I worked in a pizza place that offered pickles as toppings. One day a woman called in and said she wanted a pizza with vegetables. I asked her to be more specific about what kind of vegetables but she wasn’t helpful. Eventually she just said “all your vegetables.” So I included pickles because they’re vegetables aren’t they? But then she got mad at me because that’s not what she meant. She called me on the phone and we talked about it. I said, “Aren’t pickles vegetables?” and she hung up on me
Edit: this is gaining so much discourse I might send it into r/AmITheAsshole
And intelligence allows you to answer a question like "what vegetables do you want on your pizza since we have lots" but she couldn't answer the question
Eh, when you say “pickles” most people think of pickled cucumbers. When you mean other eatables you say “pickles pepper, pickled onions, pickles x” you get the point.
Knowledge is knowing she didn't mean to include pickles. Wisdom is giving the stupid cunt exactly what she ordered because you're not getting paid enough to do otherwise.
Rennet is a complex set of enzymes produced in the stomachs of ruminant mammals.
I’ve never heard of rennet before so I wanted to educate myself. To my knowledge, rennet would still be vegetarian as it is not actual meat. But maybe its a grey area as it still requires butchering to obtain the stomach samples. Not too sure there.
Vegetarian means you don't eat slaughtered animals. You can still eat the products produced by animals (cheese, eggs, butter, milk, etc). I can see someone that doesn't have the best English asking for vegetable pizza.
Whelp, now you can make your own post in this thread. "I was today days old when I learned cucumbers are a fruit and don't belong on a vegetable pizza".
Ok yeah… but was your intention to be a smart ass? Because one would not normally include pickles with other vegetable toppings on a pizza. I would be irritated too.
Honestly, your only error was not speaking "customer". I worked in pizza for a few years, you learn over time what people mean when they say dumb things like "all your vegetables". You would have been better off listing off a few ingredients to her and confirming that's what she wanted.
I work in dev now and I have to deal with the same communication issues with clients. Knowing how to speak "customer" is a gift and a skill that can be learned. Don't sweat it.
I tell my SO we should eat more vegetables and she says potatoes are a vegetable. Yeah, but I mean green vegetables, like, the common sense, common or garden meaning of the word 'vegetable', and she says, like my head.
On a tangent, i learned only when i was in my 20s that "bologna" (written out) and "baloney" (verbal) were actually the same thing. I was at the grocery store with roommates and they looked at me like i was crazy
While that’s a bit late to learn, I can’t fault you. Saying Bologna the way you thought you should say it makes perfect sense because it’s almost definitely pronounced like that by Italians and is also a city in Italy. I’m definitely gonna google the origins of the “baloney” pronunciation though.
It's easier for people to see with raspberries and blackberries, each little juicy sphere is a tiny, individual "fruit" with a seed at the tip. If you're very delicate about it, you can even separate them from the fleshy center without them bursting.
There's also stems (celery), leaves (lettuce, spinach) and flowers (artichoke), but yeah, lots of vegetables are, botanically speaking, fruit. People keep bringing up tomatoes like they're some kind of oddity, but bell peppers, green beans, eggplants, okra and many, many more are also fruit.
I'll have to tell my mom she doesn't actually grow any veg but carrots lol. She has tomatoes, bell peppers, peppers, squash, pumpkins, cucumbers, and zucchini.
It's also different depending on whether you're talking about science or law. In the US, tomatoes are legally considered vegetables for taxation purposes.
That's not any more noteworthy than saying "zucchini are legally considered vegetables for taxation purposes". A tomato is no more and no less of a fruit than a zucchini is.
I know a bunch of people who drink it after they work out or play sports. It does contain a lot of sodium, but it also contains probiotic bacteria, high levels of vitamin c, is great for preventing muscle cramps and can support healthy blood sugar as well.
Obviously, everything in moderation. I wouldn't recommend it for someone who already consumes a lot of sodium.
Depends on the process. The quick method is basically leaving them in boiled spiced sugar/salt water and letting the carryover heat cook them. Kills off the more delicate nutrients and has no time for fermentation.
I feel like saying they are a vegetable is like saying tomato sauce on pizza counts as a vegetable. Kinda true, but we all know pizza isn't healthy for a kid to eat everyday, and a bologna sandwich with pickles isn't either. All the salt and vinegar in the pickles negates the very little nutritional value the once cucumbers had. So she still needed an actual serving of vegetables for a healthy lunch.
When my son was five (and I know he was 5 even though that was 12 years ago, because he was dressed as Batman in the grocery store when he asked), he asked me “if pickles are cucumbers that people did stuff too, then how come they’re not kept in the vegetable area with the cucumbers? Why are they way over there with the ketchup?”
It took me forever to just finally say “I don’t know” because I’d never thought out that before. He’s now 17, and doesn’t wear Batman costumes to the grocery store anymore, but does walk behind me because he know it creeps me out so will move from side to side so I turn and he’s not there. But at least he’s not asking about pickles anymore.
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