"Coffee ground and eggshells don't taste good to most of the people here," Saturday says, elbowing him aside and cleaning his workstation of the god-knows-what he'd been adding. "The texture is unpleasant, among other things. Potato peel is something people can eat, but it needs to be cooked or it tastes and feels wrong."

As she speaks, she gestures generally in the direction of what she's cleaning up. He's new. This is education. Do not get frustrated, Saturday.

"Cinnamon is a spice, used to add flavor, not a food. Eating too much just by itself makes people sick, for serious. You don't use that much. If you used it in a salad, it would be in the dressing - a kind of cold sauce, sweet or savory, that goes over the plants and such, which are called the greens - not on the greens themselves. And paper is not food, ever. Vanilla is another kind of spice. It smells really good, but it tastes to most people like raw rocket fuel if you eat it by itself."

She realizes she's gone on a diatribe and reels herself in with a quick, sunny smile flashed in his direction.

"The salt wasn't a bad idea, though! A little bit of salt makes most things taste better."