[ And Tony doesn't really want to talk about Steve right now - another wound that's too fresh, too - whatever. He can't deal with it, so he just ignores it for the moment. ]

Food? I subsist on motor oil and - you know, actually, a cheeseburger sounds really good right now, let's do that. If there's a decent cheeseburger to be had around here.

[ is she trying to mother hen him? he could probably use someone to do that, in Pepper's absence. ]