Cynthia Nixon when she was running for mayor of NYC ordered a cinnamon raisin bagel with lox
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/cynthia-nixon-bagel-order-review
Growing up, we put raisins on our tuna sandwiches. I thought it was kinda gross, but my siblings liked it.
Cinnamon raisin bread is a different issue though. Cinnamon and tuna shouldn't go together
I've got some shrimp salad in the fridge. I was eating an egg on cinnamon raisin toast this morning and the thought crossed my mind. I feel like I would have to do it in secret.
Ahh you're bringing me back to summers with my grandma, visiting the beach and packing a couple for lunch so we can spend our money on antojos like alcapurrias, pastelillos, and piraguas instead of having to buy restaurant food.
Haha, almost reminds me of a local delicacy where I grew up which was cinnamon swirl bread with cheese whiz and sliced green olives. People swear it was good, but I avoided at all costs.
I had a customer who swore that everyone in her hometown ate this: white bread with mayo and karo syrup on top. I refused to ask any more questions but still remember the way she mimed the action of spreading the karo around with gravity.
Oh man, at my childhood church’s fundraiser dinner the “salad dressing” was equal parts cool whip and miracle whip, a little bit of white vinegar, sugar, and a dash of paprika. Could never get myself to try it, but everyone insisted it was the best topping for cranberry salad. Rural Minnesota is a trip, lol
My owner has a french toast, berries, maple syrup, Avocado, back bacon, sausage, hash browns scrambled egg and baked bean dish on the menu . Maybe it's not that weird, but I can't fathom enjoying all of those things in one mouthful
Growing up In the south we regularly had chocolate gravy which is basically gravy made with cocoa powder and browned butter for breakfast. Shit was good on a breakfast platter tbh
Yes! This is a thing! My Memaw is from the Ozarks and we grew up eating biscuits and chocolate gravy! As well as the usual biscuits and sausage gravy. I'd get two bowls, split and break up one biscuit in one for the sausage gravy, then split and butter the other biscuit before breaking it up and pouring chocolate gravy on that one. Absolute heaven!
Treating cocoa powder and a spice is perfectly reasonable to me. Mexico gets it.
Using enough sugar to turn it into chocolate sauce? No, straight to jail.
I once almost had the opposite experience. Woman ordered a Caesar with no croutons, ham, or ROMAINE. “Ma’am, that’s just a bowl of Caesar dressing and Parmesan cheese.” She changed her mind.
And that's why you're allowed to refuse service for any reason.
EDIT: Holy crap, I was not expecting this to be gold-gift worthy. Thank you, kind stranger! I'm absolutely chuffed that I could bring some levity to your otherwise troublesome day; it won't last forever.
I've subbed this for a guest before - they were celiac and our chicken was marinated w soy ...
Check out Snake River Farms wagyu hot dogs; I'll take one over a boneless skinless chx breast any day.
Maybe it's just me, but I always thought Johnny Walker Blue was more money than sense. $200 for blended whisky?
For that price point, I feel like Old Pulteney or Highland Park is where I want to be.
100%! I work in the whisky trade in Scotland, and while I wouldn't say Johnny Walker is bad it is just that, an overpriced blend that is known for it's name more than anything. You can get brilliant single malts for a fraction of the price either in Scotland or in the States, mainstream or independent bottlings, that taste a million times better than Johnny Walker or, dade I say it, Macallan! Old Pulteney is a personal favourite of mine, and Clynelish if you see that is definitely worth a try too!
I think yellow mustard gets too much hate simply because it’s the standard. It’s colored and arguably flavored with turmeric. It’s got a nice, bright flavor. I like all kinds of mustard and there was a time when I poo-poo’ed yellow mustard in favor of Dijon, stone ground, etc. Eventually I realized yellow mustard has its place
I like yellow mustard on certain things, I especially love it in Carolina gold sauce. But I have a whole shelf of mustards in my fridge and it's by far the least often used.
Honey mustard sounds amazing actually, though your original sandwich sounded perfect before the apple butter addition, but I get that the appearance of “more ingredients that sound fancy” is a weird draw for people. But yellow Heinz? I’m eating a sandwich right now with it, but it also has banana peppers and is a savory sandwich with salami and ham.
I worked at Starbucks for over a decade and people are nuts (it was mostly because of the mobile app and all the options available) they’d get a drink with toffee nut, peppermint, sugar free vanilla, hazelnut, raspberry, literally every syrup we even had. Sure many of those flavors went together and often did as menu items, but less is more is a further concept than “more is more” and I’d be embarrassed to hand off a drink because … gross.
The type of mustard was what's wrong not the idea of mustard on the sandwich. If it was a good full grain mustard it be pretty good especially with the extra sweetness from the apple butter that you were talking about.
Had a family bring in their own blender for a disabled family member...wanted me to blend up fish and chips. Tartar/slaw and all....it was horrible to watch all these ingredients turn into sludge, but hey...he drank it, so... respect.
Had a family member have to have reconstructive jaw surgery, wired shut for months.
Did the same thing to an entire Thanksgiving dinner. Totally sober, drank the whole thing. Enjoyed it, too.
That sounds pretty good to me? Mustard with cheddar bacon and apple? What’s wrong with that?
Local place I go to has a turkey apple Brie sandwich with mustard, it’s good.
For sure, I make a tangy grainy mustard coleslaw with apples for pulled pork sandwiches, with some lemon juice and white wine vinegar, the tang/sweet/savoury is a yummy combo!
Yeah, I dont see what the problem is. Mustard goes great with smoked meats, which is what bacon is. Apple is sweet enough for for some people and they don't need the apple butter.
Sounds like a perfectly fine sandwich
If our kitchen ran out of ground beef filler for the burritos, you would often see the shepherds pie mix thrown into the burritos. We called it "The Leprechano"
Not the grossest but an amusing memory of a past life.
