It was actually McCoy who said “how can you think of food”, not Carol. Kirk was not eating an apple (yet), McCoy was responding to Kirk having just said “Is there anything to eat? I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m starved.”
Kirk IS eating an apple later in the Genesis cave during the conversation with Saavik about the no-win scenario. “I don’t like to lose. into communicator Enterprise, it’s been two hours, are you ready?” Spock: “Right on schedule, Admiral. Give us your coordinates and we’ll beam you aboard.” “All right. to Saavik I don’t like to lose crunches apple”
Useless pedantry:
It was actually McCoy who said “how can you think of food”, not Carol. Kirk was not eating an apple (yet), McCoy was responding to Kirk having just said “Is there anything to eat? I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m starved.”
Kirk IS eating an apple later in the Genesis cave during the conversation with Saavik about the no-win scenario. “I don’t like to lose. into communicator Enterprise, it’s been two hours, are you ready?” Spock: “Right on schedule, Admiral. Give us your coordinates and we’ll beam you aboard.” “All right. to Saavik I don’t like to lose crunches apple”