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All in Food
The pork scratching’s journey from humble Sunday roast side to mass-market snack belies its enduring popularity as a curious cornerstone of the British pub experience. The pork scratching as we know it exists in its own genre outside the range of normal foodstuffs, but is thought to have emerged as a home-spun delicacy in the West Midlands during the 1800s.
Defining a waitress should be easy—the job isn’t hard, or so I’m told. A waitress is a woman who works at a restaurant, and whose job it is to serve customers at their tables. When I consult the definition, I am provided with short sentences as working examples: “She works as a waitress”; “they asked the waitress for the bill”; “she plays the part of the sexy, blonde waitress.”
A waitress is a plate carrier, a server, simple enough. But what’s harder to define is the way I am treated in the role.
