"I haven't had a chance to ask someone who's not from some version of Earth what their perspective is. Maybe it just translates to whatever the closest equivalent is."

Is it insensitive of her to be eating a salad? For that matter, is she eating salad because she likes salad or has she got plants on the brain, like buying that giant tub of chicken in Arkansas? (Really, she eats a lot of salad, it doesn't mean anything.)

"There must be a pet store somewhere," she muses. "You could get a little submerged Ford Taurus instead of a floating UFO."