Awkward situation in the Italian deli yesterday. Went in hoping to get some fennel pollen after the butcher recommended it for the porchetta and a quick Google confirmed it. Owner of deli looked at me quizzically, then said that I'd got the wrong word and I was looking for fennel seeds and I had to stand there and listen to him tell me how to make a porchetta while holding in the intense desire to say, akchually ....
Awkward situation in the Italian deli yesterday. Went in hoping to get some fennel pollen after the butcher recommended it for the porchetta and a quick Google confirmed it. Owner of deli looked at me quizzically, then said that I'd got the wrong word and I was looking for fennel seeds and I had to stand there and listen to him tell me how to make a porchetta while holding in the intense desire to say, akchually ....