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There's a famous saying: "There is no such thing as a stupid question." Even astrophysicist Carl Sagan thought that "every question is a cry to understand the world." Yet the questions that the people in this list were asked would probably elicit an "I'm not mad, just disappointed" headshake even from Sagan.

A few months ago, one Redditor asked others to share the dumbest questions someone legitimately asked them. And, boy, did people not disappoint, as almost 8,000 netizens rushed to the comments to share some instances of others being dumb.

Bored Panda got in touch with the author of this thread, u/Isellkidsontemu. They kindly agreed to have a chat with us about what prompted them to post this question and whether there really is no such thing as a dumb question.

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong A long time ago working retail, someone came up to me and asked me if I worked there, to which I replied “no ma’am I’m just a mannequin”, and she just straight up sighs and said to herself “not again Stacy, why do you always end up talking to inanimate objects. You gotta stop smoking so much, god!” and she just left. I hope Stacy’s ok.

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong I was born with one arm (the right one), and people used to ask me all the time if I was left- or right-handed. I got tired of answering such a stupid question so I started answering left and let them figure it out.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't belive, that is real ....we can be so stupid, and still survive ...

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong My brother-in-law's girlfriend was amazed that I had two brothers and no sisters and asked me how that is possible because she thought that humans gave birth in a boy/girl/boy/girl sequence and couldn't wrap her mind around how someone could give birth to 3 boys and no girls.

I'm not convinced that she is not some alien trying to pass off as a human and failing miserably.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of the joke about the guy whose wife had just given birth to their second child. He told her her that he was going for a vasectomy because he'd read that every third child born in the world was Chinese, and he didn't want to have to learn a new language.

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The Redditor tells us that he came up with the question while one day just hanging out at home. They thought of such nonsensical questions as someone asking "Are you ok?" after they see a person falling. "[I] put it on r/AskReddit not expecting much engagement, then I wake up and my inbox is exploding! It was amazing," u/Isellkidsontemu recounts.

The Redditor doesn't agree with the famous saying that there's no such thing as a dumb question. "Some people may not know and that's okay, but there are some questions that people should just know, like two plus two is four," the Redditor says. "Unless you're in the first grade, you should know."
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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong I was at Walmart, a worker, young kid, asked about my hat. I told her I have cancer, and the chemo caused me to loose my hair. She looked at me square in the eye and said “Did you survive?”. It took everything in my power not to say “No, I didn’t. I’m actually dead. I’m a ghost.“.

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When I die, if I find myself shopping at Walmart, I'll know I'm in hell.

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong I have waist length, deep purple hair.

A clerk at the beauty supply store said "Wow, your hair looks great! Did you dye it that way?"

No, I had a tragic grape juice accident when I was four and now it just grows this way.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is one of those questions people 'ask' just to have conversation. The lady is not genuinely asking. She's just giving you an option to talk more.

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong My mother had dementia and the Social Worker asked me "" what relation are you to your mother ?".

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u/Isellkidsontemu says they'll probably be more cautious about asking questions after reading the many answers in the thread. "I am a little more cautious when asking questions, not accidentally saying something stupid and obvious. It's a wonder and I'm proud to have this account, never did I expect so many people to actually respond to that!" 

The famous saying about dumb questions, perhaps, is more applicable to scientists. When you're in any kind of learning environment, asking questions is crucial. How else will you learn? There's apparently an African saying, "No one is without knowledge except he who asks no questions."

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong Someone asked me to repeat the pronunciation of my last name and followed it up with, "Are you sure?".

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4 days ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a friend named Ryan in college who always said the R Y and N are silent and the A is pronounced Muhammad. Bad joke but funny at the time. Names don't follow pronunciation guides.

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong I was showing a friend a telescope and pointing out all the constellations and planets I knew, and he legitimately asked me “Where’s earth?”.

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong "How long have you been twins?".

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Why are we afraid of asking questions? Because we worry we might look dumb. Naturally, no one wants to end up in a thread like this because of their intellectual failures, but sometimes we have to get off our proverbial high horse and accept that we don't know something.

Psychologist Paul E. Spector writes that "asking and answering questions can be an art and should be encouraged." People are reluctant to ask questions because they don't know what they don't know, or think they know something when they actually don't. A good instructor's job, according to him, is to make people comfortable enough so they're not afraid to ask stupid questions.

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong I worked at Yellowstone National Park in the early 2010s and one of the tourists, a French lady, came up and asked me when the animals were going to be brought out for people to see.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Rocky Mountain National Park, we got the same questuons. When do the elk come close to the windows so we can take pictures of them? When (date) do the deer turn into elk? Hey, put Billy on Rudolph (wild elk) so we can take a picture.

