"Hi! Are you here to remind me of the inexorable flow of time?"

"Yes! That and provide food."

"Valuable services both. Thank you very much."

She beams at him. "So you've got a pretty good reason to avoid spicy; how do you feel about sweet?"

"I feel pretty good about sweet!"

"Because I know this place that does amazing chocolate frothy drinks."

"Ooh."

"Still don't wanna check anything out?"

"Nah. The library will be here when I want to read things."

"Fair enough. It's in pretty close walking distance; do you want to fly anyway?"

"Yes I do."

"Oh, good." 

It really isn't far; it takes less than a minute flying.

What a good minute, though.

Flight: continues to be excellent. 

The restaurant is a little beverages-and-sandwiches shop, heavy on the frothy chocolate things, which can be ordered with a variety of additives such as miscellaneous fruits, spices, ground nuts, and maple syrup. The sandwiches have various options like "chicken and mushrooms" and "veal and bean sprouts".

Milan is enthusiastic about this experience.

Would he like to know how many ingredients in these things are geographically incompatible?

Sure.

Maple trees grow way north of the equator! Cocoa beans and cashews--both the nut and the fruit--grow in the tropics! These other ingredients come from the following very different locales!

"Goodness."

"It's kind of awesome."

"It is!"

"Genosha imports pretty much all its food. We could grow stuff in greenhouses, but it's really not our comparative advantage."

"Yeah."

"And of course there's the space issue."

"No kidding."