The time and place: night before Thanksgiving at our apartment
In attendance: Me, Catherine, Pete and Anne, and Chariseeeeee.
I was ordering food from Noodles, Etc. Allow me to recount the relevant portion of the phone conversation:
Me: ...oh and could we get an order of cucumber avocado rolls?
Them: We don't have those...
Me: I know, but in the past you were happy to leave the crab out of the California roll, and that's a cucumber-avocado roll. Would that be possible?
Them: Let me talk to the chef.
Them: Unfortunately we're out of avocado tonight...
Me: Well then could we just have a cucumber roll?
Them: OK let me talk to the chef.
Them: ...OK, that's fine, it will be $2.50, is that alright?
Me: Great, thanks!
In my head I was thinking, wonderful, they are even being so kind as to charge me less for sushi that doesn't have any expensive ingredients. But when the delivery arrived...
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...what we found was...
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| Hint: not sushi. |
Yes. A 22' cucumber. We ordered a cucumber roll and they literally gave us a cucumber. In fairness it does roll, and they were kind enough to peel it for us, although it's questionable whether the length is truly 22 feet.
I think we would have been pretty upset if it wasn't so hysterical. Also Catherine did technically eat the cucumber. In any case, through our collective memory we were able to recall the ordering conversation and trace the source of the confusion back to:
Me: Well then could we just have a cucumber roll?
which must have been misheard as "Well then could we just have a cucumber whole?"
Of course this makes absolutely no sense in the context of the conversation. There was a clear logical progression from sushi-with-cucumber-avocado-crab to sushi-with-cucumber-avocado to sushi-with-cucumber. But evidently something got lost in translation.
In the future, we will be specifying that we want our sushi with rice and nori when ordering from Noodles. (But not just rice and nori).
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