• @dylanTheDeveloper
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    5511 months ago

    This isn’t a fruit salad it’s a fruit monopoly

    • @RGB3x3
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      1811 months ago

      It’s a metaphor for the rich minority living on the backs of the working class.

  • @robolemmy
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    3311 months ago

    You sure they didn’t say fruit sadness?

    • fiat_luxOP
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      1911 months ago

      You know, I’ve never seen grapefruit in a fruit salad where I live. This had never occurred to me before, but I am grateful for it.

      • @RGB3x3
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        1111 months ago

        Or would you say you’re “grapeful” for it?

      • @[email protected]
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        311 months ago

        I agree 💯, haven’t seen grapefruit either. I don’t think it would go well in a salad. I do like grapefruit otherwise.

          • @[email protected]
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            211 months ago

            Huh interesting, had no idea. I sometimes take fexofenadine. I didn’t know grapefruit could reduce its effectiveness. I’m glad I don’t take any drug that interacts the opposite way with the grapefruit.

  • umulu
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    1911 months ago

    Is that a single piece of orange?

    Cause, from where I am, orange is cheaper than watermelon. So… Wouldn’t it make more sense to have more orange?

    This is confusing…

    • voxel
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      11 months ago

      but watermelon is still cheaper per cubic meter right?
      it’s not as dense as orange

    • @[email protected]
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      I reckon watermelons are cheaper than ramen noodle around here.

      (I live in mellon land. No trees; just mellon. I think I’ve seen a fruit tree once in my life.)

  • @scarabic
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    1511 months ago

    Wow all watermelon? Could be worse. I always get shafted with a bowl of 90% honeydew melon pieces with one or two bits of something else. I’ve actually lied and said I’m allergic to melon so I can get something else.

    • fiat_luxOP
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      811 months ago

      I assumed they would fill it with the cheapest possible fruit, which at the time I knew happened to be watermelon. If it were honeydew, I wouldn’t have bought it at all, I think. I share your dislike of honeydew

    • fiat_luxOP
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      1311 months ago

      Because I wanted a fruit salad and did not anticipate this level of cheaping out by the people who made it. Do you open your burger at a fast food place and count the ingredients in front of the staff to make sure the cook didn’t short you?

      • Decoy321
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        511 months ago

        As a restaurant manager, I rather you would. If we fucked up, I can fix it faster the sooner I found out.

        • fiat_luxOP
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          711 months ago

          And I would prefer the manager is catching their staff’s errors before they make it to the customer instead of making me do QA, but we can both only dream of a better world.

          I’m also pretty convinced this was an intentional cost-saving move, given the rest of the food. Either way, I just won’t be back a second time.

          • Flying Squid
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            511 months ago

            I’m convinced it’s intentional because of the way it was arranged.

          • Decoy321
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            211 months ago

            And I would prefer the manager is catching their staff’s errors before they make it to the customer instead of making me do QA, but we can both only dream of a better world.

            Rest assured, we’d prefer to prevent them as well. We’d prefer they didn’t make any errors in the first place, to be honest. But like you said, this isn’t a perfect world. Mistakes will happen.

            I wasn’t trying to defend this specific food choice (which is a slap to the face, regardless of why). I just wanted to reassure people that it’s okay to check their food upon arrival.

        • DessertStorms
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          Lmfao

          As a restaurant manager

          your experience with processed food probably processed hundreds of miles away and bought at a chain supermarket, is completely irrelevant. Clown

          • Decoy321
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            611 months ago

            Ah yes, how presumptuous of you to assume all sorts of things about me from a single sentence. I’ll be sure to give your opinion the weight it truly deserves.

          • StrikerM
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            111 months ago

            Lol. All the big restaurant chains have their own farmers supplying them since they can afford to remove the middleman and fine restaurants buy their meat fresh from butchers. Only shitty takeaways buy their food in supermarkets.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 months ago

        It’s clear plastic, you can see what you’re getting before you pick it up. And yeah I do check my order before leaving, is that not a normal thing to do?

        • fiat_luxOP
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          511 months ago

          Sealed opaque bag that I didn’t personally pick up

          • DessertStorms
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            011 months ago

            Lmao, imagine being that person, dying on this hill to tell you how wrong you are for… checks notes… buying a product as it was sold to you… 😂🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

    • DessertStorms
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      511 months ago

      But why are you trying to blame op?

      They could have had it delivered so had no choice, or maybe were in a rush and just grabbed a thing off the shelf without paying too much attention, or a bunch of other possible reasons, or maybe they even chose it deliberately so they could complain, but none of those make it their fault that the product wasn’t as advertised, and either way, if they hadn’t grabbed it, someone else would have.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months ago

        I’m not saying it’s a good thing for them to sell but generally you have a choice to not buy something like this.

        • DessertStorms
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          You repeating yourself doesn’t suddenly change any of the facts, the main one being that even if they did choose it, the content of the packet is not their responsibility, and if they hadn’t bought it, someone else would have, and then they would have been disappointed…

          So what, you just like the taste of corporate boot? Or have you been so deeply programmed by those actually responsible to always shift responsibility to the individual, no matter how ridiculous it makes you seem? (E: your reply boasting you’re a restaurant manager as if it has any relevance has made these questions rhetorical - you clearly relate more to corporate position because of your proximity to the top, but remember - that proximity might as well be the distance between Earth and Mars, to actual corporate you’re just another worker drone, just one that is also happy to inflict suffering down the line for them, but a worker drone nonetheless, and like the rest of us you are almost certainly closer to being homeless than you are to being a millionaire, so all you really are is a bootlicking class traitor)

          Either way, you need to have a word with yourself…

          • @[email protected]
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            111 months ago

            What are you babbling about? I’m suddenly a corporate bootlicker because I choose not to buy an obviously inferior fruit salad? Lmao you are delusional, no one is forced to buy anything. We waste so much food it wouldn’t surprise me if this would’ve gone to waste too. If anyone needs to reflect it’s you, why are you so heated up over a fruit salad?

          • @[email protected]
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            011 months ago

            Lol I love the irony of this dude making such a long hateful rant, and telling them other person that HE needs to have a word with himself.

            Stay angry!

  • @EvilLootbox
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    811 months ago

    This has been always my experience when the restaurant offers as a side a ______ or a “seasonal fruit salad”

    It happened twice.

      • @IMongoose
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        411 months ago

        Oranges have been some of the most inconsistent fruit for me tbh. A good orange is great, but it’s just as likely to be tasteless or sour. I do live far from orange farms though, so that’s probably the issue.

        • @[email protected]
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          211 months ago

          True.

          I got some sources that ship straight from Calabria, Italy.
          Buying it by the crate.

      • @hakunawazo
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        111 months ago

        Randall seems to dislike citrus fruits (see grapefruit).

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      Grapefruits are actually tasty and easy, you just have to do it right: Cut in half so that you slice all the segments, pour sugar over the cuts, then use a tea spoon, the more acute the tip is the better. They’re still tart but it’s the right kind of tartness.

  • @TheInsane42
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    511 months ago

    Argh. But be glad they didn’t add tomato. Also technically correct, but you wouldn’t want it.

  • @MrJameGumb
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    411 months ago

    I don’t think that’s even technically “fruit salad”…