Ziggy by Tom Wilson & Tom II for April 16, 2023

Ziggy you need to work on your French.

I remember a Korean-American comic named Henry Cho doing that line about his dad in a French restaurant.

Asking the dude for that could have gone much worse.

French indeed

Ziggy asks to have a ‘quickie’? That probably explains why he calls the other fellow, “his good man.”

Where I’m from, asking for a “quickie” means something entirely different.

That joke has been broadly (yes, it’s a pun) applied to (at least) two Presidents… Clinton and Trump.

Make that to escargot.

Sacré bleu. Le moi pas savoir Frençais.

“Quickie” is the classy way of saying “Quiche”

When I can’t figure out how to pronounce something on a menu something, I just point.

This joke was used years ago in “Designing Women.”

Wow, I didn’t even know what he was getting at! The waiter is good!

Meals in French restaurants are usually tiny, but they’re almost never “quick.” Les Maisons de Presque Rien à Manger Pour Tout Votre Argent.

I have (had the experience and have) known up-scale restaurants to snub single people in their restaurants. Sometimes these poor souls will get poor service or be overlooked as if they were lowlifes. Ziggy’s lucky the waiter even noticed him.

My policy is…if I can’t pronounce it I’m won’t order it.

Let me know where THAT restaurant is!

k or h? I blame the small fancy font on the menu I have to read with old eyeballs in the dark.

When overseas we would go to the “off the beaten path” places for food/drink – gererally better service/food/drink for a fraction the price of the “favorites” or hotel/cruise ship recommend places…

This is one of the oldest jokes around, how about some originalité?

From the 70’s: “Real men don’t eat Quiche!”

Once my boss told me about a new restaurant he saw called quickie and tell

Beverley Hillbillies did this in the early 1960s.

When I was in college the food service people pronounced it “kwitch”.

I’m not the least bit shy about asking what something is on the menu or asking how to pronounce it. Good grief, if I am thinking of paying for it and eating it, why not?

I am sorry sir this is not a bordello…

Why treat single diners badly, isn’t their money just as green as anyone else’s?

Wow! I thought it was pronounced “key-shay”. :)

I ran a cafe, and had a customer order quiche the exact same way.

I had a waitress correct my pronunciation of “gyro”. She said it like in gyroscope.