Food service workers, what's the strangest kitchen request you ever saw someone order?
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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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ïžWhen I was in my 20s, I would ask for two whole hands of jalapeños on a sub. Well, my catcherâs-mitt-sized hands, that is. Along with all the normal fixinâs. Like, the jalapeños would make up more than half of each subâs non-bread contents.
And I would frequently eat two of these monstrosities in a single sitting.
I would often have the staff put more and more on because as Filipino ladies, their hands were tiny AF, and they couldnât imagine eating subs like that. So they were always starting out with 10-20 slices scattered along the entire sub and I was like, âNO. Grab an entire fistful. As much as you can grab. Put that on one end. Then repeat three more times along the sub.â
I mean, I could likely still have that amount of jalapeños on a sub. But I would be stuffed after just one sub, these days. The hollow leg of my youth vanished during my fifth decade, and Iâve been inconsolable ever since.
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When I was in my 20s, I would ask for two whole hands of jalapeños on a sub. Well, my catcherâs-mitt-sized hands, that is. Along with all the normal fixinâs. Like, the jalapeños would make up more than half of each subâs non-bread contents.
And I would frequently eat two of these monstrosities in a single sitting.
I would often have the staff put more and more on because as Filipino ladies, their hands were tiny AF, and they couldnât imagine eating subs like that. So they were always starting out with 10-20 slices scattered along the entire sub and I was like, âNO. Grab an entire fistful. As much as you can grab. Put that on one end. Then repeat three more times along the sub.â
I mean, I could likely still have that amount of jalapeños on a sub. But I would be stuffed after just one sub, these days. The hollow leg of my youth vanished during my fifth decade, and Iâve been inconsolable ever since.
Damn. That doesn't sound too "weird," per se, but I do mourn for your digestive tract.
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He would prolly enjoy Finland. Our eggs are safe to eat raw.
They're actually safe raw in the US as well. I mean, there's technically a risk, but it's literally a 0.00005% chance of an egg having salmonella.
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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.
Sounds great. Maybe he either didn't like cheese, or it was too much dairy for him.
Pizza places never use enough sauce.
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They're actually safe raw in the US as well. I mean, there's technically a risk, but it's literally a 0.00005% chance of an egg having salmonella.
Oh sure, I'm sure some eggs are safe to eat draw, but in Finland government regulation means that all Finnish eggs are.
Slightly different, but I see your point.
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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.
I've heard some people have issues with it because they actually can't have it, but the people doing it because it's trendy are a lot more numerous and sometimes people assume they're the same, and they can have a little. Basically, it makes them have to be a lot more cautious. Sure, they have more options, but a lot of those options may not actually be safe.
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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
That doesn't sound weird at all, but it does sound totally delicious so I'm upvoting anyway
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Oh sure, I'm sure some eggs are safe to eat draw, but in Finland government regulation means that all Finnish eggs are.
Slightly different, but I see your point.
Government regulation guarantees that every egg is supposed to be safe. Your weather has a lot to do with there being less salmonella risk, though. It's harder to keep in check in countries where it's warm. Your seasons are a fair amount cooler than the US.
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Government regulation guarantees that every egg is supposed to be safe. Your weather has a lot to do with there being less salmonella risk, though. It's harder to keep in check in countries where it's warm. Your seasons are a fair amount cooler than the US.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Were also really into bureaucracy and there's only 5 million of us, so it's much easier keeping actually tight regulation and high quality control.
Hell we had health inspectors come check my supply group when I was in the army (my as in I was the leader). We had been set up in a literal fucking swamp and a govt health worker random inspection came to take a swab out of one of the hands of the cooks. Luckily I managed to wrangle the only guy with semi clean hands to be the one who was tested. But yeah we made actual food for a few hundred people and the health standard the army has are like 10-15% higher than in civil life. Like the internal temp of the food must reach 85C instead of 75C etc.
But yeah my main point being it's much easier for us to boast about tight and well kept regulation as we're so much smaller, so much less to govern and such a different way. No federal government needs to fight with states etc.
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Were also really into bureaucracy and there's only 5 million of us, so it's much easier keeping actually tight regulation and high quality control.
Hell we had health inspectors come check my supply group when I was in the army (my as in I was the leader). We had been set up in a literal fucking swamp and a govt health worker random inspection came to take a swab out of one of the hands of the cooks. Luckily I managed to wrangle the only guy with semi clean hands to be the one who was tested. But yeah we made actual food for a few hundred people and the health standard the army has are like 10-15% higher than in civil life. Like the internal temp of the food must reach 85C instead of 75C etc.
But yeah my main point being it's much easier for us to boast about tight and well kept regulation as we're so much smaller, so much less to govern and such a different way. No federal government needs to fight with states etc.
Yeah. The US is pretty much just an oligarchy with some protections stuff still in place from the past. The masses are easily swayed by propaganda, and the rich can afford to buy a lot more of that.
