The Borg have encountered numerous species who treat their prisoners with comfortable accommodations. [ she knows this, but without access to those databanks in her cortical array containing all that assimilated information, she is unable to provide helen with proper species designations, planet names, etc. ] Squall has more traditional approach to the treatment of prisoners.
[ as for the food and her earlier question... seven pushes the plate to one side, uninterested. ] Consumption of food is unnecessary.