On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 16:23:10 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"Doris Night" > wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 00:17:16 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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>>>> The other night we stopped at a chain restaurant for dinner. We both
>>>> ordered a dish with braised beef. When the waitress took the order, she
>>>> asked "how would you like that cooked?". I told her it would be well
>>>> done, but she told me the POS system gave options for beef.
>>>>
>>>> I guess they don't give good lessons about what is on the menu. She
>>>> seemed to be fairly new and probably does not cook much for herself.
>>>
>>>Sadly I have noticed the wait staff often do not know how the food is
>>>prepared or what is in it.
>>>
>>>I once asked what was on the house salad. The waitress just looked at me
>>>like I was an idiot for asking and said it was just a salad with whatever
>>>dressing I wanted. So I said, "Oh! No croutons or cheese then?" And she
>>>told me of *course* there were croutons and cheese. So I asked her to
>>>leave
>>>those off and also the dressing.
>>>
>>>She then brought out a plate of greens with assorted vegetables, covered
>>>with slices of hard boiled egg. *sigh* I then told her that I couldn't
>>>eat
>>>egg and could she please bring me a salad that was only the vegetables.
>>>
>>>And what did I get then? Just the greens. Apparently she didn't consider
>>>carrots, celery, onions peppers and tomato to be vegetables.
>>
>> She may have thought that if she put all those things on your salad
>> there would still be something that was offensive to you, and you'd
>> send it back again.
>
>No. She was just clueless. Couldn't tell me to begin with what all was on
>there and that was the first time I had gotten a salad with egg where the
>egg wasn't listed on the menu.

I just love hard boiled egg on a salad. Especially with thousand
island dressing. Yum!

Doris