No, We're Not Trying To Impress The Waiter

Kevin Alexander and Matt Lynch offer a list of the 44 worst people encountered in restaurants. One complaint is about the person who "over-pronounces" names of ethnic items: Do you really think that by calling prosciutto “pra-shoot” that the Italian waiter will go back to the kitchen and regale the chefs with praise-filled stories of the man at table 16? That isn't exactly how we say prosciutto in my family, but I believe that's their attempt at the phonetic spelling...
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