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> That phenomenon is called counter-signaling, which I first ran into listening to Dan Jurafsky making the point that if a menu uses the word "fresh", its a low
by kenniskrag 6y ago
> That phenomenon is called counter-signaling, which I first ran into listening to Dan Jurafsky making the point that if a menu uses the word "fresh", its a low-brow restaurant. A high-brow restaurant would never use the word "fresh" -- the freshness is implicit in the other signals.
https://kelley.iu.edu/riharbau/cs-randfinal.pdf https://kelley.iu.edu/riharbau/cs-randfinal.pdf
source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25713050 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25713050
- jiveturkey 6y agoItalian franchise[0] restaurant in Sacramento has this huge neon sign in their window: "health inspected". Neon. It's just that one instance of the store. Not that I've seen them all, but never seen that signage in their other stores. [0] Maybe not technically a franchise. Not sure. There are a bunch in California.
- MasterScrat 6y agoReminds me of a restaurant in Goa, India, which proudly advertises: "Vegetables are cleaned with clean water before use!"
- jkaplowitz 6y agoIn India and many other less developed countries, proper culinary hygiene is very far from universal, and contaminated water is common. It's less absurd of a statement than it would be in the US.
- Daho0n 6y agoWell, it might be a sign seen in a restaurant in Flint, Michigan :)
- KirillPanov 6y agoWell, it's not like Sacramento has a Ganges River...
- emmelaich 6y agoThere's a bar near Union Square, SF, which has a sign including the words > .. never had any safety issue so far It's the 'so far' which really tickles me.
- aksss 6y agoThat’s cool, I read his book, The Language of Food, and think about these things all the time when reading menus now; and then like an annoying pedant, nudge my wife and point it all out.