Food service workers, what's the strangest kitchen request you ever saw someone order?
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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
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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.
I have a close friend who is the opposite… I make my scrambled eggs so they’re just BARELY not wet at all. Just curds. Maybe a tiny bit of shine.
I was demanded to cook them… MORE. AND MORE. AND MOREANDMORE. The smell was REVOLTING. There were bits that were nearly black.
They fucking LOVED the eggs. The best eggs they’ve had in a long time, I guess. I had to open the windows.
I ate my barely-shiny eggs in another room.
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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!
That sounds dope actually
I’ve made a BLT wrap with veggie burger added and it was amazing
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I have a close friend who is the opposite… I make my scrambled eggs so they’re just BARELY not wet at all. Just curds. Maybe a tiny bit of shine.
I was demanded to cook them… MORE. AND MORE. AND MOREANDMORE. The smell was REVOLTING. There were bits that were nearly black.
They fucking LOVED the eggs. The best eggs they’ve had in a long time, I guess. I had to open the windows.
I ate my barely-shiny eggs in another room.
to each their own
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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've found garlic can go a long way when you're cooking without onion, though it definitely depends on the recipe.
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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
I'm vegetarian and this sounds like a drunk or high vegetarian feast
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Cool, TIL it's called pica. My grandma apparently had that as she was pregnant with my mom, she would eat pieces of mortar that had fallen off of buildings...
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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
️What's nuts in your recipe ? sounds delicious.
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That sounds dope actually
I’ve made a BLT wrap with veggie burger added and it was amazing
Also it's Hard Rock Cafe, they have a burger with shrimp on it, what's so weird about mix n' matching patties?
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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.
That reminds me of the way Gordon Ramsey said to cook scrambled eggs, at least for the result. Beat it in a bowl with some milk, then cook it with low heat using a spatula (the scrape luquid from the sides perfectly kind, not the pick up flat thing kind) to mix it constantly. Then, when you think it's almost done, it's done.
Eggs end up moist and undercooked looking. It's OK, I wouldn't call it better than the usual scrambled eggs but just different.
Not sure if briefly cooked on very hot pan would give the same result though.
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A burger with nothing else just the pattie.
When my father's dog was getting towards the end of his life, my father would order an extra burger patty, with nothing else for the dog. He figured the dog was close enough to the end of his life, the occasional burger patty wasn't going to cause meaningful harm and it gave the dog a nice treat.
You may have had a customer with a similar situation.
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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.
That’s a legit point, hadn’t thought of that.
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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!
I get black bean veggie burger with bacon and cheese at the cafe at my work and it's fantastic. I put mayo, jalapenos and onion on it, sometimes a little Sriracha.
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I get black bean veggie burger with bacon and cheese at the cafe at my work and it's fantastic. I put mayo, jalapenos and onion on it, sometimes a little Sriracha.
Man, that actually sounds really good.
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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.
I know someone who is allergic to garlic. Sometimes I wonder how sad her life must be.
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That reminds me of the way Gordon Ramsey said to cook scrambled eggs, at least for the result. Beat it in a bowl with some milk, then cook it with low heat using a spatula (the scrape luquid from the sides perfectly kind, not the pick up flat thing kind) to mix it constantly. Then, when you think it's almost done, it's done.
Eggs end up moist and undercooked looking. It's OK, I wouldn't call it better than the usual scrambled eggs but just different.
Not sure if briefly cooked on very hot pan would give the same result though.
And he uses loads of butter for his scrambled eggs. And they are wonderful!
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That reminds me of the way Gordon Ramsey said to cook scrambled eggs, at least for the result. Beat it in a bowl with some milk, then cook it with low heat using a spatula (the scrape luquid from the sides perfectly kind, not the pick up flat thing kind) to mix it constantly. Then, when you think it's almost done, it's done.
Eggs end up moist and undercooked looking. It's OK, I wouldn't call it better than the usual scrambled eggs but just different.
Not sure if briefly cooked on very hot pan would give the same result though.
If it's the same one i saw there was creme fraiche in there too. He also kept taking it off of the heat so it didn't cook too fast. Like 15 seconds on and 15 seconds off
