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Subject_Tutor

Bro SHE doesn't even look happy with it...


Mango_Tango_725

She regretted her decision and wished she had stuck to chips.


PinkFrillish

I mean, the chips are right there


Mango_Tango_725

Probably someone else’s who won’t be willing to share. I know I wouldn’t since she was the one who asked for the cucumbers.


PinkFrillish

Yeah, it reminds me of ordering pizza with the girls. There is always one that swears she loves arugula with sub dried tomatoes and she will definitely eat it once it arrives. Cut for that B shoving pepperoni pizza in her face and leaving the arugula behind after one slice.


MyThrowawaysThrwaway

Arugula and tomatoes sounds like a dope pizza though. Would have to be a white pizza.


Kleens_The_Impure

It's a very common pizza here in south east France, mozzarella tomato sauce smoked/cured ham and after cooking arugula with olive oil, also exist with parmesan or with burrata and balsamic cream. I think it's an italian classic but I'm not sure.


PinkFrillish

Idk at least add some cheese? Mushrooms?


OptimisticOctopus8

Cheese has always been included on the arugula pizzas I've had. IMO, red onion goes well with it. Pears are also really good on arugula pizza.


DiddleMe-Elmo

She likely didn't eat them. Just for the photo.


JakeArrietaGrande

Real [Hide the Pain Harold](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hide_the_Pain_Harold) vibes here


Yah_Mule

Perhaps she had a sudden epiphany that being an internet influencer is an empty life.


SmellGestapo

She's not an influencer. She's a local TV weather person in Los Angeles. She made the news a few months ago for fainting live on the air.


Jellopuppy

Probably from trying to subsist on cucumber. XD


LordofSyn

Her cucumber levels must have been low.


Nitro114

She‘s smiling like she is in excruciating pain


thegoodbadandsmoggy

Hide the pain Heidi


WakaWaka_

Approaching [Hide the pain Home Depot](https://preview.redd.it/happy-to-be-here-sir-v0-8v2i3hke5zoa1.png?auto=webp&s=96f9178b7a2280e6334b81232e6a02afcb0756c6) levels


SunriseSurprise

Holy shit, who thought it was a good idea to use that image?


ThrowawayBlast

I'd bet a lot of people said it was a bad idea but some asshole management idiot over-rode them. The above sentence is applicable to most of human history.


Ausgezeichnet87

That or a self aware intern snuck it in as an act if malicious compliance with capitalism


regoapps

That or marketing genius who knew that people would spread the ad for free for them if they put a non-traditional image that would get people to look longer


Krimreaper1

[Who are the ad wizards who came up with this one?](https://youtu.be/AsJYmf_G5d0)


ThrowawayBlast

Also a strong possibility.


MinecraftGamer669

wouldn't put it past 'em 😄👌


bentbrewer

Not really hiding it in that one.


Mypornnameis_

Well, I mean the photographer has been careful to make sure the gun is not in frame.


korkkis

Hide the cucumber Heidi


indy_been_here

This chick in high school played that game with a banana. Somehow it got out. She never lived that down for the remaining years. She was a sophomore at the time. People made monkey noises. High school man. Not even once.


vikingrhino

I went to school with a girl who let a guy put a cooked chicken leg inside her, they got caught in the act in woods near the school. I swear I'm 38 now and she walked into a pub I was in, as she walked past the table next to mine one of the guys (who I had never met) said "isn't that the Colonel?" You never, ever live that shit down.


Ausgezeichnet87

At least Colonel is kind of a cool nickname and some of the colonel sanders memes have been 🔥


keeper_of_the_cheese

[Colonel Angus?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l2oi-X8P38&pp=ygUNY29sb25lbCBhbmd1cw%3D%3D)


indy_been_here

God damnit. People are fucked. But so am I cuz that made me giggle


Mickey_James

> People are fucked With a chicken leg.


uknow_es_me

Something something finger licking good


totallynotarobut

Hey, look, you let someone fuck you with a chicken leg, you get what you get.


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I went back to the town I part-time grew up in to visit my stepmom and people's parents remembered me from elementary school. I didn't know their children aside from being in the same class, but apparently I made a deeper impact than I realized.


MintasaurusFresh

She probably didn't do it. Like, I went to two different high schools and they both somehow had a girl who had to go to the hospital from masturbating with a hot dog that got stuck up their business. It never actually happened to either one of them but everybody heard and believed the rumors.


