"It can be," Jim answers, carefully thinking over how he wants to answer this. "We have a kind of technology that preserves food for a hell of a long time, but reconstituted anything never tastes the same as the fresh stuff. Still, it's way better than hardtack and salt beef or whatever, so I guess I can't complain." His grin this time isn't quite as sunny as the previous ones, though it'd take someone with lots of experience in interpreting human facial expressions to tell.