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Subject: Re: First Day Jitters
From: Ulfsark
Posted: Tue Dec 2. 2008, 01:15 UTC
Followup to: "Re: First Day Jitters"  by freelivin91  (Mon Dec 1. 2008, 18:58 UTC)
My last job was as a Seafood department manager for a major supermarket chain 
in NJ, USA.  There was some guy, tipsied up, telling me about fish.  That 
Haddock and Halibut are the same.  I wanted so badly to correct him on it, but 
I just nodded and said "yep!  Care for another?"

A lady came in, and wanted a chocolate martini.  So, I whipped out the Vodka 
and the Creme Cacao.  She asked what the hell I made.  I said a chocolate 
martini, maybe she knew  a different recipe.  I asked what she expected.  She 
said something with ice cream.  So the hell of it, I looked through my boss's 
BOOK OF MARTINI's .... over a thousand different martini type drinks.  NOTHING 
in there about using milk or any sort of dairy cream, or ice cream, or 
anything at all for any sort of chocolate martini (there was about a half 
dozen variations of a "chocolate martini").  

But, next time she comes in, i'm going to say I learned one recipe.  I'm using 
the Godiva liqueur, vanilla vodka, and ... yep, milk, and gonna mix it for her 
to try and get close to what SHE wants.

Frankly, i don't give a rats ass over what the proper name or proper way of 
making something is.  I want to make the customer happy.  Now, she wants a 
creamy chocolate martini? That's what she's getting next time she comes in.
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Ulfsark
"The Heron of Heedlessness hovers o'er the feast
   and steals the minds of men"


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