Tomato Terror

[Rapscallion]

I've just found this forum tonight, and have been enjoying reading all the threads. But what made me to decide to register was so I could squeak excitedly about EricKei's avatar.
It's Mr Fish!!! *bounces about in a ridiculous manner*

Well, yes, but he's run out of lasers.

For now.

Rapscallion

[Merriweather]

An example, I love a "Full English" every now and then but dislike mushrooms and hate baked beans, I will never order without asking for them to be left off\replaced. If it turns up with mushrooms, not a huge issue, partition them off to the side of the plate and we're sorted (as long as I got my extra tomato) but beans? That plate is going back for replacement "whatever the beans touched"(including the plate) - them things are just plain nasty

Wandering off onto a side track here, I'm homesick, I miss a full English breakfast, sigh. Not that I ahd them as a regular thing, but the near-decade we lived in Britain, we traveled all we possibly could, and when staying at a B&B, we usually had such a hearty breakfast all we needed was a snack to keep us going til dinner, no lunch necessary.

It was funny, though, the variations of what was considereed a full-english in different parts of the UK. Love the eggs, mushrooms & tomatoes, which were pretty standard all over. Love the bacon, too, better than American bacon. Hubby always got my sausage, as it doesn't agree with me. Luckily, the only time we encountered black pudding was in Ireland (sorry to anyone who likes it, but the very thought of it - ick). The beans were definitely a regional thing, we only encountered them once or twice (I'm not opposed to them, though not being used to it, they don't seem breakfasty to me). And while I preferred the more healthy approaches (grilled vs fried tomatoes, etc) I can handle a bit of fried (eggs, etc.) in my breakfast. But I did draw the line in a few areas where fried bread was the norm - I'll have toast, please, thank you.

[Cia]

I don't like cilantro - it tastes like fish to me. I just wish the two Mexican restaraurants I eat at didn't put so much of it in their pico de gallo. It's a little disturbing to be enjoying your chicken taco salad when all of a sudden the unlovely taste of fish pops up. Ick. I like the taste of fish but not in my pico.

[EricKei]

Cia: Fishy cilantro? o_O Maybe they have an odd species of it or something. Sounds nasty.

Apple: Agreed 100%. I order beef Med/MR knowing full well that it will come out with red in the center. I just don't order rare or "blue"/(meaning, "just kinda wave the steak at the coals and plate it") because I can't stand to have the middle actually cold. ... Med Well really should be pink in the middle tho, not red. If there's more red than pink, that's plain ol' Medium.

It's Mr Fish!!!

*chuckles* Glad I could inspire you, so to speak ^_^ I just changed it to that a few days ago (when the comic page linked below came out). More importantly, Welcome to CS! We're all friendly folks here!


comic credit : http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/1212 (the image in the header is how the character in the red shades normally looks. Currently in the middle of an... odd... storyline. The comic itself is a parody of...well...just hit the link and read the title. It says it all )

[PepperElf]

I don't have any allergies but I detest walnuts. So if I'm looking a cookie or brownie, I will ask if they have nuts. When they say they aren't sure, I will say ok, and choose something else. I've been asked, oh, are you allergic? NOpe, but I'm perfectly happy with someting else if what I wanted has nuts since they're gross

although i have no nut allergies and quite frankly love nuts... i do not tolerate them in my chocolate chip cookies or brownies.

well walnuts at least. if you want to put hazel nuts in there i might reconsider

especially for white chocolate chip macadamia nuts. i like both the chocolates and the nuts, but i consider the nuts to be a gimmick to make the cookie look like it has more chocolate than it really does. so ... no nuts!




and wait... I thought this was Mr. Fish.
(aka a silly fish puppet Moby pulled out for some videos to promote his albums)

I don't like cilantro - it tastes like fish to me. I just wish the two Mexican restaraurants I eat at didn't put so much of it in their pico de gallo. It's a little disturbing to be enjoying your chicken taco salad when all of a sudden the unlovely taste of fish pops up. Ick. I like the taste of fish but not in my pico.

I never thought of it as fish but, we had some fresh that my BF added to shrimp veracruz. i found that i just didn't like the aftertaste of it

[hinakiba777]

SC: Fully cooked!
Me: So well done then?
SC: No! Rare but fully cooked!