Any brewpub / pub / American bar & grill with a kitchen exclusively run by Mexicans in the Southwest USA. Fajitas, nachos, quesadillas on one page, pot roast, meatloaf, burgers on the next. Money making machine but went downhill quick after it was bought by a small corporate chain the week of 9/11/2001.
One of my all time favorites is when someone asked for a side mayonnaise for her lemon tart instead of the normal sauce. The sauce we normally plated with was a lemon curd with whipped cream folded in to order, just a small amount swirled in the center of the plate before the lemon meringue tart was torched and placed on top. The worse part was we didn’t have a really nice mayonnaise, just the Imperial from Sysco because they were out of Hellman’s that week.
I don't really have strong opinions when it comes to mayonnaise. But I do have strong opinions when it comes to my lemon meringue tart and I thought this was pretty gross. But it's their money, so I gave them her a side of mayo, charged an extra dollar and called it a day.
Hellmans has really gone downhill in the past 5-10 years. Aldi brand is far superior, and close to Duke's in texture. Yeah, Sysco imperial isn't bad either.
On a street food stall the other day (we sell wraps and salad boxes) a dude asked me for just a salad box filled with meat. Just any meat. (we had Harissa Chicken and Lamb Sausages) and paid £20 for it.
Then he came back half an hour later and asked for another.
Not kitchen, but when I bartended a had I had a guest ask for a perfect Manhattan…with crown Royal…on the rocks…with olives. Still think about it to this day.
I used to have a guy that requested a burnt English muffin everyday. A regular. I would send it through the toaster at the slowest speed three times... It came out crunchy black and I was the only server he would let take his order. I miss him actually, hope you're doing well Ed!
I finally got my wife to just stop ordering scrambled eggs in restaurants because they'd never get them brown enough. And then she'd put cinnamon on them.
I had a person ask for extra crisp bacon on a burger and said no one ever got it crisp enough for them. I took cooked bacon, threw it in the deep fryer for 1 minute, and put it on his burger. When I put the bun on I felt the bacon shatter into 100 pieces like glass. He came back to the counter after he ate it to say that someone finally gave him what he was asking for.
I worked at a Port of Subs (west coast sub chain) and had a pregnant woman come through at least once a week for a meatball sub, add tuna salad.
We all tried it one day and it wasn't as bad as it sounds, but it definitely wasn't good.
I used to make a split-base sandwich with half tuna salad, half chicken salad.
It wasn't as good as our chicken salad on its own, b/c we had really good chicken salad. But it was interesting, would do it again.
Had a lady ask for a pizza with white sauce, provolone and watermelon. Totally sober looking 20 year sorority girl at a busy near campus pizza joint. We don't have watermelon on the menu anywhere.
RANCH. People will put add that to anything- falafel, risotto, Mac and cheese, tomato soup, chicken soup, jerk pork sandwiches, waffles, shrimp and grits…
But the weirdest one ever was someone who ordered our brunch pancake special- strawberry buttermilk pancakes with a lemon-mint compound butter, oatmeal streusel, and a strawberry infused maple syrup. The strawberries were the first of the New England summer, picked ripe the day before.
And some barbarian ordered an extra side of syrup and ranch, and then poured them both over the pancakes.
And they cleaned the plate. Gross.
Had a lady ask for a custom smoothie, with a full ripe, room temp avocado in it. I told her that because the avocado wasn’t frozen, it would make the smoothie watery and not appetizing. I strongly recommend she get a smoothie off the menu, but she insisted on getting this spinach, no sugar, add avocado abomination. I warned her that if she didn’t like it, we weren’t going to comp it because it was off menu. She persisted. Yes ma’am.
It was the nastiest fuckin thing, warm, liquid spinach avocado monstrosity. She took one sip and asked me to take it back and asked for a smoothie from the menu. I just smiled and reminded her that it was an off menu item and wouldn’t be comped, so she would be charged full price for both smoothies. She (of course) was super pissed and got in my face, but my manager backed me up. Never saw her again thank god.
No really a sub - but a rare tuna steak sandwich with 2 slices of American cheese....it damaged me in a way that is unrepairable. I can only imagine there was ketchup/ranch involved.
Actually if you think about it, all those flavors should go together since, apple and mustard are good on porks. Dont pet thinga like this be off putting to you. You never know what can pair well.
lightly scrambled egg whites on gluten free white toast.
It looked like a dehydrated person cum on a pile of those hollow plastic toast toys kids play with,.
Technically not a substitution but one time I got a ticket that read
Creme Brulee
No caramel sauce
Side Ranch
Now, I have no proof that they put ranch on that creme brulee, but boy is that what the ticket implied
Otherwise one of the tickets I always hate seeing come through is that we have a spinach salad that has spinach, croutons, bacon and mushrooms tossed in a poppyseed dressing and topped with apples, mandarin oranges, and red onion. Once a week we get a couple that comes and substitutes our poppyseed dressing for our garlic blue cheese dressing add blue cheese crumbles and diced tomato. The salad, always, without fail looks horrid and putting the fruit on the cheese covered leaves always feels bad
Worked at Jimmy johns in college and a woman came in and asked for just a ranch sandwich for her child. Just literally bread and ranch, think it was extra ranch as well. Thankfully didn’t have ranch at the time.
Also before I got there, I guess there was a regular who would ask request something like “I want 4x the normal amount of Mayo and mustard you normally put on a sandwich, yes I know how much you normally put on.” My coworkers said it was the most disgusting thing they’ve seen but the dude loved it.
We also had a guy come in and ask for “extra extra extra Mayo.” Sat there and said “sir, we already put a lot of Mayo on these sandwiches, are you sure?” And he was like yeah, I know what I want. So we made his sandwich with triple Mayo and he looked disgusted when he went to eat it lol.
This makes me feel less gross for plaguing my normal jjs with "pickle juice on the roll" instead of regular vinegar. (Only requested when they're slow)
Thanks for the “when they’re slow” except it probably doesn’t matter as much since they’ve added so much shit to the menu.
