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I dropped 1c in the soup. WTF do I do?

  • 10-05-2010 1:15pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭


    Ok, so I had some change in my hand and was having a look into the pot of soup and I think I dropped 1c into it. Should I say something and get the whole lot thrown out, it wouldn't get replaced and I'd get chewed out. Or just leave it and hope nobody notices?
    People are hardly going to get metal poisoning from it, and it's not likely to get put into someone bowl. It'll prob just get rinsed down the drain at the end of the day.

    So what would you do?


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,946 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Keep it to yourself mate or they'll all want one.


    /groan.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Have/had you a second pot and a strainer?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭PK2008


    Eat the pudding.
    Eat the pudding.
    Eat the pudding.
    Eat the pudding.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    Piss in the pot...


    It's the only way to neutralize the poisioning effects of the 1c coin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭magicianz


    wash the soup and it'll be grand!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    Your lucky it could heve been 1p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    LD 50 wrote: »
    Ok, so I had some change in my hand and was having a look into the pot of soup and I think I dropped 1c into it. Should I say something and get the whole lot thrown out, it wouldn't get replaced and I'd get chewed out. Or just leave it and hope nobody notices?
    People are hardly going to get metal poisoning from it, and it's not likely to get put into someone bowl. It'll prob just get rinsed down the drain at the end of the day.

    So what would you do?

    Leave it.

    Sure the soup is being heated so I guess any bacteria will be killed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭mathie


    Fast Food Nation describes the following so I wouldn't worry...

    The working conditions in these meatpacking plants were brutal. In The Jungle ( 1906) Upton Sinclair described a litany of horrors: severe back and shoulder injuries, lacerations, amputations, exposure to dangerous chemicals, and memorably, a workplace accident in which a man fell into a vat and got turned into lard. The plant kept running, and the lard was sold to unsuspecting consumers.
    http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Health/Cogs_Machine_FFN.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭anniehoo


    Rubber glove...go fishin!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,267 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    Could be worse, you could have dropped the screw in the tuna


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭Gulliver


    Any change? :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,124 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Tell them it's fortified with copper for extra health benefits


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    Call the waiter. I'm sure he's used to people complaining of stuff in their soup. Hair and what not.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    If it was in the soup kitchen, you've just made some hobo's day later when he finds spare change in his soup. God bless you Op.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    LD 50 wrote: »
    So what would you do?

    Rename the soup "Oxheads or tails", push it as a promotion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭LD 50


    mathie wrote: »
    Fast Food Nation describes the following so I wouldn't worry...

    The working conditions in these meatpacking plants were brutal. In The Jungle ( 1906) Upton Sinclair described a litany of horrors: severe back and shoulder injuries, lacerations, amputations, exposure to dangerous chemicals, and memorably, a workplace accident in which a man fell into a vat and got turned into lard. The plant kept running, and the lard was sold to unsuspecting consumers.
    http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Health/Cogs_Machine_FFN.html

    Grand. Compared to that, my case is nothing. And I'm going to deny all knowledge of everything. They can't prove a thing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,134 ✭✭✭FarmerGreen




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    LD 50 wrote: »
    Ok, so I had some change in my hand and was having a look into the pot of soup and I think I dropped 1c into it. Should I say something and get the whole lot thrown out, it wouldn't get replaced and I'd get chewed out. Or just leave it and hope nobody notices?
    People are hardly going to get metal poisoning from it, and it's not likely to get put into someone bowl. It'll prob just get rinsed down the drain at the end of the day.

    So what would you do?

    This is some kind of metaphor, isn't it?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 5,881 Mod ✭✭✭✭irish_goat


    Leave it and deny all allegations against you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 977 ✭✭✭Abrasax


    Dip your fingers quickly in the soup then bless yourself with it.
    It'll be grand, then.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    Jesus just strain the soup


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭Bazzy


    be careful if you get jesus to do it he might turn it into wine again awful trouble about the place then!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭mathie


    lonad wrote: »
    Jesus just strain the soup


    Is that be said in the same vain as 'Michael row the boat'?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭PK2008


    lonad wrote: »
    Jesus just strain the soup

    Strain the spuds while you're at it :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    LD 50 wrote: »
    Ok, so I had some change in my hand and was having a look into the pot of soup and I think I dropped 1c into it. Should I say something and get the whole lot thrown out, it wouldn't get replaced and I'd get chewed out. Or just leave it and hope nobody notices?
    People are hardly going to get metal poisoning from it, and it's not likely to get put into someone bowl. It'll prob just get rinsed down the drain at the end of the day.

    So what would you do?
    And in which fine restaurant might this have happened?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    mathie wrote: »
    Fast Food Nation describes the following so I wouldn't worry...

