"Doris Night" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 16:23:10 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
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>>"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!

You wouldn't love it if it did to you what it does to me. I will spare you
the details.