Yes. As soon as I leave this dreaded meeting/conference where a-holes insist on raising their hands to ask questions even though the program is running late and we have a break, people, with coffee waiting for us, so shut. up. – I will be happy to share recipe from my Grandma. Although, really, you just need fresh okra, a bunch of oil, cornmeal, and a skillet.
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This is an outrage! 
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I think it’s weird that you’re going out of your way to suggest there’s something wrong with it, but if you want to understand it, maybe you could be charitable and assume people who engage in these discussions are trying to affirm that there are other human beings out there who agree that outrageous thing causes outrage – maybe the mere existence of similarly-minded people who also dislike [bad thing] make the existence of [bad thing] more tolerable.
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As Barry Humphries expressed it, French waiters have been known to “point Pierre at the patisserie.”
Basically, it is unwise to upset French waiters. Or Swiss waiters. Or Italian waiters.
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Agreed. One of the big perks of being an asshole is that it’s so easy to be one. This just seems like too much work. It’s cartoonishly heavy-handed.
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Do you have a cast iron skillet? when we make home fries, that’s what we use. Fill it with a inexpensive canola and you’re good to go.
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Yes, cast iron. Key ingredient.
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If the only is deep enough, you don’t need to flip, as they are floating in the oil.
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The place to go for the best treatment of waiters, in my opinion, is probably Germany. When she was at university there my youngest got a waiting job - and found she was treated as a working professional by the Germans, and was rather well paid.
But France used to be…something else. I was told (and this may be apocryphal, in which case take it as symbolic rather than factual) that when the George Vth hotel was acquired by a foreign company, the staff - most of whom were communists - complained that the hotel would now cease to cater for distinguished guests and become somewhere visited by vulgar Americans, which the staff did not want. It was claimed that the first head waiter eventually retired to a small chateau not far from Paris, on the enormous volume of (undeclared) tips.
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These are assholes who refused to tip the women who likely depends on those tips to pay her rent. As this very thing has happened to me, it does piss me off. People being shitty to other people working shitty jobs pisses me off. The lack of empathy in our world is what I really find tiresome.
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Of course it was. What sort of man would let his wife speak for him? That would be a disgrace to his manhood and the American family.
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AHAHAHAHAHaaaaaaa!! The key words there are Cracker Barrel and South Carolina. How anyone conscious still lives in the medieval, water-head land of the bible belt is beyond me. Make America great again. Leave it to Beaver is REAL!! Keep women at home and quiet, and those damn brown people out of my town. Anything else is an affront to God and the decaying of our precious world.
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Righteous indignation is a hell of a drug.
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Man, Jody Watley got mean after her records stopped selling.
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These people can go eat at home if this is their attitude towards female servers.
Wait staff are hard working people and shouldn’t have to put up with this bullshit.
My table would have to literally burst into flames for me not to tip 20%.
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Even at Korean BBQ I still tip 20%
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Exactly. Speaking truth to powerlessness.
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My long and august career waiting tables in college lasted a little over two weeks. The tips weren’t bad, and most of my tables were decent enough, but it only took a couple of raging assholes to teach me the limits of my patience. Specifically when a man threw his wife’s glass at my head because it didn’t have ice (I had neither poured nor brought the water, but I was the nearest uniformed body he could target). After that I switched to tending bar, which still had it’s occasional assholes, but belligerent drunks have worse aim.
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Touche
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And all evening after, the husband, with furrowed brow, wondered how his wife knew that the waitress’ husband was getting some on the side. She was so durned adamant about including that bit…Maybe he would stop working so late and try to get home earlier from now on.
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