at a chip shop in scotland,

i ordered a “sausage in batter” and the woman i ordered it from gave me a look like i was the stupidest prick in the world and said “we only do them in batter”. i said “i’m just reading off the menu”. she rolled her eyes. the menu was next to us both, large backlit text, and it offered both “sausage” and “sausage in batter” and another type of sausage. between us in the food heater thing, in both our eyeline, were sausages both in and out of batter. i think about it a lot

in reply to @joewintergreen’s post:

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth 5/6/2023, 2:21 PM

Maybe she was pointing out that once you have said “sausage in” then the word “batter” was redundant, since they don’t do sausages in any other material such as curry or sauerkraut. That’s two whole syllables of her life you’re wasting with your frivolous talk!

🌊 @wave 5/6/2023, 2:47 PM

lmao :yeah:

Nick Bell @MrBehemo 5/6/2023, 7:27 PM

You jest Tom, but I suspect that was actually the language issue that happened. This is a weird place. 🙂

She was obviously not thinking very hard about it, but she was probably expecting to hear either “sausage” or “battered sausage”. The langage is so codified that it might have thrown her. It wouldn’t be unusual to order, in a differenct joint, a “sausage in/on a roll” (bread bun), so she probably did think “what else would it be in?”