Friday Food Funnies: Going Global

A Texan, a Russian and a New Yorker enter a restaurant in London. "Excuse me, but if you were going to order the steak, I'm afraid there's a shortage due to mad cow disease," says the waiter.The Texan says, "What's a shortage?"The Russian says, "What's a steak?"The New Yorker says,...

By Lee Klein

September 11, 2009

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A Texan, a Russian and a New Yorker enter a restaurant in London. "Excuse me, but if you were going to order the steak, I'm afraid there's a shortage due to mad cow disease," says the waiter.
The Texan says, "What's a shortage?"
The Russian says, "What's a steak?"
The New Yorker says, "What's 'excuse me'?"

An American businessman goes to Japan on a business trip. He hates Japanese food, so he asks the concierge at his hotel if there's any place where he can get a pizza.
The concierge tells him he will call for delivery to his room and takes his order.
Thirty minutes later, the delivery guy shows up. The businessman takes the pizza and starts sneezing uncontrollably.
He asks the delivery man, "What the heck did you put on this pizza?"
The delivery man bows deeply and says, "Just what you ordered -- pepper only."

It's gotten to the point now that you can go into any fast food place, and you can find out what kind of neighborhood you're in just by the ethnic group that works there. It's like, if Chinese people work there, you're in a Chinese neighborhood. If black people work there, you're in a black neighborhood. If white people work there, you're in Utah. ~Richard Trask

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