Oh, yeah, they're baked in oil.

[He wonders if he should offer her some mayonnaise to go with them, but tentatively decides against it. It'd make them even more fatty, after all.]

But sorry, I haven't heard of you. I don't really run in academic circles.

[He's just a simple country bumpkin samurai who somehow made it to the capital (in both Japan and Inazuma)!]

So you're one of Sumeru's scholars?

[That checks out, in hindsight. Those who dedicate their life to research can be a little out of the loop.]