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enough. The menu should be able to answer my questions otherwise I take
my
> chances.) , thats called a menu. Their job is to take your order know you can
> sub x for y etc., serve the food, and see that you get more drinks, bread,
> butter what have you, NOT to do a dissection of the recipe of the menu. Who
> knows what might be buried deep in some product or seasoning used in the
> kitchen.
>

That attitude is a little silly; I've often asked a waitperson to ask
the chef if the ingredient I'm allergic to is in a dish because the
menu didn't say.

For instance, I ordered a chicken salad sandwich once that had pecans
in it - not almonds, pecans. I'm not allergic to almonds (they're in
the cherry family), but am deathly allergic to pecans. I had to send
it back for a different choice. Should I have known that chicken salad
would be embellished with pecans? Nope. So ever since then, I play
"ask the chef." Most not only are very willing to send the answer out
with the waitstaff, but if an implement might have had multiple uses in
the kitchen, they will tell me that, too, so I know that the dessert
without nuts might have shared implements or containers with the
dessert with nuts.

If I don't get a thorough answer, I order something else.

N.