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Re: The staff ate it later

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Post by alwa »

tmtvl wrote: post #34
duxup wrote: post #19

I wonder how this plays out. As noted sometimes the staff can't eat it, heck sometimes you might not want to eat it. That has to happen pretty often. I worked at a company with a particularly sensitive HR team who would host pizza parties now and then, but they'd only order "weird" pizzas and I guess they liked it, but they were quite miffed when people stopped coming / didn't want to eat some pizza with some kind of…

I don't understand why people will have these stupid preconceptions about food which normally you unlearn during childhood. Complaining about food without tasting it is stupid and childish. Of course if you try something and it doesn't suit your tastes then it's fine to complain, but dismissing something offhand because you aren't familiar with it is rather narrow-minded.

Having tasted it, you’re free to decide it’s not for you. And you’re certainly free to decide that it’s not enough to tempt you to an HR… “party.”

Re: The staff ate it later

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Post by bondarchuk »

zahlman wrote: post #35
MisterTea wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> didn't want to eat some pizza with some kind of fake cheese and unrecognizable veggies. What I want to know is what ghastly pizza establishment serves fake cheese and what are mystery veggies?

> what ghastly pizza establishment serves fake cheese Most of them, I imagine, in order to accommodate vegan customers. Some advertise it louder than others. > what are mystery veggies? There's quite a variety out there. I've seen broccoli, sundried tomato, artichoke, spinach....

Those are very normal weggebobbles for anyone outside the US. Big no-no to vegan cheese though.

Re: The staff ate it later

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Post by stevage »

bondarchuk wrote: post #43
zahlman wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> what ghastly pizza establishment serves fake cheese Most of them, I imagine, in order to accommodate vegan customers. Some advertise it louder than others. > what are mystery veggies? There's quite a variety out there. I've seen broccoli, sundried tomato, artichoke, spinach....

Those are very normal weggebobbles for anyone outside the US. Big no-no to vegan cheese though.

Eh, I find vegan cheese very variable. I never seek it out but experience it relatively often. Sometimes it's tasty and chewy. Sometimes it's a bland monstrosity. I don't know why.

Re: The staff ate it later

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Post by SabrinaJewson »

wk_end wrote: post #9

Quick and very fussy question I'm hoping someone with native-level Japanese could comment on. My inclination (as a non-native learner) would be to translate 美味しくいただきました as "the staff enjoyed it later". It's both slightly more formal and elegant-sounding than the comparatively coarse "ate", and captures the pleasure implied by 美味しく ("deliciously"). I would expect plain old "ate" if they used 食べました. Of course, I'm not…

English alternatives like “The staff enjoyed it later” or “The staff had the pleasure of eating it later” I would expect come across more euphemistic than normal to the average English-speaking viewer. So the question is whether the original was intentionally trying to come across euphemistic, or whether the original was using formal/polite language solely because of its position as being on TV.

Re: The staff ate it later

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Post by rkomorn »

stevage wrote: post #44
bondarchuk wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those are very normal weggebobbles for anyone outside the US. Big no-no to vegan cheese though.

Eh, I find vegan cheese very variable. I never seek it out but experience it relatively often. Sometimes it's tasty and chewy. Sometimes it's a bland monstrosity. I don't know why.

Vegan feta has the best success rate for me. Unfortunately, feta has limited applications.

(I'm not vegan but I like to try vegan products anyway.)

Re: The staff ate it later

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Post by valiant55 »

wiradikusuma wrote: post #22

It's the opposite of restaurants, usually they don't let their staff eat leftovers.

I see both sides because you don't want staff intentionally making "mistakes" just to get some food but I worked for almost a decade in restaurants and only McDonald's didnt let you eat the food.

Re: The staff ate it later

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Post by germinalphrase »

operator-name wrote: post #33

In the west we have “No Animals Were Harmed in the making of …”, which I’m only just learning comes from the American Humane Society: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Humane_Society#No_A... I had always thought it were a generic phrase!

Tripwiring (and thus fatally wounding) horses was quite a thing back in the day.

Re: The staff ate it later

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Post by titanomachy »

fsckboy wrote: post #20
triceratops wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get it now. More staff engineers than I expected in the Bible.

pretty much everything is in the Bible if you look, even automobiles: "and G-d drove Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden in His Fury" https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=plymouth%20fury&ia=images&i...

“Jesus and his disciples were all in one Accord”

Re: The staff ate it later

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Post by Tallain »

zahlman wrote: post #35
MisterTea wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> didn't want to eat some pizza with some kind of fake cheese and unrecognizable veggies. What I want to know is what ghastly pizza establishment serves fake cheese and what are mystery veggies?

> what ghastly pizza establishment serves fake cheese Most of them, I imagine, in order to accommodate vegan customers. Some advertise it louder than others. > what are mystery veggies? There's quite a variety out there. I've seen broccoli, sundried tomato, artichoke, spinach....

I don't see how any of these could be considered "mystery" veggies in most contexts, let alone on pizza.
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