It’s grand, but the structure of your first sentence could be quite complicated for a non-native speaker.

I think he was just joking about silverware and hungry.

The only slight grammatical error was putting “its is”. And even then that’s so nit picky. The sentence was perfectly worded.

Most people’s minds, when fluent in a language, will often literally autocorrect mistakes like that and only recall them if they deliberately attempt to, you’re fine

I’m referring to how the other guy in the thread completely missed the point of your argument.

Your comment made perfect sense just to clarify.