The serious question of a nut allergy

Aboard the good ship Aurora on the Catering Forum last week, Kitchen Rat learnt of the potentially dangerous side of employing overseas workers during one lunch service. As is normal on the good ship Aurora there's a formal lunch with silver service everyday during which the waiters normally ask whether anyone is allergic to nuts. Having handed out the menus the waiter - from Bangladesh - asked: "Has anyone got a nut allergy?" Unfortunatley, none of the guests could understand his question and so asked him to repeat . Second time around the question sounded like: "Do you know where Roger Jones is?" By coincidence there was a Roger Jones on board, so the table started shouting for Roger Jones. The waiter now looked equally perplexed and eventually realising that a misunderstanding had taken place. At last the waiter made himself understood and the nut allergy question - a serious and potentially fatal issue - was understood much to the merriment of the table!