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Old Sep 29, 2025 | 3:37 pm
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Originally Posted by brightstar100
[Imagine accent and over enunciation, yes really] “I said chab-lis, not cham-pagne.” Honestly cringey. Clearly the drinks order should have been correct but there are ways elegantly to handle these things. No elegance here.
Did the passenger actually say "chab-lees, not cham-pag-nay"? That would've provided a moment for the crew to correct, ever so politely in the same over-enunciation style, "it's pronounced cha-bli and cham-pain".
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