Stories From The Sandwich Shop

[thansal]

Wow, talk about rude. Would these people say "You're not Italian" to somebody in an Italian restaurant who was black or Asian?

Oh, wait....yeah, they probably would.

I love the shrimp story. How dumb do you have to be not to know there's a vein in the shrimp??

well, it isn't actually a vein, they just call it that to make it less nasty :P (as was said, it's the digestive track)

I had to look up banh mi to understand what exactly goes INTO a vietnamese sandwich. The pics i got made me think of a vietnamese subway.

Only with good bread, and Pâté due to the French invasion/colonization of Vietnam.

There is no where near enough Vietnamese food in NYC unfortunately.

[Nemesis44UK]

I used to work at a Chinese place and got "You're not Chinese!" all the time.

I love this.

And by love, I mean hate. I work part time as a Chinese delivery driver and probably 3 or 4 times a night I will rock up to a door and someone will open the door and shout "Chinese" to someone inside the house. That person will eventually appear at the door and say "He's not Chinese!"

Doesn't occur to anyone that I may have heard that before, once or twice or eleventy six times per night.

[Cookie]

Yes, yes, yes. A lot of the people I got weren't sucky about my non-Chinese-ness, but many of them laughed and thought they were being SO original. Doesn't matter if they said the same thing to me the week before, they'd forget and laugh like it was the first time.

[AyreBiskits]

SC: You're cutting out the rotten parts of the shrimp and putting them in with the good ones instead of throwing away the whole rotten shrimp!
Me: Actually, I'm deveining the shrimp.
SC: De-what?
Me: Deveining. You know, cutting out the black line?
SC: You're making that up! Any dark spot on a shrimp means it's bad.
Me: No, deveining is removing the digestive tract of the shrimp.
SC: You're making that up. This place is disgusting!

lol, that's not a vein. that's why i don't like shrimp or crawfish or anything made with shrimp or crawfish, which is basically a lot of cajun or creole cooking. people look at me strange when i go to a crawfish boil and not have any crawfish. i guess i just like knowing my food isn't stewed in it's own poop (i know, gross )

[dawnfire]

I used to work at a Chinese place and got "You're not Chinese!" all the time. It was all I could not not to come back with "OMIGOSH!!! REALLY???"

I could really confuse people with that as i'm half chinese but don't really look chinese and i don't speak a word of chinese.

[rose_metal_nz]

"You're not Vietnamese!"

"I'm NOT?!" (turns to back) "MOooooommmmM!"

or

(deadpan) "Yes I am"

[BuffySummers]

My childhood pizza parlor was apparently purchased by a lovely Korean couple, and is now a Pizza and Sushi takeout place. My mom did not know this when she ordered a large pizza and a couple of salads for me to pick up as I was visiting. . . The pizza was good as food, but it was not proper pizza. ( The salads were great - far more veggies (both quantity and quality) than usual. )

That's the problem with a lot of the pizza places north of Boston - they tend to be Greek owned, and while the food is good (sandwiches, dinners, etc), the Pizza just isn't "Pizza."

Still, even bad pizza is pretty good.

[dragon_wings]

Still, even bad pizza is pretty good.

QFT. OMG yes.

[EricKei]

Having one's "origin" matched to "cuisine type" is actually somewhat rare here. I can name exactly TWO Chinese places staffed by Chinese folks in the area (I was told by a Chinese friend who is in the industry). Italian places are hit and miss (partially due to the fact that locals can look at a place that sells nothing but pasta and fried chicken, and refer to it as "New Orleans food" >_<), some Italian, some Sicilian (there IS a difference! Just ask! ), some like my bro's place, where maybe three people had Italian blood in their veins at all. Greek places and Middle-Eastern ones do tend to have "the originals", more often than not, though.

Oh well, who makes it don't matter, as long as the food is good ^_^

[Ironclad Alibi]

Speaking of matching people's origin to the restaurant they work in or own, when I first came to the DC area from the Deep South I was puzzled as to why a Mexican restaurant would be closed on Yom Kippur. It did not occur to me immediately that the restaurant was owned and run by those who observe that holiday.

[fireheart]

some Italian, some Sicilian (there IS a difference! Just ask! )
Oh well, who makes it don't matter, as long as the food is good ^_^

So what is the difference?

[Jay 2K Winger]

So what is the difference?

Well, for starters, you never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line...

[rose_metal_nz]

Well, for starters, you never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line...

Damn! Beat me to it!

[EricKei]

So what is the difference?

Easy way to find out: Call a Sicilian "Italian", or vice versa. Especially the former.

[dalesys]

Easy way to find out: Call a Sicilian "Italian", or vice versa. Especially the former.

Do you have an NTTD version of this?



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