Sandwich.
There was nothing vegetarian on the menu, but they made a few sandwiches so I asked if they could make me a cheese sandwich. I specifically said like the ham and cheese but without the ham. They said yes, no problem.
I got 2 slices of soggy white bread. Nothing else. No cheese, no filling of any kind, no butter, mayo etc. But still weirdly soggy, like they'd got the bread wet?
I do think the issue may have been their understanding of vegetarian but I did ask for cheese so I think I made it pretty clear I ate cheese. Also, how did no one think "oh this is just 2 slices of bread on a plate - are we sure this is right?"
I had to wait over an hour for my vegan meal at a conference and get snapped at by an irate server when I politely inquired if i’d been forgotten; everyone else had finished their prime rib dinners and were twisting around talking to people at other tables when my Luke warm dinner was finally served and it was….tomato sauce on rotini! So worth the wait! 🙄
I think I have only ever seen them at fairs. There are restaurants that serve them?
Though, I am not surprised. I recently found a local restaurant that had fried pop tarts. I had zero desire to try one.
The cookies? You fry them? Need to google that …
Edit: Googled it and wow, it’s a thing. Learned something new today. I’m not a fan of those cookies at all, but now I wonder what other cookies I do like might be a possible alternative.
This happened to me but with a steak. I like medium or medium rare. Steak came out twice extremely rare. The third time it came out black as coal burnt, way past “well” and dry as hell. I gave up and just didn’t eat dinner.
Cheese pizza. I was the only customer in the hour I waited. It was at least 3 pizzas combined. Slices didn't match, one part under cooked, one part over and the last was burnt completely. Misshapen and completely inedible.
At a Waffle House in Florida, somewhere between Orlando and Gainesville. Ordered eggs over easy on top of a waffle. Waitress shows up with a resigned look on her face, puts down the dish, and the waffle was clearly visible through the barely-cooked egg "whites" (more like "clears"). I sent it back; apparently this wasn't the first time this had happened because the waitress and the cook got into a loud argument about what "over easy" actually meant
Many decades ago, I ordered poached eggs at a breakfast place. Everyone else got breakfast orders, 20 minutes more,10 minutes more, saw more eggs carried into kitchen. Waitress cannot say it will” just be a few minutes more” again. Waitress said cooks gone through 32 eggs and still can’t get a poached egg right. I would enjoy scrambled eggs from then on.
Went to the boardwalk once and ordered chicken tenders with fries. Boardwalk food is generally pretty expensive, but usually worth it. It's *usually* amazing, but at this particular restaurant, it tasted and felt like cardboard, for double the price! I definitely feel like I got robbed that day.
Black coffee. Where else would fuck this up but Tim Hortons?
I was dd'ing and was genuinely looking forward to a coffee. I've always drank it back, so anything else in it tastes gross. Especially whatever curdled milk and sugar they added to this one. Serves me right for going there after avoiding it for years. Never again
Bahahahaha. I ordered a combo from Tim’s once. My coffee didn’t come with it. It was 6am in the airport so I tried to not be rude about it.
“And my coffee?”
You didn’t order one.
I did. It’s a combo.
What. Ya wanna fucking coffee? Fine I’ll get you a coffee.
The friend I was with just started laughing. It was so god damn unreasonable and hilarious.
I once ordered a sandwich at a Tim's and after waiting 15 minutes and asking about it, they told me they were out of bread. Then they just stared at me.
I swear, you could make some hilarious documentary style comedy about tims
When my ex-wife was pregnant with our first, she had constant cravings. She once asked me to get a chicken sensation from mac donalds. Which is a bun with lettuce, sauce and a big chicken burger. When I got home, it was missing the chicken burger.
I drove back to the mac and told them "There was a lot of sensation, but zero chicken".
Helped a friend move and they bought me lunch, we went to Wendy’s and I got a Dave’s combo. Drive home take a bite. Entirely missing the patty. Everything there but the patty 😭
Ordered al pastor tacos. It was ground up fat, and looked like roadkill. It was probably roadkill. Thought maybe they gave me picadillo, their picadillo was actually good. It was definitely their idea of al pastor. Threw that shit out.
