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Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: Forth Bridges on January 17, 2006, 07:43:49 pm

when you ring up a chinees/ indin / pizzer shop do you use

Can I have 24 ., 56, 98, plz?

like what happen to mrs Bukect

I have never done that

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: oldspice on January 18, 2006, 07:07:32 am

I don't think i have ever had a take-away delivered. We hardly ever eat them. If we want an Indian, we go to a really good Indian Restaurant locally. If we want to eat Indian at home, I buy a selection of dishes from Sainsburys or M&S. We never eat Chinese.

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on January 18, 2006, 07:58:42 am

No, our Indian take-away menus don't have the numbers and I have never ordered Chinese food.

When we were in London before Xmas we went (in person) to a fried chicken take-away place and asked for what we wanted, and the assistant said "oh you mean a 15 and a 21?" like we should have asked by the number on the menu board!

I guess they do it so that you don't have to worry about pronouncing the food name correctly - so long as the take-away staff understand the numbers they know what you want?

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: chocolate chick on January 18, 2006, 08:44:17 am

Quote from: oldspice

I don't think i have ever had a take-away delivered. We hardly ever eat them. If we want an Indian, we go to a really good Indian Restaurant locally. If we want to eat Indian at home, I buy a selection of dishes from Sainsburys or M&S. We never eat Chinese.

I have ordered Chinese by number but like oldspice I have only had Indian in a restaurant. There is a really nice one in Crayford.

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: goldencup on January 18, 2006, 09:16:27 am

In the good old days before The Diet, I used to sometimes order Chinese and Indian takeaways to be delivered or collected but never by number.  I heard someone try to do it once and they asked for the dishes to be named as the menus change and you might get something unexpected!

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: chocolate chick on January 18, 2006, 09:31:28 am

In our chinese, once you have placed the order they read it back to you. I once ordered chicken balls and got pork balls. I was not amused! 

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: smurfboy on January 18, 2006, 09:45:42 am

Balls to that!

I think ordering by number has died out a bit now that people are more used to the pronunciation of foreign dishes. I do remember though when your Chinese order sounded more like you were buying a lottery ticket!

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: chocolate chick on January 18, 2006, 09:55:01 am

My favourite chinese meal is boiled rice with sweet & sour sauce. 

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: oldspice on January 18, 2006, 03:18:09 pm

Customer to Chinese waiter "My chicken is rubbery"

Waiter to customer "Flankyou, I'll tell chef"

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: goldencup on January 18, 2006, 04:49:54 pm

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: loulou on January 18, 2006, 11:57:58 pm

I can never find the menu so I ring the Chinese and usually describe what I want and hope the right thing turns up.

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: smurfboy on January 19, 2006, 12:00:30 am

'That one with the red stuff please - and a portion of the one that looks like worms'.

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: loulou on January 19, 2006, 12:07:39 am

' the prawn thing i always have and them crispy things with the sweet and sour'

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: chocolate chick on January 19, 2006, 09:40:38 am

David has that chow mein stuff.

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: oldspice on January 19, 2006, 07:45:45 pm

"Have you got prawn balls?"

"How VERY dare you!"

 

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: loulou on January 19, 2006, 07:55:47 pm

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: goldencup on January 19, 2006, 08:28:22 pm

  My friend asked the pet shop owner if he had fat balls once!  She insists she did it quite innocently.

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: oldspice on January 19, 2006, 08:40:30 pm

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: loulou on January 19, 2006, 09:29:05 pm

Ok see if i can explain this one. I went into Boots and asked if they had any pot pourri (pronounced pot puree) and the woman said 'you mean po peree'. Then she went to all the other assistants telling them i had pronounced it wrong.

Title: does anyone enquire with numbers
Post by: goldencup on January 19, 2006, 09:30:55 pm

That wasn't very nice of her.  I got told off for not saying February properly - I can't because I have a slight lisp!