# Mistakes your waiter/waitress made

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-your-waiter-waitress-made/11190>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 16, 1999, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-your-waiter-waitress-made/11190 "1999-11-16T22:17:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 1999, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-your-waiter-waitress-made/11190/41 "1999-11-18T13:07:00Z")

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Scene: One of the fanciest restaurants in Cincinnati. I ordered Boston Scrod with a creamy herb sauce. The waiter left and we had a small discussion about which fish we like best yadayada. I explained that the only fish that I didn’t like was salmon. Too fishy. Anyway, dinner arrives. I ate a couple bites, and remarked that it didn’t taste fresh. My friend tasted it and said, “That’s because you’re eating salmon, not scrod.”

BTW, I didn’t mention it the waiter. We were running short of time and couldn’t wait for a new entree.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 1999, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-your-waiter-waitress-made/11190/42 "1999-11-19T06:58:00Z")

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**Switzerland isn’t the typical example of a European country if you ask me… no offence. These people can be very weird…**

Coldfire, I’m going to have to ask you to step outside.

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La franchise ne consiste pas à dire tout ce que l’on pense, mais à penser tout ce que l’on dit.  
H. de Livry

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**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 1999, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistakes-your-waiter-waitress-made/11190/43 "1999-11-18T19:41:00Z")

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Hey AWB! What restaurant in Annapolis was that? Lived there for 23 years, so I’m curious…

And I don’t have any good food stories. Plenty of AIRLINE horror stories, but no food ones. At least not yet.

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“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.” - George Carlin

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