HE DOESN'T MEAN IT, how is this happening to him, why is he talking with a TL;DR machine?

Jake just shrugged off Heiji's advice. You ain't his ma, but hmm, back in Ukraine. "I probably just had kutia then borsch, but I guess varenyky, pirog, pampushky for dessert." No, he wasn't going to explain what each dish was, unless Heiji asked. He was just going off from the top of his head. He didn't really have big Christmas dinners or anything, just had to make due with whatever extra money he had around. "Nothing like whatever you had in Japan."