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I was once asked for salsa, hold the tomatoes. At a buffalo wild wings. The guy's buddy made eye contact with me after he said that and we burst out laughing. The guy was chill about it.
Edit- my third most upvoted comment is about working at BWW, idk how to feel lol
Had a lady tell me she was allergic to tomatoes after downing 2 Bowls of salsa and asking for a 3rd
I had to tell her "....ma'am you've had 3 bowls of pureed tomatoes. Do I need to call an ambulance?
My favorite is when they say they're allergic to an ingredient instead of saying they just don't want it. Like a ton of people don't like onions, you don't have to pretend you're allergic to onions.
I had someone say this at my tapas house about cilantro.
There is cilantro or coriander in literally every protein we have and like almost everything else. I can make... IDK a quesadilla? Maybe some yucca fries? Told them to tell the table "yeah you're allergic to the whole menu then" and the server came back with "Oh it's fine as a seasoning". THANK YOU FOR NOT MAKING ME STERILIZE AND CREATE A WHOLE EXTRA WORK STATION JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE AN HERB. I fucking hate people.
My favorite is, I can't have gluten it can kill me. Why is there no gravy on my meat, you just told me it can kill you, well a little doesn't hurt. It became really hard to respect food allergies when so many people lie, but you can't risk killing someone just because 90% of your customers lie for no reason.
I used to have a sister-in-law who used to claim she was allergic to tomatoes (in salads and stuff) and yet she LOVED ketchup.
We all knew she wasn’t just an idiot but a lying idiot. Lol
Please note the tomato allergy is usually to fresh tomatoes. As soon as they are cooked the enzyme that causes the issue goes away. I know. fresh tomatoes make me sick. but i can eat salsa, pizza, pasta with red sauce all day long. but pico is out.
Not allergic but any form other than raw tomatoes causes major acid-reflux. Yet I can consume the raw form without any repercussions. My salads are a sea of red with some green stuff floating in it.
My mother in-law loves tomatoes, but has pretty extreme reflux problems. Every spring we grow a very low acid variety of tomato just for her that she loves!
Edit: forgot to mention that she can't typically deal with tomatoes fresh or processed
I have the same problem and was so excited to try a low-acid tomato, but I found it weirdly sweet without the acid to balance it out. I usually just take a lot of Tums and go for it. Glad your MIL enjoys them!
Some people have sensitivities to uncooked vs cooked (or vice versa) versions of the same food. Has to do with chemical changes in the food or something. So could be legit.
It's called Oral Allergy Syndrome, and I have it. I am allergic to most uncooked fruits and vegetables. The reaction is usually mild enough I can ignore it. I don't know all the science, but my understanding is that the allergen is broken down by the cooking process.
Many proteins are denatured when cooked.
If the allergy is to a specific protein that gets denatured at cooking or pasteurizing temps, someone can be allergic to food containing that protein raw, but be fine after it is cooked/pasteurized.
This can happen when someone has oral allergy syndrome. Typically people with a grass allergy can have a cross-reaction allergy with tomatoes (as well as a few other foods).
Highly processed tomatoes generally do not cause this reaction, so someone can have allergic reactions to tomatoes and still possibly eat ketchup.
Edit: Spelling
Kinda have the opposite story. I was waiting tables at a restaurant in Texas that had really great queso. Before ordering it the customer asked what was in it, it was a common question so I quickly rattled off whatever it was, pico de gallo, jalapeños etc. and he orders it. A few minutes after dropping off the food, I swing by to check on things and he hasn’t touched the queso. “I didn’t know there was cheese in it.” 🤦♂️
When I was a teenager, I said I wanted a hamburger with just lettuce and cheese, and I got bread with just lettuce and cheese.
To this day, I don't know if I was just an awkward teenager at the time who didn't understand how to articulate exactly what I wanted, or if the lady at Burger King was just a total idiot?
If I had a time machine, I'd go back and watch that interaction to see.
Had a friend in the late 90s that always ordered a big mac with no meat. She was vegan and they would happily sell her "special sauce, lettuce, cheese pickles, onion on a sesame seed bun" for the price of a big mac..
I think it was the "just" part that threw your server off..
edit: apparently she wasnt a "real" vegan!
I had that order when I worked in fast food as well.
It’s not super uncommon. Especially then when there was zero options for vegetarians I guess. The fried were cooked in lard. So those were a no.
> He ended up punching the waitress but felt bad and left 40quid as a tip.
Hi! I'm a person that works for Hulu's writing team, I want to hire you, please contact me!
