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I'll give it a try. :)
I think she meant to ask what category the baked potato was placed under while billing the food items. Or may be it was not billed at all.
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| #3 (permalink) Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:12 pm Baked potato quiz |
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| Nope! You're way off! :D |
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| #4 (permalink) Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:37 pm Baked potato quiz |
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Hi Jamie,
I think she didn't know to whom the backed potato belong. :roll: Some customer in the restaurant ordered a backed potato and the lady may be a waitress. :wink:
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| #5 (permalink) Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:42 pm Baked potato quiz |
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| Infin1ty wrote: |
| I think she didn't know to whom the backed potato belong. :roll: Some customer in the restaurant ordered a backed potato and the lady may be a waitress. :wink: |
She knew who had ordered the baked potato. |
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| #6 (permalink) Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:53 pm Baked potato quiz |
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May be the baked potato was ordered by someone but was served to someone else?
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| #7 (permalink) Thu Jan 29, 2009 13:01 pm Baked potato quiz |
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| Daemon99 wrote: |
| May be the baked potato was ordered by someone but was served to someone else? |
Nope! :D |
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| #8 (permalink) Thu Jan 29, 2009 13:30 pm Baked potato quiz |
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Perhaps she ordered the baked potato herself and pretended that she didn't. :oops:
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| #9 (permalink) Thu Jan 29, 2009 13:37 pm Baked potato quiz |
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| Infin1ty wrote: |
| Perhaps she ordered the baked potato herself and pretended that she didn't. :oops: |
No.
I'll tell you guys the answer.
She didn't know the name of the man who had ordered the baked potato, so she was using "the baked potato" instead of his name. When she said, "Where did the baked potato go?" She meant, "Where did the man who ordered the baked potato go?" So, when she said "the baked potato", she meant the man.
Restaurant workers do this a lot: "Go tell the roast beef that we don't have the kind of rice he ordered today." "The chow mein always leaves me a good tip." |
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| #10 (permalink) Thu Jan 29, 2009 13:48 pm Baked potato quiz |
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That's funny! Thank you for letting us know that.
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| #11 (permalink) Thu Jan 29, 2009 13:49 pm Baked potato quiz |
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I was almost getting there. I was frantically searching for the meaning of 'baked potato'. I thought it was an expression similar to 'couch potato' :-)
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| #12 (permalink) Fri Jan 30, 2009 9:06 am Baked potato quiz |
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"Lacy, please tell Baked Alaska that we do NOT serve Sex On The Beach. He can go to Cancun for that. T-bone will back us on this if Double-Sausage-Double-Cheese (pizza) won't. And if creampuff squeaks, tell her that El Burrito Grande will kick her ass.
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| #13 (permalink) Fri Jan 30, 2009 9:11 am Baked potato quiz |
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Jamie, you da man! Great topic!
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| #14 (permalink) Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:01 pm Baked potato quiz |
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Infin1ty, here's another restaurant question for you, since you are from China.
I went into a Chinese restaurant in my town, and the hostess seated me. Then she shouted to one of the bus boys, "Bei wo da! Bei wo da!"
What was she telling him? (I know the answer, by the way.) |
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| #15 (permalink) Fri Jan 30, 2009 13:25 pm Baked potato quiz |
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Hi Jamie, could it be that the hostess told him to prepare for your meal? I guess and I'm not quite sure about that.
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