[Something had switched off the light and it seemed like -]

Do you want to suffer through whatever paleo cooking actually is? Because that's how you get invited to dinner where you're going to have to eat some shit like butternut squash "mac and cheese."

[Airquotes included, obviously. The authority with which he says the phrase "butternut squash mac and cheese" is probably because that is definitely a thing and Cynthia Murphy has definitely made him eat it.]