Comments on: Don’t entice me and not deliver http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/02/28/dont-entice-me-and-not-deliver/ Niko Nyman's blog on shifting topics. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:56:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Taneli http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/02/28/dont-entice-me-and-not-deliver/#comment-23595 Taneli Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:16:49 +0000 http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/02/28/dont-entice-me-and-not-deliver/#comment-23595 <p>First bullet point reminds me of the Kenyan Menu Problem (as we called it at the time): the items on a typical Kenyan restaurant's menu were in large part not available. There was a completely comprehensible explanation behind this, which was that the menu is not a device for customers to choose what to eat. Instead the chef/owner proclaims there how ambitious (s)he is: "I wish I had the ingredients for and the skill to prepare this and this and that ... "</p> <p>Scattered around the menu there was often images of all kinds of meals, including those that actually were available.</p> <p>That said, I ate a great deal of funny meals (including zebra steaks, matumbo (whatever they are, lit. stomaches) and ubiquitous ugali) with no problems whatsoever.</p> <p>Oh yeah, regarding immagini descrittive dell'Italia: the filenames seem to give you hint, but then it will be detective work trying to map that to a real place (too much work, I didn't bother to see if you actually can do that). I also couldn't find how to give them feedback. I've always thought that it'd be stereotypically Italian to get the details like this right and then get the big picture all messed up. If others think this way too, then the website does not represent Italy too well.</p> First bullet point reminds me of the Kenyan Menu Problem (as we called it at the time): the items on a typical Kenyan restaurant’s menu were in large part not available. There was a completely comprehensible explanation behind this, which was that the menu is not a device for customers to choose what to eat. Instead the chef/owner proclaims there how ambitious (s)he is: “I wish I had the ingredients for and the skill to prepare this and this and that … “

Scattered around the menu there was often images of all kinds of meals, including those that actually were available.

That said, I ate a great deal of funny meals (including zebra steaks, matumbo (whatever they are, lit. stomaches) and ubiquitous ugali) with no problems whatsoever.

Oh yeah, regarding immagini descrittive dell’Italia: the filenames seem to give you hint, but then it will be detective work trying to map that to a real place (too much work, I didn’t bother to see if you actually can do that). I also couldn’t find how to give them feedback. I’ve always thought that it’d be stereotypically Italian to get the details like this right and then get the big picture all messed up. If others think this way too, then the website does not represent Italy too well.

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