Illegal immigrant

Our golf club serves rather decent fish, so when I saw Mexican Red Snapper on the menu ....I ordered the "illegal immigrant" from the charming young Mexican waitress. She was visibly shocked until I explained I wanted the Mexican Snapper.....which drew gales of laughter from all around the table, including the waitress. Since then several of the Mexican staff have sought me out to tell me how much they enjoyed the joke. . Delightful people the Mexicans. Life looks less threatening through humour's prism.

I am always polite when eating out and make sure that I tip generously if we frequent any eatery. You can never be sure what happens to your order in the kitchen.
Mozart, I would double check that they are enjoying your joke and not looking out to see who they are getting back at with your food preparation.
Gulp.

 Good point AJ, Montezuma's revenge sounds like it is likely.
Where's Rooi? Is this a rugby topic?

Dinna worry chaps, if a man isn't safe at his own club, where is he safe.

 In his toilet?

Nah these days the toilets are another battleground.... i kid you not, to quote Captain Queeg. Ask Aaron Smith...hahaha.

Took a chance with that type of joke...Mexican line fish (Lion Fish are, no pun intended) can be poisonous due to high content of mercury, and last year a woman from the UK died whist on honeymoon from eating a grouper at a restaurant. This is not funny.

A woman has died on her honeymoon after having a heart attack believed to have been caused by eating contaminated fish.

Christine Fensome, 54, from Burghill, Herefordshire, became ill on September 27 while on holiday in Mexico with Andy Bennetts, 58. They had married ten days earlier.

She awoke in the night with vomiting and diarrhoea and died after arriving at hospital the next morning. Her death was caused by ciguatera poisoning from a grouper fish in a restaurant, her brother, James Bowyer, said yesterday.

What's the gestation period?

Actually the US food systems have an incredible track record, very little that's harmful gets onto the market here. I ate my nicely grilled Snapper served with some fava beans, a few slices of mango and lemon, with great confidence.

Snapper is a reef fish and ciguatera poisoning is common in central America...

Ciguatera Fish Poisoning (Toxin) Definition

• Ciguatera is a foodborn illness (food poisoning) caused by eating fish that is contaminated by ciguatera toxin. Ciguatera toxin is a heat-stable lipid soluble compound, produced by dinoflagellates and concentrated in fish organs, that can cause nausea, pain, cardiac, and neurological symptoms in humans when ingested.
• The toxin may be found concentrated in large reef fish, most commonly barracuda, grouper, red snapper, eel, amberjack, sea bass, and Spanish mackerel.
• These fish live in coral reef waters and accumulate the toxin when they eat smaller reef fish which feed on the dinoflagellates.
• The area of concern include the Caribbean Sea, Hawaii, and coastal Central America.
• With fish from ciguatera endemic areas being shipped nationwide, poisonings can potentially occur in any areas in the United States.
• Ciguatera toxin tends to accumulate in large predator fish (weight over 2 Kg or about 4.5 lbs), such as the barracuda and other carnivorous reef fish, because they eat other fish that consume toxin-producing algae (dinoflagellates), which live in coral reef waters. The toxin has highest concentrations in fish visceral and sex organs.
• Ciguatera toxin is harmless to fish, but poisonous to humans.
• The toxin is odorless and tasteless, and cooking does not destroy the toxin.
• Eating ciguatera-contaminated tropical or subtropical fish is the main way that humans are exposed to the toxin.
• The toxin activates voltage-dependent sodium channels causing symptoms in human (and other mammals) gastrointestinal, cardiac, and nerve tissues.
• There are about 50,000 reported poisonings worldwide per year, but rarely cause death; children have more severe symptoms (see below). Continue Reading

Don't mean to be a kill joy but this can be serious and does occur especially in those waters mentioned above...thankfully is rare in SA especially in the Cape waters.

Moz rather stick to those klipvis off Baileys Cottage or the odd galjeon, elf, kob and steenbras if you catch one...

