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We all remember losing Ben. It lands. But I was rewatching recently and something hit me differently this time.

When the alert scrambles him, there's an uneaten steak on his plate.

Think about what that actually means on the SDF-1. Seventy thousand civilians folded to the far side of the solar system on a warship never designed for long term habitation. Rationing everything. Hydroponics bays running at capacity. A city trying to survive inside a battle fortress while Zentraedi fleets hunt them across space.

How rare was an actual cow on that ship? How long did Ben wait for that meal? For a guy whose entire personality was built around loving food, that steak wasn't just dinner. That was probably the most anticipated meal of his entire deployment.

And he never got to eat it.

Roy gets the pineapple salad scene. It's iconic, it's heartbreaking, it's absolutely deserved. But somewhere on the SDF-1 Ben Dixon's steak went cold and nobody ever talks about it.

Did this detail hit anyone else? And seriously — how rare do you think livestock actually were on that ship?