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Post by auntieannie on Sept 22, 2012 20:15:23 GMT
As a sometime waitress, I don't count how many customers don't know about fish cutlery; I remember how I had to stop my eyes from rolling in their sockets when customers exclaimed "but I've just had a starter!" when I brought the cleansing sorbet...
But today I have a question:
What do you do with the pointy thing that comes in each date packaging? you know the long stem-like implement that has several pointy bits?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2012 20:23:46 GMT
Do you have a photo? I don't know what you're talking about.
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 22, 2012 20:32:27 GMT
um... can't find any online. but I am talking about these oblong packages of dates with a plastic item that looks like it is to pick the dates but I am not sure how to use it?
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Post by rikita on Sept 23, 2012 18:58:00 GMT
i don't really understand either, so i suppose i wouldn't know either... couldn't it be that a lot of those people don't tend to go to expensive restaurants often, so that's why they don't know these things?
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Post by patricklondon on Sept 23, 2012 20:15:28 GMT
I never could abide the packets of preserved dates that used to come out at Christmastime in my youth, so I only vaguely remember that they had some similar sort of device, in wood I think. I assume it's so you can pick up the date without getting your fingers all sticky. Or is it something to help you get the flesh away from the stone?
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 24, 2012 19:30:34 GMT
You might well be right, Patrick, on the "pick up teh date without getting your fingers all sticky"... it does make sense, but it is so much more "fun" to catch them with your fingers. But then I live alone and won't offer these dates to anyone so it doesn't matter if my fingers are all over them!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2012 6:18:32 GMT
The dates imported here from Algeria and the Middle East have no such niceties.
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Post by joanne28 on Oct 9, 2012 17:46:35 GMT
I'm definitely losing it. Here I was thinking dates as in time, not as in fruit.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2012 17:50:35 GMT
;D I can't count the number of times that I totally misunderstand the subject.
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Post by mich64 on Oct 9, 2012 18:33:28 GMT
Me as well Kerouac, it is a new reality for me and my life everyday now.
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