Is there intelligent life at Pak'n'Save
Sonn
unenthusiastic checkout Dala peered into the plastic bag on the counter and
didn't know what she was looking at.
She called the supervisor "Are these potatoes?"
"Yes" said the supervisor.
What do young people eat these days, I wonder.
S.
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"Sonn" <smv_e...@REMOVEME.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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asked what on the blackboard menu was gluten free. She looked confused, so
I checked out the menu and asked her to check with the chef that the stuffed
capsicum was gluten free. She came back saying that he said yes its gluten
free, its got rice and tomato and onion and cheese. She then looked
confused and asked "what is rice" I replied its a grain she then asked "no
what is it, what is it made of?" I had to repeat it was a grain that grew,
you know in paddy fields. She still looked confused and is maybe wondering
how they "make" rice. :o)
tHe otHer BeaTle
gave you one of many chinese vegetable...ie choy sum.... Would you know
how to identify it ? ; )
NZed
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geopelia
BTMO
"geopelia" <> wrote
> Was she Asian? They might not be familiar with potatoes.
Ahhhh... she works in a supermarket.
That is like a used car salesman coming to work and asking his boss - "What
at those colourful things with the wheels on each corner out in the yard
called"....
Matty F
I've never seen potatoes sold loose at the Pak'nSaves that I've been to.
They are in a variety of pre-packaged bags from 2 to 10kg.
Fruitworld sell potatoes loose, but they are much more expensive that way.
PAM.
> Makes me think of when I went to a cafe one time. Because of health needs
I
> asked what on the blackboard menu was gluten free. She looked confused,
so
> I checked out the menu and asked her to check with the chef that the
stuffed
> capsicum was gluten free. She came back saying that he said yes its
gluten
> free, its got rice and tomato and onion and cheese. She then looked
> confused and asked "what is rice" I replied its a grain she then asked
"no
> what is it, what is it made of?" I had to repeat it was a grain that
grew,
> you know in paddy fields. She still looked confused and is maybe
wondering
> how they "make" rice. :o)
Oh dear
:-(
PAM.
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"Tarla" <ta...@inspire.net.nz> wrote in message
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> tHe otHer BeaTle wrote:
>> I wonder if we turn the tables and you worked at the checkout....and
>> someone gave you one of many chinese vegetable...ie choy sum.... Would
>> you know how to identify it ? ; )
>
Me too :o)
geopelia
"Tarla" <ta...@inspire.net.nz> wrote in message
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It is not easy trying to explain the cooking of rhubarb to people who have
never seen it, especially with a language problem. It seems logical to eat
the leaves, doesn't it, yet they are poisonous. Potatoes, too, should not be
eaten if they have gone green.
It's up to us to explain these things to our new citizens.
shannon
Howard Edwards
wrote:
Loose is how I buy them at Pak'n'Save Albany.
Howard Edwards
shannon
I think she was trying to help you.
People know what rice is, she would be thinking about the gluten.
Theres no need to be patronising when you ask about such things, it just
makes people think coeliacs are some kind of alternative fad diet vege
wankers.
The Other Guy
> Makes me think of when I went to a cafe one time. Because of health needs I
> asked what on the blackboard menu was gluten free. She looked confused, so
> I checked out the menu and asked her to check with the chef that the stuffed
> capsicum was gluten free. She came back saying that he said yes its gluten
> free, its got rice and tomato and onion and cheese. She then looked
> confused and asked "what is rice" I replied its a grain she then asked "no
> what is it, what is it made of?" I had to repeat it was a grain that grew,
> you know in paddy fields. She still looked confused and is maybe wondering
> how they "make" rice. :o)
We have a breeder there! Imagine how stupid her illegitimate kids are
going to be.
The Other Guy
shannon
Imagine how bitchy your offspring would have been, and how lucky we are
to be spared from enduring them, by your choice of a life of sodomy.
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"shannon" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message news:42c31ea9$1...@clear.net.nz...
Nope I understand how some people can get confused with glutinous rice.
Easy mistake to make, and one that many places have asked me about. Of
course I am sure you realise that it is different.
She really was asking what rice was "made" of. Didn't even understand when
I said it was a grain, I don't think she understood what the word "grain"
meant. I was actually nice to her too, very casual and not patronising.
