To be surprised at this?

[TinaTeaspoons]

I work at a place where we provide functions for young families and provide snacks etc. Today we had kids in of 3 and 4 years old. Asked the lady at work (around my age, so late thirties) to cut up some cucumber, cherry tomatoes and carrot and put them into a bowl.
She chopped the carrots up into too thick pieces, same with the cucumber and she was slicing the mini cherry tomatoes down the middle and was getting sprayed.
It looked a complete mess and because she had done it all so thick cut, there wasn't enough to go around.
I don't like to judge but shouldn't cutting up fruit and vegetables be a simple task for an adult ?

I’m in the US it’s a perfectly acceptable time for cherry tomatoes thankyouverymuch

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I'm with the 85% who think YABU (and am quite surprised there are 15% who don't)

Bu do please explain how she was supposed to cut the tomatoes. I mean the volume of a cherry tomato can't give that many options, can it ?

Anyone could say that. Anyone.

How do we know @saltinesandcoffeecups hasn't moved to the US SPECIFICALLY for the purpose of chopping illicit midnight tomatoes with impunity?

Oh shit I was too outing with my talk of my niche hobby of tomato chopping!

Dammit! I have to name change now so you don’t connect this with my regular posts as Doris from Surrey. 🤣🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

Depends on the training, some would know that you need lean slices, others would just slice and dice, etc

Could you not just have said " can you cut them a bit smaller please"? Or shown her how to cut the tomatoes without the spray?

I'd like to join the other 13+ people who have asked for instructions on cherry tomato cutting.

Horizontal?! Quartered?

(I use a serrated knife and an educated guess on where the seed cavity walls join, based on identations at the top)

Maybe if you’d asked her for crudités she would have known what you meant?

Do it yourself, or ask someone to do it. Don’t ask someone to do it your way.

I often cut my cherry tomatoes in half across the middle rather than down the centre and haven't drowned yet.
I do use a sharp knife though.....

The things that move people to come on MN and offload get more and more boggling with every passing day.

How odd.

I've been cooking good meals for 45 years and almost considered it as a career when I left school. (I hate being hot, so that was the decision made for me).

I cut cherry tomatoes in half. I also had no idea that there is an optimum size for carrots and cucumber. I would probably do batons (spelling?). Is that wrong?

You do sound judgey op, and wrong about the tomatoes. Give a child a tomato and there will ALWAYS be mess.

I’m in the ‘I don’t think my cherry tomato cutting technique is sophisticated enough’ camp too…