After a few seconds she replies, "Can you make the cheese on the side?"
Looking at her in disbelief, the condiment guy asks, "Can I make the cheese on the side?"
"Yes," she insists, "Can you make the cheese on the side?"
"Absolutely not."
I couldn't help but laugh at the guy's deadpan response to this ridiculous woman, who obviously wasn't cooking on all her burners. The episode reminded me of one of my favorite long-running pieces in MAD Magazine: Al Jaffee's Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions. Sometimes, sarcasm and bluntness is the best medicine for stupidity.
Can you make the cheese on the side?
SA1: You're very lucky. While I now make a living wrapping sandwiches by the LIRR, I used to work in Wisconsin making cheese. As it happens, I was just about to go on the side and coagulate some pasteurized milk into curds and whey. Please be patient; this will only take a couple hours.
SA2: No problem. Enjoy this completely bare hoagie, also known as a roll. Your cheese, which is inextricably mixed with your steak and mushrooms, is on the side and wrapped in this soggy sandwich paper.
SA3: Sure. Let me just hop in my DeLorean, set the destination time to 5 minutes ago and we'll try this again. Since I now know you're a complete idiot I'll be sure to reinterpret 'cheesesteak' to mean 'steak without cheese.' See you soon.
SA4:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Absolutely not."
I couldn't help but laugh at the guy's deadpan response to this ridiculous woman, who obviously wasn't cooking on all her burners. The episode reminded me of one of my favorite long-running pieces in MAD Magazine: Al Jaffee's Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions. Sometimes, sarcasm and bluntness is the best medicine for stupidity.
Can you make the cheese on the side?
SA1: You're very lucky. While I now make a living wrapping sandwiches by the LIRR, I used to work in Wisconsin making cheese. As it happens, I was just about to go on the side and coagulate some pasteurized milk into curds and whey. Please be patient; this will only take a couple hours.
SA2: No problem. Enjoy this completely bare hoagie, also known as a roll. Your cheese, which is inextricably mixed with your steak and mushrooms, is on the side and wrapped in this soggy sandwich paper.
SA3: Sure. Let me just hop in my DeLorean, set the destination time to 5 minutes ago and we'll try this again. Since I now know you're a complete idiot I'll be sure to reinterpret 'cheesesteak' to mean 'steak without cheese.' See you soon.
SA4:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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