The whole saying is “A few bad apples spoil the bunch.” Saying that some people in a group are just a few bad apples doesn’t imply that the larger group is sound. It suggests that the entire group is spoiled.
“…the barrel.” Apples don’t come in bunches, but at the time the saying was coined they were carted around like that. (Also it only took one, not a few.)
(I suppose the modern version is “one nazi spoils the bar.”)
People often forget the next few words which are “in matters of taste”.
In which case, yes, absolutely. If a paying customer wants a well done steak with ketchup, sure. Or if they want some ugly clothing. Hell yeah, as long as they’re paying.
It’s not an excuse to act like an entitled asshole.
The whole saying is “A few bad apples spoil the bunch.” Saying that some people in a group are just a few bad apples doesn’t imply that the larger group is sound. It suggests that the entire group is spoiled.
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“…the barrel.” Apples don’t come in bunches, but at the time the saying was coined they were carted around like that. (Also it only took one, not a few.)
(I suppose the modern version is “one nazi spoils the bar.”)
It does drive me crazy how people butcher that expression.
Right up there with pulling oneself up by their bootstraps, which was coined to make fun of rich fucks thinking this was somehow possible.
Adding on “The customer is always right”.
People often forget the next few words which are “in matters of taste”.
In which case, yes, absolutely. If a paying customer wants a well done steak with ketchup, sure. Or if they want some ugly clothing. Hell yeah, as long as they’re paying.
It’s not an excuse to act like an entitled asshole.
That “it’s only a few bad apples” would be a reasonable answer if that system gets rid and punishes those bad apples.
But if the system protects and ignores those bad apples, then the whole system is rotten