They did a lunch interview for a contract position? Wow.
Did you at least get some kind of idea whether the job would be bearable as a short-term gig?
Also, things got crazy-busy on this end, so I didn't have a chance to reply to your previous note about why bar food was objectionable to you, but until you mentioned the intimate/eroticized aspects of eating with fingers, I hadn't even considered that aspect. Mostly I was just hearing my very proper German grandmother saying, "Civilized people don't eat with their fingers!"
(I eat finger food all the time, having grown up in California, but am very careful not to do so when I'm visiting Germany.)
My favorite Korean dish is spicy pork bulgogi, which my neighborhood restaurant serves on a sizzling iron platter with onions that slowly caramelize as you dig into the paper-thin slices of melt-in-your-mouth sweet chili goodness.
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Date: 10 Jun 2011 02:27 am (UTC)Did you at least get some kind of idea whether the job would be bearable as a short-term gig?
Also, things got crazy-busy on this end, so I didn't have a chance to reply to your previous note about why bar food was objectionable to you, but until you mentioned the intimate/eroticized aspects of eating with fingers, I hadn't even considered that aspect. Mostly I was just hearing my very proper German grandmother saying, "Civilized people don't eat with their fingers!"
(I eat finger food all the time, having grown up in California, but am very careful not to do so when I'm visiting Germany.)
My favorite Korean dish is spicy pork bulgogi, which my neighborhood restaurant serves on a sizzling iron platter with onions that slowly caramelize as you dig into the paper-thin slices of melt-in-your-mouth sweet chili goodness.