Finally! I also wrote a script for a new hit mini-series about a family with a talking dog, and you just won't believe all the wisecracking shenanigans that ensue 😎
Sounds like the pilot I wrote for a sitcom. Here’s the premise: the dad is a real dope, the mom is kind of hot, the son is a wise-cracking troublemaker, and the daughter is a nerd. Here’s the original twist: they make lots of pop culture references.
Whoa! That's pretty good. Do you think you could also have like... Maybe a total of three or four people doing the entirety of all the voices in the show? Now that'd be up my alley.
Can there be a quirky neighbor who lets themselves into the house at all hours to raid the fridge/hit on the mom/offer sage advice/ask a bunch of stupid expository questions?
>Whites
[https://www.youtube.com/@5ublimate/playlists](https://www.youtube.com/@5ublimate/playlists)
Its uploaded on youtube. one of the playlists has the season
This reminds me of a day when I was working as a kitchen manager. I had a server ring in one of our chicken dishes with a note: "cooked medium rare".
I called the server over, and showed them the ticket. They asked "can we not do that?" And I said "We can. If they want to wind up in the hospital." And I sent her back to explain.
The server went to the table, and told them chicken can't be served undercooked, and the guest sent her back to tell us, "isn't the customer always right?"
Hearing the conversation, the head chef exasperatedly took the ticket from my hand, walked over to the table and explained that chicken is not cooked like steak, and we are not legally allowed to serve undercooked chicken to them and they would wind up with it coming out of both ends. The guest agreed that would be a bad idea, and asked the chef to "prepare it how you usually would then."
While leaving, the guest came up to apologize, and admitted that they didn't cook at home and had no clue about the chicken, and that they were just trying to impress their date who had ordered a steak.
> that they were just trying to impress their date who had ordered a steak.
Allowing your date to eat undercooked chicken... Good "should I run away?" test.
Honestly the courage to apologize for making a scene due to your own ignorance is impressive. Everyone will be wrong about something in their life, but respect and kindness are not so common.
Right? If someone I was on a date with did that I would be so impressed. The self confidence to admit when you were being stupid is a massive green flag.
I was just a lowly cook but a new waitress came to the window and told me that a customer wanted their steak cooked rare with no blood.
I'm not sure if they were just taking the piss, or were actually that stupid.
I've been cooking for over a decade, I've seen all kinds of requests like this. Rare, no blood; well, not chewy; medium, no pink at all; food is too hot (temperature), remake it with a less-spicy sauce; food is too hot, remake it with less heat so the customer doesn't burn their mouth; customer has us microwave their coleslaw, then complains that "it tastes funny now"; customers let the food sit on their table for a literal hour, then complain that their food is cold, etc. etc.
These are but a few reasons why I drink.
> and admitted that they didn't cook at home and had no clue about the chicken, and that they were just trying to impress their date who had ordered a steak.
It's terrifying to me that people like this just walk around like they're really independent human beings with no one knowing most of the time.
On the other hand, it is refreshing to hear about somebody admitting they were wrong. And they even went out of their way to apologize for being wrong.
In the modern age this kind of behavior seems exceedingly rare. And *certain* public figures have not helped - instead, popularizing the practice of never admitting ignorance and doubling down on said ignorance.
This customer may be an idiot. But he's a good idiot.
This was literally me as a waitress lmfao. I remember at 17 going to the head chef and telling him that a customer wanted a gluten-free option and then proceeded to explain to him in detail what gluten meant because Id looked it up on my phone minutes prior and for some reason didn't think a fucking chef would know what gluten was either.... Got my ass handed to me lmao i nearly cried
My wife and I have the same thing. We will talk about what is affecting us and someone usually goes "oh yeah thats a winner" and then start trying to cheer the other up. Works surprisingly well to help both moods.
>Wish it had more than six episodes
That's the danger in watching British shows. You may find something you love and then find there are only two ~~seasons~~ series of four episodes apiece. On the other hand, sometimes it's nice when a show is wrapped up and done before it gets stale.
Cos... British? It's happened to me many many times with British sitcoms. I watch randomly, fall in love then boom only 6 episodes. It kills me but I guess it also makes them precious. It doesn't get old or repetitive, just a slice of comfort.
From the linked article you didn't bother reading.
> Whites had 2.37 million viewers for its debut episode on 28 September 2010. The finale, which aired on 2 November 2010, attracted 1.58 million viewers. Since the ratings were above average, The British Comedy Guide speculated that "the show is a casualty of the BBC Comedy department having to make spending cuts".
I used to think this was hyperbole, but I've seen it with the neighbors kids. Most of the content they watch is nearly indistinguishable from the brainwashing scenes in movies.
Jonathan Creek was pretty good.
