[ Those words draw the biggest, brightest smile to Alberto's face, meeting the man's eye again earnestly. Completely unaware he might be striking any kind of sore chord — doesn't even see the slight grimace the man makes at the gummy worm. Instead, just chatters on cheerily, feeling fully like he's just made a friend or something. ]

Hah— All true~ But I never get stomach aches. I mean— I do if I eat something and it turns out it's not actually food, ahah. But other than that, I've got a stomach of steel!

[ He heard that expression once in town and liked it. He plucks a gummy worm from the same bowl and eats it whole in turn, almost rhetorically, mimicking Li Lianhua's choice. He's already proven he has good taste with the peeps, right? Of course right. ]