I took them to the kitchen and told them to do them well done. The customer later described them as “perfect”

See it's people like this that make it impossible to get a perfect medium steak. So many people want well done, but call it medium, medium rare, or RARE. So I go to get a medium steak at certain places and it's over cooked. Then there is nothing to do. I mean, an undercooked steak you just cook it more. An overcooked steak cannot be fixed. And I sure as hell not wasting a perfectly good steak just because it's a little over done. I don't enjoy it as much as I would have, but it's better than knowing they had to toss the steak.

One time though, I got a perfect medium steak that had sear lines blacker than obsidian. So despited being pretty much perfect, every bite tasted like burning.

SC: There’s a t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-TOMATO in my burger!
Me: Yes...
SC: Takeitawayohmygodgetridofit! Noooooo!

This is pretty much exactly what happened one time when my brother came home with burgers and mine had ketchup on it. I am pretty much phobic about ketchup. I howled and screamed and cried. But two importat points need to be made.
1) I would NEVER kick up that kind of fuss in a restaurant. I am smart enough to verify the ingredients and just make sure the stuff I don't want isn't on it. And if there is something I don't like, I calmly ask for it to be corrected. Though it makes me sad, because I know in some cases it will have to be tossed.
2) I ate the damn burger. I hated it. I cried. I was very sad and very annoyed. But short of sending my brother out again to get me a new one, there was nothing to be done. And again, No point wasting perfectly good food.

SC: God! I’m not really allergic! I just don’t like them!

Why do people do that?

I have food allergies, and I actually can't eat certain foods without getting horrible ill or going into anaphylaxis. But so many people claim allergies, that certain people at restaurants I've been at don't take my requests to heart. Which results in them preparing a beautiful meal that I promptly have to ask them to dispose.

I really hate wasting food. And it is SUCH a waste when it would have been edible they hadn't prepared it with the allergen. If it's premade, I just don't order it.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

See it's people like this that make it impossible to get a perfect medium steak. So many people want well done, but call it medium, medium rare, or RARE. So I go to get a medium steak at certain places and it's over cooked. Then there is nothing to do. I mean, an undercooked steak you just cook it more. An overcooked steak cannot be fixed. And I sure as hell not wasting a perfectly good steak just because it's a little over done. I don't enjoy it as much as I would have, but it's better than knowing they had to toss the steak.

One time though, I got a perfect medium steak that had sear lines blacker than obsidian. So despited being pretty much perfect, every bite tasted like burning.

In this case, try describing what you would like rather than using "standard terms." For me, I prefer my burgers medium, so I'll often say "pink, warm middle" (as to me that is medium.)

Medium-rare is pink, cool middle. If the waitress asks for me to clarify I'll lengthen my explanation.

Why do people do that?

I have food allergies, and I actually can't eat certain foods without getting horrible ill or going into anaphylaxis. But so many people claim allergies, that certain people at restaurants I've been at don't take my requests to heart.

This rubs me the wrong way. Even if people who are allergic are lying, restaurants should take it at face value just on the CHANCE that the person does have a fatal allergy to said item. Even if that includes not allowing them to order the food in the first place if the item is premade.

[rapana1]

The Fella loves the big breakfast at the local cafe. Free-range eggs, paddock-reared bacon, sausages, tomatoes, hash browns, toast, mushrooms, and black pudding. Icky black pudding!!!

I love coriander. Hated it as a teen when I first tried it, but I hated olives then, too. Love them as well now.

I love the webcomic Manly Guys Doing Manly Things! It's one of my favourites. I do dearly love Mr. Fish and his trainer Jared.
"I didn't know..." http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/1112

[Ghel]

I like steak prepared almost any way, unless it's bland or dry. I normally order my steak medium, and if it comes out anywhere between rare and medium well, I'm ok with it. If the server asks if I want steak sauce, my standard response is "I hope not," because I only want steak sauce if the steak is inedible without it. And if that's the case, I don't order steak at that restaurant again.

[Pixilated]

First--Oh yes, yes we can tell you're full time again. You poor thing! Now, as to the stories:

1) Another idiot that wouldn't know the difference between rare and well if the cow itself walked over and told them! Why is this a difficult concept?

