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Food Disappointment
So...I have been trying to eat better and have been working out but last night I forgot to set the meat out I needed to defrost so that I could marinate it this morning before going to class. Dinner tonight = epic failure. Since we had leftovers last night and hadn't eaten out in a long time we decided to splurge and go out for dinner. My favorite food is steak and since we don't have a BBQ we don't get to eat it that often so we decided to go to a steakhouse. I get my little steak with a salad and steamed veggies (so happy that I passed on the loaded baked potatoe and french fries). I go to cut into my delicious smelling steak...and it was pink...not like red but pretty pink. Some people like pink but I can't eat anything if it's pink (I think bad chidhood experience) and it was supposed to be well done. DH encourages me to ask them to put it back on the grill, which I have never done before so I felt super nervous and just felt bad. The waitress was super nice and took it back and brought it back a little bit later. I was so excited to cut into my delicious looking steak...and it's RED. Like straight up cold in the middle and completely covered in blood. Cutting it in half literally covered my plate with red blood. Completely disappointing evening.
So after that long story...what is your worst food experience in a restaurant?
Re: Food Disappointment
Oh that's disgusting. I don't eat beef so I'm super grossed out about it.
My worst experience was at a restaurant that doesn't put descriptions on the menu for a lot of things. I ordered the shrimp pasta...sounds pretty self-explanatory. It came out and had green olives, black olives, feta cheese, madarine oranges, and peppers. I looked at it and said "is this a joke? I'm not eating this." I was told that I could get something else, but would still have to pay for the pasta. So I did and later wrote a letter to which I never got a response. Needless to say, I refuse to go back.
MIL thought we should have our rehearsal dinner there. After several times of explaining why I don't eat there, she still kept pushing it. And that's a whole 'nother story that got ugly.
This isn't my worst restaurant story, but very recent. My mom and I went out to lunch and I was munching away on my salad, and I was about to spear some on my fork and there was a dead moth on my lettuce!! I wasn't too grossed out, *** happens, but still. We both ended up getting free lunches.
Plus, I was a server for years and years. I think people would be grossed out by some things that happen in restaurants.
ETA: That does suck about your steak.
I really love a good steak too (though the pink and the red would have been great for me - going to miss that medium rare when I get pregnant).
You've heard what I've done, not what I've been through.
If you were in my shoes, you'd fall the first step."
Several years ago, I was at the favorite restaurant of my then-significant other. I ordered a salad that I had had several times before. The menu listed all the things that were on it and it was my favorite thing to order. On this occasion, it came out with chopped green olives on it. I despise green olives, the taste, the smell, the texture. Green olives are my nemesis.
So I sent it back and explained that not only are green olives not listed on the menu, but I'd had it several times and they were never included. Please make me a new one. And please tell the cook that I will know if he just pulls them off the salad and sends the same one back because I'm super sensitive to the taste & smell.
A few minutes later, the salad comes back and sure enough, they pulled them off instead of making me a new one! I was still working in the restaurant industry at the time and was so pissed...I had been really nice about this ridiculous creative bug that the cook had that day. I got a manager, and finally a new salad, that I had them then put in a to-go box cuz we had to go. And I don't think we paid for it. And I also don't think I ever went back because that's the last memory I have of that restaurant.
Yep.... Adam worked in restaurants from the time he turned 16 all the way up until I met him. He's told me not to ever send anything back because he's seen the disgusting stuff that goes on in kitchens... Not quite as bad as the movie "Waiting", but pretty close. He's seen people spit in food, drop food on the floor and then put it back on the plate, people with cuts all over their hands handling the food, people not washing their hands... We very rarely go out to eat anymore.
We're still trying to find a decent Chinese place in our new town. A few weeks ago, we tried a new Chinese restaurant. It's one of those ones that has booths but looks like it's primarily a take-out place.