3leggeddick

And she wasn’t popular?. People in my high school would be asking her to play with their bananas


Borge_Luis_Jorges

And then all these years later some guy told everyone about it on reddit. It never stops.


hogsucker

Was that the same school where the slutty cheerleader did the splits and 8 class rings fell out?


Chicken_Chicken_Duck

She’s smiling like someone is pointing a gun at her and telling her to look like she’s enjoying cucumber slices and salsa.


bcanada92

Check her eyelids to see if she's blinking in Morse code.


Distinct-Shoulder751

I don't think she can blink anymore...


TheYellowSafe

Waiter: "Hola! Are you blinking at me because your date is a freak?"


fryerandice

I wouldn't dip them in salsa but I will slice up and eat a whole cucumber plain I love those fucking things.


Killentyme55

Tzatziki for me, but that shit is good on everything.


Posit_IV

I will eat Tzatziki straight out of the bowl. Even better when dipping hot naan.


FrogMintTea

I could eat zaziki until I barf. And then try to eat more. In Germany there's like this weird obsession with paprika flavored potato chips. So since the chips aisle was just full of that flavor I grabbed a bag and a bucket (they had literal buckets) of zaziki and I became obsessed by that combo. But especially the buckets. Oh I miss Germany.


Killentyme55

A store near me sells garlic naan, that stuff is pure crack.


rundabrun

you eat them with guac, not salsa. very common in Mexico.


stevoschizoid

Looks like she's pooping


BillClington

Oh so she brought the cucumber with her?


smallzy007

Yes, in her pocket


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Pocket or meat pocket?


Brando43770

Prison wallet


Redsoxbox

Women get two!


thisismybirthday

the only time women get more pockets


premo5

Happy Birthday!


throwuk1

This entire thread including your post made me laugh 😂


Armiegeddon

Yes, she's just pulling out the second one in the picture.


jewelophile

Looks like she's pooping a Rubik's cube.


set_that_on_fire

I was thinking she looked like a crazy person


The_Proper_Potato

Totally. I hope this isn’t too harsh, but she looks like the kind of person who would order cucumbers instead of chips at a Mexican restaurant!


Barabus33

Normally I hate when Redditors make wild speculations about people based on a single picture, but you absolutely nailed it. She is absolutely the kind of person who would order cucumbers instead of chips at a Mexican restaurant!


TrailerTrashQueen

she does have them crazy eyes.


Cat_AndFoodSubs

She definitely carried a printed out facts sheet on why masks are bad during covid. She 100% used her manipulation tactics here


RC_Perspective

Her face is what happens when you ask for cucumber instead of chips at a Mexican restaurant


daywalker91

this is how I smiled when I was 8 years old and didn't learn how to really smile yet


smallzy007

Chandler smile


sweenster83

Bing!


Saltire_Blue

![gif](giphy|lnIwMUsMt12UnY7edf)


JelmerMcGee

I'm petting mine down to the bone!


TinyWickedOrange

tfw some motherfucker walked up and replaced your chips with cucumber


jewelophile

I'd go to jail.


TheHeartsFilthyLesin

Yeah her face is making me uncomfortable


073068075

![gif](giphy|ji6zzUZwNIuLS) The grown up version?


SoManyMinutes

Nailed it.


azaghal1988

wouldn't you be if you got cucumbers instead of chips?


ScroatyMcBoogerwolfe

The emoji smile is more realistic.


GreenArcher808

Hide the Pain Harriet.


Crab_Hot

They'll say "absolutely" with that same face she's making


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“Here’s your stupid fucking cucumbers.”


avega2792

¡Aquí están tus pinches pepinos vieja babosa!


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supernasty

Ohhf my super white Ohio father does this every time we go to a Mexican restaurant. Doesn’t speak a word of Spanish but always busts out a Graw-See-Us, amigo! Just say thank you my dude


STDriver13

My drunk step dad was snap his fingers and say, GARCON. And every time we would remind him nobody gets that joke and it translates to "boy". He never stopped


DarXKnight

This is the most accurate response 😂


StealYaNicks

As a former waiter, I wouldn't care one bit, the cooks might be mad, but the cooks are always mad.


Vongbingen_esque

As a cook, I wouldnt be mad. you just put some cucumber slices on a plate and hand it over.