*snip*

I ordered Steak Tartare at a restaurant many years ago. This was a restaurant in which you pre-ordered your meal, at least 24 hours in advance, and they would make it up specially for you (except soups and desserts). When they set it down in front of me, they looked a bit wary ... turned out a previous customer had also ordered it, but when she walked in, she'd said, "Oh, I forgot to tell you, I want my Steak Tartare well done!"

Ugh! Sour cream?!

I cannot stand sour cream. Even the thought of tasting it makes me gag. A kitchen co-worker at the pub was experimenting with some chili, and asked me to taste it. I asked if he had added sour cream. He insisted he hadn't. I could tell from the second I tasted it he had, and I had to spit the whole thing out.

A good friend of mine has exactly the same reaction to it as you do. I love it, but I think it's an acquired taste (also, I've been eating it as far back as I can remember, so that probably makes a difference too, LOL).

[Scorpodael]

I ordered Steak Tartare at a restaurant many years ago. This was a restaurant in which you pre-ordered your meal, at least 24 hours in advance, and they would make it up specially for you (except soups and desserts). When they set it down in front of me, they looked a bit wary ... turned out a previous customer had also ordered it, but when she walked in, she'd said, "Oh, I forgot to tell you, I want my Steak Tartare well done!"

Steak Tartare... Well done... ... "I want my raw steak cooked ALL the way through!"

[PepperElf]

2) I ate the damn burger. I hated it. I cried. I was very sad and very annoyed. But short of sending my brother out again to get me a new one, there was nothing to be done. And again, No point wasting perfectly good food.

I'm betting he was a bit more careful about what he brought home after that. or hoping he was at least.

[Tora]

Can you guys tell I’m full time at the pub again?

Rare but Well Done

I live in a region of Canada that prides itself on the quality of its beef. There are numerous steak houses here and even at the cheap ones you can get a decently cooked steak. I honestly think that if this kind of idiocy showed up in one of these restaurants, the SC in question would either be laughed out of the place or get every staff member there giving them some variation on "Are you f*cking kidding me?"

On a personal note, I love steak like I love my husband and I am morally offended by badly cooked meat. I will eat anything from rare to well-done, but I hate it when someone chars the everloving crap out of a once-delicious cut, depriving it of all moisture and flavour, then calls it "well-done". No. I am not a dog with a stomach problem, do not feed me charcoal and call it steak.

[Tora]

Ugh! Sour cream?!

I cannot stand sour cream. Even the thought of tasting it makes me gag. A kitchen co-worker at the pub was experimenting with some chili, and asked me to taste it. I asked if he had added sour cream. He insisted he hadn't. I could tell from the second I tasted it he had, and I had to spit the whole thing out.

I used to work at a pie and sandwich place that made its own pie. Three of the flavours used sour cream in the mix. The amazing thing was you actually could not taste the sour cream, but the pie filing was thick and creamy and delicious. Then they topped it off with this brown-sugary crumble stuff. I always loved the Strawberry Rhubarb one.

[Andara Bledin]

It's especially irritating when someone throws something (like cilantro which I have a mild allergy to - it floods my palette with the taste of soap) and claims that "I won't even taste it."

I hear people talking about supertasters tending to taste soap when they taste cilantro, but I've never had that. To me it's just this super-overpowering foulness that will inspire me to immediately spit out whatever happens to be in my mouth.

Ok, I can see a parent trying that on a stubborn five year old in some cases (wouldn't have worked on me, though) but on another adult? And just cause they don't say anything doesn't mean they didn't taste it, just means they have more manners than the jerks who try something like that.

My youngest aunt did this to my middle aunt, once. My middle aunt doesn't like pepper. At all. Ever.

My middle aunt, wanting to know how much she didn't like it (and trying to determine if she was just being difficult over it), put a pinch of white pepper into a big pot of stew. Needless to say, middle aunt knew there was pepper in the pot. Not enough to ruin the food for her (which is why the youngest aunt put only a very small amount of a rather weak version in), but enough to determine that she really truly does not like pepper.

I don't like carrots, my wife loves carrots. If what I eat comes with carrots, she will eat them. There, sorted.Someone else suggested it, but... hard of hearing, maybe?

The boyfriend and I do something similar with our salads. He gets all the tomatoes and I get all the cucumber. One of these days we'll remember that neither of us likes onion and have them not include it at all. >_>

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