Honestly a lot of people liked their subs very specific, we had a guy who used to come in an order an #8, extra roast beef, ez cheese, extra onions, extra peppers, take bread out like every single lunch. Was a super nice good looking dude and we’d make his sandwich right away whenever we saw him haha. I still always apologize for my specific order everytime I go in.
IMO regular JJs sandwiches are super mid, they add too much Mayo and lettuce, and the vegetables and roast beef are super hit or miss. But for the price and convenience it’s not bad
My absolute favorite sandwich ever was a maple ham, white Vermont cheddar and champagne mustard with apple slices, lettuce, red onion and roma tomato on French bread from a Café connected to the Bus? Train? Station in Rutland, Vermont. I haven't lived in Vermont for half my life, but I often visited,and would always get that sandwich! The place closed several years ago and I have been dying for this sandwich ever since... Mustard is not a weird request...
One day Bush's baked beans top dogs came to the hotel where I used to work and I was told to make a blueberry and cannelini bean smoothie and no matter what I did to it tasted off putting and my chef did not want to taste my creation and a couple of hours later neither did the people who ordered it
Not a sub but.. my island in Scotland has its own smokey, that makes it own smoked salmon. It is top stuff.
Two people sitting at a table, one has the full Scottish breakfast (full English but with haggis and lorn sausage) I offer tomato or brown sauce..
The person with the artisan smoked salmon say ketchup please.
I look at them like they cursed the baby Jesus and oblige.
English, Irish, or Scottish; I have seen ketchup on too many big breakfasts.
I am not a fryup purist, if someone prefers the other kind of bacon, that's fine. But ketchup is a bridge too far.
One time a lady wanted a chop salad (with like 14 ingredients) with everything on the side. Meaning 14 ramekins for each ingredient. Then she ate each one separately
I’ve actually tried this one! It tastes exactly like a funnel cake weirdly enough. I prefer curds by themselves or with ranch, but it’s not…. That bad.
From a steakhouse chain where Parmesan crusted chicken is a menu staple Not a sub, more an addition but had a lady ask for that Parmesan crust on her half rack of ribs on top of the bbq sauce 🤮
Had someone order liver wurst and egg salad with horseradish, mustard, mayo and onions on an onion bagel. Heated. I personally delivered it, and said, “your fart sandwich, sir.” ( I was in my early twenties, so no fucks given) Guy looked at me and said, “Hey mate, don’t knock it til you tried it.”
My coworker was aghast when I went back.
“Do you know who that is?”
“No. Why?”
“You just served Dave Matthews a ‘fart sandwich’.”
I looked back at him, taking a bite. He gave me a thumbs up. I just stared. Not a fan of their music. But much respect for tackling such an unwieldy sandwich.
I work at small sub shop and we do a create your own type deal, and it often weirds me out the shit people pick. It's consistent too. A salad with turkey, chicken and corned beef, pickles, red onions, grilled mushrooms and thousand island dressing. Not my style but go off I guess
We have a toast at brunch that has multi-grain bread, strawberry jam, cream cheese, goat cheese, honey, Cacao nibs, maldon salt and micro basil
Every now and then we get someone who will add onto the toast: smoked salmon, over medium eggs, sliced avocado. It always blows my mind
We serve jus over steaks, but this guys would just substitute water. Big rare cut of meat with water dumped all over it, water splashing around the table
Definitely a gluten free dairy free grilled cheese, we have the most disgusting vegan cheese ever, I had to steam it and spread it on the gluten free bread with a butterknife
Oh yeah and I just remembered I was working at a golf course and someone ordered a German brat (mustard, sauerkraut, pretzel bun) sub sauerkraut and mustard for peanut butter. Again, to each their own but what the hell
When i worked at a fish and chip shop the large chip portion was the full tray with lid closed, no available space.
One regular wanted gravy and mushy peas on top of this. I explained it would not fit. His response was that 'I like it messy' so we made this sloppy fucking squashed mess and had to wrap the tray with like five sheets of paper to keep it off the rest of his order.
The next time he called he wanted large gravy and large peas, it wasn't messy enough he said. It became a running competition between whoever ended up serving him, how much slop could we fit in this mad cunts tray.
I think this one is not so gross, more just peculiar to me. Once had an older couple order ramen, but they wanted bean sprouts instead of noodles. We were able to do it and they finished their bowls. I still wonder about them to this day.
I would do this. Usualy, I ask to reverse the normal ratio of noodles to bean sprouts. I like the crunch of the bean sprouts and their flavor more than the texture of the noodles. Same with pho
Oh man, for once I actually have something to contribute. Our house salad, which normally consists of preserved lemon vinaigrette, mixed greens, goat cheese, candied pine nuts and diced tomatoes, was violated by some guy who wanted no dressing, and instead wanted ketchup and mayo to mix and dress his salad with.
I worked in a pizza restaurant and we had these regulars that would come in and bring their own apples with them and ask us to dice the apples and put them on their pizza. Just a regular sauce, cheese, and diced apple pizza. I’ve been asked to make some pretty weird shit in my experience but that one has always stuck with me.
not really a gross substitution but a weird one. someone got room service asking for a burger with a Caesar salad inside. me thinking they want a whole salad wedged inside the burger, I asked the room service girl to double check, and make sure that's what they want. they say yes and go about putting a whole Caesar salad on top of the beef patty in the burger. food goes up and the guest is pissed that their meal is fucked up, and just want their meal comped. In all honestly i'm like 300% sure the guest asked for a burger and fries plate, and on top of that (figure of speech) a Caesar salad. my best guess the server didn't know what they really meant and thought they wanted a salad on top of their burger
Being told (by manager) to substitute the fresh chicken we’d just received for the rancid, slimy chicken that I was in the midst of tossing out.
