Food service workers, what's the strangest kitchen request you ever saw someone order?
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It was (and maybe still is) trendy to avoid gluten without any medical reason so it doesn't surprise me you would encounter a lot of people lying about having an allergy or intolerance. Of course people with celiac disease can have a severe reaction to it, so it has to be taken seriously.
My neighbour has celiac disease and he's very grateful to the trendsetters - the previously tiny selection of gluten-free products has ballooned. There's even a fish and chip shop that does a gluten-free day each week when they change the frying oil.
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Back when I worked at a Pizza Hut we had a regular who would order the same thing 2 or 3 times a week:
*Medium crust
*No cheese
*Heavy sauce
*Meatballs and bacon
*Drizzled in garlic butter
Honestly sounds like nothing more than a stoner meal (and probably still was), but still, he ordered that same thing 2-3 times a week for years. Not to mention that it came out to almost $20 per pie with all the toppings/modifications. Never had a chance to try that combo myself, though, so I maybe shouldn't be talking down on it.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I used to deliver for papa johns many moons ago. We had one guy who ordered the same thing every Saturday afternoon at about 4pm. I forget the exact details... it was something normal like a pepperoni & mushroom, but then add literally 5x extra anchovies on the entire thing. A typical large was about $12 in those days, and his pizza would be north of $25.
I hated getting that run because my car would smell like fish oil into the next day, but the dude tipped well so it was cool.
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In Brazil in the hot dog stands you can add a lot of toppings to your meal, including but not restricted to potato puree, parmesan cheese, potato crisps, corn, green peas and all kinds of sauces. There was one guy back in the school days that ordered his with all of those but no sausage
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My neighbour has celiac disease and he's very grateful to the trendsetters - the previously tiny selection of gluten-free products has ballooned. There's even a fish and chip shop that does a gluten-free day each week when they change the frying oil.
Several years ago I watched an interview on tv, bud has Celiac and is annoyed at all the people going anti-gluten. At the time I was thinking this guy is an idiot. The bigger a trend gets, the more options there are.
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In Brazil in the hot dog stands you can add a lot of toppings to your meal, including but not restricted to potato puree, parmesan cheese, potato crisps, corn, green peas and all kinds of sauces. There was one guy back in the school days that ordered his with all of those but no sausage
Vegetarian maybe? I used to do that at the burger van outside my university.
They'd even let me trade out the burger for extra cheese. Bet the Brazilian ones would smash it out the park, though.
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When I worked at Subway, there was a woman who would get the BLT, but she'd want us to put the bacon in the toaster oven and literally burn it. As in, like, turn it into charcoal. One time I left it in until it was nothing but black dust and tiny glowing red embers, and she said it was the best she'd ever had.
As for the strangest thing that's actually good, I think my tuna sandwich takes that one: flatbread, tuna, pepper jack cheese, double extra bacon, lettuce, spinach, onions, tomatoes, one line of mayo, one line of sweet onion sauce, one line of roasted garlic aioli.
I personally don't think that's too far out there, but everyone I mention it to thinks I'm nuts
️My go to was sauce from the meatballs, chicken, bacon, onions, peppers, shredded cheese x2, toasted twice for footlong or toasted for footlong if 6in. Italian seasoning.
Rings up as a chicken bacon ranch and costs half what it'd cost to add the toppings to a chicken, and you end up with a pretty good pizza.
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It was (and maybe still is) trendy to avoid gluten without any medical reason so it doesn't surprise me you would encounter a lot of people lying about having an allergy or intolerance. Of course people with celiac disease can have a severe reaction to it, so it has to be taken seriously.
It makes your dick fly off. Totally a valid reason.
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When I worked at Subway, there was a woman who would get the BLT, but she'd want us to put the bacon in the toaster oven and literally burn it. As in, like, turn it into charcoal. One time I left it in until it was nothing but black dust and tiny glowing red embers, and she said it was the best she'd ever had.
As for the strangest thing that's actually good, I think my tuna sandwich takes that one: flatbread, tuna, pepper jack cheese, double extra bacon, lettuce, spinach, onions, tomatoes, one line of mayo, one line of sweet onion sauce, one line of roasted garlic aioli.
