When Ben looked at Hurley and said, "Those Saltines are 15 years old," I
laughed out loud. It was, without a doubt, Ben's most human moment. He
seems so detached from, well, the ordinariness of life the rest of the time.
He seems totally in control, following, as he said, a plan.

However, I am sure he NEVER planned on seeing ANYONE eat 15 year old
Saltines. That statement just kind of burst out of him, the way it would
out of any normal human who saw it. I really liked it.