Oh dear!

This could actually be the lamest and most embarrassing post on here since Moffie told us how he changed some words to a song and got a sing-along going much to everyone's astonishment and delight.

I mean really . . . if you're funny then just be funny. Telling other people how funny you are and how everyone slapped you on the back because you're so funny is . . . well . . .  about as funny as a burst colostomy bag.

Besides, reading the painfully needy and attention-seeking anecdote above, I get the impression that Moffie was the only one who thought he was being witty or funny . . . everyone else was laughing (probably quite uncomfortably) at the racial slur and the blatant stereotyping.

My sympathies are with the waitress who I'm sure would have loved to tell Moffie where to shove his so-called "humour" but just smiled and took it on the chin because she didn't want to lose her job.

I did not find this "joke" at all funny...it was very insensitive and in very poor taste.

Can imagine a lot of golf club members from priviledged and affluent backgrounds after a few tots of strong drinks roaring with laughter at this young Mexican girl...very tasteless and uncivilized.

Yes, she would be obligated to laugh...Rooiaas is spot on but I can tell you Hispanic people with Spanish blood would be very insulted...you would not get away with that in their own country, or Argentina or Spain if you aimed a low blow to their pride.

Yeah, come to think of it...shows lack of class or breeding...new money.

Spot on Seb!

To think somebody would actually feel the need to post that tasteless boorish and unfunny story on a public message board!

This is what one would call an epic fail!

Mozter, not your finest quip on this site! I laugh at your wit often enough, but I must concur with the majority here, this one was hardly a gem. 
As for being polite to waitresses and waiters. ALWAYS be nice. Two reasons why;1) It is one of the shartest jobs in the world. I hate it when arrogant arseholes with an inferiority complex harass restaurant staff thinking it makes them look cool in some way.   2) If you are unhappy with your service, wait until you have eaten (for obvious reasons) to voice your disapproval, or even better, don't tip them. 

Yes, I know some people who just can't have a restaurant experience without having a moan at the waiters or the chef.

They have to find something to complain about . . . whether it's the service, the food or the wine . . . and while it must make them feel important, it just embarrasses everyone else.

These same people are also the ones who like to change stuff on the menu . . . like I'll have that menu item but swap with this or that . . . or hold the chilli or whatever . . . and then they have a long moan when their changes aren't 100% correct.

I usually go out to a restaurant with those kinds of people just the once.

 Must be surprised that with the political atmosphere in the US a person would make a joke of a serious US problem affecting people already feeling marginalized by many in the US.   Won't say it really is a funny one since deep inside he waitress could have been hurt badly by it.

Ou Maaik, it's not just that his joke was in really poor taste, it's the fact that he is so lifeless and desperate for attention that he needed to tell everyone here on this rugby board how funny he thinks he is and how everyone came up to him afterwards to tell him how clever his joke was.

Of course we all know he's lying again - what self-respecting Mexican would enjoy that really weak "joke" or the sneering and arrogant stereotyping that accompanied it - but that's not really the point . . . it's more the fact that he had to tell us all about his little joke and how he made everybody "laugh".

Speaks volumes about the sour and humourless old windbag that he has to tell us how funny he is instead of just being funny on here.

A little humour does go a  long way. Good one Moz and glad the folk all enjoyed a good laugh.I see some PC SJW are getting all red faced and indignant! 

Don't expect any humour from ou rooitwitterbug!  Anything you share makes him intensely jealous. Imagine being a member of a golf club!!! Ou rooiwtit thinks that is very elitist. Bwahahhahaahhahaha what a common toad ou rooitwit is.

