When I was a kid I was low-key obsessed with Friendly’s, but I refused to say “Fribble”
Anon visits IHOP
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modernangel@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
MML@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
When I was a kid we had to stop eating at Friendly’s cause our server was gay, I mean it’s not like he told us this but my mom had an inkling. I want a cone head :(
Aneb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s the worst reason 💀. My mom would do the exact same thing
felsiq@piefed.zip 2 months ago
Is your mom still a piece of shit to this day, or have her beliefs changed with the times?
Either way I’m sorry you had to grow up around bigotry like that
ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
For those of us not familiar with the region you’re from: what’s Friendly’s and what’s a “Fribble”?
MML@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s a thick milkshake, Friendly’s is a chain of sit down restaurants, they serve food but most people know them for their ice cream.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bolwing?
Viceversa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What connotations does that word have? Asking as a non-native speaker.
modernangel@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
In my family, “dribble” was an oft-used cutesy synonym for “drool”. It reminds me of babies with food and saliva oozing down their chin. That wasn’t explicitly my resistance to saying “Fribble” though; it just felt awkard and childish. We didn’t have “cringey” as an adjective then - but in retrospect, cringey is how it felt.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My first job was at friendlys, and in case you still miss them sometimes, a fribble is just a regular milkshake made with soft serve (so just soft serve, syrup, and milk).
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Funny meme and all but if a restaurant decides to do this and refuses to listen to anything but the ridiculous name for the food, then I won’t be eating there. You know what I want, either give it to me or we’re done here. There’s plenty of other restaurants and this one isn’t going to miss my $10 today.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So you’re saying you would not order the sploogemaster 40K?
BigDiction@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Meanwhile me at Dennys: ILL HAVE THE MOONS OVER MY HAMMY PLEASE so loud the entire restaurant can hear it
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I flatly refuse to say the Waffle House BS for hash browns. You will put tomato’s, onion, and cheese on them. I REFUSE to speak their gibberish for some shredding fucking potatoes.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You must be fun to go out with
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
They get it wrong when I use their gibberish, so I say what I want
DonkeyStar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You will put tomato’s, onion, and cheese on them
You mean you want your hash browns spanked, choked, and gagged?
simulacra_procession@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Covered smothered chunked topped and peppered, the Ron special. Spoken just like that. My old manager at a parts store, probably the biggest and most intimidating redneck guy you ever seen. He didn’t have no problem with his niece made a Facebook page with him in a fairy costume named ‘tater salad.’ Some folks aren’t so self serious.
crandall@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Seems I’m alone in this but I don’t really get bothered by saying the names. Why should I be embarrassed, they’re the ones who printed it on their menu.
Aeao@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I try to never say the names places have. I totally relate to this.
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I always say them, in an obnoxiously over the top advertisy voice. I guess some people are just different 🤷🏼♂️
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If I pointed out an item on a menu and someone asked to read a ridiculous name or loud I’d walk right out. Here in Germany I can’t imagine anything like that ever happening. Don’t know about the US, of course, but even there that seems far-fetched.
Don_alForno@feddit.org 2 months ago
For real? German bakeries do this all the time. It’s a fucking Kürbiskernbrötchen, why do they all feel like they have to invent their own bullshit influencer name for it? Chances are 9 out of 10 get them from the same factory even.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sure. But if I say “ich will so eins” I’ll get it.
RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Some German bakeries have excessively stupid names for their products too, though. I always refuse to say the name but point to the product in question. The usual answer is “Oh, you want one of the [silly-gibberish-name-of-an-overpriced-thing-that-tastes-like-sawdust-anyways]” - I nod, and that’s a successful transaction done.
KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Ohhhh so that’s why German people learn English, so they don’t have to say the ridiculous German words out loud!
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
In my experience, the average German person outside of an airport, train station, or tourist destination speaks very little English if any.
halfeatenpotato@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
joke’s on them. I was assigned the name Ruth at birth, so “rooty tooty fresh n fruity” is just one of my many names in rotation
KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org 2 months ago
ihop don’t fuck around. you will say the words or go hungry.
Jackusflackus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ok, I’ll take 2 eggs with toast and bacon…
protist@retrofed.com 2 months ago
One Moons Over My Hammy®, coming up!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
You gotta say it like a cowboy while firing a six-shooter into the air hollerin’ “yeehaw” afterward.
Gutek8134@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Say the name in a weird tone - my pick would probably be chuuni or heavily implied subtext - and make THEM embarrassed instead
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m more a French Toast kinda guy.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I see you don’t take any crêpe.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Turns to kitchen: “Six fruits in a comfy, chef!”
nlghtcrawIer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There is a whole Ryan George vid about this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DmBORwq2-I
k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
But saying a cringe product name is super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Aeao@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Love Ryan george
degen@midwest.social 2 months ago
Absolutely incredible to see a 4chan rendition of a joke from the Christian comedy special “Bananas”. Surprisingly less homophobic too
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 months ago
the what ?
tquid@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Seeing some interesting discourse here saying some people need to get over themselves.
