Crap-Geezer Crap-Hat Verbal Affection Code
Status: paid-off · Ch. 58 page 2 (child-Sanji interior: “Crap-geezer…”) and Ch. 58 page 12 (child-Sanji direct address: “EGGPLANT HEAD!?”) establish that the present-day verbal-affection register the Sanji-Zeff dynamic uses is the unchanged register of their first-ever interactions on the rock. The 10-year-old verbal-mode is unchanged through 10 years of restaurant operation. The dialogue itself is a worn signifier of the rock.
Forward-payoff: every later crap-geezer utterance from Sanji and every later eggplant head utterance from Zeff is now decode-able as the rock-island still speaking through the present-day characters.