Food service workers, what's the strangest kitchen request you ever saw someone order?
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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.
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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.
He would prolly enjoy Finland. Our eggs are safe to eat raw.
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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.
Describing literally my exact relationship, albeit only engaged (so there's still time to change my mind lol). She despises onions in any form, the smell of them, the sound, specifically, of them being cut, and describes unpeeled onions as looking like "tumors."
Funny enough, she's gone for the weekend and I made myself a big crock pot of French onion soup yesterday morning, finished it tonight. 5 onions total consumed in ~36hrs. I love onions.
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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
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Describing literally my exact relationship, albeit only engaged (so there's still time to change my mind lol). She despises onions in any form, the smell of them, the sound, specifically, of them being cut, and describes unpeeled onions as looking like "tumors."
Funny enough, she's gone for the weekend and I made myself a big crock pot of French onion soup yesterday morning, finished it tonight. 5 onions total consumed in ~36hrs. I love onions.
I honestly don't know how I'd cook if I couldn't use onions. I'd be paralyzed, like my entire inventory had been rendered null, like removing the Keystone from an archway.
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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.
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease. Wheat allergy is different. With celiac disease, you'll "just" cause long term damage to your small intestine.
With a wheat allergy, a person could have an anaphylactic reaction. Because allergies are different.
It's like how lactose intolerance is different from a dairy allergy. Although confusing them is quite understandable.
There's also a lot of increasing evidence or NCGS, non-celiac gluten sensitivity.
2 years ago I thought it was just a 40-year old Karen fad, then I read about NCGS, went on a gluten and casein free diet (no gluten products or any sort of dairy) and it solved the stomach issues and sort of physical anxiety I had had all my life.
I'd like to try a double blind to see how accurate I am in recognising when. But for instance I could genuinely never binge drink, but now that I've stopped drinking beer and am off gluten and stomach feels fine, I'm able to drink and enjoy red wines. A bit too much, actually.
But I exposed myself every few months or so and every time the same. Am currently on the toilet after having eaten gluten and dairy yesterday and it's not as painful as it used to be every day before going on this diet. But the poop is orange and floats. So clearly affected.
So yah. A fee years ago I would've mocked someone who's avoiding gluten like that. Now I won't. And I do know the "I can have a little" thing, gluten is just so bloody addictive. Celiac disease is a spectrum, so people with light celiac disease could feasibly eat a tiny bit of gluten every now and then. It's just the collective effect of having it in your diet daily which causes the long term damage and inflammation.
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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."
I quoted James Earl Jones in Coming to America, "LET THEM WAIT!".
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I quoted James Earl Jones in Coming to America, "LET THEM WAIT!".
Actually, by the time it's been carried back and forth to a restaurant kitchen, assuming it wasn't empty, it would probably be pretty cooled off.
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She was not pregnant, but she may have been suffering from some deficiency - nutritional or otherwise
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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.
Sounds pretty good to me. Might try to get my local place to try this.
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They call him The Green Thumb
I prefer The Green Inferno
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Yeah my wife just got diagnosed with celiac and some restaurants take it seriously. And some make her violently ill.
It’s been a treat for her
And people who claim to have sensitivity and then eat a piece of cake with normal flour piss me off. Making it hard for the actual celiacs to get taken seriously
On the other hand, if it weren't for all the normies trying a fad diet, there likely wouldn't be as many gluten-free options available.
I get what you're saying, though. It's like the rest of the world is crying wolf and your wife has to deal with the consequences.
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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.
gawd I love anchovies but I’m a salad bitch
gimme a million anchovies in my Caesar