Stuff isn’t always whimsical. There’s a BBQ place in my town where they call the less-spicy sauce “Sissy Sause”. I am never the one ordering, happily, or I’d be asking for “faggot sauce” to force them to own up to what they’re doing.
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Now, have the server say it like it’s actually food.
Krudler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
One Big Mac sandwich platter please
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
ericatty@infosec.pub 2 months ago
You mean a “two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onion on a sesame seed bun” sandwich platter please?
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No lettuce.
Clbull@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That is one of the worst names I’ve seen…
And I say this as someone who played the US version of RollerCoaster Tycoon and saw the localization team at MicroProse named the Launched Freefall ride the “Whoa Belly.”
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 2 months ago
There's a bakery close to where I live that I used to get stuff from regularly. One of the things I liked had a really cringeworthy pun as a name, though, so I just said something along the lines of "the one with ham and eggs". I regularly got asked "so one [cringeworthy pun]?" At some point I said, "yes, the one with the cringeworthy name". The employee (who seemed to be a more senior employee) said I should use the product names because it would apparently confuse the apprentices otherwise. When I said that it's just too cringeworthy she started saying things like "no one else will notice that it's cringeworthy" and going in the direction of "come on, you can do it". Well, I don't go there anymore.
GiveOver@feddit.uk 2 months ago
UK here, I’d say cringeworthy is a pretty normal word. Or at least it was before kids dropped the second half of the word.
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 2 months ago
In my books, without the second half of the word it's a verb, and not an adjective or noun. But maybe I'm just getting old.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Viceversa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You might be surprised.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Using cringeworthy off of the internet is itself a bit cringeworthy. But I notice younger generations are no longer making such distinctions. So maybe this is becoming the norm. Older generations would not have done this. Except for really old generations, like boomers, who will occasionally throw in an Internet slang they picked up recently. Again young gen x and older millenials had this one figured out, just like we figured out technology on our own. Which is probably related, as we wouldn’t use those terms offline since we knew other generations wouldn’t understand. Now that all generations access the internet all the time, on the mainstream monopoly services, that distinction is no longer there.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
They generally don’t use the full word, but I have 1,000% heard people shorten it to cringe. It’s mostly people that are millennial or gen Z though.
dbx12@programming.dev 1 week ago
I would bet the senior employee was the one coming up with the name and is butt hurt that you don’t want to say it.
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 1 week ago
Coming to think of it, she did seem like a more senior employee...
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
That’s an incredibly dumb reason to not go to a nice bakery. People take themselves way too seriously. Embrace the cringe. Be whimsical and silly. Life’s too short to go through it with a stick up the ass.
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 2 months ago
Some people don't mind cringeworthy things. For me, saying something that cringeworthy can hurt inside. Also, I just really don't like being coerced to say something in a certain way just to match some marketing shtick. The question shouldn't be "why don't you want to do it", but "why do you feel the need to compel me to use a term you made up".
k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The great thing is, people can choose to be silly or people can choose to be serious. Let the person go find a bakery that works for them.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You don’t get to tell people how to spend their time and money
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Some of us have too much trauma for being made fun of as children for doing cringe worthy shit. It’s not fun and whimsical for us to be forced into it as adults. It literally hurts to expose ourselves to that again.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I would likely do the same to be honest, Customer experience is huge when it comes to stuff like that. I don’t care what your corporate overlords or your management wants. If what your management wants leads to me feeling uncomfortable spending my money there, I’m not going to spend my money there.
In my opinion, I think it’s more than fair to be able to describe what you’re looking for or point your finger at a menu item and have that be sufficient.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Right? Having the employee repeat it back in their internal words is fine and tells the customer they’ve been heard correctly, but you don’t need to make then customer jump through hoops.
Coffee shop I go to used to do the Italian thing. Then they switched to small/medium/large. They finally settled on just listing the volume on the menu.
The entire time you could just say any of them and they knew what you meant.
If they have no idea what you meant they can ask for clarification. They even have the cups right next to the register they can hold up and confirm.
Turns out not pissing people off is often as easy as “asking for clarification if needed”. Also offering free espresso occasionally helps.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Common, you can’t let us hang like this, what was it?!!
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 2 months ago
It's in German: "Ei" (pronounced "I") means egg.
The one was called "Ei Love you", the other "Ei Love you more" (apparently even my autocorrect didn't want me to write it). No, I'm not telling the person behind the counter something that could be misunderstood as I love them, not happening.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well now I have to know what the pun was, if it was so bad