Sunday, June 15, 2008

Salumitorium, or the one where I discover the italics feature

The news about Pamela & Tommy Lee made me temporarily forget my salami stories from yesterday!

A guy asked Zac about the different salami in the case. Zac went down the list and when he got to our latest additions, the Fra'Mani stuff, the customer asked if Zac would "pull it out" for him. The others behind the counter LOST it. The guy was oblivious. Zac held it together and did indeed "pull" the salami out for him. Honestly, I can't remember the rest of the details of the event. I know there were more questions from the customers that just got more and more sexually suggestive and yet the guy appeared to have no idea he was soaking my team in a creamy broth of double-entendre. It reminded me of the older man who asked Leigh Ann and I for parmi-gina (40 Year Old Virgin fans, I'm looking at you) cheese.

Then, later on, another person started asking for the salami list. Herbed, turkey, Genoa, hard, two kinds of soppressata, pepperoni...oh and yeah, some new stuff from Fra'Mani. Nostrano, Gentile, Piccante and a regular, dry Salametto. "What's that?" she asks. "They're aged and cured in the traditional manner, so they've got a natural casing on them with that funky white mold growing on the outside. Pretty funky stuff." Says she, "Oh...extreme."

WTF. NO. It's not extreme, you Gen X twat.

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