sherbert. Now apparently, it’s in everyone’s heads and it’s causing us some headaches.
All day, every day, people will come into the store, read all of our options, and then approach the counter with: do you have sherbert? as if we left it out by accident or are hiding it somewhere. Yes, it’s our evil plan to steal all the sherbert from you mwah ha ha ha!! But seriously, don’t you think that if we had it we would list it?
And some people really do think we’re keeping our non-existent sherbert a secret. They will go over to the freezer that holds the Italian ices and challenge us: are these your sherberts? Here’s how one conversation went the other week:
- No, those are Italian ices.
- Well, where are your sherberts?
- We don’t have sherbert.
- Oh, so these aren’t sherbert?
- No, they’re ices.
I really don’t know how much clearer I could have been, but this woman was relentless and she was going to ask me the same question a hundred different ways in order to get the answer she was looking for. No matter how you phrase the question, the answer is always the same: we don’t have sherbert.
It got to a point this summer when that sentence was so over-played that one of my co-workers made a colorful sign that read Italian Ices and posted it right on the ices freezer. Silly us for thinking that the sign would curtail the confusion. The joke was just on us because the “are these your sherberts?” conversation never ceased.
The other interesting thing about sherbert is that people don’t really know what it is. They are constantly confusing it with the ices and sorbets. Honestly, I don’t’ really know the difference either, but I do know that we have different flavors of each. So, when someone orders the “orange sherbert” we say, “do you mean the orange sorbet,” to which they snap back as if we’re stupid, “no, the orange sherbert right there” pointing to the mango ice, that is labeled on the freezer. Yeah, and we’re the stupid ones. Eventually they give up the sherbert fight and decide on the orange sorbet because in the end, it doesn’t really matter what it’s called as long as it tastes like what you want.
I don’t understand the point in debating something you don’t really know much about. Who care if it’s called sherbert or sorbet, when at the end of the day you’re still tasting orange? You may think I’m trying to convince you to settle, but that’s not my point at all. If you only eat sherbert, you understand the molecular difference between sherbert and sorbets, you’re dreaming about sherbert, and you don’t care what flavor you eat as long as it’s sherbert; then by all means don’t let me stop you, go get your sherbert!
However, when there is no sherbert available, I can’t make it appear out of thin air. If what you’re looking for doesn’t exist, you’re never going to find it. Stop playing detective and move on. The case of the missing sherbert is closed because it was never there in the first place. Sometimes you just can’t get the sherbert that you want so you might as well look at the facts in front of you: ice cream, yogurt, ices, or sorbet, and choose from what is offered. With absolutely no choice of sherbert, think about this: would you rather have ice cream or no dessert at all?
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