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Janet

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> On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 10:26:17 AM UTC-5, wrote:
> > On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 10:16:35 AM UTC-4, wrote:
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> > > Did you enquire at the diner what their recipe might be?
> >
> > No, I would tend to assume that would be rude.
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> >
> Really? Most people would be flattered if you ask for their
> recipe for a particular dish or at least what a certain ingre-
> dient is.

I agree. I've done that many many times and *only once* ever been
refused because it was a secret.
The refusal was a restaurant's family secret recipe for scrambled
eggs, handed down from grandmother.

I had seen "scrambled eggs" on the lunch menu and commented that this
was rather unusual in that kind of restaurant (high class food and
service ) Who on earth would go to such a restaurant then order
scrambled eggs? The owner replied " These are not ordinary scrambled
eggs, not like any you've ever tasted. People come hundreds of miles to
eat this very secret recipe from my grandmother.It has never been shared
outside the family and never will be."

Naturally I thought he was joking or boasting but I reckon my
scrambled eggs are pretty damn good so of course I had to order his to
compare.

Well, they were the best most delicious scrambled eggs I have ever
eaten. The magic ingredient was indefinable, half way between a scent
and a flavour, with a specially creamy texture, and he would never tell
me how they did it. Countless guess-experiments at home with truffles,
herbs, spices, different creams, buttermilk, sourcream, yoghurt etc but
I have never managed to replicate it.

Janet UK