"I don't see why. Chicken or pork is dirt cheap, but duck is expensive? That seems like inane moon-logic." Didn't people have goose for Christmas here like her books (Dickens mostly) had said?

"Hmmm. I suppose you can make more pinching pennies off the lower classes, but it seems like there ought to be enough money to go around for higher tier items in this town. I mean, just look at all those completely useless phone booths on the street. Does anyone actually use them, aside from hipsters?"

Welp. Best not to admit what those are really for.