"Sure, man, what is it?"
"Let me know when your mom makes tamales?"
"Uh... I'm sorry, what?"
"Tamales. Don't you guys do that around Christmas?"
"Uh... No."
"Seriously? Bummer. Totally thought that was a thing."
"It might be a thing, I dunno. Not something my fam does."
"Well, what do you guys do on Christmas, then?"
"Us? We go out for Chinese."
"Oh... wait, isn't that a Jewish thing?"
"I guess. When my grandparents came here, they didn't really have a thing to follow."
"Aren't... aren't they Hispanic?"
" Nah, Southeast Asian."
"Oh!"