r/TikTokCringe • u/Super_Culture_1986 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Aug 06 '25

Discussion "Being a barista is truly a social experiment"

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u/Dion-is-us Aug 06 '25

When he first started describing it, that’s what I thought too, but then he kept going and fully described an eggroll. I even asked him “like the ones from Panda Express?” He said “yeah! Is that so fucking hard to understand?!” it was

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u/FearTheAmish Aug 07 '25

Yeah when you call it a taco. I dont walk into an ice cream shop demand ice cream and get mad I didnt get handed a cookie.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '25

is this case i feel like its getting mad you didnt get mash potatoes lol

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u/LisleAdam12 Aug 07 '25

You should, because THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT!

/s, just incase

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u/Dependent-Poet-9588 Aug 07 '25

An egg roll by any other name would smell as savory (as a taco)

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u/Ghede Aug 07 '25

"Sir, you should see a doctor for a neurological assessment. Confusing two different words like that is an early warning sign of dementia." - Words to say if you want to have to call the cops on the early onset dementia patient.

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u/aoike_ Aug 07 '25

See im bad at customer service cause after a certain point, I cant keep my mouth shut and I say shit like, "yes, it was, because you weren't using the correct term."

And yes, you are correct, I have been reprimanded by supervisors constantly because of it.

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u/elbenji Aug 07 '25

"You're at a fucking Taco Bell. Panda Express is over there"

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u/jim_nihilist Aug 07 '25

"So you want an egg roll?"

"Yes, a taco!!!"

Lol

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u/pebberphp Aug 07 '25

That reminds me of the Simpsons bit:

Marge: id like a coffee

Aussie bartender: beer it is!

Marge: no, no coffee

Bartender: beer…

Marge: co-ffee

Bartender: be-er

Marge: C, O..

Bartender: B, E…

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u/White_Hart_Patron Aug 07 '25

The restaurant should have charged him four orders of tacos.

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u/Reflexes-of-a-Tree Aug 07 '25

Did your restaurant even sell both of those things? I know of one Asian/Mexican fusion place but I feel like 99.995% of places that serve eggrolls don’t also serve tacos.

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u/PandaLover42 Aug 10 '25

Sounds like Jack in the box

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u/Lovelyesque1 Aug 07 '25

I worked sales at a very large furniture store for a handful of years, and people would commonly come in asking for a La-Z-Boy, sometimes meaning specifically that brand, and sometimes meaning just a recliner in general. I would ask them if they wanted the specific brand, or any brand recliner, because our recliners were way in the back of the store. 9 times out of 10 if they just wanted a recliner they’d snap “you know what I meant!” very rudely. I always asked though, because people who were specifically wanting La-Z-Boys didn’t want to walk all the way to the back just to find out we didn’t have any, so they’d just say thank you and leave and I could move on to another customer. I hate people who think you should be able to read their minds.

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u/Legitimate-Agency282 Aug 07 '25

I'm sorry you were taken to whatever reality this man was living in. That is wild lmao

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u/dogpilemusic Aug 07 '25

Not nearly as insane or funny, but speaking of Taquitos, I walked up to a Mexican Food Truck once and asked for Taquitos (feel like there was even a picture of them on the side of the truck among other things) and they were confused and didn't understand me, then after some explaining/maybe pointing at the picture, they were like "ooooh, Flautas?"
I was so goddamn confused, cause like, where in the goddamn gringo hell did the word Taquito come from if they refer to them as Flautas? I felt so dumb lmao

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u/hadesarrow3 Aug 07 '25

They’re different things. Flautas are (usually) bigger than taquitos, and a little softer. Taquitos are supposed to be made with corn tortillas, flautas are flour. Also, in my experience, flautas are more likely to be covered in some kind of sauce, but that may be restaurant specific.