Day 162
Tomato
Jul 12th, 2023
I dislike tomato quite a bit. The best I’ll cop is pureed into a sauce. I don’t like it sliced or diced and I’ll always have it removed on a burger.
It was on one such occasion, while in California, I was in a drive through at a Burger King and as is ritual, I asked for “no tomato” on my burger. The lady on the other end of the intercom couldn’t for the life of her understand my request. It was as though the words made no sense to her. Surely this isn’t an uncommon request. People remove things from orders all the time! I persisted, but after 3-4 attempts, I decided I needed a new approach, so I changed up my accent. I went from saying “tom-AH-to” and began to annunciate, to the best of my ability, the way I’d heard it in the movies, “tom-AY-to”. Suddenly the lines connected, I was now speaking her local dialect and she picked it up first go.
Humans and language (especially english) are weird.
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