[while they're eating, the new dish arrives. he's mostly done with his, but he saves the rest of it just in case this doesn't taste like the other violet-coloured food he's had before.]

Interesting...look at the little flames on it! It's an excitable flavour accelerator. [licks his fingers and dips them into the cool flames and they dance up his fingers partway.] But! It doesn't harm living flesh like yours and mine. Actually, if I read the menu correctly, this is more of a vegetarian dish.