r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Middle_Letterhead_41 • 1d ago
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u/flohara 1d ago
Never trust a skinny chef or a cishet barista
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u/Drofmum 1d ago
The chef one never rings true to me. A truer statement would be never trust a chef who doesn't have a crippling substance abuse problem
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u/flohara 1d ago
As a hospitality veteran I can confirm that the industry indeed runs on substance abuse issues.
The ones who actually love food are the chubby stoners, and the ones who do uppers are unreliable and neurotic.
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u/gross_verbosity 1d ago
I’ve also known more than a couple of chefs who were also into hitting the glass bbq
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u/StageAdventurous5988 1d ago
Everything Tony Bourdain ever said confirms this lol.
He himself fell into the unreliable neurotic category, obviously.
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u/Toysolja13 1d ago
Hey I don't have a substance addiction looks at ADHD medication... Okay you win this time pal
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u/wideHippedWeightLift 1d ago
I know the stuff they give you is technically an amphetamine, but I've never seen a meth addict say "damnit I forgot to take my meth again"
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u/SHADOW_SAMURAI_05 1d ago
Never trust a chef unless they have a rat under their hat
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u/TargetDecent9694 1d ago
Or paying an ungodly amount of child support. Each new dependant is like a tree ring.
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u/yourmomssocksdrawer 1d ago
I was in the kitchen life for over a decade and have been wildly underweight the entire time. I was also a drug addict and alcoholic, as well as the majority of our FOH and BOH at just about every restaurant I worked. It’s a part of the culture and why as a now sober person I will never return to commercial kitchens. You got it right
But I was also a lesbian barista so they’re also kinda right
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u/Effective-Cost4629 1d ago
If you don't have a bottle of whiskey and a bag of mushrooms in your backpack are you even a cook. A gram of coke in your pocket but only for two days after payday.
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u/Mundane-Mechanic-547 1d ago
I know nothing about this industry but had a friend who was a former chef, and he was larger, and confirmed that drug abuse was rampant based on his observations. Idk why, I guess very low pay and very high stress. Chef school is one of those money sinks like art school (IMO).
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u/unrealjoe32 1d ago
I serve/bartend at a brewery and I joked with one of the chefs I wasn’t a 17 year old he could buy alcohol for
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u/HillInTheDistance 1d ago edited 20h ago
I used to think that you should never trust a barber with a bad beard. Better a barber with no beard at all.
But then I met my current one. Looks like he slathered his chin in superglue and rolled around in assorted pubes.
Yet he shapes my beard to perfection, and has never once tried to talk me into getting a fade. Remembers how I like my beard, but has never once asked me about my job.
He guides other men to a treasure he cannot possess.
My prejudice was tested and broke like the first crisp ice on a puddle in late autumn.
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u/GL510EX 1d ago
For me it's "Never trust a barber wearing a hat".
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u/frycrunch96 1d ago
My ex coworker was a cishet barista and can confirm made terrible coffee. Never cleaned the machines or dialed in the espresso
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u/ForsakenSun6004 1d ago
Cishet here, ngl I thought that was some fancy French term for a second 😂 Sishay if you will
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u/Mr_Tiggywinkle 1d ago
I wonder if this is just an American thing, because as a coffee obsessed Aussie I've never noticed this cliche.
I could have just missed it though.
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u/paulisaac 1d ago
Gordon Ramsay may be a world renowned chef but he's also been an ironman.
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u/vega455 1d ago
Stereotype about who works or goes to a good coffee shop. Kinda like the stereotype about going to a good Chinese restaurant and expect lots of Chinese people eating there. If there are none, then it's probably not authentic (same stereotype for any culture)
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u/thewatchbreaker 1d ago
Chinese restaurant/any cultural restaurant thing isn’t really a stereotype, that one’s just a statement of fact
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u/Melonwolfii 1d ago
It's a rule of thumb for me when travelling: Avoid restaurants where half the customers are tourists.
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u/vega455 1d ago
no it's not. You can walk into a Chinese restaurant with a full crowd of non-Chinese customers and the restaurant is perfectly authentic and good. It's just a stereotype to think otherwise.
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u/thewatchbreaker 1d ago
In my experience that’s true in rural-ish areas where there aren’t that many ethnic minorities or immigrants, but in cities if it’s mostly people not of that culture then it’s probably not going to be authentic (but might still be tasty). That’s just my personal experience though so it’s not exactly scientific or anything. Lol.
E.g., The west end of my city has a huge South Asian population so if you go into an Indian restaurant and there’s no Indians there, you know it’s not going to be authentic because they’re avoiding it for a reason.
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u/vega455 1d ago
Yeah I kind of partially agree. It really depends what your looking for. My experience is: if you're going into an ethnically concentrated area and want to eat authentic food as they do, then there better be representation in the local restaurant. However, I often go to my local Chinatown in Montreal to a really touristy non-authentic buffet, not a single Chinese person in sight except the staff loll. I know it's totally North American food, but I don't care. It's cheap and it tastes good. However, when I go to the authentic Cantonese restaurant across the street, it is ultra packed with Chinese. But when I go to the sushi place downtown, there are no Japanese customers, same for the Greek restaurant, the Italian restaurant, the French restaurant, etc. Really depends where you go and what you expect.
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u/Avedas 1d ago
This works with Chinese food because major cities in Canada have pretty sizeable Chinese populations.
