Don’t waitstaff normally pair drinks with food ? I think this is a not-so-subtle way of the waitress confessing that she’s an alcoholic.
I see it as a new level of pretentiousness.
I’m with Brian. The waitstaff just assumes that the customer is an alcoholic.
I have no idea what the joke is, and I can’t get past the fact that you don’t drink wine with vodka, unless you want to get sick.
Extra alcohol is a great way to run up the bill (and thus the tip). Plus, there are numerous stories of drunk customers being more generous in their tipping,.
As Groucho would say, “I’ve heard of mixed drinks, but this is ridiculous.”
@ Stan, do you see the server as female? Looks male to me. (shrug)
The server reminds me of the worst server we ever had. She spilled half my husband’s flight, and only replaced the glasses that had lost an appreciable amount of beer, not the ones that the beer had sloshed into and mixed. (He’s not convinced she replaced with the correct beers.) It’s one thing to drink for the sake of ingesting alcohol. It’s another thing to assume that your customers drink that way.
Here is another interpretation.
There are some people whose dating strategy is “get them drunk, then make your move”. Such a person might appreciate a little extra “push” on the bar offerings when going out. So the server may be more “wingman” than “waiter”, and either already in cahoots with dude, and/or is hoping to extablish a repeat customer (since another common trait of early dating relationships is dude paying).
Since the couple live together and have done so forever in this strip, I doubt the waitress is a wingwoman. I agree with Brian – just a joke on wine parings which I see more often now, no doubt to push the high margin booze.
I’m with Brian on this one. The give away is the pairing with 12 year old bourbon. Just running up the bill while being absurdly pretentious at the same time.
“Since the couple live together and have done so forever in this strip”
There’s nothing in THIS strip that suggests “long-time, ongoing relationship”. Not being a follower of this cartoon, I see (OK, saw) “first date”.
But I offered a possible interpretations, not a serious argument.
Chak said: “Stan, do you see the server as female? Looks male to me. (shrug)”
Not sure if it’s male or female, but in any case, no, it doesn’t seem to look like me.
Chak said: “Stan, do you see the server as female? Looks male to me. (shrug)”
Yea, it’s the curly things in the front of the hairstyle that did it, I guess. And maybe the narrower shoulder width, more similar to the woman sitting down than the man. Still, I’m sure there are men with similar hairstyles and shoulder structures, so please, I beg you, don’t start a discussion telling me how wrong I am to see things this way.
In terms of the comic, the expressions on the customers are wide-eyed. They seem surprised and perhaps a little uncomfortable/unnerved by what the waitperson is saying (the woman’s has raised her hands to her mouth, in a typical gasping motion). The woman at the other table is even eavesdropping with a look of high-eyebrowed concern. If the waitperson was just trying to get them to buy more booze, as waitpeople commonly do, pretentiously or otherwise, would it have sparked this kind of reaction among the patrons?
12-year-old bourbon? What, they don’t have any that’s fresher? (ducking)
My impression was that the server is woman.
You and Stan are probably right.
Also thought of trying to sell up.
I don’t drink it, so I’m not sure, but isn’t 12 y.o. bourbon a little young to be considered the good stuff?
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Don’t waitstaff normally pair drinks with food ? I think this is a not-so-subtle way of the waitress confessing that she’s an alcoholic.
I see it as a new level of pretentiousness.
I’m with Brian. The waitstaff just assumes that the customer is an alcoholic.
I have no idea what the joke is, and I can’t get past the fact that you don’t drink wine with vodka, unless you want to get sick.
Extra alcohol is a great way to run up the bill (and thus the tip). Plus, there are numerous stories of drunk customers being more generous in their tipping,.
As Groucho would say, “I’ve heard of mixed drinks, but this is ridiculous.”
@ Stan, do you see the server as female? Looks male to me. (shrug)
The server reminds me of the worst server we ever had. She spilled half my husband’s flight, and only replaced the glasses that had lost an appreciable amount of beer, not the ones that the beer had sloshed into and mixed. (He’s not convinced she replaced with the correct beers.) It’s one thing to drink for the sake of ingesting alcohol. It’s another thing to assume that your customers drink that way.
Here is another interpretation.
There are some people whose dating strategy is “get them drunk, then make your move”. Such a person might appreciate a little extra “push” on the bar offerings when going out. So the server may be more “wingman” than “waiter”, and either already in cahoots with dude, and/or is hoping to extablish a repeat customer (since another common trait of early dating relationships is dude paying).
Since the couple live together and have done so forever in this strip, I doubt the waitress is a wingwoman. I agree with Brian – just a joke on wine parings which I see more often now, no doubt to push the high margin booze.
I’m with Brian on this one. The give away is the pairing with 12 year old bourbon. Just running up the bill while being absurdly pretentious at the same time.
“Since the couple live together and have done so forever in this strip”
There’s nothing in THIS strip that suggests “long-time, ongoing relationship”. Not being a follower of this cartoon, I see (OK, saw) “first date”.
But I offered a possible interpretations, not a serious argument.
Chak said: “Stan, do you see the server as female? Looks male to me. (shrug)”
Not sure if it’s male or female, but in any case, no, it doesn’t seem to look like me.
Chak said: “Stan, do you see the server as female? Looks male to me. (shrug)”
Yea, it’s the curly things in the front of the hairstyle that did it, I guess. And maybe the narrower shoulder width, more similar to the woman sitting down than the man. Still, I’m sure there are men with similar hairstyles and shoulder structures, so please, I beg you, don’t start a discussion telling me how wrong I am to see things this way.
In terms of the comic, the expressions on the customers are wide-eyed. They seem surprised and perhaps a little uncomfortable/unnerved by what the waitperson is saying (the woman’s has raised her hands to her mouth, in a typical gasping motion). The woman at the other table is even eavesdropping with a look of high-eyebrowed concern. If the waitperson was just trying to get them to buy more booze, as waitpeople commonly do, pretentiously or otherwise, would it have sparked this kind of reaction among the patrons?
12-year-old bourbon? What, they don’t have any that’s fresher? (ducking)
My impression was that the server is woman.
You and Stan are probably right.
Also thought of trying to sell up.
I don’t drink it, so I’m not sure, but isn’t 12 y.o. bourbon a little young to be considered the good stuff?