diff --git a/code/modules/vore/eating/living_vr.dm b/code/modules/vore/eating/living_vr.dm
index 23534bda180..f3cbb2b5a33 100644
--- a/code/modules/vore/eating/living_vr.dm
+++ b/code/modules/vore/eating/living_vr.dm
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@
 
 	var/nutrition_message_visible = TRUE
 	var/list/nutrition_messages = list(
-							"They are starving! You can hear their stomach snarling from across the room!" = 1,
-							"They are extremely hungry. A deep growl occasionally rumbles from their empty stomach." = 2,
+							"They are starving! You can hear their stomach snarling from across the room!",
+							"They are extremely hungry. A deep growl occasionally rumbles from their empty stomach.",
 							"",
 							"They have a stuffed belly, bloated fat and round from eating too much.",
 							"They have a rotund, thick gut. It bulges from their body obscenely, close to sagging under its own weight.",
diff --git a/code/modules/vore/eating/vore_vr.dm b/code/modules/vore/eating/vore_vr.dm
index 0d36a0b9671..ab5ec6bd964 100644
--- a/code/modules/vore/eating/vore_vr.dm
+++ b/code/modules/vore/eating/vore_vr.dm
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ V::::::V           V::::::VO:::::::OOO:::::::ORR:::::R     R:::::REE::::::EEEEEE
 
 	var/nutrition_message_visible = TRUE
 	var/list/nutrition_messages = list(
-							"They are starving! You can hear their stomach snarling from across the room!" = 1,
-							"They are extremely hungry. A deep growl occasionally rumbles from their empty stomach." = 2,
+							"They are starving! You can hear their stomach snarling from across the room!",
+							"They are extremely hungry. A deep growl occasionally rumbles from their empty stomach.",
 							"",
 							"They have a stuffed belly, bloated fat and round from eating too much.",
 							"They have a rotund, thick gut. It bulges from their body obscenely, close to sagging under its own weight.",