now that's service

[moominmolly]

Went out to an incredibly long and marvelous dinner tonight. One of the earlier courses involved pluots; when the waiter first came out, he pronounced the fruit's name as ploo-OAT. Once he left, one of our party leaned over to her neighbor and said, rather quietly, "I always thought it was PLOO-aught!"

From that point forward, the waiter exclusively pronounced it "PLOO-aught". This didn't seem to be because he believed we were right, but simply because he did not wish to contradict the diners.

(Terrine of pluot!)