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong I was at Niagara Falls with my British sister-in-law. We were looking at the section of the river right where the water goes over the falls. She asked me "Is the water very toxic, then?" I replied, "No, the great lakes is where southern Ontario gets it's drinking water. Why would you think it's toxic?" She replied, "Well, everyone who falls in the river here, dies." I had to explain that they died because they went over the Falls. This had never occurred to her.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh dear god! That's even wilder than the German dude who complained that the desert wasn't green

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong "Is that your real skin?"

I think she meant to ask if I'd had cosmetic work done, but I was quite alarmed. No. No, it's not. It's a backup skin that I carved out of a turnip.

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong Used to be a whitewater raft guide. No end of dumb questions. One was "Do the rocks (in the river) go all the way to the bottom?" No, they're those special floating rocks wtf.

Also, "do we get out where we started?" Implying the river goes in a circle, like an amusement park ride.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thankfully, they were with a guide. Many resources have been expended rescuing Tourons.

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong Someone asked me once if bananas were vegan......their justification was "maybe they're tested on animals" *HUH*????

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong "How did they train all the dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park movies?".

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong "Is it true you all live in igloos?"

Asked by someone from the deep south when I worked help desk for IBM in Canada. Dead serious.

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I was on the phone with an American based hotel chain, looking to book a hotel in Seoul. The agent wasn’t familiar with that location, so I shared that it was in Korea.
“Kansas?”
“No, the country-Korea.”
*silence while typing*
“North or South Korea?”

I refrained from pointing out the likelihood of an American chain having a location in North Korea.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It may become possible with Trump becoming president again. He did get a "lovely letter" from Kim Jong Un. And said he enjoyed his time there.

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"If there's a deep end and a shallow end, how come the water is flat on top?" - my ex's sister, she was around 30 at the time.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I took a friend out on my boat when a fire boat passed us. He asked, "How much water do those hold?"🫤

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Me and bunch of friends were talking about the discovery of atoms when one of them says something like: "It's amazing, How did they even know that they were called 'atoms'?!"


*Silence*.

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4 days ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't believe in atoms. They make up everything. I'll see myself out.

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Do chinchillas poop?


My schoolmate at a university wanted one as a pet "because it's cute". She was 20 years old at the time. After she learned that chinchillas do indeed poop, she no longer wanted one. .

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong "What do you do for a living?"

It was at a restaurant. I was their server.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am an actress, musician or writer. Actually, common in LA.

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When I worked at the zoo, I had a lady ask me if Tigers laid eggs. Context, there were rocks along the waterfall fed stream that ran through their exhibit and they could be mistaken for large eggs, and the tiger like to sit on them because they were always cold.

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong "What's the number to 911?".

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I'm a teacher who began my career teaching the blind. I cannot tell you how many people asked if the kids knew sign language.

They were not joking.

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong At my old job several years ago, tourists from New York asked if they had to change their currency to buy things in here in Hawaii.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The large denomination for trade in Hawaii is the pineapple and you get orchids back for change. You can tell that someone is rich in Hawaii because their pants drag the ground carrying around all those pineapples.

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong Someone asked if my kids, then aged 3 and 6, were twins.

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong "How can women pee with a tampon in?".

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair, this one is at least partially due to the fact the education systems of most nations have actively excluded boys from this type of learning when the conversations regarding menstruation are being discussed with the girls in the school.

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My business partner got this one:

"What are you studying for"

"the bar exam"

"cool, bartending sounds fun!".

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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine you’ve gone into the world of lawyering, you’ve found out about the bar exam, spent seven years getting through your studies and the first question on your bar exam is….. What are the components and measures required to make a Mojito?

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„Why are the road signs in Germany in German?“.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And how big a city is "Ausfahrt"? (Ausfahrt is exit, on so many Autobahn signs. I had more than one new soldier ask me that when we were on the road).

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I was selling a party tent 20ft x 20ft. Some rando on marketplace asked me if it would fit in their backyard. Lol I don't know, never been to your backyard maybe measure if you have a 20ft x 20ft space?


 Another time I was selling a black dress also on marketplace and some woman asked me if it would meet the dress code for her new waitresses job at chili's. How da f**k I'm supposed to know that, lady??

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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Friend of mine used to work in a shop that sold that horrific clear plastic for protecting your hall carpet, a customer insisted that he should know what length of it would be needed to cover their hall carpet. No amount of him saying ‘I don’t know how long your hall is’ would change their position, ‘well sell us an average length and we cut to a to size when we get home then’

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Them: "It would be really useful if the program could tell you if you've entered the wrong address; returned mail costs us a lot."

Me: "Well, we validate addresses against the Post Office API so we can be sure we're only entering addresses that legitimately exist-"

Them: "No, I know we do that, but sometimes people mistype and enter an address that exists but isn't theirs, like getting the number wrong so we send it to their neighbours or something. How long would it take you to add something to prevent that?"

