Si, hablo ingles

[Yurt]

So the office let us go a wee early today. i head to baja fresh to grab dinner for my fiesta, and i'm ordering my meal, face to face.

whats in the cabo burrito

oh, we have cabo, spicy and chicken burrito (not that clear, had to have her repeat it, and everything else)

no, what is (slowly) inside the burrito

oh, on the side, you want something on the side

nevermind, give me two tacos, one fish, one shrimp, add cheese to the shrimp taco......

....stares at cash register.....presses buttons.... ok, you want shrimp burrito, with two tacos on side

....counts to 10, five times, no......manager comes over...

...oh, ok, what is it you want.....

i told her, she understood, but when she repeated it back to me, i could barely understand her with the major accent, so i said...... what, no i said this....she got all pissed off at me and said......yeah, yes, i know, just checking.....

would love to tell you i walked out, but its a small town and too many people i know eat there....


what is it with this hiring of people who can't speak english. i know its "mexican" food, not really, there is nothing traditionally mexican about it, it might as well be american fast food wrap in a flour roll. i mean, the lady's job was to be able to communicate orders.....

[MtnBiker]

I still want to know what is in the Cabo Burrito.

[Pale Rider]

Had the same problem here in Reno until about six months back. They ran a sting through all the mcdonalds and busted about sixty illegal aliens. Seems other fast food places got scared and cleaned out the illegals they had working for them. Now you can go in a fast food joint and there's actually someone there that speaks English.

[actsnoblemartin]

whats the name, location, and number of the adress.

i dont eat there, so ill give them a piece of my mind

So the office let us go a wee early today. i head to baja fresh to grab dinner for my fiesta, and i'm ordering my meal, face to face.

whats in the cabo burrito

oh, we have cabo, spicy and chicken burrito (not that clear, had to have her repeat it, and everything else)

no, what is (slowly) inside the burrito

oh, on the side, you want something on the side

nevermind, give me two tacos, one fish, one shrimp, add cheese to the shrimp taco......

....stares at cash register.....presses buttons.... ok, you want shrimp burrito, with two tacos on side

....counts to 10, five times, no......manager comes over...

...oh, ok, what is it you want.....

i told her, she understood, but when she repeated it back to me, i could barely understand her with the major accent, so i said...... what, no i said this....she got all pissed off at me and said......yeah, yes, i know, just checking.....

would love to tell you i walked out, but its a small town and too many people i know eat there....


what is it with this hiring of people who can't speak english. i know its "mexican" food, not really, there is nothing traditionally mexican about it, it might as well be american fast food wrap in a flour roll. i mean, the lady's job was to be able to communicate orders.....

[82Marine89]

It sucks having to be bi-lingual, but my ability to speak Spanish with the same slang they use gets me better service and larger meals.

[Kathianne]

It sucks having to be bi-lingual, but my ability to speak Spanish with the same slang they use gets me better service and larger meals.

That would be fine, in Mexico or any Spanish speaking country. While there isn't an 'official language':

https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...us.html#People

Languages:
Definition Field Listing
English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000 census)
note: Hawaiian is an official language in the state of Hawaii

[actsnoblemartin]

bi-lingual = discriminatory and anti american

were not northern mexico, were north america

It sucks having to be bi-lingual, but my ability to speak Spanish with the same slang they use gets me better service and larger meals.

[82Marine89]

That would be fine, in Mexico or any Spanish speaking country. While there isn't an 'official language':

https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...us.html#People

Living in San Diego sometimes seems like northern Mexico. Like I said, it sucks having to be bi-lingual.

[Kathianne]

Living in San Diego sometimes seems like northern Mexico. Like I said, it sucks having to be bi-lingual.

I hear you, but it's NOT right.

[actsnoblemartin]

me and you, and all san diegans should stand up to that discrimination

Living in San Diego sometimes seems like northern Mexico. Like I said, it sucks having to be bi-lingual.

[Yurt]

I still want to know what is in the Cabo Burrito.

you loco essay

[Yurt]

It sucks having to be bi-lingual, but my ability to speak Spanish with the same slang they use gets me better service and larger meals.

now that is the effing troof right there. used to take a buddy that could speak like that with us everytime we went to tj. course we stopped going after by best bud brother died in mexico, it was down south, at a resort.

was freaky was hell, i was 18, and him and i met these hot chicks on the beach (blacks-- no, we were all not nude, but i was wishin....and sadly no that never came true, but did see boobies) and we wanted to go down to tj because we could drink, he wouldn't come, said he felt tired or something, so i took both chicks, with my brother, he's handicap, but the model loved him and so did my brother. my friends "girl" was the model, yes, absolutely hot, mine was the cutie, and boy did we ever have a good time. the model, wow, got cheap drinks everywhere.

got home, a sunday, his brother passed over the weekend in mexico from drinking water. never been back. nor will i.

[actsnoblemartin]

my condolences to you brother yurt

now that is the effing troof right there. used to take a buddy that could speak like that with us everytime we went to tj. course we stopped going after by best bud brother died in mexico, it was down south, at a resort.

was freaky was hell, i was 18, and him and i met these hot chicks on the beach (blacks-- no, we were all not nude, but i was wishin....and sadly no that never came true, but did see boobies) and we wanted to go down to tj because we could drink, he wouldn't come, said he felt tired or something, so i took both chicks, with my brother, he's handicap, but the model loved him and so did my brother. my friends "girl" was the model, yes, absolutely hot, mine was the cutie, and boy did we ever have a good time. the model, wow, got cheap drinks everywhere.

got home, a sunday, his brother passed over the weekend in mexico from drinking water. never been back. nor will i.

[OCA]

In Astoria, Queens the first language spoken by most is Greek. Try going into a restaurant there and ordering in English, they will understand but you might get the shaft when it comes to your food. Hell the ATM machines there are in Greek. My point is if you go into an ethnic joint you should expect that the problem Yurt had might come up. Don't like it? Go to McDonalds.

I think its beautiful.

We are a country of mutts, everyone is from some other place. some of us speak English as a first language some of us other stuff, it don't really matter.

And yes I agree that official documents and such should be in English and EVERYONE should know some English but this English as an official language is a joke, there are only about a million other things much more important

[manu1959]

it s like that at 360 burrito in my home town........when they start in in a heavy sapnis accent i start in in german