A running joke with some (white) customers of a few months ago...

...at the one (Thai) restaurant where I work now:

1) As I go to a table and check on this four-top of (white) people, the like (early 50s) (white) guy is just starting to reach over and grab his wife's rice, so, I'm like, "Is everything okay with your meal -- and are you okay with him stealing your rice like that?" - at which they laugh pleasantly, and the guy says that he likes his rice.

2) When I check in on them later and offer dessert, they decline, so then I'm like, "Are you sure you don't want some mango sticky rice? It's rice!" -- at which they laugh pleasantly, again.

3) After I bring them the bill, they ask me if we still have those after-dinner mints that people tend to like and that we often distribute on the black plastic bill-tray when we bring out the bill, so I go back to go get some only to find out that we're out, so I return to the table and inform them of that, to their disappointment.

"But maybe I could get you some rice instead?", I was like, with a helpful and obliging face.

. . .