Thread: Idiots in 2019

Originally Posted by ian

Hi Pete
you shouldn't be surprised ...

the fast food counter jockeys only know how they have been trained to pronounce what is printed on the outside of the box they take the "fill-ays" from.
If their training is to pronounce "fish fillet" as "fish fill-ay" that is what they will do.

Living most of the year in Canada I get odd looks a lot of the time.

Ian, don't get me wrong, I had no objection to her pronunciation which was, after all, correct in that the word is originally French. My objection was that she felt the need to correct my accepted Anglicised usage for something that couldn't have been mistaken for anything else on the menu. Besides, there's a certain pretentiousness about such a name being given to a piece of junk food. What next, I wonder? Slapping an uncooked meat pattie in a bun and calling it a "Steak Tartare Burger" ?

Originally Posted by woodhutt

What next, I wonder? Slapping an uncooked meat pattie in a bun and calling it a "Steak Tartare Burger" ?

As long as it isn't frozen.

Originally Posted by woodhutt

What next, I wonder? Slapping an uncooked meat pattie in a bun and calling it a "Steak Tartare Burger" ?

as long as it's walked quickly past a just snuffed out candle it would qualify as "Steak Tartare"

Originally Posted by rrich

As long as it isn't frozen.

Rich, I just hope like heck I haven't given Macca's an idea for their next assault on the culinary art. Pete

Originally Posted by bueller

Makes you wonder about people who label entire generations based on absurd stereotypes.

I've based my answer on the neanderthals that roam the streets here in this town!!!

Frozen Tartare is uncomfortable....

Don't even start on the pronunciation of Jaguar or Porsche.......

or even Jeremy Clarkson's pronunciation of Bathurst

Originally Posted by rwbuild

or even Jeremy Clarkson's pronunciation of Bathurst

OMG I'd blocked that from my memory...pain!