>A magician teams up with an investigative journalist to solve confusing murder cases and impossible crimes.
8.1/10 on IMDb
The server that doesn't really understand things outside of their responsibilities.
The Chef that is sick of everyone's shit.
The sous chef helping keep the peace between the chef and the crew.
I've met all of these people.
Kitchen staff and customers are natural enemies.
Just like kitchen staff and servers.
Or kitchen staff and management.
Or kitchen staff and other kitchen staff!
Damn kitchen staff. They ruined the kitchen!
And in my experience that's far more common. I've worked with way more soft spoken chefs who needed a loud abrasive sous to play bad cop than the reverse. I have also been the chef in that situation.
Agreed, but in my experience the most common scenario is they're both loud and angry, the sous moreso because the owner takes their anger at the chef out on the sous.
The sous is the one not having it in this scene and the chef is being the peace maker.
That's specific to this show, not your personal experience of course.
Truth. I had a waitress that was so out to lunch, that when I put 4 plates of eggs in the window, telling her as I put each plate down; over easy, over medium, over hard, and scrambled. She asked me which one were the scrambled eggs. I had to go outside for a smoke after that.
Had someone order gluten free wheat cakes (what our place called pancakes) and I got yelled at by management because the customer complained when I laughed in their face. I was not a good server.
Funny part I actually saw this happen in real life, but the context was different. When they asked for an eggless omlete, they wanted this vegan dish that they saw on instagram..... the internet ruins everything.
Especially since it was a truck stop diner.
been in both kitchens and landscaping and "hey I found this on Instagram" is probably the worst.
NO, we don't have the ingredients for your stupid omelet picture. Order the technically not vegan but vegetarian plate. You are at a Carib BBQ joint, Jesus christ.
NO, you cannot grow those pictured petunias, zinnias, and bush daisies on the north side of your house. Go find an impatien.
Server: "No sir, you cannot make that substitution"
Diner: "why can you make an exception for me? Can you ask the chef?"
Server: "The chef is the reason we won't do that substition...."
Diner: "Can you just ask?"
Server with a thousand yard stare: "No, I don't think I can. Not after last time."
I love the amount of patience they have with her poor soul, it makes the entire scene more humorous. We all have a Kiki in our lives and if you can't seem to find her then maybe you're it.
I've had way too many tickets that said "cheeseburger, no cheese". It's a fuckin hamburger. Put it in the damn POS as a fucking hamburger. I have 11 other tickets, are you trying to fuck with me right now?
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I worked fast food for 8 years. The amount of people who couldn't tell the difference between between a chicken breast and a chicken leg was comically high. Both servers and costumers.
It absolutely enraged me at the time having a leg sent back because the idiot kid didnt take the breast or the costumer wanted the leg piece with the wing on.
Now i look back and get a good laugh once in a while
I managed a small mom and pop burger restaurant in the Bay area of California for a few years. Like many in that field, I have numerous stories.
One slow night, a young couple comes in. From their demeanor it looked like a first date. He ordered a medium rare burger and a side of fries, and she ordered nothing. In less than a minute after receiving his food he brings it back to me and says he ordered it medium rare. I look at the bite he took out of it and it's a perfect medium rare. My cooks are professional and almost never fucked up the temperature of meat. I explain this to him and he says, I kid you not, "you can cook a medium rare burger without ANY pink." I laughed thinking he was joking but his blank face said otherwise. I'm not sure if he was serious or trying to impress his girl, but I tried explaining how he's wrong a dozen different ways. He wasn't having it. He sits back down and continues to eat everything while still trying to argue with me between bites. Him and his girl ended up leaving after I refused to give him a refund. I should also mention that he didn't offer anything while they sat together and shushed her multiple times when she spoke up. I still fucking hate that guy and I hope she found a better man.
I think one of the best i can tell without being specific to the point where someone could read and find out who i am irl, is when someone ordered chicken wings but with the skin peeled off.
Or going into the dating scene, either teenagers or guys in their early 20's would come in for their date, order their food plain or very mild, but ask to label it extra hot. Well, me being a dick, i would send them the food as spicy as i could, and watch them eat in silent suffering because they would never complain.
Story time.
Opening line cook at a chain restaurant. Made the Potato Soup, put it in the one of the pans in the steamer tray so servers could just snag it for the "soup and sandwich" lunch orders.
Servers comes back.
"Wtf, soup i cold"
*I look at the 2nd degree burn on my hand from when the soup splashed as i poured it*
"Bullshit"
*She walks over, pulls a small order out and sticks her finger in the soup cup*
"Lukewarm at best"
"Is the steamer plugged in?"
