Should have asked for an avocado instead, you never know when you’ll need a lawyer.
(I have no idea if this works in Portuguese, Russian or whatever. It does in French and almost in Spanish, there was a joke about that in Netflix Daredevil.)
I can’t bring myself to belive the server wasn’t just an asshole. Someone coming into a restaurant, using Google translate and asking “please may I have a grenade juice?” would not make me think “I have a grenade and am here to blow up the place.” Its waaaaay more likely that the dumb machine fucked up the translation. You gotta be a massive xenophobe to jump to that conclusion.
Even if that were correct, it would net him a pomegranate. Not the juice he wanted. I seriously doubt this dude translated the world pomegranate and only the word pomegranate.
Not to mention, Pomegranate in Spanish is Granada, literally Grenade. It’s also one of the more famous regions in Spain, and it exports a lot of that fruit, which, as is usually the csse, has both Spanish and Portuguese on the labels to reduce costs.
No one in Portugal should jump to that conclusion unless they are ridiculously xenophobic.
Don’t you think Portugal might have a lot of Spanish tourists coming over the border? That would have to be a very ignorant and uneducated waiter indeed.
You think there’s a high number of Spanish tourists going over the border, to Lisbon, only to ask for a pomegranate juice? And you think they are just going to assume that their language, culture and coloquialisms are the same? That’s a lot of assumptions being made.
Was the waiter Portuguese, or just an immigrant that had a scary experience with a foreign Tourist?
And again, did anyone here even looked up the word in O.G. Portuguese? Because the author of the article surely didn’t (otherwise I’d find it in the article), and all the people in the comments seem to be making a lot of assumptions about cultures in Europe.
It’s too bad this waiter was totally unable to understand basic context, isn’t it? Apparently being capable of understanding context is not something I should assume should be in a waiter’s skillset.
It is bad, but I’m not going to make rash assumptions because I don’t have the full context. If the waiter is incompetent, that’s one thing; plenty of incompetent, jumping to conclusion people around. The waiter could be that.
This isn’t a technology post, and the article seems to be doing it’s darnedest to inspire irrational outrage. So why is it not getting downvoted and reported?
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