Me: "To add a feature that knows when the address you've typed isn't the one you live at?"

Them: "Yes. How long?"

Me:"...in order to check whether the address you've entered is where you live, the software would need to know what address you live at, and if it knew that, it wouldn't be asking you to enter the address you live at. Do you see the chicken and egg problem?".

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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Does this person answer wrong numbers and get their phone repaired?

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How much garlic is in an onion?

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong I’m lactose intolerant “ so you can’t eat eggs “. Well I can’t actually but that’s because I’m also allergic to eggs.

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I'm from Alabama. I've been asked, among other things, if I had an outhouse, if I rode a horse around instead of driving, if I normally wore shoes when I went places, and if I owned a police dog specifically trained to attack black people.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, just how closely are you and your spouse related? Oh, and Roll Tide!

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong "Can you turn him so we don't see the scratch on his cheek?" Asked of me as we were reviewing the portrait photography of her son.

No ma'am, it's a picture. You should've asked this while we were in the camera room.

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But using AI you could probably turn him into a frog wearing a tutu, which I'm thinking would distract from the scar. /j

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Someone asked me if my snake was an invertebrate and I had to sit there and explain that snakes are like 90% vertebrae.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Snakes are the ultimate vertabrate, the pinnacle of vertabrate technology, the all-vertabrae-all-the-time animal.

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There’s No Such A Thing As A Dumb Question, But These 50 People Proved Everyone Wrong “Madagascar from the movie is a real place??”.

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It is a fascinating island for their wildlife. Any island where animals evolve differently from the continents is interesting.

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It wasn't a question, but a statement that a well-educated friend made. She said, "I don't believe in dinosaurs." I replied, "How do you explain all the dinosaur bones they've found?" She couldn't answer.

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Going from England to Wales for a week away with my then girlfriend. She ask what we would do about food while we were there. I said we'd probably just pick something up from Tesco while we were there.

"Do they have supermarkets in Wales?" she asked.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've been to Wales. People there have to get their food by hunting and foraging.

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Why are you wearing sunglasses? It’s like 10 degrees out.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because it’s also hella bright and I like to be able to see without a migraine! Duh!

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Was discussing not owning a car with a coworker

"Do you have your license?"
I was actively driving a work vehicle...in a job where you need a special license to even get hired.

When I side-eyed her she doubled down, "I know lots of people living in the city who don't have one!!".

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After someone bragging they knew a lot about Catholicism, “Do Catholics believe in Jesus?”.

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I have a conjoined toe. The normal stupid question is "Does that make you swim faster?" They're conjoined, not webbed. The stupider version got asked when I was staying in a trailer park my dad lived in. One of the girls saw my foot and asked "Did you ever try just pouring hot water on it?".

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3 days ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's going to be my go-to question for every problem now! 😅😅

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I used to work in the UK and a colleague was travelling to the US in early July, I said something about her being there for 4th of July, Independence Day and she asked me "who did they get independence from?".

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3 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well perhaps it's because US Independence Day is a big thing in the US but totally irrelevant to the rest of the World.

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Not me, but one time some guy who was from the US, who had driven to the west coast of Canada in the summer with his snowboard, asked my grandma where the ski hill was while she was at the gas station... she was like "Uh sir... there is no snow this time of the year..." the american guy couldnt understand how there was no snow in summer... he was like "but this is Canada!"

Hell, even in winter these last couple years, there has been very little snow. I do recall hearing that the Whistler ski hill/resort is facing warming winters that will eventually shut it down forever.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Meanwhile, ski resort in Arizona has 12 inches of snow on Nov. 9. IN ARIZONA!!!

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#46

“How long have you been Swedish?”.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Its a terrible story, when i was 15 the swedes took me and held me at gunpoint. Told me to convert or be shot. I've been Swedish since :(

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I’m blind. Somebody asked me how I walk.

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Do you curl your hair every day? Why is your hair always curly?

... I dunno, it grows that way, man.

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I’m a cook at a bar, someone while reading our food menu said, “French toast?? Is that some kind of beer flavor?”.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are French toast flavored beers. I’ve never tried one but I’ve tried a Cinnamon Toast Crunch beer before.

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“What do Jewish people do?”

In response to me saying that Chinese food places are closed on Thanksgiving.

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4 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If anyone needs a road map to the point: In the US, there's a stereotype or custom of Jewish people eating Chinese food on Christmas Day (Christians eating at home for the holiday, and Jewish people not celebrating Christmas, and Chinese people formerly not celebrating Christmas either, therefore Chinese restaurants being open but less crowded on the day). In this case, though, I've not heard of Chinese people or even the most observant Jew objecting to Thanksgiving, so they can close / eat at home.

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