[ Setting out a particularly thick chocolate milkshake. ]

Might be some ancestral genetic carry-over equating to "the alcohol didn't kill me, so live and eat well".

You're going to need the sugar. [ Is this old hat? Absolutely. Running his own bar meant that he routinely had to check in on hungover friends and regulars looking to drown their woes in whatever was available.

Unwrapping his own burger now and shaking his head as a smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. ] So, just out of curiosity, how did this failed not-date start out?

[ He's not a fan of beating around the bush. ]