# Restaurants with limited menus **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [January 7, 2024, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-with-limited-menus/995738 "2024-01-07T16:55:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-with-limited-menus/995738/201 "2024-02-15T19:19:36Z")
> [@jjakucyk](#): > > But don’t give me the ones with onions, pickles, celery, raw tomatoes, or mushrooms. > > I could totally see going to a limited-menu restaurant where half of the dishes include some of those ingredients. I’d be shocked if only half the dishes include one or more of those ingredients - it’s not that there are so many ingredients that you don’t like, it’s which ones they are. Onions, mushrooms and celery are very common. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-with-limited-menus/995738/202 "2024-02-15T19:25:30Z")
> [@jjakucyk](#): > > I wouldn’t consider myself a picky eater, but I think most of you would. If refusing to consider anything containing 4 of the most common vegetables doesn’t make someone a picky eater, I’d be curious to hear what you think does. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-with-limited-menus/995738/203 "2024-02-15T20:42:37Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > That was my secret for surviving decades of Academic Decathlon awards banquets - vegetarian or kosher. A vid that showed up on my YouTube offerings yesterday was about a man who ordered the ‘vegetarian’ breakfast option on a plane flight. He was given a banana. Just that. One banana, raw, still in its intact peel. He ate it, assuming it was some sort of appetizer or first course, but nope. That was the entire ‘meal.’ One banana. ---
**Author:** ![jjakucyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@jjakucyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjakucyk)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-with-limited-menus/995738/204 "2024-02-15T20:51:53Z")
I don’t think those are the most common vegetables. Onions sure, but it’s not hard to avoid pickles, celery, and mushrooms, unless you only eat French cuisine and/or stews. Also, I specifically mentioned all the different **types** of food I like, which most stereotypically picky eaters wouldn’t go near. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-with-limited-menus/995738/205 "2024-02-15T21:30:04Z")
If you’d just said pickles, celery, and mushrooms I wouldn’t have commented. But add onions and tomatoes and you’ve included a huge chunk of the produce section. Also, I don’t think I’ve cooked a meal in the last 5 years that you’d approve of, because I put onions in damn near everything. ---
**Author:** ![jjakucyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@jjakucyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjakucyk)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-with-limited-menus/995738/206 "2024-02-15T21:35:43Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Just that. One banana, raw, still in its intact peel. [http://youtu.be/6fv\_ZfpYdCo?si=H-n9FTXVHARMYYhd](http://youtu.be/6fv_ZfpYdCo?si=H-n9FTXVHARMYYhd) ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-with-limited-menus/995738/207 "2024-02-15T22:33:49Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Just that. One banana, raw, still in its intact peel. Well, it was the breakfast option. What did they expect… a 19-course banquet? ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-with-limited-menus/995738/208 "2024-02-16T00:54:22Z")
A few seconds of googling returns that a banana has 105 calories, and that breakfasts should contain between 200 and 400 calories. So at least they should have given him a second banana! ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-with-limited-menus/995738/209 "2024-02-16T03:39:42Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > One banana, raw, still in its intact peel. What could it cost, ten dollars? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-with-limited-menus/995738/210 "2024-02-16T04:08:25Z")
Delivered to the airplane after being TSA screened and USDA outgoing international agriculture standard screened? Proabably $10 is not far off. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurants-with-limited-menus/995738.md?page=10)