Now, have the server say it like it’s actually food.
I’m more a French Toast kinda guy.
f the waffle people. bastards, all of them.
pancake folk, I don’t know, just don’t talk to me and we’re good.
I see you don’t take any crêpe.
Absolutely incredible to see a 4chan rendition of a joke from the Christian comedy special “Bananas”. Surprisingly less homophobic too
Turns to kitchen: “Six fruits in a comfy, chef!”
joke’s on them. I was assigned the name Ruth at birth, so “rooty tooty fresh n fruity” is just one of my many names in rotation
ihop don’t fuck around. you will say the words or go hungry.
the what ?
You gotta say it like a cowboy while firing a six-shooter into the air hollerin’ “yeehaw” afterward.
There’s a bakery close to where I live that I used to get stuff from regularly. One of the things I liked had a really cringeworthy pun as a name, though, so I just said something along the lines of “the one with ham and eggs”. I regularly got asked “so one [cringeworthy pun]?” At some point I said, “yes, the one with the cringeworthy name”. The employee (who seemed to be a more senior employee) said I should use the product names because it would apparently confuse the apprentices otherwise. When I said that it’s just too cringeworthy she started saying things like “no one else will notice that it’s cringeworthy” and going in the direction of “come on, you can do it”. Well, I don’t go there anymore.
EDIT: since a number of people are commenting on my use of the word “cringeworthy”: for one there are a number of places where it’s fairly normal to use that word (and I mean IRL), and for another this happened in a different language.
Well now I have to know what the pun was, if it was so bad
I would likely do the same to be honest, Customer experience is huge when it comes to stuff like that. I don’t care what your corporate overlords or your management wants. If what your management wants leads to me feeling uncomfortable spending my money there, I’m not going to spend my money there.
In my opinion, I think it’s more than fair to be able to describe what you’re looking for or point your finger at a menu item and have that be sufficient.
Right? Having the employee repeat it back in their internal words is fine and tells the customer they’ve been heard correctly, but you don’t need to make then customer jump through hoops.
Coffee shop I go to used to do the Italian thing. Then they switched to small/medium/large. They finally settled on just listing the volume on the menu.
The entire time you could just say any of them and they knew what you meant.
If they have no idea what you meant they can ask for clarification. They even have the cups right next to the register they can hold up and confirm.Turns out not pissing people off is often as easy as “asking for clarification if needed”. Also offering free espresso occasionally helps.
Oh yeah, firm agree, like the employee should definitely be able to clarify that they understood what you wanted properly, but it shouldn’t require the customer having to use whatever internal lingo that the establishment decided they wanted to call a bagel or, in your case what they wanted to call sizes of the beverage. I’ve actually had a similar issue with Starbucks because our somewhat local one did that and I haven’t gone back since.
Common, you can’t let us hang like this, what was it?!!
UK here, I’d say cringeworthy is a pretty normal word. Or at least it was before kids dropped the second half of the word.
In my books, without the second half of the word it’s a verb, and not an adjective or noun. But maybe I’m just getting old.
It’s a verb, adjective or noun. Whatever you want it to be, it’s that! A bit of everything at the same time.
we had “cringy”
No one who goes outside has ever used the word “cringeworthy” in real life.
You might be surprised.
they dont go outside
And why would they? There’s bugs out there.
I went outside once.
It was awful.
They generally don’t use the full word, but I have 1,000% heard people shorten it to cringe. It’s mostly people that are millennial or gen Z though.
Using cringeworthy off of the internet is itself a bit cringeworthy. But I notice younger generations are no longer making such distinctions. So maybe this is becoming the norm. Older generations would not have done this. Except for really old generations, like boomers, who will occasionally throw in an Internet slang they picked up recently. Again young gen x and older millenials had this one figured out, just like we figured out technology on our own. Which is probably related, as we wouldn’t use those terms offline since we knew other generations wouldn’t understand. Now that all generations access the internet all the time, on the mainstream monopoly services, that distinction is no longer there.
Cringeworthy isn’t Internet slang. It’s been around for decades. It’s like saying “humongous” is Internet slang.
That’s an incredibly dumb reason to not go to a nice bakery. People take themselves way too seriously. Embrace the cringe. Be whimsical and silly. Life’s too short to go through it with a stick up the ass.
Some of us have too much trauma for being made fun of as children for doing cringe worthy shit. It’s not fun and whimsical for us to be forced into it as adults. It literally hurts to expose ourselves to that again.
Yea, I was too. I grew up autistic in the rural US South. I know all about getting made fun of for being “cringe”.
The thing is though, holding onto that trauma and letting it dictate your life instead of learning to cope with it and move on is incredibly unhealthy.
Good for you buddy. It’s been a few decades and I’ve learned to cope with a lot of shit but that’s not something I’ve ever been able to power through.
Some people don’t mind cringeworthy things. For me, saying something that cringeworthy can hurt inside. Also, I just really don’t like being coerced to say something in a certain way just to match some marketing shtick. The question shouldn’t be “why don’t you want to do it”, but “why do you feel the need to compel me to use a term you made up”.
