Don't worry about not pursuing jokes--Hide is quick enough for the both of them.

"Hey, boring flavours have their merits too! If not, they wouldn't exist, right? They'd have been eeked out of existence just like all other horrible things."

He flashes a smile. "You know. Like how you can only get Haggis in Scotland--because who the heck else would wanna' eat something like--"

And that's when the waitress lady comes back with their assortment of sliced meat and chopped vegetables, as well as a few small bowls of sauce to be used on the barbecue table itself.

"...Something like this, on the other hand, should exist everywhere. So. Do you wanna' try first?" The gentlemanly thing to do, after all.