[That's sweet of him.]

Wait until you try my cooking, that's impressive.

[Look, he's got an ego, there's no denying that, but cooking is something he really is good at. Like, the one thing, aside from the wizard shit, and he's more proud of the cooking.]

Oh, dang, I bet I could use the coffee for flavor in shit, it'd go great with chocolate.

[This isn't exactly revolutionary to most people, but it just occurred to Taako and it's an interesting idea to him.]