"Flown in Daily!"

richard-in-cincy

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I had to laugh. One of those special interest stories on MSN caught my attention (What $400 will get you in these restaurants), clicked on it, and was so surprised to find out that Masa in NYC is flying vinegared rice in daily! ("fresh sushi flown in daily" according to the article). Of course we all know the poor MSN writer meant to say that they "fly fish in daily." Which leads me to...

What exactly does this, now very much cliche, statement really mean?

Every restaurant and market selling fish seems to be putting out the "flown in daily" shield. And it's always very largely put, as in, "WE fly our fish in daily." One can only assume that they want customers to think they have a plane that flies R/T each day from the fishing boat to the restaurant on their whim.

We all know the reality of the international fishing industry, that fish is flown in to international markets from all over the world, then shipped again to regional distribution points, and then to businesses who sell the actual fish to the restaurants and markets. Since it's all frozen, I'm about as likely to get a fish caught the day before (as implied in the "flown in daily!" phrase) as I am of having my neighbors actually take in their garbage cans on trash night (which, of course, is never).

What does this phrase imply to you?

Is anyone else as sick of "flown in daily" as I am?

 
I see what you mean, it's very deceiving. It implies that today's fish was flown in yesterday,

but it really only means that there's a daily flight involved somewhere.

 
Exactly. So much deception in our everday language that we don't pay any attention to.

This must be one of the 2 pleasant things for me, about living in a huge city. The food is fresh enough that I don't worry. The other is that there is lots of variety. Good thing I love food.

I was asking about skate at my supermarket yesterday. The person behind the counter can say that "it came in yesterday" which of course, could mean that it sat somewhere els for several days, just passing time. Seems most people in contact with customers don't think about implications and don't really care anyway. so we must think for ourselves.

The other person that I asked about the skate said that they never get it, there was not such a thing other than hockey equipment and they would never get it. At least the first one knew something.

Why don't people just say.."Duh, I dunno" ?

 
because no one ever wants to appear ignorant... employees are just repeating what they were told.

 
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