However if anybody were to suggest that celiacs were "alternative fad diet
vege wankers", then you would see me get very very very angry. It is just
as necessary a careful special diet as a diabetics special diet is
necessary. Most people and places I am happy to say are very helpful and
understanding and accomodating now. This girl was helpful and cheerful too,
she really just did not know what rice was :o)
A
Tarla
> I wonder if we turn the tables and you worked at the checkout....and someone
> gave you one of many chinese vegetable...ie choy sum.... Would you know
> how to identify it ? ; )
Yep. If the store sold it, I'd recognise it.
Tarla
For about ten minutes in the airport, maybe.
Tarla
Maggi commercial: "Mum...where do we keep the boiling water?"
geopelia
"shannon" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message news:42c31d12$1...@clear.net.nz...
Quite so! We should all help each other.
Some time ago I was asked by a very puzzled English person in a supermarket
"What is hogget?"
(If sheep laid eggs, would they hatch as muttonbirds?)
Tarla
Actually, I think it's up to them to read a cookbook. That's what I do
when I come across an unfamiliar foodstuff.
Tarla
I don't need you to explain taro to me. I can either ask if I'm curious,
or look it up in a book or on the Internet. Immigrants are not children,
you know...unless they actually ARE.
Sonn
"Matty F" <ma...@INVALIDflebus.nz> wrote in message
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of. This has been a real frustration as a lover of baked potatoes, I eat so
few that a whole bag of mixed sizes would go off. I miss the dirt-covered
giant ones we used to be able to buy loose.
S.
Sue Bilstein
Takeaways! And maybe pre-cut frozen chips.
At my Pak'n'Scrape, rhubarb is always a problem to the check-out
operators. But they're pretty good on the rest of the fruit & vege.
You know they have "produce identification" classes for the operators.
If you ever spot a small collection of slightly withered fruit & vege
sitting out front at Customer Service, that's what it's for. Probably
they assume though that the youths may need help telling a Braeburn
from a Gala, but not in IDing a spud.
Bruce Sinclair
That's why apples have stickers on :) :)
Bruce
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> In article <v917c110mgv18qug6...@4ax.com>, sue_bilstein@
> yahoop.com wrote:
>>You know they have "produce identification" classes for the operators.
>>If you ever spot a small collection of slightly withered fruit & vege
>>sitting out front at Customer Service, that's what it's for. Probably
>>they assume though that the youths may need help telling a Braeburn
>>from a Gala, but not in IDing a spud.
> That's why apples have stickers on :) :)
In all honesty, I would struggle to tell apples apart without taking a
bite. Guess I wouldn't last long as a checkout operator, eh?
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posting.
Howard Edwards
Back in my student days I used to work in one of the local produce
markets. Part of my job was to pick up the invoice for a major
customer, find the stuff and load it onto the truck.
One day I got an invoice for six trays of Irish Peaches. I searched
high and low through the stone fruit section and finally asked a group
of people there "where do I find Irish Peaches?"
The ribbing I got for that one still sticks in the mind 30 years on!
Howard Edwards
(Fortunately I knew what a Cox's Orange was)
geopelia
"Howard Edwards" <H.Ed...@massey.ac.nz> wrote in message
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I baffled a garden centre chap by asking for Cliff's Kidneys.
Nelly
wrote:
That's easy, its spuds.
Nelly.
If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours :-)
anon k
If you peel the annoying stickers off the fruit, you'll see how a lot of
today's cashiers (or Customer Service Associates or whatever they're
called) identify the strain. I actually used to think that they were
peering at the subtleties of skin colouration through the bag when all
they were looking for was the little number printed on the stickers.
Tarla
Tarla
Okay...I'll bite (pun intended)...what's an Irish Peach and a Cox's Orange?
geopelia
geopelia
The nicest early potatoes. Grow them yourself, they don't crop heavily
enough for the commercial growers. Great in salads, with a flavour all their
own.
Agnes Volestrangler XIII
> "Tarla" <ta...@inspire.net.nz> wrote in message
> news:42c50222$1...@clear.net.nz...
