He grabs one of the food containers and pops it open, frowning a little at the start of that sentence. There were so many places a statement like that could go, and honestly, he'd rather not go through another emotional ringer right now.

But it wasn't like that, not in the least, and Mark actually gets a bit of a laugh to bubble up out of him at that. "Yeah, well, I was more focused on other things than making sure we had five-star food recs at the time." He takes a bite of a spring roll.