Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Pet Peeve #25 – Samplers


Tell me why people have to sample everything in the store. This is a particularly more serious problem in ice cream stores. People think they have the right to hold up the entire line to sample every flavor in stock. Here’s some news: every flavor is delicious – it’s ice cream. Taste testers are employed to test the taste of every flavor under the sun. Literally under the sun since ice cream is more of a summer delight. You do not have to test the taste. Just commit to a flavor or a flavor combination and keep the line moving.

Not only is this frustrating for every customer waiting behind you, but it is an annoyance to whoever is working since they have to put all of your samples on a different one of those little sticks. It is a time consuming practice, a waste of resources, and probably not too environmentally friendly.

WHY DO YOU EVEN NEED TO SAMPLE!? Guess what! Chocolate tastes like chocolate. Vanilla tastes like vanilla. Banana tastes like banana. And strawberry tastes like strawberry. No regular flavors should even be on offer for sampling. Only weird little exotic flavors like pistachio should be offered for free samples. In most cases, nay, in every case ever recorded in history, the name of the flavor has been the taste of the flavor. Hard to believe? I don’t think so. Buy your ice cream and get out of the store.

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