"Strawberry is sensible. It is quite different from what I am used to, but no less delicious." There's a beat. "And available in much more variety." It also lasts longer, but that's neither here nor there.

He smiles as she sits down and makes himself comfortable before taking a bite of the ice cream. "Well, I do not know people of this time as well as those of my own, but it is almost certainly still just as many. Though, I am told that it is more complicated to get dental care. Which seems rather unhelpful."