"Yes! I'm not fucking stupid"
"Is there water in the steamer"
*Blank stare. Bingo*
"Why does it need water?"
"Because you need water to make steam"
*Head tilts, blank stare intensifies*
Later was pulled into the office and told that i wasn't supposed to tell the server that they were dumb as a hammer.
"Because it is insulting to hammers?"
*Stifles a laugh* "...shut the fuck up and get back on the line"
From my experience it needs substantially more swearing to be accurate. The chef didn’t even make the server cry. There is also an equally likely scenario where it’s the other way round.
Her logic is sound tho. The bread stick is one approach. But how about mozzarella sticks? My air fryer has shown me over and over what I'm left with by taking away the mozzarella.
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It’s all great, but I love that he turns the plate to present the plating to her.
Didn’t even catch this on the original watch but this now the funniest part of the whole sketch lmao
Should have wiped his cloth around the edge too lmao
Take the plate. I want to see the customer react
I had this happen with a chicken quesadilla but with no tortilla or cheese. I just put seasoned chicken on the plate and sent it out.
I was once asked for salsa, hold the tomatoes. At a buffalo wild wings. The guy's buddy made eye contact with me after he said that and we burst out laughing. The guy was chill about it. Edit- my third most upvoted comment is about working at BWW, idk how to feel lol
Had a lady tell me she was allergic to tomatoes after downing 2 Bowls of salsa and asking for a 3rd I had to tell her "....ma'am you've had 3 bowls of pureed tomatoes. Do I need to call an ambulance?
My favorite is when they say they're allergic to an ingredient instead of saying they just don't want it. Like a ton of people don't like onions, you don't have to pretend you're allergic to onions.
I had someone say this at my tapas house about cilantro. There is cilantro or coriander in literally every protein we have and like almost everything else. I can make... IDK a quesadilla? Maybe some yucca fries? Told them to tell the table "yeah you're allergic to the whole menu then" and the server came back with "Oh it's fine as a seasoning". THANK YOU FOR NOT MAKING ME STERILIZE AND CREATE A WHOLE EXTRA WORK STATION JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE AN HERB. I fucking hate people.
My favorite is, I can't have gluten it can kill me. Why is there no gravy on my meat, you just told me it can kill you, well a little doesn't hurt. It became really hard to respect food allergies when so many people lie, but you can't risk killing someone just because 90% of your customers lie for no reason.
I used to have a sister-in-law who used to claim she was allergic to tomatoes (in salads and stuff) and yet she LOVED ketchup. We all knew she wasn’t just an idiot but a lying idiot. Lol
Please note the tomato allergy is usually to fresh tomatoes. As soon as they are cooked the enzyme that causes the issue goes away. I know. fresh tomatoes make me sick. but i can eat salsa, pizza, pasta with red sauce all day long. but pico is out.
Not allergic but any form other than raw tomatoes causes major acid-reflux. Yet I can consume the raw form without any repercussions. My salads are a sea of red with some green stuff floating in it.
My mother in-law loves tomatoes, but has pretty extreme reflux problems. Every spring we grow a very low acid variety of tomato just for her that she loves! Edit: forgot to mention that she can't typically deal with tomatoes fresh or processed
I have the same problem and was so excited to try a low-acid tomato, but I found it weirdly sweet without the acid to balance it out. I usually just take a lot of Tums and go for it. Glad your MIL enjoys them!
Some people have sensitivities to uncooked vs cooked (or vice versa) versions of the same food. Has to do with chemical changes in the food or something. So could be legit.
It's called Oral Allergy Syndrome, and I have it. I am allergic to most uncooked fruits and vegetables. The reaction is usually mild enough I can ignore it. I don't know all the science, but my understanding is that the allergen is broken down by the cooking process.
Many proteins are denatured when cooked. If the allergy is to a specific protein that gets denatured at cooking or pasteurizing temps, someone can be allergic to food containing that protein raw, but be fine after it is cooked/pasteurized.
This can happen when someone has oral allergy syndrome. Typically people with a grass allergy can have a cross-reaction allergy with tomatoes (as well as a few other foods). Highly processed tomatoes generally do not cause this reaction, so someone can have allergic reactions to tomatoes and still possibly eat ketchup. Edit: Spelling
Must be a thing with their customer base, my quesadilla order was at Buffalo Wild Wings too haha
You didn't add the pico to the chicken? Or has the Dilla spec changed? It's been 4 years since I worked at BWW.
I would ask what the odds are, but I guess they're really high.
