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Submitted ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MutantTailThing@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨greentext@sh.itjust.works⁩

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  • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No one who goes outside has ever used the word “cringeworthy” in real life.

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      • Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You might be surprised.

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      • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • GiveOver@feddit.uk ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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".

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      • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You don’t get to tell people how to spend their time and money

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Common, you can’t let us hang like this, what was it?!!

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  • halfeatenpotato@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  • modernangel@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When I was a kid I was low-key obsessed with Friendly’s, but I refused to say “Fribble”

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    • MML@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 :(

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      • Aneb@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s the worst reason 💀. My mom would do the exact same thing

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    • ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For those of us not familiar with the region you’re from: what’s Friendly’s and what’s a “Fribble”?

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      • MML@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bolwing?

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    • Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What connotations does that word have? Asking as a non-native speaker.

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      • modernangel@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ihop don’t fuck around. you will say the words or go hungry.

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  • EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So you’re saying you would not order the sploogemaster 40K?

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You gotta say it like a cowboy while firing a six-shooter into the air hollerin’ “yeehaw” afterward.

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  • TIEPilot@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You must be fun to go out with

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      • TIEPilot@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        So fun for you is indulging in childish marketing of a large corporation?

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      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They get it wrong when I use their gibberish, so I say what I want

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    • simulacra_procession@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • DonkeyStar@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You will put tomato’s, onion, and cheese on them

      You mean you want your hash browns spanked, choked, and gagged?

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  • Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I try to never say the names places have. I totally relate to this.

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    • TheSlad@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I always say them, in an obnoxiously over the top advertisy voice. I guess some people are just different 🤷🏼‍♂️

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Sure. But if I say “ich will so eins” I’ll get it.

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    • RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ohhhh so that’s why German people learn English, so they don’t have to say the ridiculous German words out loud!

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  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the what ?

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  • Gutek8134@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Say the name in a weird tone - my pick would probably be chuuni or heavily implied subtext - and make THEM embarrassed instead

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  • Jackusflackus@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ok, I’ll take 2 eggs with toast and bacon…

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    • protist@retrofed.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      One Moons Over My Hammy®, coming up!

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  • nlghtcrawIer@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There is a whole Ryan George vid about this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DmBORwq2-I

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    • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But saying a cringe product name is super easy, barely an inconvenience.

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    • Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Love Ryan george

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  • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One Big Mac sandwich platter please

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    • ericatty@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You mean a “two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onion on a sesame seed bun” sandwich platter please?

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