Things You Order To Make The Server Say "huh?"
Dec 1, 08, 10:33 am
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Originally Posted by ConciergeMike
I have one personal explanation that I need to make: I like to, on occasion, drink Water Moccasins. I've never come across a bartender who knows what it is.
Dec 1, 08, 1:49 pm
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Originally Posted by graraps
To be fair to them, there are literally thousands of cocktails and cocktail names the world over, and even the supposedly "classic" ones have many different versions, so, unless it's in the menu, I never ask for a cocktail by name.
She then asked me how to make a club soda.
::facepalm::
Dec 2, 08, 5:53 am
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In the words of the late, great Mitch Hedberg:
“I went to a restaurant and I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don’t think the waitress heard me ’cause she asked how I’d like my eggs. So I tried answering her anyways. ‘INCUBATED! Then hatched, then raised, then beheaded, then plucked, then cut up, then put onto a grill, then put onto a bun. Damn, it’s gonna take a while. I don’t have the time. Scrambled!’”
“I went to a restaurant and I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don’t think the waitress heard me ’cause she asked how I’d like my eggs. So I tried answering her anyways. ‘INCUBATED! Then hatched, then raised, then beheaded, then plucked, then cut up, then put onto a grill, then put onto a bun. Damn, it’s gonna take a while. I don’t have the time. Scrambled!’”
Dec 2, 08, 9:23 am
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One of my favorite winter drinks is a Snowball, with either lemon-lime soda or lemonade mixed with Advocaat. I've rarely found a bar that has Advocaat, so I generally have to enjoy them at home. Ordering one from a waitperson or bartender usually elicits "what's in that?" followed by a frown when I say "Advocaat".
Dec 2, 08, 9:23 am
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Originally Posted by dartagnan
I ordered a club soda from a bartender the other night. She looked at me blankly, so I repeated the order.
She then asked me how to make a club soda.
::facepalm::
She then asked me how to make a club soda.
::facepalm::
Dec 2, 08, 2:18 pm
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Originally Posted by mlshanks
If you call in advance, my favorite Russian restaurant will have a bottle of your favorite Vodka frozen *in the middle* of a block of ice with nothing but the neck exposed, ready for pouring neat. Nastrovya!
Dec 4, 08, 12:46 am
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How about a Martini?
More humorous than anything else, but it always tells me something about the bartender, waitress or establishment when I order a Martini and get the response, "Vodka?" Even more funny is when ordering my usual favorite, a Sapphire Martini, extra dry and getting the same response!
Dec 4, 08, 4:40 am
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The Classic "Off the Menu" Clip
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Dec 5, 08, 3:28 am
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two befuddled looks:
1.
on the face of the server when visit my dad (who never eats breakfast outside his house) and take him out for brunch and he replies to "how would you like your eggs?" with "um, well done, i guess"
2.
on my face when i make a rare foray into the USA and a server asks me how i'd like my burger cooked. (absolutely no choice offered in canada - thankfully) (i'll take a good medium or rare steak any day, but cook the mass-produced ground beef well please).
on the face of the server when visit my dad (who never eats breakfast outside his house) and take him out for brunch and he replies to "how would you like your eggs?" with "um, well done, i guess"
2.
on my face when i make a rare foray into the USA and a server asks me how i'd like my burger cooked. (absolutely no choice offered in canada - thankfully) (i'll take a good medium or rare steak any day, but cook the mass-produced ground beef well please).
Dec 9, 08, 11:40 pm
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Originally Posted by cstead
One of my favorite drinks is the calimocho - equal parts cola and red wine with a few ice cubes tossed in. Most people have never heard of it or have any idea, and when I explain it, they usually cringe.
And now I will try to stop cringing....
Dec 9, 08, 11:44 pm
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Originally Posted by erasmus99
I am Canadian. When I ask for vinegar for fries in the US, I've gotten blank stares too.
Dec 10, 08, 2:53 am
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Originally Posted by colonius
I believe that people have been shot for lesser sacrileges in France or Italy
And now I will try to stop cringing....
And now I will try to stop cringing....
Cheers,
-Andrew
not a fan of wine based cocktails
Dec 10, 08, 8:20 pm
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Originally Posted by YXU Dude
1.
on my face when i make a rare foray into the USA and a server asks me how i'd like my burger cooked. (absolutely no choice offered in canada - thankfully) (i'll take a good medium or rare steak any day, but cook the mass-produced ground beef well please).
on my face when i make a rare foray into the USA and a server asks me how i'd like my burger cooked. (absolutely no choice offered in canada - thankfully) (i'll take a good medium or rare steak any day, but cook the mass-produced ground beef well please).
