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Nov 15, 2015, 9:01 am

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t325

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Originally Posted by jimquan

A member of our party was once told by a waiter at the Topnotch at Stowe (yeah, I know zero Michelin stars) that the soup du jour was in fact, "soup of the day." What a jerk.

Jim

This is the first thing I thought of

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Nov 21, 2015, 1:10 am

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Amelorn

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I have often wondered why ritual abuse/condescension/humiliation from, to borrow my grandfather's terminology, "the help" is so commonplace in fine dining.

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