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.
I’m not a nutritional expert, but I believe that chicken broth is not a super-high-protein additive to food, not to the degree that it’s going to cause severe gastric distress if there’s just a wee bit of it in the food. If Ferret Herder is on a low-protein diet, and a little bit of chicken broth is going to throw that out of whack, that’s a different matter.
I’m open to the idea that there’s some other mechanism by which long-time vegetarians are sickened when they unknowingly eat meat, but I don’t think the enzyme argument cuts it. Ferret Herder is under no obligation to persuade me or anyone else of anything, and I mean that sincerely and without snark; nevertheless, at this point, I remain unconvinced that there’s a nutritional explanation for vegetarian nausea upon eating meat.
Especially when we’re talking about non-vegan vegetarians who have no problem ingesting other forms of animal product.
Well, this explains some of the arguments you’ve had with people in the past. You cannot read plain English prose. I do feel sorry for you. There are good remedial courses for correcting this deficiency.
For anyone else who may be suffering from Carol Stream’s delusion, let’s reconstruct the scene of the crime:
Ferret Herder was offered a dish which came with a chose of either of two meats. Not being a meateater, her choice was “Neither.” That the restaurant, going the extra mile for her, offered to prepare tofu in lieu of the meats she declined, was their choice.
She at no time asked for something not on the menu. She asked for something on the menu, which could be prepared with either of two optional ingredients, to be prepared for her with neither of the optional ingredients.
You know what? You kids are so obviously full of yourselves, that you think your every whim should be catered to. I disagree, but that doesn’t matter here. Carry on, then. Sigh
Man, I am dying with curiosity to know just what the order Carol had to deal with was that soured her so on anything but strict adherence to the menu.
But it’s time to leave her be and return to the thread topic proper. Hm, this is more of a cafe complaint than a sit-down restaurant complaint, but there’s this one cafe I like to frequent that has nice food, etc., but is constantly full of college kids on laptops on the free Wi-Fi doing homework or browsing the web, with no food or drinks at all. Not generally a problem, but it is sometimes impossible to get a seat because of this. I always feel a little odd for actually ordering food or coffee there.
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.
Wow–what an awesome superpower that’d be, to be able to phase people in and out of existence through mere mockery! I’m writing up the Mockingbird tonight.
I said something about your reading comprehension earlier and, for the record, I’m not Christian.
I am honestly puzzled by your attitude toward this. I can understand being peeved with someone who tries to make substitutions to a dish to the extent that it’s not even the same dish, but what Ferret Herder described was nothing of the sort.
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?
People, if I recall correctly, this is not the first time Carol Stream has been obstreperous like this. Why don’t all y’all just drop it already? It’s obvious no one’s getting anywhere with this argument.
Or, you know, keep bashing your head against a wall, if that’s your turn-on.
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.
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.
