Let’s say I decide to go to a nice restaurant for a meal. The dish comes out, and I ask for a salt shaker before I even taste it (I never have, btw). That is normally considered an insult to the chef or you are pegged as a neanderthal diner.

Why, then, is it normal for a waiter to offer you grinds of pepper all over your plate before you have even had your first bite?

  • groucho@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I can’t stop laughing. Did you tell him, or did he just sit there grinding more and more pepper into your lap?

    My wife and I went to an Italian restaurant in Vegas a few years ago. The waiter asked if we wanted Parmesan, pulled the tiniest cube of cheese out and held it up like a magician, and then never broke eye contact while he grated it. It was unnerving.

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      1 year ago

      I didn’t tell him, just sat there in shock getting my lap peppered.

      If it happened to me now I would say something, but I was young and not that assertive, so was probably like a rabbit in the headlights!