Japanese restaurants are run by Chinese or Koreans and there are no Japanese customers because Japanese people rarely move abroad lol
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u/vega455 1d ago
exactly, it proves the point. It's a stereotype which really doesn't apply in all cases. At the end of the day, the stereotype is a bit of elitism and lack of trust in your own taste buds. Just go where the reviews are good and judge the food for yourself. If you like it, then keep going there.
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u/P4azz 1d ago
Chinese food, especially in the States is kind of the counter-example, though. Just like "mexican food". It's heavily "Americanized" to the point where you can't really think people go there for a taste of home.
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u/vega455 1d ago
yeah I mean the whole stereotype is a total mess. Sushi restaurants without Japanese is explained away by little Japanese emigration. Asian restaurant in a rural area with no asians is explained away with Asians immigrating to large cities. You can then explain away a good South Asian restaurant in a large South Asian neighbourhood with little South Asian diners if the price is high, etc etc. There are so many exceptions to the rule that the rule makes little sense.
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u/P4azz 1d ago
Honestly, the only restaurant tip regarding "locals vs tourists" is to go a little off the beaten path when visiting another country and trying its cuisine.
So you don't wanna get off the plane and immediately run into an Ichiran, you'd wanna get away from tourist spots and try a smaller/less commercialized venue.
The "see person who grew up with that cuisine in the restaurant" kinda idea only really works for restaurants in those respective countries (outside of vacation spots). Otherwise it'll always be adjusted for either tourists or the locals' tastes.
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u/rapsey 1d ago
A better example would be going to a Chinese or Jamaican place and the staff being rude af. Then you know the food is going to be very good.
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u/Maxed_Zerker 1d ago
I’ve always heard you’re looking for either: 1) kids doing homework at one of the customer tables or 2) they use the bathroom as their storage room for all non-food items
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u/Skorpychan 1d ago
There's authentic chinese food, and authentic westernised 'chinese' food. I honestly prefer the latter, since I have a very western palate and microbiome.
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u/Throttle_Kitty 1d ago
A common joke for a while has been "people who work for [x job] are all bisexuals" or something.
I think it's a play on that from a recent joke trend based on certain industries, like the airline industry, having sudden drops in quality after the DEI purges by the Trump administration. The joke being that the lack of queer or elsewise marginalized people in certain fields results in a dramatic drop in quality of the service provided.
So the joke being that a place like this you would expect to see "A blue haired non-binary" making your coffee is full of really 'straight looking' people, it means you're probably going to get a subpar drink because there aren't enough gays on staff.
BTW not all gays look obviously gay. Most of us do, but not ALL of us! lol
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u/Copper_Tango 1d ago
airline industry, having sudden drops in quality after the DEI purges by the Trump administration
If it ain't DEI, it ain't gonna fly!
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u/L3AHMANIC 1d ago
icl i went to a cafe and the barista had dyed hair, she made the best hot chocolate of my life. no other cafe has topped it yet.
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u/xenobit_pendragon 1d ago
DEI hires are all gone. Just incompetent white people left to make coffee.
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u/jesrp1284 1d ago
That would be like trying sauce made by someone who doesn’t have 2 full sleeve tattoos.
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u/Samuaint2008 1d ago
Common joke that nonbinary/gender nonconforming people make the best coffee. I think queer local coffee shops make better coffee and the two go hand in hand. But since I'm usually the "blue hair and pronouns" person in any given space, it's nice to have a positive one 😂😂😂
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u/AnyElevator2672 1d ago
just like the national it infrastructure of every western country depends heavently on furries
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u/Violexsound 1d ago
What's that joke about the plane and the US digital infrastructure?
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u/Ericstingray64 1d ago
Something along the lines of hoping that the plane full of furries from DC to LA for a con doesn’t crash or the government will shut down.
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u/ihatelolcats 1d ago
Everyone's already said the joke. I just want to point out that anyone in an airport Starbucks (pretty sure this is Logan) expecting to get a good drink is fooling themselves.
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u/ddauss 1d ago
So are we calling this straightphobia? Cisphobia?
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u/Farllama 1d ago
You can't expect any better from someone who believes there is such a thing as good coffee at Starbucks
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u/statscaptain 1d ago
If I remember correctly Starbucks was fairly generous with what gender-affirmkng care its health insurance would cover, so they attracted an unusually high number of trans and nonbinary employees. This is a joke about trans people making better coffee and/or the staff all being new so the coffee is going to be worse.
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u/Scared_Research_8426 1d ago
15 years agoni worked at a high street coffee chain with a 'no visible tattoos' policy.
Nowadays I refuse to drink it unless nit was made by someone with the words 'tamp' and 'pour' over their knuckles
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u/Interesting_Cow5152 1d ago
It reinforces the fact that WASPs have no talent, or skills. Bland, mayo flavored etc...
Can confirm, I'm so white it's a wonder I can walk without tripping on my feet.
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u/Fun_Reporter9086 1d ago
Damn, I feel like I know this location. King & University location in Toronto?
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u/Fantastic_View2027 1d ago
That's the opposite for me, if they ain't speaking Spanish your stuff will not be any good
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u/burken8000 1d ago
Notice the lack of cis gendered people crying and looking for OPs boss? THAT is the difference.
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u/Person_TheGuy 1d ago
I have a pansexual friend currently with blue hair, he’s a barista who loves making drinks
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u/rewired-incognito 1d ago
I was talking more about the experience. You don't go in there for the products, it's for the stereotypes l
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u/tangomoorine 1d ago edited 1d ago
there’s a stereotype that starbucks workers who fit the genderqueer stereotype (dyed hair, piercings, pronoun pins) make really good coffee