Have just tried to explain to my father my theory that we get warm more quickly when drinking something hot than when eating something because water has a very high specific heat.

Also: suspect that parents have in fact packed away my mass in food to take back with me. No complaints though since affection in my family is shown with food, apparently, so am going to interpret the amount of freezing I will have to do upon arriving home tomorrow as appreciating affection. There is a lot of affection. Some of which are probably crunchy.