"Yeah, sure, I think so," he nodded thoughtfully, before taking a bite. It was a simple enough dish, but food really just tasted better cooked over an open fire. It was an undeniable fact of life.
"It's good to have you back, you know. Properly, I mean," he told him. That was a lot - Ernest was generally over-the-top and emotionally effusive with the ladies, but he didn't often enough tell his friends that they were important to him. There was no way to underplay that Dan and his booze club had saved him at a really dark time.