The key is to really make it sound like you're telling a story, offhand jokes aren't normally formatted like that.
"Be careful, a table accidentally lost their forks in the chicken, and I really used to like them... "
Do not give any details because in your mind it's self explanatory what you mean. If they ask how that happened, that's when you respond: "turns out soup is hot and wet."
Dude is complaining about capitalism weeding out inefficiencies in the market... The one time it does its job he hates it, amazing. I would frame this if it didn't mean I would need to rent a printer in one way or another.