[Honestly, Claude has to grin at that.] Well, when you put it like that, how can I say anything but thank you? I don't think you owed me that, but...I'm flattered you'd treat me as though you did.

More than that, though, I'm glad you haven't been melodramatic about it. Nobody'd call it good, but do you have any idea how many jokes people have been making about it being poison? I had a couple bites of it and I'm fine! Like, not happy, but fine. It's literally just bad tastes and textures, but people keep exaggerating. I've been poisoned, but people just wanna throw that word around like it's nothing. So I appreciate someone going "sure, it's gross, but it's not going to make anyone actively ill".

...oh, yeah, you might wanna rinse your mouth out anyway, though. The blue kind of clings to your teeth for a little bit afterwards. [Too much food coloring. Claude has noted this for next time, even if personally he thinks the coloring is probably the best (or 'most unique', if you don't want to go quite that far) part of the dish.]