Bwah hah! My (Jewish) grandparents were DCers, but had relocated to Silver Springs in the 1950s, and the local bagels were egg bagels. I think I probably said to my parents once, "Isn't this interesting? They say these are bagels." So maybe it's context. ;-)
Hehe... every Friday we made challah at the bakery I used to work at. My ear hurt from hearing so many mispronunciations. During bad moods, I found it pretty fucking annoying that people didn't just know what challah was. But in the final equation, I have to say it was pretty awesome to live in a town where I got to give so many people their first taste of challah. People really freak out.
I work in a cafe now where you can get cannoli: the real kind made with ricotta. They're only available here and at Piecora's on the hill. I've come across abominations made with I-have-no-idea-what: some kind of custard or mascarpone? Quite a few psychos around here apparently think that's how it's done, I've had crap cannoli like that back in Connecticut as well. Anyway, people come into my store obviously wanting cannoli, but I'd say upwards of 80% of them ask for cannelloni! It really shouldn't bother me as much as it does, but for some reason I have less patience for these people than I did for the people who couldn't pronounce "challah". Both
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Haha, yes this is a serious problem for me. I want to say panino, I want to say most Italian words in Italian, but it does get kind of weird. It was less weird at my old place of work, where many people spoke Italian, so you could just say it the right way and not feel like you're making some kind of possibly pretentious statement. But for some reason at my current place of employment, it seems silly when this one customer comes in and asks for due cappuccini. I mean, bro isn't Italian and we don't speak Italian in our cafe, so it comes off a little bit weird, but at least he's saying something that makes sense grammatically.
The thing that sux the most right now is that for some reason people know that "double" is doppio in Italian, but they don't know that "single" is signolo; they all think it's solo, which doesn't make that much sense in Italian, or it implies that you only want espresso, but haven't specified how many shots you want me to make. I suspect that either Seattle's Best or Starbucks has decided to call their standard
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RUN HOME!...When i used to work in a bakery in Burlington Vermont people always mispronounced challah as well as any other bread names that weren't "white" or "Wheat" it used to piss this goy off to no end. Fucking wasps...
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I work in a cafe now where you can get cannoli: the real kind made with ricotta. They're only available here and at Piecora's on the hill. I've come across abominations made with I-have-no-idea-what: some kind of custard or mascarpone? Quite a few psychos around here apparently think that's how it's done, I've had crap cannoli like that back in Connecticut as well. Anyway, people come into my store obviously wanting cannoli, but I'd say upwards of 80% of them ask for cannelloni! It really shouldn't bother me as much as it does, but for some reason I have less patience for these people than I did for the people who couldn't pronounce "challah". Both ( ... )
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The thing that sux the most right now is that for some reason people know that "double" is doppio in Italian, but they don't know that "single" is signolo; they all think it's solo, which doesn't make that much sense in Italian, or it implies that you only want espresso, but haven't specified how many shots you want me to make. I suspect that either Seattle's Best or Starbucks has decided to call their standard ( ... )
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Although it's a good 10 or 15 years before the first Challah bread pokes its head above the parapet here. I can't even get Swiss cheese.
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