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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't really care for what, if you are requesting something from someone you don't know in a way that's intentionally stupid or roundabout, you need to be prepared to get exactly what you asked for.

Fast food doubly so, they give no shits. Ask for a burger but hold the burger? Expect an empty wrapper.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

Technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

tell me about it! i ordered a cherry π and received three and some bits of cherries instead!

that's totes the fault of the guy who can't understand what i mean when i'm trying to be esoteric!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 32 minutes ago

Hey man, I'm sorry... If they handed you a measurable quantity of cherries then you didn't get what you asked for.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

We probably would've dragged it at the bar I work at and not serve cherries for the rest of the night lol

[–] [email protected] 231 points 18 hours ago (37 children)

Yeah, that's on the customer. If you write that you want a bunch of fuckin cherries then you're getting a bunch of fuckin cherries. Now go eat the pile of cherries you ordered.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 14 hours ago

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"...Okay!"

[–] [email protected] 122 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Never heard of it so I had to look

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/eighty-six-meaning-origin

Eighty-six is slang meaning "to throw out," "to get rid of," or "to refuse service to." It comes from 1930s soda-counter slang meaning that an item was sold out. There is varying anecdotal evidence about why the term eighty-six was used, but the most common theory is that it is rhyming slang for nix.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Yeah 86 doesn't really mean to get rid of something. At least in my time in the restaurant industry I never heard it used that way. It just means that we were out of something.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

"86 the chef special" == get rid of it [from the menu]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

No, "86 the chef special" means 'kitchen is out of chef special.

Yes, your task is to remove it from the menu.

But you aren't 86ing it.

You're marking it as 86'd because the quantity is below minimum threshold (usually zero).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

str 86;

str itmTo86;

86='get rid of';

info(strFmt('%1 %2',86,itmTo86));

(This won't actually work, since you can't assign ints as variables, but whatever. It was fun)

[–] [email protected] 29 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That was my experience as well. Though we would also refer to a banned customer as "86'd."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Same meaning in my experience. The patron is kicked out. 86'd is the past tense. 'they have been 86’d'

You no longer have any of that product, ingredient, or in this case customer.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Was this customer a 1930's gangster?

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