Well... there was an adult couple behind the counter. The lady was taking the orders and the man was cooking. But the "servers" were their two children-- and I mean CHILDREN. The boy was maybe 8, tops, and the girl was about 5. The boy took our drink orders, and my Diet Coke was room temperature and completely flat. The girl (who had been picking at her teeth with her fingers) brought us our silverware. I put hand sanitizer all over my hands and rubbed down my fork before I'd use it.
We both had slight stomach issues the next day. The man was very nice while he was ringing us up, but that doesn't really make up for anything. I still sort of feel like we should have reported these people for child labor or something. My parents own their own business and my brother and I did a lot of "helping," but it was always an "I'm bored" and Mom responding "Then here, go dust" sort of thing. I couldn't tell if that's what was going on here or if these are these kids' regular jobs.
This makes me want to never eat out again...
Hmm...one situation that stands out in my mind was my 21st birthday. My bf at the time took me out to a really really fancy restaurant in our city. This place is basically THE restaurant, and a place that we really couldn't afford to be eating. A regular meal for two is easily into the triple digits, and we went all out that night with appetizers, entree, wine and dessert. We had just been served our dessert when my bf suddenly got this look on his face, like he was kind of in shock and didn't know what to do. I was all "What, what is it?" But he didn't want to tell me. (Backstory: I have a HUGE fear of rodents. HUGE.) Finally he said "I just saw a mouse". Now, I have worked in bars and restaurants, and I know that there is not a restaurant in the world that doesn't have mice, but we were in the dining room, not the kitchen. I turned around (I was facing the wall) and saw, not one, but literally TEN mice, running underneath the table in the center of the room. There was a group of about 8 people sitting at that table, and they were laughing about it! I totally freaked and completely lost my appetite. I told him that I wanted to leave, and as I said that, A MOUSE RAN OVER MY FOOT. I lost my frickin mind, and burst into tears. Like, sobbing. (Yes, I know...shut up). At this point, our waiter came over and asked what was wrong. I was like "Are you completely kidding me??? A mouse just ran over my foot, and you're asking me what is wrong???"
We ended up being ushered out of the restaurant, we had waiters grabbing our coats, ringing up our bill (yes, we still had to PAY), and we were even charged for the dessert that neither of us had touched! We were basically thrown out of the place. And yes, I was crying, but I was not even making a scene. The other customers didn't even notice, because I wasn't being loud, and I wasn't screaming or anything. In retrospect, I should have. I have never been more pissed off, and my bf ended up being soooooo mad that he spent a few hundred dollars on a meal that ended so negatively.
One time my ex had what looked like pieces of a brillo pad in his mashed potatoes at a steakhouse. I just asked the waiter "Does that look like brillo pad to you??" hahah and I think we got half off his meal. I don't usually complain about food, I'm easy to please, and I always order "safe" stuff that I know I'll like.
also I'm pretty sure the juice that comes out of your steak when you cut it, is not actually blood. It's just steak juice.
Nothing to be afraid of!
Fact. The majority of the blood is drained from the cattle during slaughter so there is only a small amount remaining in the muscle tissue.
Me too!!! Or as some less classy people in Alabama would say "just take the horns off and wipe it's a$$"
There is a small little cafe in our area that we've been to about a billion times. And my family still goes there from time to time cause it's an easy place for all of us to meet. Anyways one night my mom and I had both ordered burgers and both ordered them medium well. Normally I cut my burger in half but for some reason I didn't this time. Mom and I both bit into our burgers at the same time and low and behold... they were raw in the middle. Cold, red, ground beef raw. Now don't get me wrong, I eat my steaks med (med-rare if it's prime rib or rib eye) and so the red doesn't bother me like it used to, but this was GROUND BEEF... not a steak. So they took both of our burgers back and made new ones. This time I cut mine in half... raw... again. Mom's was fine though... weird. Needless to say, I asked for an order of mashed potatoes and that's all I ate.
I work in a kitchen and I do see sanitation practices (or lack there of) that I disapprove of from time to time... but I'm the first one to send something back if it's not right. And I am ALWAYS super polite about it. I'm sorry, but if you didn't make my food properly to order then you need to fix it.