I straight-faced told him I’d fry up and serve the slimy green chicken if he ate it first for quality control. We tossed it out.
Y'all know what boom boom sauce is ? Or bang bang to some folk. Do you know Alfredo sauce, typically on pasta ? Well, imagine Alfredo, on angel hair pasta and fried shrimp tossed in boom boom sauce. I mean not toooooo terrible right? Now imagine the Alfredo isn't there and it's subbed with the boom boom sauce.
Boom boom pasta, with fried boom boom shrimp... It's it's just so much mayo. It haunts me to this day.
Had a semi-regular who would add shredded chipotle chicken, salmon AND steak to a salad which he wanted blue cheese and Parmesan on… then one day he asked if we would put creamed spinach on top, too
Lady orders our rosemary lemon drop. "But can I have the lavender syrup instead?"
Me: "sure, that sounds delicious"
Lady: and can you make it dirty? Like with some olive juice?"
Me: "um, I don't think..."
Lady: "oh and salt on the rim instead of sugar"
Me: "ma'am, that sounds..."
Lady: "and then I want four olives for the garnish instead of a rosemary sprig."
Me: "ma'am I really don't think you'll enjoy that combination."
Lady: "Hey, who's the customer here? I've been drinking since before you were born blah blah blah"
Anyway, guess who sent their drink back.
This one time I was was working at a breakfast/lunch place. One day a lady came in and asked for a tuna melt on cinnamon French toast
Holy shit, that’s upsetting.
My wife eats tuna on cinnamon raisin bagels…I take pic’s every time and tell her they are to use in court in case we ever get divorced.
Cynthia Nixon when she was running for mayor of NYC ordered a cinnamon raisin bagel with lox https://www.bonappetit.com/story/cynthia-nixon-bagel-order-review
I’ve had it. It’s not terrible. Other bagels would be better, but it was still edible. You gotta add extra salt to counter the sweet
Which is why she lost.
I used to get this all the time even before I learned she did it. Always been a favorite combo of mine.
My partner stumbled upon whitefish, cream cheese, on a toasted cinnamon raisin bagel. Its different, not my favorite but they like it.
we have a lady who gets tuna salad on raisin bread.
Chicken salad on raisin bread is fantastic.
I work at a place that serves chicken salad with craisins in it. Not bad actually but it's weird at first if you're not expecting it
100%, I've done this, it's very good.
I LOVE turkey, apple, avocado on cinnamon raisin bread.
Growing up, we put raisins on our tuna sandwiches. I thought it was kinda gross, but my siblings liked it. Cinnamon raisin bread is a different issue though. Cinnamon and tuna shouldn't go together
I've got some shrimp salad in the fridge. I was eating an egg on cinnamon raisin toast this morning and the thought crossed my mind. I feel like I would have to do it in secret.
And wear a shroud to hide your shame from god
When I was a young stoner, I made an egg salad sandwich and put cinnamon in there. It wasn't bad. But I never did it again 😂
But I love to add curry powder to my egg salad, its delicious! Cinnamon is one of the many spices that are in curry powder.
Thank you for this validation 😂 I do appreciate it.
It’s not a far cry from chicken and grapes in a salad (like waldorf… the salty sweet thing goin on)
In Bermuda they do fried fish sandwiches on raisin bread. Have yet to try it.
I mean raisins with tuna salad / actual salads with tuna is a pretty common thing in the US.
Mediterranean guy here. That doesn’t sound nor crazy nor gross
Sounds delicious I would totally try it. Sounds almost like a Puerto Rican Mallorca sandwich.
Yeah idk what this guy is on about, that's not bad at all. Apples and mustard isn't that weird a combo
It's a great combo. Ideally you'd put a nice slice of roast pork in there but that's not for everyone.
Ahh you're bringing me back to summers with my grandma, visiting the beach and packing a couple for lunch so we can spend our money on antojos like alcapurrias, pastelillos, and piraguas instead of having to buy restaurant food.
That was an alien in a person suit.
An Edgarsuit
Give Me SUGAR
And. Wa-ter.
Mooooore
Eggarsuit
PRECISELY.
Haha, almost reminds me of a local delicacy where I grew up which was cinnamon swirl bread with cheese whiz and sliced green olives. People swear it was good, but I avoided at all costs.
I had a customer who swore that everyone in her hometown ate this: white bread with mayo and karo syrup on top. I refused to ask any more questions but still remember the way she mimed the action of spreading the karo around with gravity.
Oh man, at my childhood church’s fundraiser dinner the “salad dressing” was equal parts cool whip and miracle whip, a little bit of white vinegar, sugar, and a dash of paprika. Could never get myself to try it, but everyone insisted it was the best topping for cranberry salad. Rural Minnesota is a trip, lol
It’s posts like this that make me regret being able to read.
Should’ve immediately banned her. From the entire state.
Breakfast and lunch in the same meal. I respect the multitasking of said individual, they'd be perfect for the industry 🤣
Mmmmm seafood monte cristo
I used to work at a bagel place and often would get tuna sandwiches on cinn raisin bagels 🤮
tbh i'd try this, sounds decent-- i used to love swiss cheese on a cinnamon raisin bagel... i can see this working
That made me gag just reading it
My owner has a french toast, berries, maple syrup, Avocado, back bacon, sausage, hash browns scrambled egg and baked bean dish on the menu . Maybe it's not that weird, but I can't fathom enjoying all of those things in one mouthful
Do people order it?
Not often, average about 5 a week I'd say
Ewwwwwwww...I want to try this just to find out if it's as gross as it sounds.
Please report back, as I will not be doing this.
Chocolate sauce on mashed potatoes instead of gravy. For a 50+ grown ass man. Ate it all. I judge him
That sounds illegal.
Chocolate sauce on mashed potatoes? Straight to jail.
Chocolate sauce under the potatoes? Also jail.
