Toto, I don’t think we’re in Vancouver anymore
At a KFC drive thru around 8pm somewhere in eastern Oregon:
“Welcome to KFC, what can I get for you tonight?”
“Can I have a veggie chicken burger?”
“A what?”
“Veggie chicken burger?”
“You mean the ten piece?”
“No, the VEGGIE. CHICKEN. BURGER.”
“The ten piece, right?”
“NO. It’s a burger with a vegetarian chicken patty in it..”
“Do you want thighs or strips?”
“I want the VEGETARIAN. CHICKEN. BURGER.”
(A lady, presumably his supervisor, comes on)
“How can I help you, madam?”
“Do you have the vegetarian chicken burger?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Click.
Unsure of whether or not the lady in the talking box at KFC actually hung up on us, we drive forward to the window, hoping that maybe they can understand us a bit better if we talk to them face to face, and here is what happens:
“So you wanted the 10 piece, right?”
“Umm, no. We wanted the vegetarian chicken burger.”
“Thighs or strips?”
“No no no—its a BURGER made with a vegetarian imitation chicken patty… It’s not actually meat. They sell them in Canada…”
(Guy looks utterly confused, like, vege-whaaaat?)
“Let me… go ask my manager.”
“Yeah, I don’t think we have those things here.”
Wow.. hahah really?
I also find it horrifying that they don’t know what poutines are in the states!! But it’s sooo good. =(
November 8th, 2008 at 5:35 pmPlenty of things Canada have that the States don’t! I had a bf from Mississauga, and no one believed ketchup potato chips existed until that favor hit the States two years later. America is strange, but don’t tell Obama!!
November 8th, 2008 at 9:43 pmAren’t you glad we’re Canadian now?! Oh mannn I wanna get out of Vancouver STAT.
Hope you’re having fun on the trip!
November 9th, 2008 at 2:03 amI still can’t believe you like those!! Blegh!
November 10th, 2008 at 11:53 amGive me a McD’s cheeseburger with no meat, extra pickle, add tomato, add lettuce, any day. ;-)
Oh lord, that’s funny. Seriously, I thought Oregon would be more progressive than that.
November 11th, 2008 at 12:46 pmAnd apparently they don’t use words like “washroom” in the states. I asked an employee at a home decorating center outside Boston where the washroom was and she looked at me like I had three heads…
November 11th, 2008 at 7:43 pm“What?”
“Do you have a public washroom?”
“…oh, you mean the bathroom? Over there.”
Funnier still, an employee at a department store picked up our Canadian accents and asked us if we were Irish. Um, what?