I think their secret ingredient is lots of MSG. And why do they give you enough food to feed a family of four? It’s a ridiculous amount of food (even without the cheesecake).
About the Coke thing… I’m 44 and a life-long Texan. I used to hear Coke used as a generic term as a kid, followed by questions of clarification by the wait staff. My husband, who is almost 48 and also born and raised here, experienced the same thing. Of course, we probably haven’t dealt with that in well over thirty years, but it did happen. In my own case, I’d want my Coke to be a Dr Pepper back then. 
BROWN cola? As opposed to what? Crystal Pepsi? Didn’t they stop making that almost as long ago as they started?
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Mountain Dew, Sprite, 7 Up, Fanta, Sunkist, etc.
BTW your text doesn’t look brown, I demand a refund.
In two restaurants in Australia, they wouldn’t allow you to take home your left-overs. Said it was for health and safety:rolleyes: But there are all those fast food and ethnic places not a problem…
It’s an idea I have heard too that some places in the south “coke” just means pop. And I’ve heard from a girl from Oklahoma that “coke” just means pop and she was in her 20’s at the time so it’s not just an old southerner thing, I’m sure there are pockets where this is still true.
None of those are colas. Colas are brown carbonated beverages formerly flavored with the kola nut, now flavored with other things that produce a similar taste. Thus, “brown cola” is redundant.
Did this actually happen to you first-hand?
My family lived in Australia (Sydney & Wangaratta) for 3 years, and have been back to visit several times subsequently, and this has never once come up anywhere in the entire country, after countless restaurant meals out…
Actually I have occasionally heard this complaint before and seen people bitching about it online, there was even the usual online WTFing when someone posted their story of how a take out place made them sign a liability release :rolleyes:
So my question is are there really idiots letting their take out spoil and then filing suit, or is this a restaurant owner urban legend?
Alrighty. Let me amend my statement. “Brown cola” is redundant, with the exception of that one clear cola that they don’t actually make anymore. Thanks so much for elucidating that, it was ever so helpful.
I’m still working on the the possibility that you can get a Pepsi legally anywhere in Georgia. R-n-C Cola, sure as it used to be native, but Pepsi? The mind boggles.
Couldn’t get toast at a small mom and pop lunch stand after 12:00 noon in Thunder Bay. Toasted sandwiches, yes, but plain toast, no. Made me wonder who would win in Jack v. Soup Nazi.
I was dining with friends and three of us finished our meals while the fourth was unable to (not unusual for her). She wanted to take her leftovers home and was told the restaurant was not allowed to let her do so for safety reasons. I can’t remember which restaurant it was (we dine out as a group regularly) but it was in the Parramatta area of western Sydney.
Pages behind, and for the record I always overtip because it sucks to be a waiter, but once our experience was so bad, I left $1 tip, and the manager came and yelled at us and said that is not acceptable, that we had to leave more money. Needless to say we’ve never been back there even though it’s the only Chinese place nearby.
Yep twice..one place was located next to an IGA so my husband went there and bought some foil. Friends or ours lived in Perth Aus. Happened to them too.
“Conveniently, I have a policy to break things worth in excess of what I’m owed but not reimbursed for”
This. Except I’m 48 and a Tennessean. And it was only in small local diners.
BTW, when I moved to Nashville in 1981, I was so confused the first time some one offered me a “cold drink.” I was expecting either something iced or a bottle of soda from the fridge. What I got was a warm bottle of Pepsi.
Everybody I met called sodas “cold drinks,” but they said it as one word.
According to an article I read in Westways, the Auto Club magazine published in Southern California, if you ask for a container to put leftovers in, in a restaurant in Europe, they’ll think you are out of your mind.
I’m 30, and coke was synonymous with soda to me as a kid. Growing up, I’d ask my mom if she’d buy us some cokes when she went out shopping, not really differentiating between the different brands because I knew she’d get whatever was cheapest or preferred, but if we were eating out, none of us ordered “coke” unless we specifically wanted Coca-Cola and I have never encountered someone who would ask for Coke when they wanted a Mountain Dew, Sprite, or even a cola varietal like diet or cherry.
I won’t go so far as to say that it never happens, but it’s absolutely nothing like the mass confusion that non-Southerners seem to believe happens every time some dim-witted Southerner asks for or orders a soda.