don't for like, industrial kitchens; the summer camp I work at gets 'em in cartons, sometimes whites and yolks separately.  But most people, like, want their eggs to be eggs?"

"I guess it's a convenient packaging form factor? It just sounded like they weren't considered market-ready at all till they had shells."

"I dunno, I was a kid when we switched.  Maybe they were around and I just didn't notice."

"There was a gap between cultured meat becoming near-ubiquitous and cultured eggs becoming more than niche, but yes, they were on shelves before they were in shells," Xavier notes without turning away from his cheese grating.

"Heh," says Haru, at the wordplay. "And they taste the same? They're bioidentical?"