• RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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      It’s a metaphor for the rich minority living on the backs of the working class.

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      You know, I’ve never seen grapefruit in a fruit salad where I live. This had never occurred to me before, but I am grateful for it.

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    Is that a single piece of orange?

    Cause, from where I am, orange is cheaper than watermelon. So… Wouldn’t it make more sense to have more orange?

    This is confusing…

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      but watermelon is still cheaper per cubic meter right?
      it’s not as dense as orange

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      I reckon watermelons are cheaper than ramen noodle around here.

      (I live in mellon land. No trees; just mellon. I think I’ve seen a fruit tree once in my life.)

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    fuck it, go full mathematician. Serve an empty bowl on the grounds that it’s a vacuous fruit salad, every ingredient in it is a fruit

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    Wow all watermelon? Could be worse. I always get shafted with a bowl of 90% honeydew melon pieces with one or two bits of something else. I’ve actually lied and said I’m allergic to melon so I can get something else.

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    This has been always my experience when the restaurant offers as a side a ______ or a “seasonal fruit salad”

    It happened twice.

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      Because I wanted a fruit salad and did not anticipate this level of cheaping out by the people who made it. Do you open your burger at a fast food place and count the ingredients in front of the staff to make sure the cook didn’t short you?

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        As a restaurant manager, I rather you would. If we fucked up, I can fix it faster the sooner I found out.

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          And I would prefer the manager is catching their staff’s errors before they make it to the customer instead of making me do QA, but we can both only dream of a better world.

          I’m also pretty convinced this was an intentional cost-saving move, given the rest of the food. Either way, I just won’t be back a second time.

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            And I would prefer the manager is catching their staff’s errors before they make it to the customer instead of making me do QA, but we can both only dream of a better world.

            Rest assured, we’d prefer to prevent them as well. We’d prefer they didn’t make any errors in the first place, to be honest. But like you said, this isn’t a perfect world. Mistakes will happen.

            I wasn’t trying to defend this specific food choice (which is a slap to the face, regardless of why). I just wanted to reassure people that it’s okay to check their food upon arrival.

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        It’s clear plastic, you can see what you’re getting before you pick it up. And yeah I do check my order before leaving, is that not a normal thing to do?

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        Oranges have been some of the most inconsistent fruit for me tbh. A good orange is great, but it’s just as likely to be tasteless or sour. I do live far from orange farms though, so that’s probably the issue.

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      Grapefruits are actually tasty and easy, you just have to do it right: Cut in half so that you slice all the segments, pour sugar over the cuts, then use a tea spoon, the more acute the tip is the better. They’re still tart but it’s the right kind of tartness.

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    Argh. But be glad they didn’t add tomato. Also technically correct, but you wouldn’t want it.