Possible Clues:

• Rotten food scoffed by new owner
• Shabby message from a happy early bird?
• Decaying and exhausted, swallowing food, getting energy
• Like a bad apple, perhaps
• Old and tired argument overturned before workers accept serving of tea
• Old deteriorating watermelon left out
• Decrepit
• Ratty
• Seedy
• Rotten argument over food sent to quarters