I have (had the experience and have) known up-scale restaurants to snub single people in their restaurants. Sometimes these poor souls will get poor service or be overlooked as if they were lowlifes. Ziggy’s lucky the waiter even noticed him.
When overseas we would go to the “off the beaten path” places for food/drink – gererally better service/food/drink for a fraction the price of the “favorites” or hotel/cruise ship recommend places…
I’m not the least bit shy about asking what something is on the menu or asking how to pronounce it. Good grief, if I am thinking of paying for it and eating it, why not?
allen@home about 1 year ago
Ziggy you need to work on your French.
electricshadow Premium Member about 1 year ago
I remember a Korean-American comic named Henry Cho doing that line about his dad in a French restaurant.
Spiffy about 1 year ago
Asking the dude for that could have gone much worse.
magic666 about 1 year ago
French indeed
dcdete. about 1 year ago
Ziggy asks to have a ‘quickie’? That probably explains why he calls the other fellow, “his good man.”
Guy from southern Indiana about 1 year ago
Where I’m from, asking for a “quickie” means something entirely different.
gammaguy about 1 year ago
That joke has been broadly (yes, it’s a pun) applied to (at least) two Presidents… Clinton and Trump.
The Reader Premium Member about 1 year ago
Make that to escargot.
Gent about 1 year ago
Sacré bleu. Le moi pas savoir Frençais.
Doug K about 1 year ago
“Quickie” is the classy way of saying “Quiche”
WDemBlk Premium Member about 1 year ago
When I can’t figure out how to pronounce something on a menu something, I just point.
Rasslebear about 1 year ago
This joke was used years ago in “Designing Women.”
kaycstamper about 1 year ago
Wow, I didn’t even know what he was getting at! The waiter is good!
EMGULS79 about 1 year ago
Meals in French restaurants are usually tiny, but they’re almost never “quick.” Les Maisons de Presque Rien à Manger Pour Tout Votre Argent.
JudithStocker Premium Member about 1 year ago
I have (had the experience and have) known up-scale restaurants to snub single people in their restaurants. Sometimes these poor souls will get poor service or be overlooked as if they were lowlifes. Ziggy’s lucky the waiter even noticed him.
timinwsac Premium Member about 1 year ago
My policy is…if I can’t pronounce it I’m won’t order it.
tcayer about 1 year ago
Let me know where THAT restaurant is!
PoodleGroomer about 1 year ago
k or h? I blame the small fancy font on the menu I have to read with old eyeballs in the dark.
raptor about 1 year ago
When overseas we would go to the “off the beaten path” places for food/drink – gererally better service/food/drink for a fraction the price of the “favorites” or hotel/cruise ship recommend places…
Yorba Dad Premium Member about 1 year ago
This is one of the oldest jokes around, how about some originalité?
FGWaiss about 1 year ago
From the 70’s: “Real men don’t eat Quiche!”
rollingwire about 1 year ago
Once my boss told me about a new restaurant he saw called quickie and tell
Gina Carson about 1 year ago
Makes me wonder how he would pronounce ménage à trois.
Teto85 Premium Member about 1 year ago
Beverley Hillbillies did this in the early 1960s.
albzort about 1 year ago
When I was in college the food service people pronounced it “kwitch”.
JLChi about 1 year ago
I’m not the least bit shy about asking what something is on the menu or asking how to pronounce it. Good grief, if I am thinking of paying for it and eating it, why not?
T... about 1 year ago
I am sorry sir this is not a bordello…
chromosome Premium Member about 1 year ago
Why treat single diners badly, isn’t their money just as green as anyone else’s?
mistercatworks about 1 year ago
Wow! I thought it was pronounced “key-shay”. :)
Jenlynn187 about 1 year ago
I ran a cafe, and had a customer order quiche the exact same way.
Bill The Nuke about 1 year ago
I had a waitress correct my pronunciation of “gyro”. She said it like in gyroscope.