Dissoluble? Did you mean disposable?
Must depend (as with many other things) on the American. I’ve never heard that usage, and my guess before the explanation was also that Annie-Xmas meant tin cans containing food. I was also puzzled as to why the store wouldn’t take them back.
And I was also puzzled as to why anyone would want a pie pan (or for that matter a tin can) which dissolves easily. But maybe the sense is that individual ones can be separated out of a pack?
The pie tin / kosher explanation makes a lot of sense.
Okay. Just to set things right
We sell disposable cookware made from aluminum tin foil. We call them “tins.” We sell them individually, so I have to count them and put the number of tins into the cash register, hit the @ button, and then put in the code for the particular tin. 25 9" x 13" tins? Put in 25 @ 32I and hit the red UPC (universal price code) button.
And they buy two sets of cookware just for that reason. I read of someone who’d bought two teflon skillets then wanted to return them because they weren’t non-stick any more. The part that was sticking was the “D” they’d burned into the surface of one pan and “M” in the other.
Apologies for the following hijack. My dad was a VP for a foreign freight forwarder (export broker) and one of their customers was Alcoa Aluminum. In a meeting, Dad referred to “tin foil” and he was immediately informed that it was aluminum foil, not tin!
Carry on!
And good luck to them, say I, as I sneeze into not-brandname kleenex.
Yeah, you can’t fight the masses. Like all them folks who still have ice boxes…
Those would be ‘baking tins’. Disposable ‘baking tins’. They were called ‘cake pans’ in Australia, so those aluminium things are ‘pans’ here.
Actually, I’ve been told some have THREE sets - kosher for dairy, kosher for meat, and a third set kosher for Passover.
Can someone explain these two sentences? Please?
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You’re eating food at the register? That can’t be right…
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Covering up the food displays? So the Super-Hyper-Orthodox can’t LOOK at certain foods? Does covering them mean even Methodists can’t buy them? That can’t be right either…
Covering up some of the food displays for Passover I assume has to do with the MUCH stricter than normal food regulations for that holiday.
Orthodox Jews will also do things like wrap up their kitchen microwave, or even entirely swap out their usual oven for one approved for Passover. It’s to absolutely, positively, completely rule out even the most minute contamination of the Passover kitchen, home, dining room, etc.
Which is why when I went to a traditional Seder last year I “violated” the mainstream culture rule of bringing food or wine to a formal meal and opted for a nice flower arrangement instead. Even as someone at least somewhat familiar with Jewish rules with one foot in the culture there was no way on Earth I was going to be able to conform to those rules so there was no point in even trying.
It’s not just a matter of “oh, how lovely, we’ll set this aside and eat it later (no, really, we’ll toss it)”, just the act of bringing something with leaven in it into the household will ritually contaminate the household.
So a tip: if invited to a Jewish household for dinner and they say “please do not bring us food” please do not bring them food. That includes beverages. They mean it. Bring something else. Like a nice flower arrangement.
Totally off-topic, but this sounds really good
And that’s one reason I don’t keep kosher.
- The whole point of a convenience stores is CONVENIENCE. I get in, I pay for my stuff, I get out. Fast, easy, no BS. That is literally the only point of a convenience store, which sells products that I can get cheaper literally anywhere else they sell them.
Therefore, when you introduce some damfool “customer loyalty” thing where you have to punch in a code on a touchscreen that may or may not work, provide a barcode, and then pound on the touchscreen a few more times, whoops, the number 4 doesn’t work very well, you have to punch it HARD, whoops, it registered twice, INVALID CODE, gotta start all over…
…and I’m standing behind some rando who is utterly and bloodily determined to complete this magic ritual so’s to get fifty cents off his pack of cigarettes, and I stand here with a bottle of soda growing warm and a chocolate bar melting in my hand? Yeah, I’ll put them on the nearest rack and take a hike.
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I am not crazy about self serve checkout kiosks. The current meme says “Wal-Mart is where they make you check out your own goods and then act like you stole it all as you leave.” This is not inaccurate. And when I find myself behind some little old lady who’s operating on 60% brain capacity and can’t figure out how the kiosk WORKS, this makes me 60% more likely to simply abandon my cart and go to Target, where they seem to still employ checkout employees who operate with some alacrity, and I can choose to work with THEM as opposed to the damn self serve kiosks.
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The men’s room and the women’s room belong within twenty feet of each other. You may include a gender neutral selection if you want, even a baby changing room if you like. But architects who design buildings where the men’s room is on ONE side of the building and the women’s room is on the EXACT OTHER SIDE of the same building, mirror image style? This person should be taken out and shot. Or perhaps, forced to work retail for a few years.
I just walk past the receipt checkers with a smile and a wave. Nothing they can do.
Now, at Costco, they could conceivably revoke your membership, I guess.
I was at a Connecticut Walmart over the holidays and was amazed that they had about twenty self checkout registers and only about three regular staffed ones.
Do any of you watch Superstore? Just my observations as a shopper suggest it’s distressingly realistic.
I knew some guys that had a real scam worked out. They’d go buy car parts or accessories on sale at Guarantee Auto and return them to K-Mart without a receipt. K-Mart would refund their higher non-sale price. They said after a few times, K-Mart would only offer store credit.
My ex came from a wealthly family. She told them I liked a certain men’s cologne (Givenchy) . So, they gifted me with a large and pricey gift set. Well, one medium bottle would last me three years, I was sparing with it. So, I wanted to return it. She told me her sister ONLy shopped at “Nordy’s” (Nordstroms) . So I took it back there. They looked at it, made some calls and offered me a $120* refund or store credit- I took the credit.
Later, i found out that while indeed Nordys was a major distributor of Givenchy, they didnt actually sell *that *set there- it was from France. :eek::smack:
But that was Nordstrom’s Customer Service. I still like shopping there, even tho I cant afford much.
I still wonder what they did with the set. Likely used it as a display or for sampling. Or someone took it home.
- back in the early 1980’s when $120 was real money.
No, but it’s human. If you get hungry during your shift, you are allowed to take a single serving size of something we sell off the shelf and eat it, without having to pay for it. There’s always a run on Hannukah chocolate coins this time of year.
No, but very Orthodox Jews are extremely concerned with the risk of cross contamination, especially during Passover. Some of them will wipe the counter down before putting there items on it.
The biggest non-bulk order at my store was made by a young, married couple for their first Passover, and it came to $997. Guess who rang it up? (ME!)