I can tell you play alliance, because on horde mages are mature and well give you food if your kind.. What I find that works 100% is I PM a mage saying ''Hey, can I have some food and water please?

?", and unless he's a ******* he well give you food and water.
My main is a mage, and when someone says ''WATER!!!" I pretend like I don't even know them because it's annoying. You can always go to a food vendor and spend like 20s on 1 stack of food/water..
Sometimes I well ask them for a few gold to ''repair" which is a good trick. When someone PM's me I well go ''Can you tip, I need to repair" and they well gief a lil ammount which is always nice.. lol
But seriously, this has to be one of the dumbest threads I have ever seen.