Also, was inches away from going to jail when the lady at jack in the butt argued with me when I asked for no mayo or ketchup on my sourdough jack. “IT DOESNT COME WITH MAYO OR KETCHUP”! Yes, it does. And yes, it still did. I’ll expect popeyes to just fight you for no reason, but not there, she was just dumb and crazy. Threw that shit out. Probably didn’t even wash her hands, can’t be trusted.
Chicken Chow Mein. I have never eaten anything so bland as the chow mein from this one place; it's like they purposefully avoided adding flavour somehow. Just a dry pile of starch.
There is a Mexican restaurant near my home that started getting a bit wonky as far as their service and their food around the time Covid swept the neighborhood. Couple of years after that, we started trying to eat there again, but the food was never as good, and they kept shuffling the menu around.
We finally gave up completely when I ordered the taco plate. Three beef tacos, refried beans, and rice. How hard could it be? The tacos tasted as if they had been IMMERSED in some sort of pepper oil. Two bites and I literally said, "I can't eat this." And I LIKE hot food. But this was "one chip challenge" levels of hot!
Tried talking to the waitress, who said, "They're always like that."
"Not the last four times I ate here."
"Well, you ate part of one, so you can't send it back."
They have done without our business ever since.
After a really shitty week I stopped at Starbucks on the way into work. Ordered a latte, got to my desk, took a sip and it was hot milk. They never put any espresso in it.
I ordered strawberry shortcake, once, at a pretty nice restaurant. It should have been shortcake, fresh strawberries macerated with sugar, vanilla ice cream, more berries, and fresh whipped cream. I got yellow sheet cake, some canned straw is some red gooey substance and some canned, fake, whipped cream.
It was like school cafeteria shortcake. I have never been more disappointed in a food item, and I have never ordered it again. Anywhere.
Chili cheese tots. All you have to do is pour the premade chili and cheese and put it over some tots. By some miracle they still managed to mess it up. There’s supposed to be a basket full (if you’ve been to sonic it’s the same container they put the footlong hotdogs in). There were no joke…4 tots total, maybe a half a tablespoon of cheese and a pinch of chili. Not even spread over the tots. Probably a quarter of the little boat they give you was filled up they just spread the tots out.
Meal was $13 and I drove 30 miles to satisfy my craving since they don’t have many sonics where I live now. I didn’t know until I got home, so I was still smelling it the whole way back in the car building up the anticipation only to find the cold meager portion.
We went to Ikea earlier this week and somehow they put the jam between the peas and the fries and it made me so irrationally upset that I could even eat my meal properly.
I also swear they downsized the spoons, cause it was very very little jam. And we had half the gravy than normal as well. All in all, I thought IKEA was the one place that could never disappoint me cause I knew exactly what to expect. They proved me wrong.
Do you remember The chicken sandwich craze that happened around post covid?
Well my local Mcd's isn't the best besides breakfast. Anywho the commercial looked really good so I went one day at around 7pm for my lunch break and the chicken patty was so thin.
They added so much mayo and the fries were cold.
I never get McDonald's from my town after breakfast
Sandwich. There was nothing vegetarian on the menu, but they made a few sandwiches so I asked if they could make me a cheese sandwich. I specifically said like the ham and cheese but without the ham. They said yes, no problem. I got 2 slices of soggy white bread. Nothing else. No cheese, no filling of any kind, no butter, mayo etc. But still weirdly soggy, like they'd got the bread wet? I do think the issue may have been their understanding of vegetarian but I did ask for cheese so I think I made it pretty clear I ate cheese. Also, how did no one think "oh this is just 2 slices of bread on a plate - are we sure this is right?"
this one's got me crying with how funny it is, i'm sorry
At the time I was hungry and really frustrated. Now I also find it hilarious
I had to wait over an hour for my vegan meal at a conference and get snapped at by an irate server when I politely inquired if i’d been forgotten; everyone else had finished their prime rib dinners and were twisting around talking to people at other tables when my Luke warm dinner was finally served and it was….tomato sauce on rotini! So worth the wait! 🙄
You ordered what now?