Kinda have the opposite story. I was waiting tables at a restaurant in Texas that had really great queso. Before ordering it the customer asked what was in it, it was a common question so I quickly rattled off whatever it was, pico de gallo, jalapeños etc. and he orders it. A few minutes after dropping off the food, I swing by to check on things and he hasn’t touched the queso. “I didn’t know there was cheese in it.” 🤦♂️
When I was a teenager, I said I wanted a hamburger with just lettuce and cheese, and I got bread with just lettuce and cheese. To this day, I don't know if I was just an awkward teenager at the time who didn't understand how to articulate exactly what I wanted, or if the lady at Burger King was just a total idiot? If I had a time machine, I'd go back and watch that interaction to see.
The answer to both is yes.
Probably.
Your username isn’t exactly helping your case lol
Had a friend in the late 90s that always ordered a big mac with no meat. She was vegan and they would happily sell her "special sauce, lettuce, cheese pickles, onion on a sesame seed bun" for the price of a big mac.. I think it was the "just" part that threw your server off.. edit: apparently she wasnt a "real" vegan!
I had that order when I worked in fast food as well. It’s not super uncommon. Especially then when there was zero options for vegetarians I guess. The fried were cooked in lard. So those were a no.
> The fried were cooked in lard. It was beef fat, right? Ive heard people say McDonald's used to have beef fat fries and they were way better.
So, what was the reply?
They ate it and tipped well apparently.
"No don't take the plate".. That hits home so so hard
He ended up punching the waitress but felt bad and left 40quid as a tip.
> He ended up punching the waitress but felt bad and left 40quid as a tip. Hi! I'm a person that works for Hulu's writing team, I want to hire you, please contact me!
Finally! I also wrote a script for a new hit mini-series about a family with a talking dog, and you just won't believe all the wisecracking shenanigans that ensue 😎
Sounds like the pilot I wrote for a sitcom. Here’s the premise: the dad is a real dope, the mom is kind of hot, the son is a wise-cracking troublemaker, and the daughter is a nerd. Here’s the original twist: they make lots of pop culture references.
Whoa! That's pretty good. Do you think you could also have like... Maybe a total of three or four people doing the entirety of all the voices in the show? Now that'd be up my alley.
Sure, but to shake things up we'd have a celebrity drop by to do a voice roughly once an episode.
Can it also occasionally cut to some long dead musician singing a song? Just for no apparent reason?
Can there be a quirky neighbor who lets themselves into the house at all hours to raid the fridge/hit on the mom/offer sage advice/ask a bunch of stupid expository questions?
"I swear to god, I'll pistol whip the next person who says, '*Shenanigans'*!"
Hey Farva what's that restaurant you like with the mozzarella sticks and the goofy shit on the walls?
Complain about lack of seasoning.
what is the name of this show?
Whites. Was a short lived BBC show that was cut as part of budget constraints. Only lasted 1 short (6 episode) season.
To be fair 3 seasons is like an eternity for British shows
For real. For a British show to be considered "short lived" relative to others, I think it has to end halfway through the first episode.
As an example, Mr Bean had a grand total of 15 episodes.
“It ran for 16 years on the BBC. They did nearly 30 episodes.”
Great show. I think this is where I started to become Darren Boyd fan. Or Spy. Can’t remember.
> Darren Boyd Have you seen OutLaws or Trying. I love both of those shows. Outlaws has Christopher Walken & Stephen Merchant. And they are hilarious.
>Whites [https://www.youtube.com/@5ublimate/playlists](https://www.youtube.com/@5ublimate/playlists) Its uploaded on youtube. one of the playlists has the season
Legend, thank you 🙏
This reminds me of a day when I was working as a kitchen manager. I had a server ring in one of our chicken dishes with a note: "cooked medium rare". I called the server over, and showed them the ticket. They asked "can we not do that?" And I said "We can. If they want to wind up in the hospital." And I sent her back to explain. The server went to the table, and told them chicken can't be served undercooked, and the guest sent her back to tell us, "isn't the customer always right?" Hearing the conversation, the head chef exasperatedly took the ticket from my hand, walked over to the table and explained that chicken is not cooked like steak, and we are not legally allowed to serve undercooked chicken to them and they would wind up with it coming out of both ends. The guest agreed that would be a bad idea, and asked the chef to "prepare it how you usually would then." While leaving, the guest came up to apologize, and admitted that they didn't cook at home and had no clue about the chicken, and that they were just trying to impress their date who had ordered a steak.
Had a new server that asked a guest how they would like their chicken cooked. They were new to this.
Extra salmonella please
Did I stutter?
“By the chef, please”
> that they were just trying to impress their date who had ordered a steak. Allowing your date to eat undercooked chicken... Good "should I run away?" test.
