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During a recent visit to a popular supermarket I was trying to find some of that yoghurt and mint sauce that you get with Indian food/takeaways... I had a craving for Onion Bhajis and that sauce goes really well with them. Anyway I couldn't find any so I tried to track down a shop assistant to ask... Only trouble is that the only free shop assistant looked to be of Indian origin which set the alarm bells ringing in my head. Would he think I was being racist if I asked him if they had any of this sauce and where it was located? He might think my thought process was something like "Hmmm need Indian food, Derp, better ask the nearest Indian guy I can find". I was worried it might come across as if I had specifically hunted down the Indian assistant as he would be more likely to know the location of the Indian food that anyone else. Likewise, what if I was wrong and he was of Pakistani origin then perhaps he would have been even more offended?
So, in the end I spent 3 or 4 minutes looking for an alternative shop assistant to ask if they had the sauce. It turned out they had run out but I should have been looking in the dips section. Does anyone else have any race related supermarket stories they wish to share?
During a recent visit to a popular supermarket I was trying to find some of that yoghurt and mint sauce that you get with Indian food/takeaways... I had a craving for Onion Bhajis and that sauce goes really well with them. Anyway I couldn't find any so I tried to track down a shop assistant to ask... Only trouble is that the only free shop assistant looked to be of Indian origin which set the alarm bells ringing in my head. Would he think I was being racist if I asked him if they had any of this sauce and where it was located? He might think my thought process was something like "Hmmm need Indian food, Derp, better ask the nearest Indian guy I can find". I was worried it might come across as if I had specifically hunted down the Indian assistant as he would be more likely to know the location of the Indian food that anyone else. Likewise, what if I was wrong and he was of Pakistani origin then perhaps he would have been even more offended?
So, in the end I spent 3 or 4 minutes looking for an alternative shop assistant to ask if they had the sauce. It turned out they had run out but I should have been looking in the dips section. Does anyone else have any race related supermarket stories they wish to share?
