BLUE MOON ELSEWHERE
Roy nodded. "Meats can be really hit or miss...a lot of their flavor is influenced by the diet of the animal, but when you get into animals from different worlds, it's further complicated by variations in standard body chemistry..." He shrugged, adding, "And as a general rule, prey animals live bovines are usually more tasty than predators." He looked at the orange stuff, and shrugged.
"Of course, we don't even know for sure what kind of animal that is, much less whether it's a predator or prey, so there's plenty of room for error in that theory."
He shrugged, seeming to dismiss the dilemma with the gesture, and popped a piece of some kind of purplish fruit in his mouth. He took a second to chew it, savoring the juices the pulp released, and pushed it into his cheek long enough to say, "And a milkshake would be a great way to wrap up the night. Hard to go wrong, there, unless your body can't digest milk..."
He grinned as he chewed some more, and then swallowed the fruit. "But if it tastes good enough going in, a little digestive misery could be worth it, I suppose..."