I don't know persimmon. Or maybe I do, but not in English.

[He's beginning to understand that people have new words for so many things, but he's a little too stubborn to want to catch up immediately. Then again, they're talking about food, so maybe he should drop that act of stubbornness and figure out what she's talking about, because more food? Can't be a bad thing.]

What about meat? Meat was hard to come by, but a treat when we could hunt it. Is there much of that?