    The working conditions in these meatpacking plants were brutal. In The Jungle ( 1906) Upton Sinclair described a litany of horrors: severe back and shoulder injuries, lacerations, amputations, exposure to dangerous chemicals, and memorably, a workplace accident in which a man fell into a vat and got turned into lard. The plant kept running, and the lard was sold to unsuspecting consumers.
    http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Health/Cogs_Machine_FFN.html

    Unfortunately, FFN and people who quote The Jungle frequently neglect to mention that the book is fiction. Really, really boring and trite fiction based on fairly extensive research, but fiction nonetheless.

    I'm sticking with my belief that the OP is a metaphor to ask what people would do if they've fupped up a little bit and think it'll be ok if they keep quiet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,287 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Just blame the well-meaning but disorganised and constantly confused Spaniard waiter Manuel.

    ¿Qué?
    ¿Qué?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭mathie


    geeky wrote: »
    Unfortunately, FFN and people who quote The Jungle frequently neglect to mention that the book is fiction. Really, really boring and trite fiction based on fairly extensive research, but fiction nonetheless.

    After Hours. The bastion of facts.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Take it out.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭mathie


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Take it out.

    And what about the coin?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭sirgandi


    If nothing else it'll help the immune systems of the soupees. The world is getting too sterile anyway...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    mathie wrote: »
    And what about the coin?

    Eat it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Wait for someone to choke to death on it, then point the Garda to this thread.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    biko wrote: »
    Wait for someone to choke to death on it, then point the Garda to this thread.

    Is this your vehicle?

    http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/2/2d/1c_comm.png


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    The coin is small and flat and should stay on the bottom, just make sure to take soup only from the top and it'll be fine


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 949 ✭✭✭LoanShark


    Boil the Bejaysus out of the soup and HOPEFULLY the coin will melt and all you have to do is give it a quick stir ;)

    Being a chef you get to know how to cover a FEW auld sins!!

    On a serious note WTF where you doing with a fist full of change in the kitchen in the first place?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 949 ✭✭✭LoanShark


    anniehoo wrote: »
    Rubber glove...go fisting!

    FYP ;)


    can't believe it sat for so long without someone else changing it! :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    LoanShark wrote: »
    Boil the Bejaysus out of the soup and HOPEFULLY the coin will melt and all you have to do is give it a quick stir ;)

    Being a chef you get to know how to cover a FEW auld sins!!

    On a serious note WTF where you doing with a fist full of change in the kitchen in the first place?

    ...over a pot of soup.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 338 ✭✭doubtfir3


    Throw in a few more coins.. and bigger denominations.. in fairness you may as well give someone a chance of getting a decent "present" in their soup!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,895 ✭✭✭✭phantom_lord


    ugh, surely from the pov of how much bacteria and dirt is on it would mean you should throw it out?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6 The Force Kin


    get a long piece of poo and dip it into the soup, the coin should stick to it and you should be able to remove it, thus ridding the soup of any further bacteria.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭LD 50


    LoanShark wrote: »
    Boil the Bejaysus out of the soup and HOPEFULLY the coin will melt and all you have to do is give it a quick stir ;)

    Being a chef you get to know how to cover a FEW auld sins!!

    On a serious note WTF where you doing with a fist full of change in the kitchen in the first place?
    Wasn't in the kitchen. But I get what you mean. I was seeing how much money I had and was checking the soup at the same time.
    biko wrote: »
    The coin is small and flat and should stay on the bottom, just make sure to take soup only from the top and it'll be fine
    That's what I'm hoping for.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,288 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Just use a magnet to retrieve the coin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    This looks like a job for... do, do do... Souperman!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,786 ✭✭✭slimjimmc


    Just use a magnet to retrieve the coin.
    Should work, it is 94.35% steel afterall, though hardly necessary as I suspect the soup is cold by now:D
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_coins


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    Leave it OP, the coin would have just sank to the bottom anyway, most likely not going to end up in someone's bowl.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Put €50 in coins into the soup. It increases the chance that someone will notice, but at least they won't complain about it since they'll be €50 richer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    yuck, i wouldn't use the coin again, vegetables and other healthy stuff would have came in contact with it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭mail4liam


    LD 50 wrote: »
    Ok, so I had some change in my hand and was having a look into the pot of soup and I think I dropped 1c into it. Should I say something and get the whole lot thrown out, it wouldn't get replaced and I'd get chewed out. Or just leave it and hope nobody notices?
    People are hardly going to get metal poisoning from it, and it's not likely to get put into someone bowl. It'll prob just get rinsed down the drain at the end of the day.

    So what would you do?

    Just charge €1.99 a bowel? and say your change is in the soup?

    Well Shirley Temple found animal crackers in her's!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,403 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    Put some flies in the soup. At least people are used to that.


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