I’ve experienced this too. Otherwise quite appetizing sounding sandwiches with avocado thrown in seemingly out of nowhere. What the hell?
In defense of food as art, though, I do wish that Chinese restaurants would put a little bit more effort into presentation. Even someone with as undiscriminating taste buds as me can appreciate good craftsmanship. (But then, given that the point of Chinese food is that it’s supposed to look as good as it tastes… 
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Wraps.
I like the choice of a wrap vs sandwich. Sandwiches are hard for me to eat because the bread fills me up too quickly. I don’t like thick crust pizza for the same reason. Well, that and it tends to be much greasier…
One thing that isn’t exactly a “fad” but it’s a common restaurant thing that annoys me: my boyfriend and I will often share an entree at a restaurant. We just typically can’t eat as much food as that, and a lot of things don’t doggy-bag well. When you order the chimichanga dinner, which is two chimichangas, rice, beans, and a pile of lettuce/tomato/sour cream/guacamole and ask for a second plate because you’re going to share it, they bring you out this massive platter-sized plate that the food comes on, and some tiny little coaster of a plate that we have to somehow manage to get half of that food onto for the other person. Wtf?
I thought I was the only one to notice this obscene little trend. The first person who offers up a trendy little panini cheese sammich to me is going to in for a bunch of street corner preacher like crazy rant from me.
What nitwit came up with putting the meat on top of the veggies on sandwhiches and hamburgers? I now have to specifically ask for my food to be “built” the proper way in certain restaurants. Yeah, I know I can just turn it upside down, but I shouldn’t have to.
Most folks with raw-fed dogs report their dogs won’t touch tilapia. I’ve never bothered to buy it and didn’t realize people ate it on purpose.
Do you imagine they’re boiling and mashing the potatoes to order and they’re just being mean by refusing to boil and mash yours without garlic?
I don’t know. Some restaurants will make them without garlic on request, some refuse.
Don’t eat tilapia! They’re bottom feeding shit eaters, like carp. I have no idea why it became such a fad. Perhaps the exotic name.
I hate red onions on every sandwich and salad I order. They overpower the other flavors and smell like armpits.
As you say, they’re trash bottom feeders. Which translates into they’re easy to raise commercially in brackish ponds, which means cheap fresh fish for markets and restaurants. The trouble is, they taste like the mud in which they are raised, and I can’t believe anyone could eat these things.
Some farmed shrimp can taste this way, too. I try to always buy wild-caught shrimp to avoid this.
I imagine the ones that refuse are doing so because they’ve got a great vat of garlic-spiked mashed potatoes from which they scoop, and not because they’re being jerks.
I, for one, am of the opinion that one can never have too much garlic, so you may want to avoid the mashed potatoes at my house. 
I know this is CS and all, but…cite? Tilapia feed on plants, insect larve and small annelids much as native panfish such as crappie and bluegill do.
Where’s the pukey smiley when you need it? Cooked, sure, but mushy?
Red Onions belong on your sandwich. It is the responsibility of the sandwichmaker to ensure they are sliced thin enough and the rest of the sandwich is flavorful enough to make them work.
Just to nitpick your nitpick, the [sic] is unnecessary. That is how Ms. Spears spells her name.
My beef is with every restaurant in the world offering 400 fruity, disgusting drinks. I try them occasionally, and am let down every time. What’s worse is when the waitron tries to suggestive sell them to me, and I know I’d just be disappointed if I ordered one.
Calamari.
Seriously, I have tried squid about a dozen different ways. It doesn’t make me gag, but I’m not impressed by it, either. I have concluded I simply am not fond of tentacles. I see no reason to order it because it’s trendy this week, and no, I don’t think trying it some new way is going to change my mind.
Anything that gets too trendy - sun-dried tomatoes, avocado everything, cilantro.
Cheese on everything. I should NOT have to beg to have my burger sans cheese. Bennigan’s is a huge offender - cheese on appetizer, cheese in soup, cheese in salads, cheese on entrees… WTF?
What’s with the “[sic]”? Her name is spelled Britney Spears.
Oh, and teela brown, feel free to send the steak with bleu cheese my way!
And if they serve them in in a martini glass, they call them Martinis. For god’s sake, there is no such thing as a Mudslide Martini.
I’ll be glad when the chipotle fad is over (I like most flavours, but that one does not do it for me; that and candied baby starfish), but you’ll take my cilantro from my cold, dead hands. I don’t want tiny little bits of chopped cilantro; I want whole sprigs, and lots of 'em.
I have to say about the flavoured mayo, though, that garlic mayo for dipping french fries is absolutely heavenly (and I hate unflavoured mayo).