Listening to Tarma, I was wondering what she was talking about: the items looked no different than things that I regularly saw at my own House table! But then I remembered that her time at Hogwarts as a student was far enough before mine that it isn't impossible that there was a time before 2013 that there were regularly shortages at the students' tables. And as I started eating the food, it didn't taste any different either than what I remembered, so I responded: "Was there a time when the food selections for students were a bit different? As far as I can tell, the food at the staff table this year is no different than the food from my House table last year!"