Definitely one of the better pasttimes of Milliways.

Steph gets through lemon - as in lemon, sour enough to make her lips pucker and her mouth water and nearly spit it out - oatmeal, and pork chops before calling it off at her fourth bean. It had been an especially dark one and she'd hoped for another chocolate. At the first taste of copper on her tongue, she'd spat it out into her napkin and called a waitrat over for a drink order instead.

No reason to stop being sociable, but no.

"Would you like anything?" she asks, once the rat is settled beside their table.