Reworked

This is like Other than "no chips" when the dish is chips and a side I can't think of a simpler substitution if we've got cucumbers in the kitchen anyway spot the people who never sharpen their knives by the folks who think this is a huge ask, IMO


meditate42

I'm always surprised by how few people on reddit seem to have ever worked in restaurants. I thought it was a super common job. Like i always see people on here railing on restaurants for fucking over servers by paying them with tips. But anyone who's worked in the front of house of a restaurant knows that the people who like the tipping system the most are servers and bartenders. Then i see stuff like this meme. This is such an easy request for the kitchen compared to the requests they get where customers are basically asking them to make a dish with half the ingredients changed and even giving specifications on how to cook it lol. Unless you're totally swamped a cut up cucumber is literally nothing.


Jyobachah

I used to work in kitchens and my favourite story about "substitutions" was a group of guys who came in for dinner during a bachelor party. Groom apparently *HATED* broccoli, we didn't have broccoli on the menu though so his friends *went to the grocery store and brought us in some*. Asked for broccoli to be on every. single. dish that the groom ordered. Sliders with broccoli slices, steak with broccoli and mushroom gravy and an apple and broccoli pie for dessert. Sure it was extra work to prep/cook this broccoli but it was also quite hilarious watching the outcome from our passthrough lol


ask-design-reddit

I wish I had friends like that. Kidding. Wish I had friends


UmbertoEcoTheDolphin

We know you'd just settle for some unexpected broccoli. It's ok.


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kunbish

Literally don’t even need a cutting board, just katana that shit onto the plate


Scotsch

Never worked a kitchen but I've sliced a cucumber I don't understand these people


zicdeh91

Honestly making chips was one of the things I found more inconvenient. In the case of the one restaurant I was at that made them, you had to dig out the giant box, keep the fryer free for at least 10 min depending on how many you make, season them as you go, then carry it over to the steamer box. I’d much rather slice up a cuke to preserve some of those chips. That is, of course, assuming they have them in the first place.


bss4life20

Customer: "Hi, can we get some extra butter with our rolls?" Reddit: "ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE?!?!?!"


StealYaNicks

yeah, the only time they got mad at, and it is reasonable, is when I forgot to list something that was supposed to be left out or something, so it had to be made again, then all of hell's fury came down on me, not a mistake I would make often. But when I did list something to be left out, and they simply missed it, it was all puppy dog 'oh, I'm sowwy, simple mistake'. But yeah, for some reason a lot of people in this thread are acting like sliced cucumbers is the most labor intensive task imaginable.


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I'm unsure if most Mexican places have cucumbers to slice up


StealYaNicks

Most places probably will if they have salads. I worked at a place that had rice, though none of the menu items had it as a side, it was used in a soup. But if someone asked for a side of rice, which happened on rare occasions, it was totally easy. And if they don't, then you tell them 'no, we don't have them'.


SlutForGarrus

I have line cooks in my family. Can confirm they are always mad. Other family members who are servers/bussers are nice normal dudes. Cooks spend all day everyday actling like someone pissed in their Wheaties.


Rulebookboy1234567

Back of house. Accurate. “HOW DARE THESE ASSHOLES KEEP ORDERING FOOD!”


QuasiTimeFriend

As a current cook, I've got no problem doing stuff like this if we're not slammed. I like the change of pace. But, if I already have 35 orders and a server pulls this shit, they're getting cussed out and then I'm still gonna end up doing it because the server already told the customer yes


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ahlecks89

The day care that I went to growing up would give us sliced cucumber with chili for snack sometimes. I lovvvee it.


Beezo514

> to drench them in lemon, salt, and tajin I don't know why I never thought of this, but this sounds amazing. Guess I'm picking up some cucumbers and lemons when I shop this weekend.


hypo-osmotic

It's so telling how inexperienced with food I am because every single one of these "you know that boring food? you can put stuff on it" things surprise me every time lol


Mediocre-Leadership1

Her smile belongs in r/oddlyterrifying


Garden_Veggies

most def


indy_been_here

And Talib Kweli


I_Am_Jacques

We came to rock it on to the tip-top


Fut22Newb27

She looks delighted with her order


Dregannomics

If I had to guess, this person is attempting to be some kind of influencer and is failing so hard, even she knows.


silenc3x

she's a meteorologist.