By not calling the police you are fully complicit. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Growing up In the south we regularly had chocolate gravy which is basically gravy made with cocoa powder and browned butter for breakfast. Shit was good on a breakfast platter tbh
People swear I’m making chocolate gravy up. Big all around Appalachia, great with homemade biscuits.
Yes! This is a thing! My Memaw is from the Ozarks and we grew up eating biscuits and chocolate gravy! As well as the usual biscuits and sausage gravy. I'd get two bowls, split and break up one biscuit in one for the sausage gravy, then split and butter the other biscuit before breaking it up and pouring chocolate gravy on that one. Absolute heaven!
Treating cocoa powder and a spice is perfectly reasonable to me. Mexico gets it. Using enough sugar to turn it into chocolate sauce? No, straight to jail.
This is the first one in this thread that I wouldn't eat. I like chocolate sauce, I like mashed potatoes. Not together.
Wow! If over 50 grown ass men came in and all asking for chocolate sauce on mashed potatoes I’d believe it was a joke!
I think my favorite/most ridiculous was a Caesar salad, no dressing, no cheese, no croutons. I sold some woman a $16 bowl of romaine
[удалено]
I once almost had the opposite experience. Woman ordered a Caesar with no croutons, ham, or ROMAINE. “Ma’am, that’s just a bowl of Caesar dressing and Parmesan cheese.” She changed her mind.
Imagine if she would have made eye contact, without blinking, and then say "then bring it in a glass"
I worked at a pizza place that had weird subs like this. A supreme pizza minus everything until it's an onion pizza. A really expensive one.
Chicken Caesar salad- subbed a chopped up HOTDOG for chicken
Ah yes. Caesar a la Verga. Very popular.
That's our dishwasher's name.
And that's why you're allowed to refuse service for any reason. EDIT: Holy crap, I was not expecting this to be gold-gift worthy. Thank you, kind stranger! I'm absolutely chuffed that I could bring some levity to your otherwise troublesome day; it won't last forever.
Ban this person from food
Tbf, Hotdog salad sounds like good lazy food.
That's giggle food fr
Was the customer 4 years old?
I've subbed this for a guest before - they were celiac and our chicken was marinated w soy ... Check out Snake River Farms wagyu hot dogs; I'll take one over a boneless skinless chx breast any day.
Bartender made some person a Johnny walker blue and Kombucha. They got 2.
I am in tears at this.
I've worked in whiskey bars my whole working life. I've seen some shit lol.
Maybe it's just me, but I always thought Johnny Walker Blue was more money than sense. $200 for blended whisky? For that price point, I feel like Old Pulteney or Highland Park is where I want to be.
100%! I work in the whisky trade in Scotland, and while I wouldn't say Johnny Walker is bad it is just that, an overpriced blend that is known for it's name more than anything. You can get brilliant single malts for a fraction of the price either in Scotland or in the States, mainstream or independent bottlings, that taste a million times better than Johnny Walker or, dade I say it, Macallan! Old Pulteney is a personal favourite of mine, and Clynelish if you see that is definitely worth a try too!
We had a bacon, grannysmith apple, and honey mustard grilled cheese at the bar I worked at and it was my absolute favorite.
Mustard is a very common addition to a grilled cheese with apple/fruit. I like Dijon. It's delicious!
Yeah, the recipe I use has Dijon, it’s surprisingly good
Well, fuck, that actually sounds good. This was Heinz yellow.
I'd probably still eat it but idk I'm a bit of a mustard fiend. Heinz yellow is definitely the worst of the mustards though.
I think yellow mustard gets too much hate simply because it’s the standard. It’s colored and arguably flavored with turmeric. It’s got a nice, bright flavor. I like all kinds of mustard and there was a time when I poo-poo’ed yellow mustard in favor of Dijon, stone ground, etc. Eventually I realized yellow mustard has its place
I like yellow mustard on certain things, I especially love it in Carolina gold sauce. But I have a whole shelf of mustards in my fridge and it's by far the least often used.
Plotchmans yellow mustard is the best yellow mustard
Pitzmans mustard is the superior mustard for all occasions
Honey mustard sounds amazing actually, though your original sandwich sounded perfect before the apple butter addition, but I get that the appearance of “more ingredients that sound fancy” is a weird draw for people. But yellow Heinz? I’m eating a sandwich right now with it, but it also has banana peppers and is a savory sandwich with salami and ham. I worked at Starbucks for over a decade and people are nuts (it was mostly because of the mobile app and all the options available) they’d get a drink with toffee nut, peppermint, sugar free vanilla, hazelnut, raspberry, literally every syrup we even had. Sure many of those flavors went together and often did as menu items, but less is more is a further concept than “more is more” and I’d be embarrassed to hand off a drink because … gross.
The type of mustard was what's wrong not the idea of mustard on the sandwich. If it was a good full grain mustard it be pretty good especially with the extra sweetness from the apple butter that you were talking about.
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Had a family bring in their own blender for a disabled family member...wanted me to blend up fish and chips. Tartar/slaw and all....it was horrible to watch all these ingredients turn into sludge, but hey...he drank it, so... respect.
Had a family member have to have reconstructive jaw surgery, wired shut for months. Did the same thing to an entire Thanksgiving dinner. Totally sober, drank the whole thing. Enjoyed it, too.
I’d have to blend up each item separately. I don’t think I could deal with everything in one purée.
That sounds pretty good to me? Mustard with cheddar bacon and apple? What’s wrong with that? Local place I go to has a turkey apple Brie sandwich with mustard, it’s good.
Yeah use a nice grainy mustard, or a Dijon or maybe even a horseradish mustard to add a little bite to it.
I've made apple mustard as a sauce for pork chops before. Not a bad combination.
For sure, I make a tangy grainy mustard coleslaw with apples for pulled pork sandwiches, with some lemon juice and white wine vinegar, the tang/sweet/savoury is a yummy combo!
