Theodore and the others turned to Jillian who commented on the soup she had eaten. She felt that the soup was really like boiled water cooked with mushroom pieces and salted. It made it taste bland, and not good.
All this time she thought the food at the base was bland or salty because her tongue was at fault because she was sick. But it was indeed the food that was not cooked well.
"Sorry, is there something wrong with the soup? That's what we usually make," said a man who was a cook at the base.
"It's very bland, what did you put in it?" asked Jillian.
He answered what he put in the soup, leading Jillian to question some of the other ingredients that should have been put in there but weren't.
"We never put anything like that in the soup because it's enough for us," replied the other chef in a rather smug tone, thinking that what Jillian was saying didn't matter at all.
She sighed after finding out. "No wonder it tastes like this."
