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A few years ago, I worked at IKEA. A customer stops me:
Customer: “What country is IKEA from?”
Me: “Sweden.”
Customer: “Oh yeah, that state in Mexico?”
Me: “No, Sweden is a country in Europe.”
Customer: “What? No. Sweden is in Mexico. Europe is another country.”
Me: “I’m sorry, but no. It is.”
Customer: “But your restaurant sells Mexican meatballs!”
Me: “Those are Swedish meatballs.”
Customer: “Then how came all your stuff has Mexican names?”
Me: “Those are Swedish names. Wait, you think these names are Spanish?”
Customer: “Not Spanish! Mexican! You see, you think know where everything is from, but you don’t even know they speak Mexican down in Mexico.”
I gave up trying to convince him after he said that our bistro sells hot dogs, which are clearly Mexican, and there was no coming back from that…
