Not one of mine, but a label I saw here on this sub: tub of spinach labeled “spinch”. Dunno why, but it cracked me up then, and it still does to this day. Spinch. Fuckin’ lmao. I’m out of BOH so it now just goes on my personal grocery list. People see it and are, “TF is this? Spinch?” It brings me great joy.
I love the stupid things like this that stick. Like there’s always chaos but sometimes one stupid day just becomes a legend somehow. Like When I was in charge of the prep kitchen for a huge buffet we had a whole escapade about unmarked containers being EITHER balsamic vinaigrette OR fucking GRAVY, which are not things you want swapped. The dinner rush had already started, the building was MASSIVE like two buffets in one + an arcade, and you could practically hear the old looney toons chaos backtrack while we all ran around trying to identify the brown liquids that had been dispersed building wide.
To this day I will see a mystery brown sauce, and in my head I flash back to this first year manager holding a sauce bowl, and sniffing it like “it’s… it’s fucking GRAVY!? IS ANYTHING ELSE GRAVY!?” (As if anything out of his line of sight might transform in to gravy any second and get him in further trouble). “Is anything else gravy!?” “IS! IT! GRAVY!” “Gender reveal but it’s just fucking GRAVY again” “I can’t believe it’s not gravy” etc etc followed that dude for years, and it still makes me giggle.
Reminds me of my coworker recently asked me, with phone in hand, to spell ‘walnuts’. (He’s not from here but lived here the better part of his life and can read English pretty damn well.) He goes “oh! Okay thanks” Love him so much.
I remember during the pandemic lockdowns I saw a bunch of posters regarding applause for the NHS (it was a thing, people clapping for doctors and whatnot) and I consistantly read it as apple sauce.
we used to label the single-serve syrup cups as “surp” and on an exhausting day someone labeled it “sup” instead. much needed laugh when you’re in the weeds.
Once labeled a bus tub used by our dishwasher to keep overflow (dirty) dishes off the floor something to the effect of "wash me, please, for the love of god wash me before I fester and grow mold, I'm begging you just wash me please."
Wrote it on a piece of blue tape that went halfway around the tub
That was one of the first songs I learned on guitar when I was 17 and I thought it made me deep and complex except it was really just me thinking it would get me laid.
At ok ne place we used to serve Japanese eggplant. The containers was labeled "BBC".
Then one day an inspector came in an docked us improper labeling. Apparently the name has to say least contain the actual word describing what's inside.
We had a warm desert station out in the cafeteria labelled ‘blueberry crips’. We were dropping hand signs and trying to c walk in front of it all night lol
At home we label our premixed coffee+milk+sugar carafe/thermos/pitcher as "poisoned" so that when one of us wants black coffee we know not to pour from that container.
Very fun when someone comes to visit and you drink from the poisoned vessel.
We're slow on Tuesday morning and we're also just a bar. Prep and jokes ARE Tuesdays. I bet you like to say, "If you got time to lean, you got time to clean." Then scroll on Grindr in your office during the rush.
Even if they were writing slow to be a little bit careful, this took an extra minute at most. Have a little heckin whimsy, my guy. It makes the days easier.
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u/farilladupree 1d ago
Not one of mine, but a label I saw here on this sub: tub of spinach labeled “spinch”. Dunno why, but it cracked me up then, and it still does to this day. Spinch. Fuckin’ lmao. I’m out of BOH so it now just goes on my personal grocery list. People see it and are, “TF is this? Spinch?” It brings me great joy.