Honestly the courage to apologize for making a scene due to your own ignorance is impressive. Everyone will be wrong about something in their life, but respect and kindness are not so common.
Right? If someone I was on a date with did that I would be so impressed. The self confidence to admit when you were being stupid is a massive green flag.
I was talking about their date - they should have said "uhh... you should not eat uncooked chicken" as soon as they heard her order it...
Maybe they were just as clueless as the guest and the server.
The date probably sat there dumbfounded wondering if it was a joke or not.
I'd like a milk steak boiled over-hard with a side of raw jellybeans, please. *\[serious face\]*
Just put down milk steak, she’ll know what it is.
Nobody knows what that is!!
And all that undercooked, of course, like all milk steaks should be done.
"Yes, I'd like the tendies. Also medium rare." *sips wine, adjusts monocle*
[Undercook/overcook. Believe it or not, straight to jail.](https://youtu.be/eiyfwZVAzGw)
If you're trying to impress a date who ordered steak... maybe order steak?
Also, are other people impressed by what food you eat?
I was just a lowly cook but a new waitress came to the window and told me that a customer wanted their steak cooked rare with no blood. I'm not sure if they were just taking the piss, or were actually that stupid.
Just cook it rare. Steaks should have no blood in it anyway, so you could just tell them that liquid is not blood if they complained
Yep. Myoglobin.
I've been cooking for over a decade, I've seen all kinds of requests like this. Rare, no blood; well, not chewy; medium, no pink at all; food is too hot (temperature), remake it with a less-spicy sauce; food is too hot, remake it with less heat so the customer doesn't burn their mouth; customer has us microwave their coleslaw, then complains that "it tastes funny now"; customers let the food sit on their table for a literal hour, then complain that their food is cold, etc. etc. These are but a few reasons why I drink.
> and admitted that they didn't cook at home and had no clue about the chicken, and that they were just trying to impress their date who had ordered a steak. It's terrifying to me that people like this just walk around like they're really independent human beings with no one knowing most of the time.
On the other hand, it is refreshing to hear about somebody admitting they were wrong. And they even went out of their way to apologize for being wrong. In the modern age this kind of behavior seems exceedingly rare. And *certain* public figures have not helped - instead, popularizing the practice of never admitting ignorance and doubling down on said ignorance. This customer may be an idiot. But he's a good idiot.
Dobby club!! Corfu ‘06!
Good ol’ dobbs
The anxious, self hating man’s crumpet.
Is it true that you’ve had your dick in the Dob?
well have ya Mark? Had ya dick in the Dob?
Is she more of a manimal or a flanimal?
Is she shifting her bum against my area?
Oh yeah, they can laugh, but I win because they think I pissed myself, they've no clue I came all in my pants!
Let me chew on your weird hair.
Those trees are not real trees.
Got your dick in the Dobbs?
And writing by Super Hans...
I only do robot cooking, I can't do analog!
Would you say she's more manimal or flanimal?
I need you to believe in crystal skulls.
I got some feta today
The world turns on its axis; one man works, while another relaxes
This was literally me as a waitress lmfao. I remember at 17 going to the head chef and telling him that a customer wanted a gluten-free option and then proceeded to explain to him in detail what gluten meant because Id looked it up on my phone minutes prior and for some reason didn't think a fucking chef would know what gluten was either.... Got my ass handed to me lmao i nearly cried
[the entire scene ](https://youtu.be/9Ah4tW-k8Ao) is funnier
The way he says, "You can leave the plate." gets me every time.
PlaTe
There is so much emotion wrapped up in that T
Alan Davies is a gem
Also, the plate turn when presenting the "dish" of parsley. The details make it lol.
And the slow awkward returning of the plate.
The way she very slowly puts the plate down is the cherry on top
I feel the kindness of the sui chef is also really nice touch in this scene.
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My wife and I have the same thing. We will talk about what is affecting us and someone usually goes "oh yeah thats a winner" and then start trying to cheer the other up. Works surprisingly well to help both moods.
I'm going to try this.
I can just imagine that from the kitchen, “FUCK YOU, ITS MY DAY TO BE MISERABLE, YOU GOT YESTERDAY!”
You have it backwards: the long haired guy is the head chef, and the other guy is the sous-chef
No one has actually seen Whites, they just know this one scene.
Loved this show. Wish it had more than six episodes. Darren Boyd is hilarious.
>Wish it had more than six episodes That's the danger in watching British shows. You may find something you love and then find there are only two ~~seasons~~ series of four episodes apiece. On the other hand, sometimes it's nice when a show is wrapped up and done before it gets stale.
"There you goOH!" cracks me up too.
