"Punching the food?" Thomas asked, picking that particular tidbit from everything else she said because it just sounded the most amusing. The way she said it, the specific detail of it made it sound like this was something Kate had experienced and not just an insane situation she'd thrown out at random.

"Has that happened at your holiday dinners before?" he wondered curiously. "Has someone punched some food and thrown it in your experience? That seems like an awful waste of something good."

Frypan had made some terrible meals before but Thomas knew that if he'd even thought of throwing it at a wall, the ground, or someone else, Alby would have smacked him silly and thrown him in jail. Thomas wouldn't have blamed him either.