>>
>>Okay...I'll bite (pun intended)...what's an Irish Peach and a Cox's
>
> Orange?
> And a Worcester Pearmain. (Do these grow here?)
>
>
The old people next door to where I live now had an Irish Peach and also
I think a Worcester Pearmain, and I think I remember the name from the
orchard next door when I was growing up. The orchard is no longer, and
those old apple trees next door died of age and neglect and being
overgrown by a too-vigorous rhododendron and camellias. I've got a
Cox's orange as well as a Kidd's Orange, bred on the Taieri by the Kidd
family whose orchard has also been destroyed recently and subdivided.
Such lovely early apples, sweet and pretty with their gold and red
streaky skins.
A L P
geopelia
"Agnes Volestrangler XIII" <b|uebi...@clear.net.nz> wrote in message
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We've still got two Kidd's Orange trees. Can you still buy them in garden
centres?
Agnes Volestrangler XIII
garden centres are the ordinary ones presumably surplus to orchard
stock, which seems a bit of a waste - I mean, if you're going to the
trouble and expense of using a part of your valuable suburban section
for a fruit tree why buy one that produces the same variety as is on
special in the supermarket? If I were looking for more fruit trees I'd
be asking for advice at the local organic food shop or googling for
heritage plant nurseries in NZ.
A L P
Robin Halligan
wrote:
>In all honesty, I would struggle to tell apples apart without taking a
>bite. Guess I wouldn't last long as a checkout operator, eh?
well maybe not but then everyone buying apples would find a bite gone
from them :)
The funniest thing i saw was a young girl trying to scan the bar code
on a magazine and failing to get it to scan, it wasn't till she called
her manager and he looked that she found out that it was a computer
mag with an article on bar codes and it was a pic on the cover of a
bar code she was scanning.
Rightey dokey matey bloke flap old salty seadog amigo skip jack jockstrap
piano tuner, lets see you balls this one up!" -- Eddie Hitler BOTTOM
Bruce Sinclair
>In <ezLwe.11523$U4.14...@news.xtra.co.nz> Bruce Sinclair wrote:
>> In article <v917c110mgv18qug6...@4ax.com>, sue_bilstein@
>> yahoop.com wrote:
>
>>>You know they have "produce identification" classes for the operators.
>>>If you ever spot a small collection of slightly withered fruit & vege
>>>sitting out front at Customer Service, that's what it's for. Probably
>>>they assume though that the youths may need help telling a Braeburn
>>>from a Gala, but not in IDing a spud.
>
>> That's why apples have stickers on :) :)
>
>In all honesty, I would struggle to tell apples apart without taking a
>bite. Guess I wouldn't last long as a checkout operator, eh?
Apparently not :)
Bruce Sinclair
Ah ... the old "go to stores for a 'long weight' ".
or ....
Go and get me some striped paint.
(to be fair, there is a story in PN that one of the paint companies in PN
actually made some striped paint after the 19th apprentice :) ).
>(Fortunately I knew what a Cox's Orange was)
Damn ... I wish you could still buy those ! Good apple.
Howard Edwards
bruce.s...@NOSPAMORELSEagresearch.NOTco.NOTnz (Bruce Sinclair)
wrote:
This reminds me of the other one they used to tell in the markets,
about the Amberley pub where "they sold beer by the pound" (remember
this is pre-metrics).
The pound in question was the animal pound next door.
Howard Edwards
Howard Edwards
wrote:
>
>Okay...I'll bite (pun intended)...what's an Irish Peach and a Cox's Orange?
Apple varieties.
Howard Edwards
geopelia
And the good old joke about getting milk from Bulls!
Tarla
>
> Apple varieties.
Thank you, Howard. Everyone just kept prattling on about them like the
question had been answered. Until your post, I was assuming a Cox's
Orange was a variety of Orange tree.
geopelia
Its full name is Cox's Orange Pippin.
Bruce Sinclair
.. which of course makes you wonder if there is a "pipout" version :)
Nicolaas Hawkins
<bruce.s...@NOSPAMORELSEagresearch.NOTco.NOTnz> wrote in
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Speak for yourself, thank you.
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Regards,
Nicolaas.
... No one is listening to you - until you fart.