Is this a cucumber?

[bixy]

At the checkout at Casino Geant the following conversation, in French, took place.

Checkout assistant holding up cucumber: "Is this a cucumber?"

Me: "Yes".

Assistant holds up parsley: "What's this?"

Me: "Parsley".

Assistant:"Is it curled or flat?"

Me"Curled"

I dare say the training may be somewhat inadequate but not recognising a cucumber? Perhaps when I next go in I'll give her a bus ticket and tell her it's a €50 note.

Patrick

[Georgina]

[:)][:)][:)] Gosh sounds more like England every day.

Georgina

[Suandpete]

    You wouldn't believe the problems I had on the Saturday before Christmas when I went to our local LeClerc just to get some parsnips - while I was there I spotted a red cabbage and thought - that will be nice cooked up with some onions and apples.  Unfortunately the checkout girl thought that my red cabbage was a black radish..........  to cut a long story short when I explained at the acceuil that I had been charged for something I didn't have I had my trolley searched as if I was a shoplifter....................

[MrCanary]

At a UK supermarket, the very young male cashier held up a cauliflower and asked me what it was...

[Chauffour]

[quote user="bixy"]Assistant:"Is it curled or flat?"
Me"Curled"


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is there a different price for curled or flat parsley????  [:-))]

[Clair]

More probably a difference in the code entered in the till, related to sales, stock and re-order levels...

[Beryl]

Reminds me of the time I nipped into the co-op in the Black Country and bought amongst other things some mange tout,  the cashier shreiked out " Pauline, wot ar these, thay luck like flat pays"!

[Benjamin]

Yoda bin in Loy then ar kid?

[Chancer]

[quote user="bixy"]At the checkout at Casino Geant the following conversation, in French, took place.

Checkout assistant holding up cucumber: "Is this a cucumber?"
Me: "Yes".
Assistant holds up parsley: "What's this?"
Me: "Parsley".
Assistant:"Is it curled or flat?"
Me"Curled"

I dare say the training may be somewhat inadequate but not recognising a cucumber? Perhaps when I next go in I'll give her a bus ticket and tell her it's a €50 note.

Patrick
[/quote]

Forgive me for being confused, you said the conversation was in French but did the assistant use the French words "Concombre" and "Persil" or the English as in your posting?

That way I can then understand whether the inadequate training relates to English words or vegetable recognition!