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Entry from February 19, 2021

“An old lady at the Indian restaurant said, ‘Aren’t you polite!’ It was my complimentary nan”

"Complementary naan” (free bread given out at an Indian restaurant) shouldn’t be confused with “complimentary nan,” but there are jokes. This was posted on Twitter by Ira Nayman on October 8, 2019:

“RT @thisismenic70: Went to a Indian restaurant last night.. After I had ordered.. A little old lady came out and said.. Aren’t you polite.. You have such lovely manners..
Apparently.. It was my complimentary nan...”

(The original tweet by @thisismenic70 is no longer available.)

Wikipedia: Naan
Naan (Persian: نان‎, romanized: nān, Hindi: नान, romanized: nān) is a leavened, oven-baked flatbread[1] found in the cuisines mainly of Western Asia, India, Indonesia, Myanmar and the Caribbean.

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Ira Nayman
@ARNSProprietor
RT @thisismenic70: Went to a Indian restaurant last night.. After I had ordered.. A little old lady came out and said.. Aren’t you polite.. You have such lovely manners..
Apparently.. It was my complimentary nan…
#tuesdaytitters
10:05 PM · Oct 8, 2019·Hootsuite Inc.

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Ian Moore
@Ian_DMoore
Went to a Indian restaurant last night.. After I had ordered.. A little old lady came out and said.. Aren’t you polite.. You have such lovely manners..
Apparently.. It was my complimentary nan.
11:44 AM · Oct 9, 2019 from Copenhagen, Denmark·Twitter for iPhone

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Jokes UK
@jokesuk
I went to a Indian restaurant last night. After I had ordered, a little old lady came to me and said, “Aren’t you polite. You have such lovely manners.”
Apparently, it was my complimentary nan!
7:28 AM · Oct 20, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

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Funny Stuff
@BadTasteTee
I went to a Indian restaurant last night. After I had ordered, a little old lady came to me and said, “Aren’t you polite. You have such lovely manners.”
Apparently, it was my complimentary nan!
8:10 PM · Oct 28, 2020·Twitter Web App

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Nic
@tismenic70
Remember going to a lovely Indian restaurant. After I had ordered a little old lady came out and said..
Aren’t you polite? Ooooo… You have such lovely manners..
Apparently.. They’d sent out my complimentary nan…
#tuesdaytitters
4:05 AM · Feb 16, 2021·Twitter for Android

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