GR translation: Has to go through the usual long, long routine

[Mike Jing]

V8.18-24, P8.29-35   Pirate goes to the phone and rings up Stanmore after
all. Has to go through the usual long, long routine, but knows he’s already
stopped believing in the rocket he saw. God has plucked it for him, out of
its airless sky, like a steel banana. “Prentice here, did you have anything
like a pip from Holland a moment ago. Aha. Aha. Yes, we saw it.” This could
ruin a man’s taste for sunrises. He rings off. “They lost it over the
coast. They’re calling it premature Brennschluss.”

Here "the usual long, long routine" refers to him cooking the banana
breakfast, is that correct?