[QUOTE=Carol Stream]
Let’s just assume, for a minute, that I do have a reading deficiency, Is it Christian to openly mock me for it, on a public message board? Just saying.
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Well, this is the Pitt. :rolleyes: Pretty much anything other than wishing/threatening death on a another Doper goes.
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady]
I’m not being snarky (at the moment) - I honestly don’t understand your problem with that situation. Can you explain why you think it so awful?
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To be honest, it’s just a quirk of mine. My husband likes to order “variations” of what’s on restaurant menus. I generally remove myself to the Ladies to avoid it altogether. Does that make me a bad person?
[QUOTE=Carol Stream]
To be honest, it’s just a quirk of mine. My husband likes to order “variations” of what’s on restaurant menus. I generally remove myself to the Ladies to avoid it altogether. Does that make me a bad person?
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I can’t say it makes you a bad person! I think you just took it a bit far in Ferret Herder’s example.
Then again, I used to go to the Ladies while my mother enjoyed her appetizer of raw oysters. Some things are better avoided.
[QUOTE=Litoris]
Ok, when my husband says “no pickles anywhere near the plate even as a garnish” Oddly, that’s what he means, and he may – he has before – throw the pickle at you in revulsion if you bring it to the table. I swear to Og, one day, I am going to have him talked into faking a massive allergic reaction so that you get the picture. Is it so hard to check the order before you bring it to the table or if you won’t be bringing it, to be sure the kitchen staff gets the no pickle note?
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I haven’t read all three pages of this thread yet so it may have been covered by others but I want to say that your husband is lucky that I never mistakingly served him a pickle when I waited tables or he’d be picking his teeth up off the fucking floor if he reacted that way.
[QUOTE=alphaboi867]
Well, this is the Pitt. :rolleyes: Pretty much anything other than wishing/threatening death on a another Doper goes.
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Great Debates - …This is also the place for religious debates…
I guess if we’re going to discuss the religious values inherent in mocking Carol Stream, then we’re in the wrong place.
But is it OK for us atheists to continue the mocking? Because this thread has given me the most entertainment I’ve had in days.
[QUOTE=alphaboi867]
Well, this is the Pitt.
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No, this is the Pit. If it were the Pitt, Carol Stream would be bitching about the person who didn’t want the fries on her sandwich at Primanti’s.
Dudes? This was a rather interesting thread. Can we get back on topic, please?
Just a request. 
[QUOTE=DrDeth]
Just a request.
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No substitutions. Sorry.
[QUOTE=DrDeth]
Dudes? This was a rather interesting thread. Can we get back on topic, please?
Just a request. 
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Would you like fries with that?
[QUOTE=Cubsfan]
I haven’t read all three pages of this thread yet so it may have been covered by others but I want to say that your husband is lucky that I never mistakingly served him a pickle when I waited tables or he’d be picking his teeth up off the fucking floor if he reacted that way.
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I’m having a mind picture of you rubbing the pickle in the crack of your ass and tossing it back on his food now. From a wife perspective, if my husband ever threw a pickle at a server because he asked for one not to be on his plate, he wouldn’t be my husband because I would have dumped his ass for not being able to stand having a pickle even on his plate. I preferred to date adults.
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady]
I can’t say it makes you a bad person! I think you just took it a bit far in Ferret Herder’s example.
Then again, I used to go to the Ladies while my mother enjoyed her appetizer of raw oysters. Some things are better avoided.
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Yeah, I guess I have a tendency to do that–take things to far. Thanks for being nice, though, I do appreciate it.
[QUOTE=Litoris]
When we say “please bring 4 takeout containers” we mean “we’re full, we won’t be eating anymore, please wrap this deal up” We do not mean “hey, ignore us for 20 minutes and we will have finished the food on our plates, which is 3-4 times what a normal, healthy serving of food is, because we want to weigh 1000 lbs between the 4 of us.”
Ok, this is just a minor pet peeve, but seriously, why the fuck can’t I order off the children’s menu? I am not doing this because I want to save money
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These are my two biggest pet peeves. And they’re related. Why on earth do we have to have overpriced portions that are big enough to feed a family? I occasionally like to go to Village Inn for breakfast. They have these things called "skillet meals’ that are seriously big enough to feed at least three people.
I only just found out that you can order a “small” (still way too big) even though it’s not on the menu, and pay slightly less. Unfortunately the jerks are soon going to be doing away with that.
As to the children’s menu, some restaurants will allow you to order off of it and I usually take advantage. You can also request what they call “senior’s meal size” (gee thanks I feel old enough :rolleyes: ).
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady]
I do! I do!
One I hope I will not have to deal with this season.
Our hockey team has a “Coach’s Show” every Monday night during the season; it is held in a restaurant. Usually a couple of weeks in one place, then move to another. It’s a pretty good deal for the restaurant; Monday nights are pretty slow here and hosting the show gets free radio advertisement as well as 30-40 dinners they wouldn’t have served.
One place we went last season ran out of iced tea the first Monday. Ok, I can understand that - it’s really more of a sports bar (with decent food, not a chain) and our crowd doesn’t drink a lot of alcohol. The complaint comes in because they ran out of tea every Monday night.
WTF? After the first night, you knew you had a bunch of tea drinkers coming in - make more tea! I really felt bad for the servers, who had to come in and say “sorry, we’re out of tea” and hear “again?”. I know it hurt their tips; not from me because I always tip $5 on a $10 tab because we are there for over an hour. But some of the others get really pissed about it. It won’t cut down on attendance - but people quit ordering food.
