Location: Hyde Park McDonald’s franchise, Chicago, IL, USA
Date: Friday, April 27, 2007
Time: 8:15 PM
McDonald’s Employee: [mumbled] We don’t have southwestern dressing.
Amy: Okay. [confers with Sarah] We’d like ranch.
McDonald’s Employee: [looks confused, looks in refrigerator] We’re out of ranch.
Amy: You don’t have ranch? What other dressings do you have?
McDonald’s Employee: [long pause] I don’t know. French? Italian?
Amy: Do you have anything other than French or Italian?
McDonald’s Employee: [long pause, stares into space] Chuuuhhhh grragurrr crumin?
P.S. Suggestions, so far, for the meaning of the last statement include Caesar and croutons (though, clearly, the latter are not a type of dressing)…