[Jingyi does seriously consider this for all of the time it takes to pull in breath to speak.]

It is the tradition. [He is very earnest.] I was reading what you and everyone else got so upset about on the network, and so I looked up what traditions are good for feeling better and one of them was to eat an entire carton of ice cream. So I have brought [he flourishes his spoon] an entire carton of ice cream.

[Context? What context?]