Saturday, December 12, 2009

Seriously?

Everyone in the office had chips at lunchtime yesterday - I snoozed and lost on that front so stopped in a troublingly spelled establishment called Flavas on the way home to make it up to myself.

Offered the choice of a sauce to go with my order of chips, I went with mayonnaise - at which point the guy behind the counter looked at me pointedly and said 'you'll get fat if you eat mayonnaise'.

The personal boundary issues of this statement aside, I was mostly rendered speechless by the situation - a vendor of dubious deep-fried battered chicken parts felt that the condiment I'd chosen was the most comment-worthy element of my meal.

Irony, it appears, is wasted on the ironic.