{"id":393,"date":"2015-05-11T10:51:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T02:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/?p=393"},"modified":"2015-05-11T10:51:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T02:51:48","slug":"sausage-or-hot-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/sausage-or-hot-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Sausage or Hot Dog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something happened recently and, honestly, it has not happened before now. Which makes me wonder&#8230; has it always been like this, or is this a new thing?<\/p>\n<p>So yeah I went to a food stall recently&#8230; and just wanted to get a couple of sausages so when my turn came, the lady asked &#8220;what would you like?&#8221; and I just said &#8220;2 sausages please&#8221;, like I always did.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, she had a blank stare on her face. So I pointed to this (pic below).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 418px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/JOfeT4IijLJ_st5yxobjbNMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-Rvx-a_wqsJ4\/VVAVBLolxjI\/AAAAAAAACeQ\/EXErDOS8vXE\/w418-h250-no\/sausage-418x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sausage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To which she exclaimed &#8220;Ooohhh you mean HOT DOG!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I said.. &#8220;Hell no! A Hot Dog is this&#8221; (pic below)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 418px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/xVU1CEDtpkYD6rckjzocCtMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-2Hzb-apEceo\/VVAVB6fGCsI\/AAAAAAAACeY\/zXk-5jtAKxM\/s576\/hot-dog-with-mustard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hot Dog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want a hot dog!<\/p>\n<p>Then she said&#8230; &#8220;No, it&#8217;s called a Hot Dog&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>No lady, it&#8217;s a SAUSAGE. If I wanted a Hot Dog I&#8217;ll order a Hot Dog.<\/p>\n<p>Now this lady (unfortunately) wasn&#8217;t a PRC&#8230; so can&#8217;t blame it on being a PRC this time \ud83d\ude00 She looked and sounded local (and I use the word &#8220;local&#8221; loosely. I consider Malaysians as &#8220;locals&#8221; too).<\/p>\n<p>So is this a common thing nowadays? Or is this a new thing that only happened &#8220;due to the influx of FT&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something happened recently and, honestly, it has not happened before now. Which makes me wonder&#8230; has it always been like this, or is this a new thing? So yeah I went to a food stall recently&#8230; and just wanted to get a couple of sausages so when my turn came, the lady asked &#8220;what would &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/sausage-or-hot-dog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sausage or Hot Dog?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-rant","category-singaporeans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.foxtwo.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}