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‘Bonus points to the customers who ask how to pronounce a word correctly’: Server asks customer if she wants ‘tamales.’ She insists no, it’s ‘tamalees’

A customer at a Mexican restaurant attempted to school a server by correcting the server’s accurate pronunciation of a Mexican dish. In the TikTok video documenting the encounter posted by Jasmine (@jjasminevega) on June 7, the TikToker recalled how a customer who ordered tamales, referring to the dish in the Americanized pronunciation, got upset when …

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