Strange takes all the information to heart, committing it to memory. After all, he needs to actually remember this. This is important information, he needs to write it down and tell Childermass this information in case it slips out of his head during a fit of madness. Still, blood drinking, stronger than normal...these are to be expected. That's good. It's the hypnotism that worries Strange—he has no magic to defend against that sort of thing.

But eating? Tasting like pork? Strange has no idea whether Joker's serious or not, so the safest option is to reply with something equally flippant.

"Well, if you set them on fire, it takes less time to cook later," Strange remarks, with a wry little smirk. And almost instantly, he feels a little bit sick. Oh God he feels horrible joking about this, let's change the subject.

"With regards to the hypnotism...how precisely does one get unhypnotized?"