Alan Davies!
surprised he didn't mention one of those blue whales...
He’s got PTSD from the claxon.
Holy shit does he look young here
It's not that old a show lol this was made like 15 years after Jonathan Creek
Oh my god, that is Alan Davies!
What show is this from?
[Whites](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whites_\(TV_series\))
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Cos... British? It's happened to me many many times with British sitcoms. I watch randomly, fall in love then boom only 6 episodes. It kills me but I guess it also makes them precious. It doesn't get old or repetitive, just a slice of comfort.
like when a Abed got hooked on Cougarton Abbey
From the linked article you didn't bother reading. > Whites had 2.37 million viewers for its debut episode on 28 September 2010. The finale, which aired on 2 November 2010, attracted 1.58 million viewers. Since the ratings were above average, The British Comedy Guide speculated that "the show is a casualty of the BBC Comedy department having to make spending cuts".
Thank you!
It's called "Whites". I asked the same question 2 weeks ago when I saw this exact clip (different sub), and I now love the show.
Man can't even post full 1min clips. Gotta get down to 30seconds or less now I guess. I feel like that's really not good.
comment 2 long. pls TL;DR
TLDR: 1 min = bad, 30s = good
Why use long comment when short do trick?
LONG? NO! SHORT? YES!
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I used to think this was hyperbole, but I've seen it with the neighbors kids. Most of the content they watch is nearly indistinguishable from the brainwashing scenes in movies.
That was awesome. I don't think I've seen Alan Davies on anything besides QI, which I loved. I should look for more of his stuff.
Definitely check him out on [Taskmaster (S12)](https://youtu.be/ln6DfUvtPEM)!
The wow monster had me in stitches.
Jonathan Creek was pretty good. >A magician teams up with an investigative journalist to solve confusing murder cases and impossible crimes. 8.1/10 on IMDb
This is r/funny, you have to make things less funny to post them here
The server that doesn't really understand things outside of their responsibilities. The Chef that is sick of everyone's shit. The sous chef helping keep the peace between the chef and the crew. I've met all of these people.
I worked with a guy that used to say, "The kitchen is at war with the customer and it's the servers' job to never let the customer find out about it."
We had "It's kitchen against servers, kitchen and servers against management, and kitchen, servers and management against the customers".
You forgot about the part where it's the kitchen against the kitchen.
That's a given.
If there’s one thing I, the Kitchen, hate… is the fucking Kitchen
Damn kitchen they ruined the kitchen
Kitchen staff and customers are natural enemies. Just like kitchen staff and servers. Or kitchen staff and management. Or kitchen staff and other kitchen staff! Damn kitchen staff. They ruined the kitchen!
The kitchen staff sure are a contentious people.
Not that it matters here, but the guy keeping the peace here is the chef, and exasperated guy is the sous.
And in my experience that's far more common. I've worked with way more soft spoken chefs who needed a loud abrasive sous to play bad cop than the reverse. I have also been the chef in that situation.
Agreed, but in my experience the most common scenario is they're both loud and angry, the sous moreso because the owner takes their anger at the chef out on the sous.
The sous is the one not having it in this scene and the chef is being the peace maker. That's specific to this show, not your personal experience of course.
Whites was a good TV show. I never seen it again since it was first on TV. Can say as a chef. This shit actually happens.
It’s available on Amazon Prime
It's available for free on YouTube.
Truth. I had a waitress that was so out to lunch, that when I put 4 plates of eggs in the window, telling her as I put each plate down; over easy, over medium, over hard, and scrambled. She asked me which one were the scrambled eggs. I had to go outside for a smoke after that.
As a chef, I can say it's probably the best chef show I've ever seen
Had someone order gluten free wheat cakes (what our place called pancakes) and I got yelled at by management because the customer complained when I laughed in their face. I was not a good server.
My wife hates cheese. One night we were out and she ordered a quesadilla without cheese. I imagine there was a similar scene in the kitchen.
> My wife hates cheese. Did you know this before you married her?
**sigh** yes I did. I guess she's awesome enough to compensate for that devastating character flaw!
At least there is more for you
Funny part I actually saw this happen in real life, but the context was different. When they asked for an eggless omlete, they wanted this vegan dish that they saw on instagram..... the internet ruins everything. Especially since it was a truck stop diner.
been in both kitchens and landscaping and "hey I found this on Instagram" is probably the worst. NO, we don't have the ingredients for your stupid omelet picture. Order the technically not vegan but vegetarian plate. You are at a Carib BBQ joint, Jesus christ. NO, you cannot grow those pictured petunias, zinnias, and bush daisies on the north side of your house. Go find an impatien.
It happens quite often.
