After the omlette incident, realising exactly how much human food, like cake or pies or snacks, involve eggs.
Day 3.
Hen eggs declared non-cogniscent food. Also declared sterile. Also declared offensive. Further adjudication necessary.
Day 5.
Adjudication finished. Human can consume extant eggs, but only in utter privacy and behind offensensitivity shielding. The human must not consume any more eggs or egg-based products while aboard Science Vessel Sigma-Four.
“WHAT?” Sta-see yawped. Humans could get loud. At least she had been trained to not flail her ridiculous, long arms around. “No egg by-products… What the flakk?”
“There is problem?”
“Big problem. Many, many human food having egg for making,” she said in broke GalStand. It was the only language they had in common. “Self will starve. This being much bad.”
Day 17.
Further adjudication finalised. Human will now consume food behind offensensitivity shield for all meals. Further food imports will be syntha-meals only.
Which was why, on her first day on shore leave from serving on the Science Vessel Sigma-Four, Stacy made a beeline for the nearest Unsuitable Food Eat and said, “Gimmie a double death-by-chocolate, battered, deep fried, dipped in more chocolate and covered over in meringue kisses!”
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