If we go back to that place this season, I hope they have learned to make more tea. I gave up - I just order soda.
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My recent restaurant gripe is also tea-related. Now, my raised-in-Alabama BF has recently introduced me to the wonder of Southern-style sweet tea. Just tea, and a whooole lotta sugar. No lemon. He does not like any carbonated beverage of any sort, and doesn’t drink coffee often because it tends to upset his stomach. So, if he is to have any beverage other than water with a meal, we can only go to certain restaurants that actually serve sweet tea (this includes fast-food places as well).
I’m sick of asking “Do you have brewed sweet tea?” only to get either tea from the fountain beverage machine that tastes like ass, or iced tea with lemon. It has happened so often, I usually ask again, just to be sure, “Fresh-brewed, with no lemon, right?”
I’m also sick of going to certain fast food chains that have recently begun advertising their brewed sweet tea, only to find that they stop serving it after a certain time. Wendy’s is particularly bad about this, which sucks, because Wendy’s is one of the few fast food places where I can get fairly healthy food and he can get his tea.
So, if you’re working in the food service industry, please understand that there’s a difference between iced tea and sweet tea (I wouldn’t expect New Englanders to know this, but we are technically in the south, even if you don’t consider Florida part of it). Also, don’t advertise that you have sweet tea, then only brew it between the hours of 10 and 2 or some bullshit.
[QUOTE=Sleeps With Butterflies]
You cannot be serious. You just really can’t be. Pleased the chef?
In your job, does every single thing you do bring you pleasure!?? Do you think your boss thinks “Gee, if I give Carol Stream this task to do, will he/she like it?”
If the chef/owner/manager were adverse to substitutions, the wait staff would not be OFFERING it when someone orders something not EXACTLY as described. In fact, on many menus it says NO SUBSTITUTIONS.
I’m new here and not familiar with any of you, but I’ve got to say you are coming off as an absolute lunatic.
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Half the poeple here are lunatics, the other half usually agree with you and me, although they don’t seem to post much.
[QUOTE=featherlou]
My most recent complaint is fast-food joints. I don’t have extremely high standards for fast food (I’m not stupid, after all), but I’m getting really tired of lukewarm, stale french fries. In all your educated opinions, would it be too dickish of me to request fresh fries when ordering? I don’t mind waiting for them, but I am starting to mind paying for virtually inedible fries.
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You simply order them with no salt. Then they will have to be fresh. If you want salt, salt them yourself.
[QUOTE=CanvasShoes]
These are my two biggest pet peeves. And they’re related. Why on earth do we have to have overpriced portions that are big enough to feed a family? I occasionally like to go to Village Inn for breakfast. They have these things called "skillet meals’ that are seriously big enough to feed at least three people.
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As other folks have said on this thread to complaints like this, what’s wrong with taking leftovers home? Is it gauche? I never thought so. Is it just not as good the next day? Perhaps, but not a lot of foods are.
[QUOTE=Leaper]
As other folks have said on this thread to complaints like this, what’s wrong with taking leftovers home? Is it gauche? I never thought so. Is it just not as good the next day? Perhaps, but not a lot of foods are.
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I take home food when I can, but sometimes it’s not worth it - like with salads, or sushi.
American portions are ridiculous. I really wish they’d let me order off the kids’ menu.
[QUOTE=denquixote]
You simply order them with no salt. Then they will have to be fresh. If you want salt, salt them yourself.
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You can do that? They will do that? This is crazy enough to work!
[QUOTE=tdn]
My ex, however, has some severe food allergies. Coconut, in any form, and canned tomatoes are a huge problem. Had some server or cook put canned tomatoes in her food because “what she doesn’t know wont hurt her”, she would have known immediately, and there would have been a huge issue.
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Same with me. If I ate nuts, I’d be dead whether or not I knew they were in there.
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady]
I do! I do!
One I hope I will not have to deal with this season.
Our hockey team has a “Coach’s Show” every Monday night during the season; it is held in a restaurant. Usually a couple of weeks in one place, then move to another. It’s a pretty good deal for the restaurant; Monday nights are pretty slow here and hosting the show gets free radio advertisement as well as 30-40 dinners they wouldn’t have served.
One place we went last season ran out of iced tea the first Monday. Ok, I can understand that - it’s really more of a sports bar (with decent food, not a chain) and our crowd doesn’t drink a lot of alcohol. The complaint comes in because they ran out of tea every Monday night.
WTF? After the first night, you knew you had a bunch of tea drinkers coming in - make more tea! I really felt bad for the servers, who had to come in and say “sorry, we’re out of tea” and hear “again?”. I know it hurt their tips; not from me because I always tip $5 on a $10 tab because we are there for over an hour. But some of the others get really pissed about it. It won’t cut down on attendance - but people quit ordering food.
If we go back to that place this season, I hope they have learned to make more tea. I gave up - I just order soda.
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I assume you are talking about sweet tea, noting your location? Because regular iced tea is no big deal to make. Usually, they run the tea bags through the coffee machine replenishing the tea in the urn/dispenser as needed. Now, sweet tea is a different deal and requires some time and prep. You must also understand restaurants are under the law of finite quantities. A Restaurant isn’t some magical food dispensary with unlimited quantities of Unicorn juice and Faerie Filets, with a Bottomless tankard of eternal spring in the back, and the servers aren’t magical wizards that can make time stand still. To make extra tea in these quantities might be out of the realm of reality.
However, I would probaly run to a McDonald’s on the night you guys come in and rent one of their Orange Drink Thermos/Dispensers. But then you also have to consider if free tea (and pounds of sugar) is worth the margin call.