“if you’re not angry you’re not paying attention” used to be such a powerful phrase but now it’s more accurate to say “if you’re not angry you’re probably exhausted by 5+ years of Panic Outrage Mode and are nearing the limit of your emotional range for reacting to this shit”
do waitresses know that i love them and appreciate everything they do
i had the nicest waitress today who told me my outfit was cute and i wish i was rich cuz I would’ve tipped her so much more if I could
If you ever actually wanna help your waitress out, ask to speak to their manager before you leave and then tell the manager how awesome they are.
Trust me, it makes a difference. Servers who get compliments from guests and customers get better hours, and the more you’re liked by the people who come in the more forgiving the bosses are when shit goes awry (say if you’re sick or you have a flat so you’re late, etc).
Tell the manager. Do it! Aside from tipping it’s one of the best things you can do for us. Tell the manager you thought we were great. Tell the manager that we’re the reason you’re gonna come back. Talk us up! It’s a little like job security – if you tell the manager we’re the reason you’re here, they’re gonna be a lot more reluctant to let us go because then they’re losing your business, and they don’t want that.
this is good advice, thank you 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
And managers are SO SURPRISED AND PLEASED when you ask to compliment, rather than complain. They really listen.
also be like “Can I tell your manager how amazing you are?” so they’re not worried about what you’re going to say. be effusive. say you come for their wonderful service.
i think one of my favorite thing about bob’s burgers is bob’s complete lack of gay panic (or transphobia, depending on how you interpret marshmallow’s gender).
– bob picks up transvestite hookers in his cab. they good-naturedly flirt with bob, and he just good-naturedly flirts back (”hey, who’s picking up who?”)
– linda makes a joke about him being gay for torpedo jones, and there’s no declaration of “what no i’m not gay!!!!” or even a hint of acknowledgement of bob’s heterosexuality.
– he’s gotten into some weirdly, awkwardly homoerotic moments with mr. fischoeder and seems more amused than anything else.
– marshmallow shows up in the restaurant, and linda gleefully declares it a fulfillment of a premonition of a “tall, dark and handsome” visitor. bob points out “marshmallow’s not handsome, she’s beautiful!”
– louise suggests bob wishes to marry sandy “can can” frye and become “bob can can.” bob’s response is to simply scoff, “i wouldn’t take his name.” no mention of “i’m not gay, louise.”
– gene may be canon genderfluid, or he may just be experimenting with life, but either way, bob has never once told him to “man up” or that he can’t, say, dress as queen latifah for halloween, be in a girl group or identify himself as bob’s daughter. sometimes you see him thinking “man, my kids are weird,” but he rolls with it every time.
i’m sure there are other examples i’m forgetting, and it’s part of a larger reason i like this show; the fact that people by and large treat each other with respect (even louise, agent of chaos, wouldn’t out a kid as a bedwetter). and it’s still funnier than anything else on television.
the conversation with the deli worker in the supermarket during the thanksgiving episode is basically concrete proof that bob is bisexual
2017 is the year we stop equating womanhood with vaginas and menstruation and start equating womanhood with whether or not you know how to make a quesadilla by the time you’re college-age
what if i told you that a lot of “Americanized” versions of foods were actually the product of immigrant experiences and are not “bastardized versions”
That’s actually fascinating, does anyone have any examples?
I took an entire class about Italian American immigrant cuisine and how it’s a product of their unique immigrant experience. The TL;DR is that many Italian immigrants came from the south (the poor) part of Italy, and were used to a mostly vegetable-based diet. However, when they came to the US they found foods that rich northern Italians were depicted as eating, such as sugar, coffee, wine, and meat, available for prices they could afford for the very first time. This is why Italian Americans were the first to combine meatballs with pasta, and why a lot of Italian American food is sugary and/or fattening. Italian American cuisine is a celebration of Italian immigrants’ newfound access to foods they hadn’t been able to access back home.
(Source: Cinotto, Simone. The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and
Community in New York City. Chicago: U of Illinois, 2013. Print.)
this is true of a lot of jewish american foods as well! the “classic” “jewish food” is actually the product of ashkenazi jews settling in the united states and adapting their foodways to new products which hadn’t been available to them in europe.
two examples:
lox(as in, “bagels and”): smoked and brined fish had been available and was a big part of the diet in eastern europe, but salmon was likely unknown to jewish peasants in eastern europe. herring, smelt, or carp were more commonly available, and might have been served whole, or ground into fish cakes.
pastrami on rye: this jewish deli staple wouldn’t really have been possible in, say, 18th century poland. beef was not affordable for the vast majority of people, and poultry was much more accessible to and popular with jews. chicken kreplach (a soup dumpling similar to the russian pelmeni), or chicken or goose shmaltz (rendered poultry fat) spread on bread, was common.
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