# Clueless Cows at Fast Food Places **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 29, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-cows-at-fast-food-places/145529 "2002-12-29T19:36:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-cows-at-fast-food-places/145529/61 "2002-12-31T12:37:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GuanoLad \* > \*\*(A Hot Dog in New Zealand, for example, may dumbfound you) \*\* I love these threads. I’ll bite. What does a New Zealand hot dog entail? It doesn’t have kiwi fruit or sheep testicles in it, does it? ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-cows-at-fast-food-places/145529/62 "2002-12-31T14:47:47Z")
Please tell us of these hot dogs, we have bizarre hot dogs in this country too, and some of them are WONDERFUL (chicago dog, with everything!). unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-cows-at-fast-food-places/145529/63 "2002-12-31T15:03:30Z")
NZ hotdog = US corndog. i.e., dipped in batter and deep fried sausage. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-cows-at-fast-food-places/145529/64 "2002-12-31T15:16:23Z")
**NotWithoutrage** : Sheetz has those too. I’ve been to both places and it usually works pretty well, although sometimes they leave off things I asked for. But that usually only happens when the place is packed. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-cows-at-fast-food-places/145529/65 "2002-12-31T15:18:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > \*\*Why indeed? I think it would work inside as well. Especially now that fast food places are about to start taking credit cards, the machine could take your payment too. \*\* But if you take the surly teenager out of the equation, you lose that human touch! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-cows-at-fast-food-places/145529/66 "2002-12-31T19:32:40Z")
I’m reminded of some comedian who was talking about the fact that McD’s cheeseburgers are 10 cents more than their hamburgers. “TEN CENTS for a piece of cheese?? What kind of cheese is this? Someday I want to go in, order a hamburger, hand them a slice of cheese, and say, ‘Oh, and put this on it.’” ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-cows-at-fast-food-places/145529/67 "2002-12-31T19:34:59Z")
Audrey: The girl just looked at me. “It doesn’t come with cheese.” “Can you just put some on there, though?” “It doesn’t come with cheese. We don’t put cheese on that.” “But if I want cheese, can’t you just…throw a slice on there for me?” “We don’t put cheese on the fish sandwich.” * * * That’s odd. Everywhere I’ve been they come with cheese unless you ask them NOT to put in in the sandwich. I have a question along similar lines though. Okay, I’ve lived in Alaska most of my life. My dad moved to the midwest (MO.) in 83. In every restaurant in that region (Arkansas, MO and the like), that I’ve been in, things that come with cheese (even in Mexican restaurants) have that yucky presliced American cheese. In fact, the restaurants don’t even HAVE cheddar!!! I’ve even specifically ORDERED “cheddar only” and had them bring the yucky “stick to your teeth” american variety and then when I say this isn’t cheddar, they say “yeah, it is”. Then when I describe what cheddar REALLY is, they say,"well, we only have the sliced “cheddar”. LMAO!!! I’ve learned to order things that don’t come with cheese when visiting that part of the country. What is up with the no “real” cheese thing down there? ((not being snotty, I’m truly perplexed about this)))). ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-cows-at-fast-food-places/145529/68 "2002-12-31T19:51:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sturmhauke \* > \*\*McDonald’s hires just about anybody because the turnover rate is so high, so you get a lot of dummies. There was one girl who would constantly come up to me with a handful of change and ask how much money it was. \*\* * * * LMAO!!! Boy THAT’S the truth,sorry, not to “take over” but, your post reminded me of something funny that happened to me at my local mcd’s. Our mcd’s carry “homemade” choco chip cookies, (no not the little dry things that used to come in a box). They are pretty darn good too. On my “free day” (it’s a Body for Life fitness program thing,), I frequently order these cookies,yum. Anyway, they are 3 for a dollar. One day I went in and asked the kid for a Half Dozen choc. chip cookies. He says "okay, that’ll be 3.99 (the price for a baker’s dozen). I said “isn’t it 3 for a buck?”. He goes “yeah, but you ordered a half dozen”. I looked at him and said V E R Y Sloooooowwwly. “That’s SIX!”. He stood there, blank. And finally he said. “Oh”. And still he couldn’t move. Another kid had to come and help him. I kid you not. About two weeks later (on my free day), I again ordered a half dozen cookies, and had the kid try to charge me 3.99!!! (only this time withOUT the semi-funny converse). I could NOT believe it!! What are the schools TEACHING kids these days??? ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-cows-at-fast-food-places/145529/69 "2002-12-31T19:54:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Are you sure it was McDonald’s? I think they’ve always put cheese on the filet of fish sandwich. I just had one yesterday and it had cheese on it. Unless things have changed since I worked there eight years ago, McDonald’s puts half of a slice of cheese on the Fillet 'o Fish. ---