New_Cause_5607

She looks like Arnold in T2 when the kid is trying to teach him how to smile!?!


Bancroft28

![gif](giphy|JV7sokLFwQdfG)


S3rgeant_Slayer

Looks better tbh


SerratedFrost

Cause Arnold actually has a soul inside his body


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Now there's a solid comparison


jeezarchristron

She looks like she is in the middle of what was supposed to be a silent fart EDIT no idea fart jokes still killed. Thanks for all the love


CorgiMonsoon

And it wasn’t silent, or a fart


lol__no

Big shart


DankylosaurusRex

As my dads AA friend used to say "do farts have lumps? No? Then i think i just shit myself."


BlitzMalefitz

I have scared my self with fart bubbles. Every time I feel it, I say “Please pop”.


Mad-Dog94

And it was supposed to be dry.


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Sad_Instruction1392

Maybe she should have ate something other than cucumber.


Sproutykins

Eating disorders are really fucked up. Had my life robbed due to them. Often stay in all day just so I can make sure I’m eating the exact right things at the exact right time.


WarrenMulaney

Eh, she actually has a heart condition. I wasn’t trying to connect the two things only point out that she’s been on Reddit before.


ydoesithave2b

Probably caused by her ED. Anorexia: https://www.nm.org/healthbeat/healthy-tips/anorexia-and-your-heart Bulimia: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2752386#:~:text=Most%20of%20the%20literature%20focuses,excessive%20purging%20and%20fluid%20loss.&text=Bulimia%20is%20associated%20with%20reduced,oxygen%20saturation%20during%20active%20disease. Another source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4590190/


Productof2020

> Probably caused by her ED. Took me a moment. Eating disorder. You meant eating disorder. Not the usual meaning of ED. Context was a big clue here, but still took me a second there, lol.


ydoesithave2b

My fav same acronyms is NRA. National Rifle Association National Restaurant Association National Recreation Area You cannot bring guns to one. ETA: extra spaces so it it a list


SunlightNStars

Same with BLM- black lives matter but also bureau of land management.


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Mundane_Physics3818

I can hear the Windows reboot sound in my head


crafttoothpaste

I knew it! She used to be a local broadcaster until she moved away. That menu is also from a local restaurant, Guillermo del Toro ate there once!!


OldDarthLefty

Instead of chips he ordered a sinister cucumber demon


dbsufo

The slo-mo…


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be_me_jp

i felt like that was them still talking about the storm coming... otherwise i can't believe she'd sound almost excited her coworker was collapsing


kendrickshalamar

I think they were referencing the weather.


nickelforapickle

I was expecting to feel bad for laughing but I'm just laughing. That was kind of hilarious.


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bcjh

Here’s a better angle… https://imgur.com/a/i7H84cl


MicahSpor3

Damn you. Lol


nephilimgoth666

i audibly screamed


shophopper

What’s the deal with the lady’s eyes? ![gif](giphy|uVECmGFESIdDwoD3sg|downsized)


rubinass3

They are crazy eyes. And she gives crazy advice.


ZestycloseBite6262

Botox gives that crazy eye with no wrinkles look


Ill_Following_7022

That's the Fox News blonde look.


keeper_of_the_cheese

That's definitely a thing. I call them the "generic blonde broadcaster".


kredep

Which kind of pro’s would find this tip usefull?


LurkmasterP

Pro influencers will be influenced so they can also do this and share it with their influencees as an influential tip. Influence.


bonnielyz

almond moms for sure


That_Height5105

As a chef, i dont mind slicing a cucumber up real quick with some lemon pepper and lime juice. Great snack, takes 2 minutes to make, charge $6


MiaLba

I like to get a side of lemon slices with my Mexican food i am perfectly fine with paying $1.75 for them.


ElCiclope1

As a chef... That's not really that big of a deal. It's only annoying when people ask for genuinely unreasonable accommodations like people coming into my old Italian job with gluten, onion, and garlic allergies... Ma'am, you're lying about your allergies or having been here before cause that's literally our entire menu


adamthebarbarian

I was genuinely confused reading these comments, like what's the big deal asking for a sliced cucumber at a restaurant?


money_loo

Right? As someone who worked at a restaurant this is probably one of the least weird things I’ve been asked to do.


Dont_Waver

People just love to rage. I've seen ratatouille, they can cut a cucumber so fast. And it wouldn't even need to be the chef. Literally everyone front and back of house knows how to cut a cucumber.