The great thing is, people can choose to be silly or people can choose to be serious. Let the person go find a bakery that works for them.
That’s cool and all but I’m still gonna express my opinion from my side of the fence on the subject.
Sure, go ahead.
You don’t get to tell people how to spend their time and money
When I was a kid I was low-key obsessed with Friendly’s, but I refused to say “Fribble”
My first job was at friendlys, and in case you still miss them sometimes, a fribble is just a regular milkshake made with soft serve (so just soft serve, syrup, and milk).
When I was a kid we had to stop eating at Friendly’s cause our server was gay, I mean it’s not like he told us this but my mom had an inkling. I want a cone head :(
Is your mom still a piece of shit to this day, or have her beliefs changed with the times?
Either way I’m sorry you had to grow up around bigotry like that
That’s the worst reason 💀. My mom would do the exact same thing
For those of us not familiar with the region you’re from: what’s Friendly’s and what’s a “Fribble”?
It’s a thick milkshake, Friendly’s is a chain of sit down restaurants, they serve food but most people know them for their ice cream.
Bolwing?
What connotations does that word have? Asking as a non-native speaker.
In my family, “dribble” was an oft-used cutesy synonym for “drool”. It reminds me of babies with food and saliva oozing down their chin. That wasn’t explicitly my resistance to saying “Fribble” though; it just felt awkard and childish. We didn’t have “cringey” as an adjective then - but in retrospect, cringey is how it felt.
I try to never say the names places have. I totally relate to this.
I always say them, in an obnoxiously over the top advertisy voice. I guess some people are just different 🤷🏼♂️
Funny meme and all but if a restaurant decides to do this and refuses to listen to anything but the ridiculous name for the food, then I won’t be eating there. You know what I want, either give it to me or we’re done here. There’s plenty of other restaurants and this one isn’t going to miss my $10 today.
Meanwhile me at Dennys: ILL HAVE THE MOONS OVER MY HAMMY PLEASE so loud the entire restaurant can hear it
So you’re saying you would not order the sploogemaster 40K?
In the 41st millennium there is only splooge.
I flatly refuse to say the Waffle House BS for hash browns. You will put tomato’s, onion, and cheese on them. I REFUSE to speak their gibberish for some shredding fucking potatoes.
Covered smothered chunked topped and peppered, the Ron special. Spoken just like that. My old manager at a parts store, probably the biggest and most intimidating redneck guy you ever seen. He didn’t have no problem with his niece made a Facebook page with him in a fairy costume named ‘tater salad.’ Some folks aren’t so self serious.
You must be fun to go out with
So fun for you is indulging in childish marketing of a large corporation?
Lmfao I love when you respond in a way that justifies the tag I gave you
Fun for them is probably being around someone who doesn’t get up on a soapbox to profess their refusal to say the menu names at a shitty breakfast food chain like they’re making some kind of outraged, principled stand.
Edit: Just want to point out the irony in eating at IHOP enough to have such a strong opinion on the menu names and then unironically calling other people obedient to corporations like IHOP because they think you’re acting obnoxious.
How are they on a soapbox? They made a relevant comment in a related comment section. They are very on topic and discussing OPs post. You’re kinda on a soapbox though, aren’t you?
> “I REFUSE to speak their gibberish”
> Calling other people “indulging in the childish marketing of corporations” (a corporation which I imagine you’d have to eat at a decent bit to be this pissed over it; couldn’t say having eaten there like once when I was 7).
> Strawmanning those calling you out by insisting they’re doing the thing you profess not to with no evidence. (They might just ask for the fruit pancakes or whatever and not say the name but not make a big deal out of it.)
> Putting up a giant “OBEY” sign because other people think you’re acting like a clown.
No soapboxing here, nosiree.
They get it wrong when I use their gibberish, so I say what I want
You will put tomato’s, onion, and cheese on them
You mean you want your hash browns spanked, choked, and gagged?
If I pointed out an item on a menu and someone asked to read a ridiculous name or loud I’d walk right out. Here in Germany I can’t imagine anything like that ever happening. Don’t know about the US, of course, but even there that seems far-fetched.
For real? German bakeries do this all the time. It’s a fucking Kürbiskernbrötchen, why do they all feel like they have to invent their own bullshit influencer name for it? Chances are 9 out of 10 get them from the same factory even.
Sure. But if I say “ich will so eins” I’ll get it.
Oh, for sure, but I usually also get the disappointed look and the “you mean the Jens-Lehmann-Gedächtnis-Kürbisblaster-3001?” correction.
My favourite!
Some German bakeries have excessively stupid names for their products too, though. I always refuse to say the name but point to the product in question. The usual answer is “Oh, you want one of the [silly-gibberish-name-of-an-overpriced-thing-that-tastes-like-sawdust-anyways]” - I nod, and that’s a successful transaction done.
Ohhhh so that’s why German people learn English, so they don’t have to say the ridiculous German words out loud!
In my experience, the average German person outside of an airport, train station, or tourist destination speaks very little English if any.
Say the name in a weird tone - my pick would probably be chuuni or heavily implied subtext - and make THEM embarrassed instead
They work customer service, they’re all dead inside.