**Author:** ![WortMeWorry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@WortMeWorry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WortMeWorry)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-cows-at-fast-food-places/145529/70 "2002-12-31T20:26:09Z")
In the past McDonald’s used to preprepare and bin- up food. This is why it took so long to get anything special. Now we are supposed to make Everything to order, so special orders shouldn’t take any longer than regular orders. In my store we have a key specifically for the Quarter Hamburger. The only time you see it grilled back without cheese is when it comes as a meal. Customers punching in their own orders might work at some places, but it wouldn’t work everywhere. I regularly get customers who order food by the number on the menuboard, who are shocked to find out the Value Meal includes fries, and a drink. Which is Not what they want, all they want is the sandwich. Or the people who order everything seperately. When you repeat the order to them as a value meal, argue that they don’t want a meal. Besides at some locations the screen wouldn’t last a week before someone destroyed it. Please don’t mention cheeseburger Mondays. It causes all sorts of flashbacks. We have enough specials between the dollar menu, the grilled chicken flatbread, the $ 2.99/ 20 pc nuggets, and the return of " The Widowmaker ", also known as, The Cheddar Bacon Sausage McMuffin. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-cows-at-fast-food-places/145529/71 "2002-12-31T20:34:34Z")
Audrey - she probably wasn’t being a bitch. My guess is that she was genuinely stupid. Obviously the Filet-O-Fish comes with cheese in most places _except_ The Hague so people there must have a serious aversion to cheese on their fish. She had probably never had anyone ask for one with cheese before and was overwhelmed by your question. Greg Graffin wrote a pretty good essay relevant to this thread (and your situation, Audrey) that can be found [here](http://www.badreligion.com/badreligion/essays/essays.jsp?rec_num=5). ---
**Author:** ![Demise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@Demise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demise)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-cows-at-fast-food-places/145529/72 "2002-12-31T20:55:49Z")
I was at a Houston McD’s once and was told, by the manager no less, that the reason my “special order” burger was screwed up was “Well, we aren’t short order cooks ya know!”. It takes a short order cook to NOT put onions on a fucking hamburger? Huh. Of course, that was about a decade ago. Haven’t been back to see if it’s changed. When I see quotes from McDonalds like this one: > [@](#): > > “After 10 weeks, the Dollar Menu is differentiating us from the competition. Our competitors are feeling the heat.” I don’t feel the need to ever go back. 10 weeks? Wendy’s has had a $.99 menu for 10 freakin’ years! How the fuck are they being different? ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-cows-at-fast-food-places/145529/73 "2002-12-31T21:36:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by shulmahn \* > \*\*(don’t get me started on trying to explain to Mickey D’s the concept of a Quarter Pounder without Cheese. Even with the Special Order sticker on it, 75% of the time you get the frickin cheese :smack: ) \*\* You and I need to go get our McDonald’s together. Whenever I order my Quarter Pounder with Cheese, plain, for some reasons they interpret plain to mean, “no cheese.” That’s after I specifically said, “with cheese.” If I get detailed and double-check that that will in fact put the cheese on, then I get annoyed looks and much rolling of the eyes. “Of course, sir, you’ll get your cheese.” Don’t say "of course, " because yesterday you forgot! Grr. Oh, well, it’s a habit I need to break anyhow. Maybe incompetence is God’s way of telling me to eat better. – Justin ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-cows-at-fast-food-places/145529/74 "2002-12-31T22:00:27Z")
> [@](#): > > You and I need to go get our McDonald’s together. Whenever I order my Quarter Pounder with Cheese, plain, for some reasons they interpret plain to mean, “no cheese.” That’s after I specifically said, “with cheese.” Aarrghh, they must be the long-lost twins of the people at Subway who think “an Italian sub with all the vegetables” means “a vegetarian sub.” Is it THAT hard to grasp that some people want vegetables AND meat on their sandwich? ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-cows-at-fast-food-places/145529/75 "2002-12-31T22:04:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SandyHook \* > \*\* Everything included a quarter inch thick slice of purple, slimy beet. Which is probably the only thing in the world she won’t eat. \*\* :eek: BARF!! Beet on a burger? I bet the fish sandwich came with marshmallow fluff, too! That is way rude ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-cows-at-fast-food-places/145529/76 "2003-01-01T03:11:46Z")
You know what? I think that woman in the Hague was the same woman who was surprised that she was supposed to put cheese in tacos, here in Minnesota years ago. Wow, she really gets around. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clueless-cows-at-fast-food-places/145529.md?page=3)