"Pft." That was him trying to stifle a laugh. He was not entirely successful. "So food is a 'foe' now?"

Zouichi shrugged. "I suppose you might call it tricking yourself into finding the food that is available here more palatable. But then, it's not as though even the fruits and vegetables we eat now are 'real'. People selectively grew the plants with the most edible blooms until they ended up with the modern cultivars. If they hadn't, we'd still be trying to eat crabapples or something."