Went to a Korean spa the other day with my girlfriends, including the token vegan. After much discussion with the staff, she ordered the Vegetarian Plate, resigned to the fact that, due to the language barrier, there would likely be some fish sauce or broth of dead beast somewhere in it.
She ended up chomping into what looked for all the world like a raw fetal bird in one of her salads. She was, as you can imagine, quite upset.
Of course, it wasn’t a raw fetal bird.
It was a raw fetal squid.
Apparently “no meat, no fish - VEGETABLES ONLY!” Vegetarian Plate means something else in Korean.
I remember sitting in a fast food Chinese place once, and another customer insisting that he not get any type of pork in his meal. The women at the counter just didn’t get it. “You get fried rice! Only some pork!”
That under US health and safety laws, that would probably be illegal. I’ve heard that even private bake sales by churches and such are coming under fire.
It probably started out that way decades ago but now they’re mass processed by the millions and boxed up like you would buy in a store except they’re mainly available only one time a year and sold to raise money for the Girl Scouts. The marketing is brilliant because people go nuts for them even though they are just like any other mass produced cookie.
A friend of mine did not know how to make a grilled cheese sandwich. Specifically, she toasted the bread, put on the cheese, and then asked why it wasn’t melting.
Because it was a bad joke and it made me chuckle and I was trying to be funny? (As explained in the smaller text you conveniently chopped off when quoting me).
Unless I’m being whoosed by you pretending to whine about it (in which case, :D)…
…if I really must explain it…
I read the word saxophone, I thought of the wah-wah-wahhh sound that cartoons play after a bad joke or pun and I substituted another term that was part of the initial conversation that led to the saxophone joke in the first place.
Don’t take it so personally - it really was just a cheap joke for an easy laugh, inspired by nothing at all other than the saxophone joke. Lighten up.
Well, that’s how I meant it. Like the southern version of “God bless him, he needs it.” Or when an adult says something naiive, and you respond, “You’re adorable.”
I’ve usually had the opposite problem. I’ve started using codes like “Thai spicy” and “pet pet” and ordering Thai basil chicken with a fried egg on top to get them to understand that I know what I’m asking for when I want it “very spicy.” Mind you, I don’t prefer every Thai dish blazing hot, but there are a couple, like the aforementioned basil chicken (gai pad grapow, or whatever the hell the preferred spelling is), that I want blisteringly hot.
I heard on the radio this morning (CBC) that someone has located the engines from the Apollo 11, Saturn V rocket on the floor of the Atlantic ocean.
The announcer then said “Four days after liftoff Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins landed on the moon.”
Anyone even vaguely familiar with the moon landings can see the problem with that statement. Even if it was prepared for her, I don’t know how you could even read that without correcting the glaring error.
I guess it depends on your definition of “vaguely.” Being “vaguely familiar with the moon landings” to me means someone would know when they happened and who was involved, but knowing the details of how the mission was executed starts to move beyond “vaguely.” I can see someone being told the names of everyone who flew on the mission, and then mistakenly assuming all three of them actually set foot on the moon; that’s not all that shocking to me.
Agreed: It wasn’t glaring to me. If I thought of the moon landings, I’d have thought of a rocket ship taking off from the earth and landing on the moon (with all the astronauts aboard), then taking off from the moon and returning to earth. It’s certainly possible to read or hear quite a bit about the moon landings (such as the StraightDope columns about it) without learning otherwise. Upon looking it up on Wikipedia, I realize it wasn’t quite like that, which is something I may well have known at one time but it didn’t stick in my mind.