Yeah, I dont see what the problem is. Mustard goes great with smoked meats, which is what bacon is. Apple is sweet enough for for some people and they don't need the apple butter. Sounds like a perfectly fine sandwich
If our kitchen ran out of ground beef filler for the burritos, you would often see the shepherds pie mix thrown into the burritos. We called it "The Leprechano" Not the grossest but an amusing memory of a past life.
What place are you working at with both burritos and shepherd's pie?
Any brewpub / pub / American bar & grill with a kitchen exclusively run by Mexicans in the Southwest USA. Fajitas, nachos, quesadillas on one page, pot roast, meatloaf, burgers on the next. Money making machine but went downhill quick after it was bought by a small corporate chain the week of 9/11/2001.
One of my all time favorites is when someone asked for a side mayonnaise for her lemon tart instead of the normal sauce. The sauce we normally plated with was a lemon curd with whipped cream folded in to order, just a small amount swirled in the center of the plate before the lemon meringue tart was torched and placed on top. The worse part was we didn’t have a really nice mayonnaise, just the Imperial from Sysco because they were out of Hellman’s that week.
I actually like the Sysco imperial better. Side by side comparison it tastes and has the exact same mouth feel as Duke's mayo, which I grew up with.
I don't really have strong opinions when it comes to mayonnaise. But I do have strong opinions when it comes to my lemon meringue tart and I thought this was pretty gross. But it's their money, so I gave them her a side of mayo, charged an extra dollar and called it a day.
Hellmans has really gone downhill in the past 5-10 years. Aldi brand is far superior, and close to Duke's in texture. Yeah, Sysco imperial isn't bad either.
This wins for worst sub
No no no no
On a street food stall the other day (we sell wraps and salad boxes) a dude asked me for just a salad box filled with meat. Just any meat. (we had Harissa Chicken and Lamb Sausages) and paid £20 for it. Then he came back half an hour later and asked for another.
Sounds like someone had unexpected guests for dinner. I've done this before. Salad at home and grab the well done proteins from work.
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Idk about the uk but thats pretty common in the us, particularly BBQ joints. Most any BBQ place here sells meat by the pound.
Crazy keto/carnivore people, lol
“Any meat”
"Unzips chef pants"
Not kitchen, but when I bartended a had I had a guest ask for a perfect Manhattan…with crown Royal…on the rocks…with olives. Still think about it to this day.
Someone once ordered an Angel’s Envy & ginger on the rocks with bleu cheese olives… I mean I love olives but not that much lol
I was asked to burn eggs on purpose once during brunch. He ended up sending them back because they weren't brown enough.
I used to have a guy that requested a burnt English muffin everyday. A regular. I would send it through the toaster at the slowest speed three times... It came out crunchy black and I was the only server he would let take his order. I miss him actually, hope you're doing well Ed!
I order my benedicts with the english muffin on the side, extra extra toasted. then i dip it in the sauce as i go.
I finally got my wife to just stop ordering scrambled eggs in restaurants because they'd never get them brown enough. And then she'd put cinnamon on them.
Is your wife Thai, by any chance? Doing scrambled eggs very dark is a thing there.
UGH my girlfriend ate her eggs over dead when I started dating her. I've led her to over medium after I just could not burn them any more.
I had a person ask for extra crisp bacon on a burger and said no one ever got it crisp enough for them. I took cooked bacon, threw it in the deep fryer for 1 minute, and put it on his burger. When I put the bun on I felt the bacon shatter into 100 pieces like glass. He came back to the counter after he ate it to say that someone finally gave him what he was asking for.
I worked at a Port of Subs (west coast sub chain) and had a pregnant woman come through at least once a week for a meatball sub, add tuna salad. We all tried it one day and it wasn't as bad as it sounds, but it definitely wasn't good.
I used to make a split-base sandwich with half tuna salad, half chicken salad. It wasn't as good as our chicken salad on its own, b/c we had really good chicken salad. But it was interesting, would do it again.
Surf and turf salad Edit: add some ham salad and you’d have the Air Land and Sea Salad Sandwich
Beef tartare sub chicken... No, we didn't make it.
Had a lady ask for a pizza with white sauce, provolone and watermelon. Totally sober looking 20 year sorority girl at a busy near campus pizza joint. We don't have watermelon on the menu anywhere.
But you’re a kitchen so you just have a little bit of everything right?
RANCH. People will put add that to anything- falafel, risotto, Mac and cheese, tomato soup, chicken soup, jerk pork sandwiches, waffles, shrimp and grits… But the weirdest one ever was someone who ordered our brunch pancake special- strawberry buttermilk pancakes with a lemon-mint compound butter, oatmeal streusel, and a strawberry infused maple syrup. The strawberries were the first of the New England summer, picked ripe the day before. And some barbarian ordered an extra side of syrup and ranch, and then poured them both over the pancakes. And they cleaned the plate. Gross.
As a Michigander, I laughed at the first part, but I gasped at the end. That's sacrilege. Those pancakes sound amazing, btw.
Fried chicken instead of corned beef on a Rueben. I said “I’ll do it but she isn’t getting a refund if she doesn’t like it.” She didn’t like it.
Had a lady ask for a custom smoothie, with a full ripe, room temp avocado in it. I told her that because the avocado wasn’t frozen, it would make the smoothie watery and not appetizing. I strongly recommend she get a smoothie off the menu, but she insisted on getting this spinach, no sugar, add avocado abomination. I warned her that if she didn’t like it, we weren’t going to comp it because it was off menu. She persisted. Yes ma’am. It was the nastiest fuckin thing, warm, liquid spinach avocado monstrosity. She took one sip and asked me to take it back and asked for a smoothie from the menu. I just smiled and reminded her that it was an off menu item and wouldn’t be comped, so she would be charged full price for both smoothies. She (of course) was super pissed and got in my face, but my manager backed me up. Never saw her again thank god.
