Most of these are from today...

[Chazzie]

I've thought about making a dirty chai before, I have yet to actually try it. But it sounds delicious.

Yeah, the mocha one I can kind of understand, but I always ask about a drink before I try ordering it. But I guess not everyone does.

And yeah, I have absolutely NO problem explaining the difference between them. That's how you find new drinks after all

[Racket_Man]

I was at my bank the other day when a customer asked if he could open a savings account there. Um, this was a huge branch of a huge bank (the one with stagecoaches and horses). Really?

Had this type of thing enough times

Phone rings and we give the standard greeting:
"Thank you for calling <my pizza place> blah blah blah"
Do you guys sell pizza?????

[XCashier]

Of course, if they asked "Do you guys have Cordura nylon with urethane waterproofing?", that would be understandable - it's a specialty fabric (used for backpacks and such) that's more likely to be available at an outdoors store than a fabric store.

Funny, someone did ask me for that yesterday! I had to ask if we carried it, and a coworker told the guy no, it's a specialty item.

But muslin, denim and satin are all very popular fabrics for quilts or clothing, and we're a big nationwide chain, so yes, we would have those, and all of which take up at least half an aisle.

[Sunshine]

Burgoo....whaaaaaa??? And im ordering a dirty chai tomorrow before work

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I really don't notice a difference.

[Elspeth]

I recently discovered a frothing passionate love for Dirty Chai. Ironically, every time I've ordered it EXCEPT for the first time, the barista asks me if I know what is in it. Because apparently people order it and really hate it.

oooooooooooooooooo I might have to try that! That sounds good. I love the taste of chai. Does the coffee change that taste a lot?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I recently discovered a frothing passionate love for Dirty Chai. Ironically, every time I've ordered it EXCEPT for the first time, the barista asks me if I know what is in it. Because apparently people order it and really hate it.

Me too!

Yes, I know what's in it. Yes, I still want it. It's great hot or cold.

Although at the coffee shop I just ask for chai latte with a shot of espresso, because it apparently makes some baristas uncomfortable to announce "I got a dirty chai here for Irv."

[wolfie]

"Do you guys have muslin / denim / satin?" What, in a fabric store? You must be joking.

Of course, if they asked "Do you guys have Cordura nylon with urethane waterproofing?", that would be understandable - it's a specialty fabric (used for backpacks and such) that's more likely to be available at an outdoors store than a fabric store.

[manybellsdown]

I recently discovered a frothing passionate love for Dirty Chai. Ironically, every time I've ordered it EXCEPT for the first time, the barista asks me if I know what is in it. Because apparently people order it and really hate it.

[PepperElf]

Heh, I like ordering food when I have no idea what it is, I've found some cool stuff that way.

Of course, when the clerk asks a clarifying question like Mocha coffee or mocha latte? I pick one and don't act like a knob.

There's been a few times where I've done that just to try something new.

Like "burgoo". Never heard of it before I came to the south, but the first time I saw it I tried it. Now when I go to a lot of bbq places I order it as one of my sides.

[sms001]

Of course, when the clerk asks a clarifying question like Mocha coffee or mocha latte? I pick one ....

Or, (Dog Forbid!) ask "How are they different?" (As long as I'm not in front of someone, I figure a
coffee place would be a good place to learn about.... coffees.)

[sirwired]

SC: (comes in and up to front counter, looks directly at the donut case filled with dozens of kinds of labeled donuts for a brief moment) ... What kind of donuts do you have?

Possibly she wanted me to rattle off all 25+ kinds for her?

"All I got right now is this box of one dozen starving, crazed weasels"

"OK, I'll take that"

- Weird Al - Albuquerque

[BrenDAnn]

My very favorite is the people who come into the store, look down the first aisle DIRECTLY AT THE ATM, then look at me and ask... wait for it... "Do you have an ATM?" I get this several times a week, too. I usually make a crack about how they just looked right at it, which of course either confuses them more or makes them feel sheepish, then explain where it is. As for the mocha coffee/latte... I wouldn't know the difference, either... then again, I'm not a coffee drinker. The others? Is common sense even something that exists anymore?

[mathnerd]

I was at my bank the other day when a customer asked if he could open a savings account there. Um, this was a huge branch of a huge bank (the one with stagecoaches and horses). Really?

[Oniontears]

Yeah, I always think of a mocha as a latte drink. I didn't know there was a coffee version. But if you gave me the choice of coffee or latte, that would clue me in to ask you to clarify so we could be on the same page and you could do your job. I don't want to be a problem to the person giving me my liquid get-up-and-go.

This must be a cultural thing... in Australia, a mocha is a latte with chocolate (syrup or powder) mixed with the espresso before adding the milk. And a latte is espresso with hot foamy milk added (denser and not as fluffy as cappuccino milk). Are those drinks different in the states?