I understand that this is a joke but it’s not a funny one. Especially, since I just had to explain to a cashier that a cucumber and an acorn squash are not the same thing. If you’ve ever seen both, you’d know why this isn’t funny either.
7 responses to “Not Funny”
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Are you sure her mother’s tongue is English? If yes, she has probably grown up in a food desert. After such childhood even working as a cashier may not help. 😦 Remember the video, in which school children didn’t know what a tomatoe is?
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Everybody is an English-speaker in this area. We don’t get many immigrants other than college profs.
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Come to think of it, I am that person whose first language is not English and who grew up in a food desert.
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A food desert without vegetables?! I thought without cheese and meat, which US food deserts have in abundance.
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I don’t know what an acorn squash is called in Russian. Do you? Obviously I had never seen it before emigrating.
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I’m not even sure how much this is meant to be a joke and how much it is meant to give the impression that chips are good for you.
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And when you dip them in ketchup, you get a real salad ! 🙂
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