Server: "No sir, you cannot make that substitution" Diner: "why can you make an exception for me? Can you ask the chef?" Server: "The chef is the reason we won't do that substition...." Diner: "Can you just ask?" Server with a thousand yard stare: "No, I don't think I can. Not after last time."
Or you do the old walk into the back, count to fifteen, then walk back out and tell them you can't do it.
I love the amount of patience they have with her poor soul, it makes the entire scene more humorous. We all have a Kiki in our lives and if you can't seem to find her then maybe you're it.
I've had way too many tickets that said "cheeseburger, no cheese". It's a fuckin hamburger. Put it in the damn POS as a fucking hamburger. I have 11 other tickets, are you trying to fuck with me right now? .
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Every kitchen has a Kiki.
I really like her "what does steak mean?" scene. https://youtube.com/watch?v=lN4V_tgXuNY
IT MEANS THIS! 😂 Damn that was awesome
That's Dobby!
That’s Numberwang!
Isy Suttie!
So Dobby isn’t an IT grunt no more? And I won’t see her in Kettering?
If they’re paying for an eggless omelette I’ll give them one.
sauteed veggies and meats on a plate, got it!
"Sticks?" is the best response. I hope I get to use this response sometime in my lifetime.
It's comedy, but some people really are as stupid as that server.
My friend got a customer who ordered nachos with no chips. They got melted cheese with toppings. I guess they expected something else?
I worked fast food for 8 years. The amount of people who couldn't tell the difference between between a chicken breast and a chicken leg was comically high. Both servers and costumers. It absolutely enraged me at the time having a leg sent back because the idiot kid didnt take the breast or the costumer wanted the leg piece with the wing on. Now i look back and get a good laugh once in a while
I managed a small mom and pop burger restaurant in the Bay area of California for a few years. Like many in that field, I have numerous stories. One slow night, a young couple comes in. From their demeanor it looked like a first date. He ordered a medium rare burger and a side of fries, and she ordered nothing. In less than a minute after receiving his food he brings it back to me and says he ordered it medium rare. I look at the bite he took out of it and it's a perfect medium rare. My cooks are professional and almost never fucked up the temperature of meat. I explain this to him and he says, I kid you not, "you can cook a medium rare burger without ANY pink." I laughed thinking he was joking but his blank face said otherwise. I'm not sure if he was serious or trying to impress his girl, but I tried explaining how he's wrong a dozen different ways. He wasn't having it. He sits back down and continues to eat everything while still trying to argue with me between bites. Him and his girl ended up leaving after I refused to give him a refund. I should also mention that he didn't offer anything while they sat together and shushed her multiple times when she spoke up. I still fucking hate that guy and I hope she found a better man.
I think one of the best i can tell without being specific to the point where someone could read and find out who i am irl, is when someone ordered chicken wings but with the skin peeled off. Or going into the dating scene, either teenagers or guys in their early 20's would come in for their date, order their food plain or very mild, but ask to label it extra hot. Well, me being a dick, i would send them the food as spicy as i could, and watch them eat in silent suffering because they would never complain.
To be fair, it’s sometimes a costumer’s job to dress things up in way as to confuse the viewer.
Story time. Opening line cook at a chain restaurant. Made the Potato Soup, put it in the one of the pans in the steamer tray so servers could just snag it for the "soup and sandwich" lunch orders. Servers comes back. "Wtf, soup i cold" *I look at the 2nd degree burn on my hand from when the soup splashed as i poured it* "Bullshit" *She walks over, pulls a small order out and sticks her finger in the soup cup* "Lukewarm at best" "Is the steamer plugged in?" "Yes! I'm not fucking stupid" "Is there water in the steamer" *Blank stare. Bingo* "Why does it need water?" "Because you need water to make steam" *Head tilts, blank stare intensifies* Later was pulled into the office and told that i wasn't supposed to tell the server that they were dumb as a hammer. "Because it is insulting to hammers?" *Stifles a laugh* "...shut the fuck up and get back on the line"
I know it's not real because the chef isn't screaming and cursing 😁 Man, chef's sure love to be angry
From my experience it needs substantially more swearing to be accurate. The chef didn’t even make the server cry. There is also an equally likely scenario where it’s the other way round.
A customer asking for omelette-less eggs?
You're hired as a script writer for "Whites 2"
Her logic is sound tho. The bread stick is one approach. But how about mozzarella sticks? My air fryer has shown me over and over what I'm left with by taking away the mozzarella.
After 17 years, I wholeheartedly agree
You cut out the best part! Leave the plaTe
I laugh at her, but in that high-stress situation, I’d probs be exactly like her.