"In a few hours the household will be having dinner with fresh-cooked food.  If you're full at that time it may not seem as tasty or you may not want to eat it at all."

"I have not experienced that before so I am not well cali," nomf, "brated."

"Okay.  I don't know how to describe what it feels like to be about to throw up if you've never experienced that before, but if at any point you do think you're reasonably likely to vomit soon I would appreciate if you moved this to a spot where this will create less mess.  That room with the open door over there has three white basin-y objects that it would be very convenient if any vomit went into, and especially the one that's shaped approximately like a chair."

"Okay!"

He has a few cheese cubes himself.  "What's your favorite so far?"

"The orange juice." It's not totally clear if she has identified it as the juice of the fruit "oranges" or if she's just gotten far as noting that it's a juice and identifying its color.

Then she can also try cranberry juice and apple juice and an orange!  (He'll finish it off if she ends up only wanting a few sections.)

She does not know that you are not supposed to eat the peel of the orange.

He peeled the sections before handing them to her but if she goes for the scraps he certainly won't stop her!

She chews and swallows the first peel bit she grabs but after that settles down and just eats the sections she is handed.

"Humans don't normally eat or like that part but I wasn't sure if you were different."  She can have the whole orange if she wants!

"It is not as good as the rest of it and I am coming up on the boundaries of wise caloric intake so i would like to be slightly more judicious."

"Oh, good, I'm glad you can tell that you're coming up on that!  Would you like to finish with some dried oranges?"  He digs a bag of them out of the cupboard, the same brand as the apricots.

"Yes." Nomf. "I think the juice is better."

Unfortunately they didn't have that much orange juice to begin with and she has already drank all of it.  "We'll get you some more to have with dinner."

"Depending on how many foods there are it may be unlikely that I have already found my favorite!"

"There are a lot of foods!  And there are already going to be several new ones at dinner.  But foods and drinks are often more expensive per unit when you buy small amounts of them, and since we don't know what you like best yet, I expect it makes sense to get small quantities of several different things so you can try them out, and also a larger quantity of the thing you currently like best.  Many foods and drinks will go bad if no one consumes them for long enough, and we want to minimize waste - I might have already mentioned that!  I don't remember - but also, many foods and drinks taste better in certain combinations with each other, so having more orange juice will enable us to create other tastes that we can guess might be better than trying the same thing with any other equivalent we might think to use."

"Wow! I understand why this much complication goes into it now."

Nod nod nod.  "Sometimes places that sell food have special deals where one can buy a lot of different kinds of food in one package more cheaply than normal, either because they have scraps of various things that they want to get rid of or because they make so much stuff that it all kind of counts as one type of thing to them.  We don't normally have much reason to watch out for those but now we do!  And we will.  - And probably sometime soon any one of me would be happy to take you to a grocery store yourself with a set amount of money for you to choose how to spend!  That seems like a thing you'd be good at once you've learned even just a little more about the tradeoffs involved."

"Humans do not usually have several of them."

"...Right, you'd said that.  Here we consider it normal!  I don't know if you don't think so because you have different standards for what can colloquially count as being the same person or if things just work very differently without souls."

"The Emperor of the Raadch has many of her but is not generally considered human anymore relatedly."

"Tell me more about that, please."

"She clones herself and implants each clone with architectures similar to mine which make her a hive mind, though there is lag between systems as the data cannot travel faster than any other data."

"Okay!  It sounds like it doesn't work quite the same here, but that a good metaphor might be to imagine that our souls are a little like your hive mind architecture, except that we can't sync up with each other until we die unless we take an amount of the communication drug that most people do not choose to take.  But everyone born on the same birthday is in some sense the same person, and different birthday-sets do different amounts of drifting apart from each other.  Everyone who lived in this house this morning is a member of one of the birthday-sets that stays pretty similar to itself even without being able to sync up with each other."