A conversation I had with a table who asked us to "turn it to the inauguration":
Woman: "I’ll have a pinot grigio with a sparkling water over ice with a lime."
Me: "We have Perrier, is that okay?"
Man: "We are boycotting the French. Don’t you have anything Italian?"
Me: (actually had to walk away from the table so as not to laugh in their face)
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Haven’t we all moved past that Boycott the French thing yet? Aren’t fries served at Congress’ lunch room back to being called “French Fries?”
Besides, Perrier isn’t French. It’s owned by Nestle, a Swiss company. Boycotting Perrier is like boycotting fois gras from California.
Ha! I didn’t know that.
Oh man. Saw a bumper sticker the other day. It read, “Frodo lost, Bush got the ring”. I’m pretty sure Ms. Pinot Grigio had some hand in that. Why!? ~.~
That’s “Steak Freedom.”
Wow. The service industry can reveal some real ignorant blowhards indeed. I guess it’s OK that people have different politics and boycott things, but can we ask that they at least are educated about what they are boycotting? Oh well, thanks for the laugh.
Mike in Nashville
Hahaha, brilliant!
Whoa…did you quit?
Hey erat:
While it is true that Perrier is owned by a swiss company, it seems that the product does indeed still come from France. http://www.perrier.com/EN/faq/rubrique6.asp
And what’s wrong with boycotting Californian foie gras? I think that a lot of the people who don’t like to fund foie gras hold that position based on the cruelty of force feeding the animals no matter what geography is involved.
http://www.goveg.com/feat/foie/
Also, http://www.lefoiegras.fr/ boycotts anything other than Netscape or IE for some reason.
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