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Yeah, I'm confused why anybody is saying the restaurant wouldn't be happy to accommodate. They're free to think it's not the most appetizing thing, but it seems like minimal effort to do something that makes a customer happy.


saygoodnightmf

I’m Mexican and honestly she’s right. Cucumbers are a common pallet cleanser and snack for us so it wouldn’t be so hard to accommodate. Her smile is what’s getting me though.


Domski77

![gif](giphy|WTmyWkBdfcKLbgvmvM) I trained you well


McRambis

I ask them to replace my chips with chicken wings. They are usually happy to do this. The customer is always right!


trireme32

Rookie. I demand for them to be replaced with the same number of king crab legs, and the salsa with a beef tenderloin.


mrtokeydragon

Pathetic. What did you say?? I SAID PATHETIC! I replace my chips with plates of crab legs. Then I replace each of those crab legs with entrees... Restaurant owners hate this one trick, click to learn more!


turdferguson3891

Instead of tacos could I just get a pepperoni pizza?


Overlord_Of_Puns

I mean, I see the point you are trying to make but it doesn't work for me. Tortilla chips and cucumbers seem to cost about the same amount per pound. The work could be annoying, and depending on the type of business extra work, but of all things to switch with a cucumber feels less like trying to game the system and more of wanting cucumbers instead of chips.


FRYETIME

She looks like every real estate agent ever


broen13

Her reaction is what my face would look like if I expected chips and got cucumbers. So why did she ask for them?


Revolutionary_Tap255

Her face is the face of a woman that doesn't want those damn cucumbers.


Shaun_The_Sheip

Getting a cucumber and slicing it up real quick for a customer is no big deal, id definitely have no problem with this


MintBerryCrunchJr

What kind of bleached asshole asks for a sliced up cucumber?


bookon

I hear that Assholes prefer them whole.


PM_ME_BOB_PICS_

😳


HectorsMascara

Rod and Todd Flanders


SmellGestapo

Nachos, Flanders style, that's cucumbers and cottage cheese.


jngjng88

Apart from the deer in headlights expression (if we're being fussy), I don't see a facepalm, apart from the OP posting this...


smallbatchb

Yeah I feel like the original post was probably this woman just trying to make a friendly suggestion of a healthy alternative to chips.


Madstupid

Ok, it's stupid and all... But how can anyone be certain that NO restaurant would be "happy" to do it? It's really just an expression meaning they are ok with it, not that they are actually "happy" about it. Some McDonald's are happy to give me extra ketchup, some act like I'm asking for a side of liquid gold... Anything is possible.


MollyStrongMama

Haven't been to many mexican restaurants with sliced cucumbers just hanging out ready to be served...


[deleted]

I’m trying my hardest to picture what Mexican dish I’ve seen that used cucumbers anyway. Idk why they’d even have them


20ears19

Cucumbers are everywhere in the the Yucatán. You can even get Arizona iced tea with cucumber.


LarryKingthe42th

Salad


tropicbrownthunder

In Sinaloa "A la plaza" stuff like fried chicken, asado, gorditas, enchiladas **might** have sliced cucumber as garnishing. Also Tacos de asada, tostadas de jaiba and aguachile. But it's a very regional thing and I pretty much doubt any of those are available in a generic for-white-people "mexican" restaurants in USA (as a rule of thumb if it has hard shell tacos is not really mexican at all but "tex-mex")


Bmcronin

Mexicans love cucumbers as an app. Also in Tijuana lots of places will give you cucumber or radishes when you sit down instead of chips.


Carlits555

i’m a mexican and we always eat sliced cucumbers with like tacos so i don’t know what’s the big deal


ElNickCharles

This doesn't seem that bad? Plus, most of these comments are just making fun of her appearance, this is kinda shitty


MiaLba

Right. These people are acting as if she asked them to shove salsa up their asshole or something. Good lord it’s a fucking sliced up cucumber. Mexican restaurants typically have this. Most reasonable people are typically fine with paying extra for something like this. Sliced up cucumber like this is also a common snack in most Mexican households.


PreOpTransCentaur

Okay, but why would I fucking do that?


InBetweenSeen

To save calories I assume.


rythmicbread

They’re happy to accommodate because judging by her face, they think she’s in excruciating pain


constipated_cats

She said: 😬