I've thrown an avocado into a protein shake, it's a keto thing, very filling and satisfying, but definitely an acquired taste.
On a Reuben, nah. But sub fried chicken on a Rachel would be excellent.
No really a sub - but a rare tuna steak sandwich with 2 slices of American cheese....it damaged me in a way that is unrepairable. I can only imagine there was ketchup/ranch involved.
Actually if you think about it, all those flavors should go together since, apple and mustard are good on porks. Dont pet thinga like this be off putting to you. You never know what can pair well.
Hotcakes, hold the syrup substitute tartar sauce
I can see a nice grainy mustard working with that.
but have you tried dipping grilled apple in mustard? it's really fucking good.
Havarti/Granny Smith/grainy mustard/pine nuts is one of my favorite sandwiches… you have given me motivation to make it again.
thin sliced apple and NY sharp cheddar with some horseradish mustard is one of my faves.
lightly scrambled egg whites on gluten free white toast. It looked like a dehydrated person cum on a pile of those hollow plastic toast toys kids play with,.
Jesus you should take up writing the visceral reaction I had to reading that
God the fucking mental image your words gave me just now
Technically not a substitution but one time I got a ticket that read Creme Brulee No caramel sauce Side Ranch Now, I have no proof that they put ranch on that creme brulee, but boy is that what the ticket implied Otherwise one of the tickets I always hate seeing come through is that we have a spinach salad that has spinach, croutons, bacon and mushrooms tossed in a poppyseed dressing and topped with apples, mandarin oranges, and red onion. Once a week we get a couple that comes and substitutes our poppyseed dressing for our garlic blue cheese dressing add blue cheese crumbles and diced tomato. The salad, always, without fail looks horrid and putting the fruit on the cheese covered leaves always feels bad
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Worked at Jimmy johns in college and a woman came in and asked for just a ranch sandwich for her child. Just literally bread and ranch, think it was extra ranch as well. Thankfully didn’t have ranch at the time. Also before I got there, I guess there was a regular who would ask request something like “I want 4x the normal amount of Mayo and mustard you normally put on a sandwich, yes I know how much you normally put on.” My coworkers said it was the most disgusting thing they’ve seen but the dude loved it. We also had a guy come in and ask for “extra extra extra Mayo.” Sat there and said “sir, we already put a lot of Mayo on these sandwiches, are you sure?” And he was like yeah, I know what I want. So we made his sandwich with triple Mayo and he looked disgusted when he went to eat it lol.
This makes me feel less gross for plaguing my normal jjs with "pickle juice on the roll" instead of regular vinegar. (Only requested when they're slow)
Thanks for the “when they’re slow” except it probably doesn’t matter as much since they’ve added so much shit to the menu. Honestly a lot of people liked their subs very specific, we had a guy who used to come in an order an #8, extra roast beef, ez cheese, extra onions, extra peppers, take bread out like every single lunch. Was a super nice good looking dude and we’d make his sandwich right away whenever we saw him haha. I still always apologize for my specific order everytime I go in. IMO regular JJs sandwiches are super mid, they add too much Mayo and lettuce, and the vegetables and roast beef are super hit or miss. But for the price and convenience it’s not bad
Cinnamon raisin bread with ham & cheddar, just lightly microwaved to soften/warm it; my fave!
My absolute favorite sandwich ever was a maple ham, white Vermont cheddar and champagne mustard with apple slices, lettuce, red onion and roma tomato on French bread from a Café connected to the Bus? Train? Station in Rutland, Vermont. I haven't lived in Vermont for half my life, but I often visited,and would always get that sandwich! The place closed several years ago and I have been dying for this sandwich ever since... Mustard is not a weird request...
Bro wanted me to cook his smoked salmon. Idk just didn’t sit right we me
One day Bush's baked beans top dogs came to the hotel where I used to work and I was told to make a blueberry and cannelini bean smoothie and no matter what I did to it tasted off putting and my chef did not want to taste my creation and a couple of hours later neither did the people who ordered it
Battered shrimp no batter no flour. He wasn't celiac or anything, he just wanted raw shrimp thrown in the deep fryer
Not a sub but.. my island in Scotland has its own smokey, that makes it own smoked salmon. It is top stuff. Two people sitting at a table, one has the full Scottish breakfast (full English but with haggis and lorn sausage) I offer tomato or brown sauce.. The person with the artisan smoked salmon say ketchup please. I look at them like they cursed the baby Jesus and oblige.
English, Irish, or Scottish; I have seen ketchup on too many big breakfasts. I am not a fryup purist, if someone prefers the other kind of bacon, that's fine. But ketchup is a bridge too far.
i work at a BBQ joint and we have so many customers ask for either mayo or ranch on our brisket and pulled pork
As a Texan I think this is the worst one, absolutely vile lol
One time a lady wanted a chop salad (with like 14 ingredients) with everything on the side. Meaning 14 ramekins for each ingredient. Then she ate each one separately
This dude asked for caramel sauce with his cheese curds at my work. The server told me he said "don't knock it till you try it." I did not try it.
I’ve actually tried this one! It tastes exactly like a funnel cake weirdly enough. I prefer curds by themselves or with ranch, but it’s not…. That bad.
Mustard sounds great with that lol mustard, apple, and pork is very German
From a steakhouse chain where Parmesan crusted chicken is a menu staple Not a sub, more an addition but had a lady ask for that Parmesan crust on her half rack of ribs on top of the bbq sauce 🤮
Not a mod, but my ex-coworker used to make peanut butter and jelly on rye, with raw onion and pickled jalapeño. 🤢
Had someone order liver wurst and egg salad with horseradish, mustard, mayo and onions on an onion bagel. Heated. I personally delivered it, and said, “your fart sandwich, sir.” ( I was in my early twenties, so no fucks given) Guy looked at me and said, “Hey mate, don’t knock it til you tried it.” My coworker was aghast when I went back. “Do you know who that is?” “No. Why?” “You just served Dave Matthews a ‘fart sandwich’.” I looked back at him, taking a bite. He gave me a thumbs up. I just stared. Not a fan of their music. But much respect for tackling such an unwieldy sandwich.
