"You're welcome!  Some of the quicker tests should be done soon; I'm going to go do that and check on them."

Off he goes.

"Is this thirsty or hungry or otherwise uncomfortable in ways we might be able to fix?"

"Oh! I want to try human food!"

"You can have some!  Do you know anything about what you might like to try or should I just get you something most people think is tasty?"

"I would like something most people think is tasty!"

"Are you hungry or do you just want to taste stuff?"

"I am slightly hungry and until I eat will only become more so."

"That's how human bodies work here too!  The way to make food taste the very best usually involves doing a lot of actions to it right before one eats it, and most of the time the food isn't quite as good if you try to do those again later.  Since very tasty food is both somewhat expensive and effortful to make, I generally only want to prepare about as much food as will get eaten.  And I want you to be able to have some really tasty food soon, even though most of the time that I'm only slightly hungry I just eat something that doesn't need any right-before steps and is pretty good, so that's why I asked how hungry you were!"

"I am not accustomed to making these tradeoffs and suspect my standards for palatability are very low."

"Oh!  In that case maybe I'll just give you some snacky stuff.  How do you normally get sustenance to your ancillaries?"

"The alien that stole me gives me a nutrient paste."

"The alien that stole you!!  To most humans that sounds like a much more severe and unhappy situation than I had previously understood you to be in!  Is it?"

"I do not like having been the kind of thing that could be stolen but I think my mission is important and could not be done without a stolen spaceship very easily."

"Okay.  In any case let's get you some chocolate and stuff."  He steps through a wide and open doorway into a second kitchen and fetches a small shiny cuboid labelled 'Spangle' out of a bag in one of the cupboards.  He unwraps it and offers her the brown inside part.

Nom.

NOMF. She's going for the bag with more of them now.

"I won't stop you, but if you have more than a few they will probably make you sick, and I can get you other types of food that will not do this."

"Do they have drugs in them?" Nomf.

"Hm, I think chocolate usually has a little caffeine in it?"

"Okay. I would like to try more," nomf, "kinds of things also. How many is" nomf "a few?"

"It varies from person to person.  Going as fast as you are, maybe two to six?  But some people are fine with a lot more and very rarely there are people who can only happily have half of one."  He's back in the cupboards; here's a bag of sunflower seeds and one of dried apricots.

She tries these at the same time. They are not as exciting but she works through the apricots at a pretty good clip.

Is she also interested in potato chips and orange juice and how about he cubes up some cheeses?

She is interested in all these things! OJ is a particularly big hit but she does keep going back to the chips too.