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[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This isn't a fruit salad it's a fruit monopoly

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

It's a metaphor for the rich minority living on the backs of the working class.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

You sure they didn’t say fruit sadness?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Could be worse, at least there's no grapefruit.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You know, I've never seen grapefruit in a fruit salad where I live. This had never occurred to me before, but I am grateful for it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Or would you say you're "grapeful" for it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I agree 💯, haven't seen grapefruit either. I don't think it would go well in a salad. I do like grapefruit otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think ruby red grapefruit could work. But also, a lot of people, me included, can't have grapefruit because it has a negative reaction with a lot of medications, so maybe it's best they don't.

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/grapefruit-juice-and-some-drugs-dont-mix

Which sucks, because I love grapefruit. And grapefruit juice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Huh interesting, had no idea. I sometimes take fexofenadine. I didn't know grapefruit could reduce its effectiveness. I'm glad I don't take any drug that interacts the opposite way with the grapefruit.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is that a single piece of orange?

Cause, from where I am, orange is cheaper than watermelon. So... Wouldn't it make more sense to have more orange?

This is confusing...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

but watermelon is still cheaper per cubic meter right?
it's not as dense as orange

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I reckon watermelons are cheaper than ramen noodle around here.

(I live in mellon land. No trees; just mellon. I think I've seen a fruit tree once in my life.)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

fuck it, go full mathematician. Serve an empty bowl on the grounds that it's a vacuous fruit salad, every ingredient in it is a fruit

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow all watermelon? Could be worse. I always get shafted with a bowl of 90% honeydew melon pieces with one or two bits of something else. I’ve actually lied and said I’m allergic to melon so I can get something else.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I assumed they would fill it with the cheapest possible fruit, which at the time I knew happened to be watermelon. If it were honeydew, I wouldn't have bought it at all, I think. I share your dislike of honeydew

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Honeydew is a garbage fruit.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Watermelon with orange garnish

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Because I wanted a fruit salad and did not anticipate this level of cheaping out by the people who made it. Do you open your burger at a fast food place and count the ingredients in front of the staff to make sure the cook didn't short you?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (5 children)

As a restaurant manager, I rather you would. If we fucked up, I can fix it faster the sooner I found out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And I would prefer the manager is catching their staff's errors before they make it to the customer instead of making me do QA, but we can both only dream of a better world.

I'm also pretty convinced this was an intentional cost-saving move, given the rest of the food. Either way, I just won't be back a second time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I'm convinced it's intentional because of the way it was arranged.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

And I would prefer the manager is catching their staff's errors before they make it to the customer instead of making me do QA, but we can both only dream of a better world.

Rest assured, we'd prefer to prevent them as well. We'd prefer they didn't make any errors in the first place, to be honest. But like you said, this isn't a perfect world. Mistakes will happen.

I wasn't trying to defend this specific food choice (which is a slap to the face, regardless of why). I just wanted to reassure people that it's okay to check their food upon arrival.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's clear plastic, you can see what you're getting before you pick it up. And yeah I do check my order before leaving, is that not a normal thing to do?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sealed opaque bag that I didn't personally pick up

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But why are you trying to blame op?

They could have had it delivered so had no choice, or maybe were in a rush and just grabbed a thing off the shelf without paying too much attention, or a bunch of other possible reasons, or maybe they even chose it deliberately so they could complain, but none of those make it their fault that the product wasn't as advertised, and either way, if they hadn't grabbed it, someone else would have.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I'm not saying it's a good thing for them to sell but generally you have a choice to not buy something like this.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looks like a fruit salad I'd make in Project Zomboid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Just needs dog food for protein

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't mind a plate of seedless watermelon tho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Plus it probably still has that mixed fruit juice in it for extra flavor

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

This has been always my experience when the restaurant offers as a side a ______ or a "seasonal fruit salad"

It happened twice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

i mean it is called fruit salad not fruits salad

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Who decided to put oranges in the untasty territory? And how are they difficult???

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oranges have been some of the most inconsistent fruit for me tbh. A good orange is great, but it's just as likely to be tasteless or sour. I do live far from orange farms though, so that's probably the issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

True.

I got some sources that ship straight from Calabria, Italy.
Buying it by the crate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I don't agree with the position of banana

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Grapefruits are actually tasty and easy, you just have to do it right: Cut in half so that you slice all the segments, pour sugar over the cuts, then use a tea spoon, the more acute the tip is the better. They're still tart but it's the right kind of tartness.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Argh. But be glad they didn't add tomato. Also technically correct, but you wouldn't want it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I don't think that's even technically "fruit salad"...

[–] Aussiemandeus 1 points 10 months ago

Thats the best Only good part of a fruit salad is the watermelon

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