• restaurant accidentally serves diner wine worth nearly $6,000
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https://twitter.com/HawksmoorMCR/status/1128937017587453952 Lmao that employee got yelled at for 1 hour straight and then fired
This isn't the USA
Asshole bosses aren't exclusive to the USA
https://twitter.com/Specsavers/status/1129022918372016128?s=20
The publicity they got is worth that much
what is the joke here? what's specsavers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lccrmYjBWGU
They're a brand of spectacles (eyeglasses) and their advertising premise is all about people not reading or misreading things with the slogan: "you should have gone to Specsavers." I thought their sense of humour was actually pretty cool regarding all of this. I doubt anybody was fired. They made some funny comments about the whole thing on Twitter.
'Should've gone to Specsavers' was/is an effective advertising campaign by the UK opticians/glasses company. So effective that the slogan was in common use in the UK at least for a time just for any general situation where someone blunders because they didnt see something or misread something, so pretty much anyone from the UK would get the joke.
I've ate here before, had the most expensive steak I've ever had at like £110 or something, it was amazing. All the staff here were really nice as well, but I remember looking at the menu and dear fuckin lord the average price must've been around £200 - £300
Could even the most experienced wine snob sip a $40 Wine and that $4500 Wine in a blind test and know which was which?
https://youtu.be/EiP2W9-H8mI
There's even a wine sniffing competition. Don't ask me how they're able to discern what's what.. https://wineacuity.com/about/event-history
At the same time you can't expect people not from UK to get a UK inside joke
There would be differences, but honestly even a $40 bottle is a massive amount of money. You really start to see rapidly diminishing returns in the appreciable quality of wine past like $20. Ageing wines is all fine and dandy, and you should expect to pay more for it as the bloody thing has been taking up barrel space for however many years. But it's not going to be so drastic a difference that you average drinker is even going to give a shit. If you're just looking for something to drink, don't spend dozens of dollars on it, it's just a pointless waste of money for 99% of the population. Professional wine tasters may be able to readily identify the differences though, they have spent so long trying different wines, and wine can have quite complex flavours. Subtleties will exist in more expensive wines that cheaper ones just don't have. Also corks vs. screw-caps. Something that came up at work (been working at a wine retailer for a few years now) and that has stuck with me a bit. Most of the world has moved to using screw caps for their wine. It's cheaper to make, a shitload more useful for someone who doesn't intend to destroy the entire bottle in one sitting, and honestly does the exact same job as a cork. And that is keeping the oxygen out for as long as possible. Most of the wines we sell (whites in particular, but a number of reds) use screw caps, except for what we sell in and from the US. For some reason US wine consumers insist that corks are the only way to close a bottle and anything else is heresy. It's a bizarre form of elitism amongst wine drinkers to be certain.
Was it worth it or are you paying for the experience of eating at a really high end restaurant/treatment? I've never had anything that pricy but in my limited experience of getting invited to restaurants well outside my price range, the food was good but was it really that good? Idk. Genuinely curious.
Here in Shipley a bus crashed into an opticians last year, so the phrase was getting tossed around a lot https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-45942189
I’ve been to a lot of good restaurants, but went to a Michelin-starred restaurant back in August, and it really was very, very good. I don’t think price necessarily dictates THAT much - there are restaurants that appeal to decadence without necessarily appealing to the most refined palate. The place I went to was expensive, but not outrageously so (and they probably made the real money on the wine).
I've always wanted to try a Michelin starred restaurant but we don't have any in this city. I think the closest one is in New York City or Chicago. "Best" we have here is a restaurant owned by a chef that owns Michelin restaurants. They literally don't even judge for them here in Houston. We probably have several of similar quality tbh but they just don't test for it.
Not sure why you posted just this. I don't see how it relates to glasses.
Because it explains what specsavers is and the joke.
How does it explain what specsavers is What does the ad have to do with glasses A cat is pawing at a window and a dude walks by the fuck does this have to do with glasses Is the joke that the guy doesn't see the cat? Why would he care in the first place?
should have gone to specsavers mate
Oh the cat door was at the top instead of the bottom of the door That's just bad composition, you can't blame me that they put all the things your eyes would naturally focus on in the bottom of the screen
Perhaps if you’d gone to specsavers you’d be able to see the whole screen.
B-Bud, I love you but sometimes I think you're retarded. Don't change. <3
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