Phil Rosenthal’s explanation is certainly welcome to Somebody Feed Phil fans, who may have assumed he was just some magic eating machine.
Of course, there are surely exceptions, although it appears Rosenthal and the crew have accounted for every scenario that keeps his enthusiasm high each time a plate comes out, and his eyes lit with joy every time he takes that first bite.
Rosenthal’s repeated joy every time a dish comes to the table is much more understandable when that lunch date may be his first meal of the day, and the next location wasn’t necessarily filmed on the same day.