Where he brave, he might have tried to eat a bar of chocolate. It was too bad he wouldn't be able to enjoy it what with his lacking the sense for sweetness.

"They say everything that's good for you tastes like sawdust or cardboard. It's why we got so many people who're fat." Less a joke, just a truthful observation.

He ate up the last of his meal and nodded to him. "What do I owe you?" He was fishing out a twenty from the pocket of his pants. Not an easy thing with no fingers.