Actually nobody was laughing at her, and she understood that. She is totally legal, the illegal immigrant was the fish. . But of course if you don't have the human touch you might blow the whole thing...so for those who find this offensive it probably would be offensive if you delivered it. And the fact that Rooinek came on here and tried to make it an outrage is par for the course, totally anticipated he is so predictable. . One of the great things about South Africans is we have a capacity to laugh at ourselves.....but other people do too, including the Mexicans who I understand very well. I can assure you Bloo it was all done in good spirit and left everybody feeling closer when it was over. . The nationalities that have a problem with self deprecating humour include the Dutch, the Germans and the Welsh Wallies. The Italians are probably top of the pops for not taking themselves seriously.

"And the fact that Rooinek came on here and tried to make it an outrage is par for the course . . ."

Don't confuse outrage with pity, Moffie. I genuinely felt embarrassed for you . . . having to come on here and tell everyone how funny you are and how you sent everyone into gales of laughter . . . when you're such a sour and humourless old fart on here.

Oh well, at least Baboon-ou is on your side . . . and that's good, isn't it?

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Mozter, the phrase "you had to be there" is very relevant sometimes. Some of the times I have laughed the hardest in my life just cannot translate into words. The situation at the time, the atmosphere, the company etc all add to the magic of the moment. Comedy is a mystery. Your fish story is a little lost on me, but I'll put it down to one of the situational experiences I have noted above.  
For those with a British sense of humour, watch Monty Python live at the Hollywood Bowl. Probably the funniest live performance ever!   

Well I have found when you take an uncomfortable subject and get it out in the open with a bit of humour, it can have a very positive effect. That's what happened here. . As for counting who is on my side, Urinal, that's a tell right there.......exposing a bit of your soul unintentionally again. When nobody was 'on your side' you had a hissyfit and left, thanks for reminding us. You just can't help yourself can you

 Another sh!t storm in a beer mug. Was any Mexicans on this site offended? I think not, yet...aag why bother.

You really have to laugh at Chaballs. He writes me a long missive on the dangers of fish.....provides friendly advice to keep me safe.....and then after Rooinek predictably attacks me, Chaballs knifes me in the back. And Rooinek has never done anything but humiliate him. . This Board is a hoot!

Donald T rump showed up 30 minutes later and arrested most of the staff. "I love the Mexicans", "they are great people but....."

 Donald T rump showed up 30 minutes later and arrested most of the staff. "I love the Mexicans", "they are great people but....."

Naughty naughty!

Yet another one missing the point entirely.
Draad, it's not about whether the waitress was Mexican, Albanian or from the planet Xardoz, it's about the pompous and humourless old toad who feels the need to tell the board what a clever joke he cracked and how everyone thought he was so marvellous.
How pathetically lame do you need to be to do that?

Rooi, you might have a point, but I think some reaction to it, on this and other threads were a wee bit over the top. Molehill stuff.

LOL...I knifed him in the back...listen Mozart I never side with anyone because of an allegiance...I said it was in poor taste and had subtle conno tations and implications...if my son or daughter or brother or my best friend did the same thing I speak out...I don't form little girlie and unmanly groups or factions here...maybe you did not mean it in an ugly way, I really hope not but still it's very poor humour in the context of the situation.
With Hispanic people it's a sensitive issue and on top of that they are very proud people. You of all people should know that. Don't try and justify it...

The hypocrisy that exists here, unbelievable...straining at gnats and flies whilst gulping down camels.

Then those who twist and take comments by others out of context and manipulate because they are quick to jump to conclusions and are a bit thick and slow to discern or comprehend the true meanings.

That's the end of that as far as I'm concerned. There are too many petty and girly issues here...act like men and learn from your error and then drop this.

Mole Hill Everest in the making here. High horses, lowly pigs and a few baboons and monkeys all out of the circus and running wild@

Chaballs into his fourth pop rises up and defends the staff who thought it was a hoot. How many Mexicans does he know I wonder.....overbearing PC posturing.

"Hey everyone, I was with these people the other day and I told this really funny joke and everyone laughed out loud and said I was so clever and witty and some of them even came up to me afterwards and told me how funny my joke was! Don't you all agree that I'm really funny?"

LMAO!