What did you say?!?! February 5, 2008

2/15/06

Has someone ever said something really stupid to you? I mean to where you
look around and say you’re kidding right? I am a stupid magnet. If there is
a stupid question or comment it will get said to me. Don’t believe me…..

A man came into my store and said
“how many pieces of cornbread do I get if I get a half dozen.”

I just knew he was kidding so I started giggling when he just stood there I
stopped and squeaked out
“6”
“Ok let me have 2 half dozen”

I think that guy was a math major. Other customers would come in and order
rotisserie chicken and pronounce it ro-tis–ear and I would think, I’m sorry.

Packing up food to go is always fun because you know you won’t have to clean
up after them but it always got to me when I would ask

“do you need silver ware?
And smart alecks would remind me it was made out of plastic. Oh…..you have
jokes right?

Next customer that got food to go I asked if they needed cutlery….they
stopped and thought for a minute before saying “no just a knife and fork.”
And I realized I wasn’t going to win this one.

I have a lot of customers who will come up to the counter and say in a very
southern accent….”may I please have a….” This is when they become a French
man or woman and say croissant in the best French accent they can and I
think, should I care that you speak French you pretentious idiot?
Then again I must decide which is the lesser of two evils because some
customers don’t have a clue but the think they do. These are the people
that order a petit four and call it a petit flower. Or a Mousse Bombe
(pronounced bomb) and pronounce it bom-bay or bommer.

Either way I think, here you go and get the hell on!

My tip comes from a customer that asked me how to pronounce Profiteroles
(pro-feet-er-ole)
It’s better to ask than try and just sound stupid.

The vocabulary snob,
Chef An-dre-yah