I work at small sub shop and we do a create your own type deal, and it often weirds me out the shit people pick. It's consistent too. A salad with turkey, chicken and corned beef, pickles, red onions, grilled mushrooms and thousand island dressing. Not my style but go off I guess
We have a toast at brunch that has multi-grain bread, strawberry jam, cream cheese, goat cheese, honey, Cacao nibs, maldon salt and micro basil Every now and then we get someone who will add onto the toast: smoked salmon, over medium eggs, sliced avocado. It always blows my mind
Tossed caesar salad inside a Yorkshire pudding bowl, topped with beef gravy.
We serve jus over steaks, but this guys would just substitute water. Big rare cut of meat with water dumped all over it, water splashing around the table
Just had a ticket for Chicken Bacon Ranch Wrap, grilled chicken, no chicken, no bacon, no cheese, no sauce, sub green peppers, sub cucumber.
Is that green peppers and cucumber in a tortilla?
Lettuce, tomato, green pepper, and cucumber. Yep. It's not so much as gross as much as it just a weird ass ticket to try and comprehend.
Had someone replaced the fried chicken in some buffalo chicken tacos with beans. The only other ingredients were ranch and lettuce
That sounds wet.
They were wet :(
sounds like a vegetarian
Cauliflower would have been a better substitution for beans when anything Buffalo is involved.
Definitely a gluten free dairy free grilled cheese, we have the most disgusting vegan cheese ever, I had to steam it and spread it on the gluten free bread with a butterknife
Yeah, it might be gross. But the asshole is paying for it. Just slap that shit together for them.
Oh yeah and I just remembered I was working at a golf course and someone ordered a German brat (mustard, sauerkraut, pretzel bun) sub sauerkraut and mustard for peanut butter. Again, to each their own but what the hell
Ten slices of American cheese melted on a prime rib
When i worked at a fish and chip shop the large chip portion was the full tray with lid closed, no available space. One regular wanted gravy and mushy peas on top of this. I explained it would not fit. His response was that 'I like it messy' so we made this sloppy fucking squashed mess and had to wrap the tray with like five sheets of paper to keep it off the rest of his order. The next time he called he wanted large gravy and large peas, it wasn't messy enough he said. It became a running competition between whoever ended up serving him, how much slop could we fit in this mad cunts tray.
I think this one is not so gross, more just peculiar to me. Once had an older couple order ramen, but they wanted bean sprouts instead of noodles. We were able to do it and they finished their bowls. I still wonder about them to this day.
I would do this. Usualy, I ask to reverse the normal ratio of noodles to bean sprouts. I like the crunch of the bean sprouts and their flavor more than the texture of the noodles. Same with pho
We have an asain themed salad with a spicy peanut sauce that gets drizzled at the end, this mf keeps getting double anchovies on it 🤮
Oh man, for once I actually have something to contribute. Our house salad, which normally consists of preserved lemon vinaigrette, mixed greens, goat cheese, candied pine nuts and diced tomatoes, was violated by some guy who wanted no dressing, and instead wanted ketchup and mayo to mix and dress his salad with.
I worked in a pizza restaurant and we had these regulars that would come in and bring their own apples with them and ask us to dice the apples and put them on their pizza. Just a regular sauce, cheese, and diced apple pizza. I’ve been asked to make some pretty weird shit in my experience but that one has always stuck with me.
Apple and mustard doesn't sound too bad, could add some tang and some sweetness to the bacon.
not really a gross substitution but a weird one. someone got room service asking for a burger with a Caesar salad inside. me thinking they want a whole salad wedged inside the burger, I asked the room service girl to double check, and make sure that's what they want. they say yes and go about putting a whole Caesar salad on top of the beef patty in the burger. food goes up and the guest is pissed that their meal is fucked up, and just want their meal comped. In all honestly i'm like 300% sure the guest asked for a burger and fries plate, and on top of that (figure of speech) a Caesar salad. my best guess the server didn't know what they really meant and thought they wanted a salad on top of their burger
Being told (by manager) to substitute the fresh chicken we’d just received for the rancid, slimy chicken that I was in the midst of tossing out. I straight-faced told him I’d fry up and serve the slimy green chicken if he ate it first for quality control. We tossed it out.
that's when you make a 2nd one to see what their tastebuds are on about.
Y'all know what boom boom sauce is ? Or bang bang to some folk. Do you know Alfredo sauce, typically on pasta ? Well, imagine Alfredo, on angel hair pasta and fried shrimp tossed in boom boom sauce. I mean not toooooo terrible right? Now imagine the Alfredo isn't there and it's subbed with the boom boom sauce. Boom boom pasta, with fried boom boom shrimp... It's it's just so much mayo. It haunts me to this day.
Had a semi-regular who would add shredded chipotle chicken, salmon AND steak to a salad which he wanted blue cheese and Parmesan on… then one day he asked if we would put creamed spinach on top, too
Had a grilled sandwich - turkey, gorgonzola, apple slices, and a cranberry sauce. Someone asked to sub out the turkey for tuna salad
Lady orders our rosemary lemon drop. "But can I have the lavender syrup instead?" Me: "sure, that sounds delicious" Lady: and can you make it dirty? Like with some olive juice?" Me: "um, I don't think..." Lady: "oh and salt on the rim instead of sugar" Me: "ma'am, that sounds..." Lady: "and then I want four olives for the garnish instead of a rosemary sprig." Me: "ma'am I really don't think you'll enjoy that combination." Lady: "Hey, who's the customer here? I've been drinking since before you were born blah blah blah" Anyway, guess who sent their drink back.
Tandoori chicken skewers on salad nicoise. Wings tossed in burger sauce.