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This belongs in Programmer Humor too.
Reminds me of the dad who asked his kids to write instructions on how to make a PB&J.
Big foods’ next attempt at convincing us the next big thing is less meat and more carbs. For a premium price. Then they shrink the bun under ‘enhance the meat flavor’. Rinse. Repeat.
/tinfoilhat
I don’t think this is a “tinfoilhat” moment. Some marketing exec just read your comment and came in his pants.
This is great. My six year old son likes to play a game called “what’s a sandwich” where we pretend the name sandwich doesn’t exist and we have to explain how it’s made then pretend the chef serves misunderstood dish. He’ll love this picture.
when he gets old enough to cook, you two have to escalate and get weird with it.
Yeah this sounds like a fun game
We did something similar in high school.
We grouped up to write instructions on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and then the teacher would read them literally while making a sandwich. I don’t think she ended up making any sandwiches.
I think I saw a video similar to this with a dad and son. Ended up rubbing the peanut jar on the paper or something like that because instructions weren’t specific enough.
This is how brain works. Half the time, I do things the other way.
This is why I clarify EVERYTHING. I’m sure it gets annoying to people some times but my Brain sees every possible ambiguity usually and I need to make sure even if I’m 99% sure that it’s one way over the other.
Hotburger squish squish
But they’re called toppings, not sidings
and that’s why grenfell tower burned. maybe if it had been covered with tomatoes, those people would still be alive.
They need to go to the hague food court, and punished for their food crimes.
Since the bun is already “cut” this is the only logical way to do it given the instructions. The issue isn’t misunderstanding, it’s the instructions being bad. It’s like telling someone to cut an already-sliced loaf of bread.
It is really really difficult to write good plain text instructions for other people to follow.
It’s a great experiment to try at home, or with a coworker - write up some directions for a task that the other person doesn’t already know how to do (something non-critical preferably) and ask them to try to complete the task per the directions without any other help. It is amazing how many assumptions we make about what seems obvious to us.
This is even funnier when working in a kitchen.
We have set recipes but somehow everyone makes each recipe different. It’s all the same ingredients in generally the same portions yet somehow I can tell who made what just based on taste or consistency.
I get pushback at work about how I need to “be better at working with incomplete or vague instructions”, but “if it’s not in the spec the behavior is undefined, and you get what you get” is unacceptable.
Still mildly peeved about when product complained a list wasn’t sorted alphabetically. They’re lucky the order was deterministic at all
If this “model” example wasn’t glued together for photo purposes, gravity would make these toppings an absolute shit-show before it’s ever actually served.
you could have a toothpick in the back, just like they do to keep normal ones together.
Checks out. With a round bun that cut is equally “lengthwise” as the normal cut, even.
Future archeologists who found a cookbook with no pictures.
just need to learn how to open my mandibles 90 degrees
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That gun is cut into quarters. It was already cut in half before they started.
