• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    This would come across very differently if the restaurant sign said, “Yankee Diner” and the employees all looked asian.

    • davidgro@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Would it? To me it seems both are just observational humor of a common enough and mildly amusing occurrence.

      IRL of course I don’t care who the cooks are as long as they can cook what’s on the menu, and at least some restaurant hiring managers seem to agree, so I think it’s not exactly rare for the cuisine and staff to mismatch. I say “think” because I don’t notice most of the time, so I don’t have a sense of frequency.

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        2 hours ago

        I think it’s the “yes, but” that makes it bad. Implying that the second image makes the first image worse. If it was just the two images side by side it could be interpreted as just an observation.