I personally don't think that's too far out there, but everyone I mention it to thinks I'm nuts
️wrote on last edited by [email protected]I mean it's a little odd having both lettuce and spinach i guess, but the sandwich sounds totally normal to me., and maybe something I'd order.
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It was (and maybe still is) trendy to avoid gluten without any medical reason so it doesn't surprise me you would encounter a lot of people lying about having an allergy or intolerance. Of course people with celiac disease can have a severe reaction to it, so it has to be taken seriously.
I'm convinced people conflate Gluten and Glutton, so they want to avoid it and say they're allergic.
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Back when I worked at a Pizza Hut we had a regular who would order the same thing 2 or 3 times a week:
*Medium crust
*No cheese
*Heavy sauce
*Meatballs and bacon
*Drizzled in garlic butter
Honestly sounds like nothing more than a stoner meal (and probably still was), but still, he ordered that same thing 2-3 times a week for years. Not to mention that it came out to almost $20 per pie with all the toppings/modifications. Never had a chance to try that combo myself, though, so I maybe shouldn't be talking down on it.
Apart from the meatballs (and maybe bacon) this sounds like a good pizza to me. I like just a little bit of cheese on my pizza and if I put this in the special order it is like they don't believe me and add extra cheese. I also like to go heavy on the sauce and add garlic. Did your place have garlic without butter?
To be very honest I just like Pizzabrot but I think they only sell this in Bavaria (whelp).
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I mean it's a little odd having both lettuce and spinach i guess, but the sandwich sounds totally normal to me., and maybe something I'd order.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Goldmember, but with green instead of gold
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Goldmember, but with green instead of gold
They call him The Green Thumb
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Goldmember, but with green instead of gold
I have an unlimited toppings pizza place near me, and my new GoTo has been my own take on a Hawaiian. Either salami or Canadian bacon (they have no prosciutto), bacon, pineapple, roasted garlic, red onion, and a balsamic drizzle, on top of mozzarella and asiago. I imagine many would consider that weird, but it is divine, and I'm clearly a culinary genius.
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I have an unlimited toppings pizza place near me, and my new GoTo has been my own take on a Hawaiian. Either salami or Canadian bacon (they have no prosciutto), bacon, pineapple, roasted garlic, red onion, and a balsamic drizzle, on top of mozzarella and asiago. I imagine many would consider that weird, but it is divine, and I'm clearly a culinary genius
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I know someone who hates all forms of onion, and is married to someone who likes to cook. If it were me, I think we'd have broken up about a month into the relationship.
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As a cook, I once had a server come back to the kitchen and said the customer complained that thier omelet was "too hot"...
I'd send it back with an empty glass. "This is glass of air. Just pour it onto your omelet and wait about 2 minutes."
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Fries, but only deep fried for a second. Came out like pale, limp, oily sticks of potato. Always ordered it, and it alone, in the afternoon lull about 4pm. Bless you, old man with three teeth.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]This wins the thread for me. shudders
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had a man come in early one morning. 24h place and i was doing prep and nobody else was dining. the waitress tells me he had asked to speak to me which was not usual!
He said he had a weird request and hoped that i would indulge him. He said that he wanted a bunch of scrambled eggs, but wanted me to make them as undercooked as I could.
We discussed the health risk and he said that he understood and he also said that no place had ever gotten them as he liked them.
Well i'm an autistic people pleaser and eggs are my specialty so you know i'm going to make this fellas morning.
I cranked the gas to high and got the pan ripping and just poured a cup of scrambled egg across the hot pan and then right off into a plate. It was about 40% curds swimming in uncooked egg mixture. The waitress asked me wtf but took it out.
On his way out he told me with a beaming smile that it was the first time anyone had ever gotten his eggs the way he liked them. Felt nice.
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when i ordered a double cheese burger with one veggie patty and one meat patty at the hard rock cafe decades ago the waitress later asked me for my first name and home town cuz apparently the cooks liked to write the weird ones up on the wall and i had made it. I would soooooo love to read that wall sometime!
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Any request at five minutes to close.
If you're ordering food at that junction in time, be prepared for anything that may come, it may not be pretty.