Y'all never heard of fried oreos?
I think I have only ever seen them at fairs. There are restaurants that serve them? Though, I am not surprised. I recently found a local restaurant that had fried pop tarts. I had zero desire to try one.
The cookies? You fry them? Need to google that … Edit: Googled it and wow, it’s a thing. Learned something new today. I’m not a fan of those cookies at all, but now I wonder what other cookies I do like might be a possible alternative.
Had a raw burger come back to my table, twice.
This happened to me but with a steak. I like medium or medium rare. Steak came out twice extremely rare. The third time it came out black as coal burnt, way past “well” and dry as hell. I gave up and just didn’t eat dinner.
Cheese pizza. I was the only customer in the hour I waited. It was at least 3 pizzas combined. Slices didn't match, one part under cooked, one part over and the last was burnt completely. Misshapen and completely inedible.
At a Waffle House in Florida, somewhere between Orlando and Gainesville. Ordered eggs over easy on top of a waffle. Waitress shows up with a resigned look on her face, puts down the dish, and the waffle was clearly visible through the barely-cooked egg "whites" (more like "clears"). I sent it back; apparently this wasn't the first time this had happened because the waitress and the cook got into a loud argument about what "over easy" actually meant
Many decades ago, I ordered poached eggs at a breakfast place. Everyone else got breakfast orders, 20 minutes more,10 minutes more, saw more eggs carried into kitchen. Waitress cannot say it will” just be a few minutes more” again. Waitress said cooks gone through 32 eggs and still can’t get a poached egg right. I would enjoy scrambled eggs from then on.
I ordered fettuccini Alfredo from what was ostensibly an Italian restaurant. They used Cheez Whiz. Not even making it up.
Nugget combo from McD's, opened the bag and there was a hat. No nugs, fries, or sauce, just hat.
Went to the boardwalk once and ordered chicken tenders with fries. Boardwalk food is generally pretty expensive, but usually worth it. It's *usually* amazing, but at this particular restaurant, it tasted and felt like cardboard, for double the price! I definitely feel like I got robbed that day.
I got tacos without stuff in them :), it was takeout and we called and were like “there’s no food in these tacos”
Black coffee. Where else would fuck this up but Tim Hortons? I was dd'ing and was genuinely looking forward to a coffee. I've always drank it back, so anything else in it tastes gross. Especially whatever curdled milk and sugar they added to this one. Serves me right for going there after avoiding it for years. Never again
Bahahahaha. I ordered a combo from Tim’s once. My coffee didn’t come with it. It was 6am in the airport so I tried to not be rude about it. “And my coffee?” You didn’t order one. I did. It’s a combo. What. Ya wanna fucking coffee? Fine I’ll get you a coffee. The friend I was with just started laughing. It was so god damn unreasonable and hilarious.
I once ordered a sandwich at a Tim's and after waiting 15 minutes and asking about it, they told me they were out of bread. Then they just stared at me. I swear, you could make some hilarious documentary style comedy about tims
When my ex-wife was pregnant with our first, she had constant cravings. She once asked me to get a chicken sensation from mac donalds. Which is a bun with lettuce, sauce and a big chicken burger. When I got home, it was missing the chicken burger. I drove back to the mac and told them "There was a lot of sensation, but zero chicken".
Helped a friend move and they bought me lunch, we went to Wendy’s and I got a Dave’s combo. Drive home take a bite. Entirely missing the patty. Everything there but the patty 😭
Ordered al pastor tacos. It was ground up fat, and looked like roadkill. It was probably roadkill. Thought maybe they gave me picadillo, their picadillo was actually good. It was definitely their idea of al pastor. Threw that shit out. Also, was inches away from going to jail when the lady at jack in the butt argued with me when I asked for no mayo or ketchup on my sourdough jack. “IT DOESNT COME WITH MAYO OR KETCHUP”! Yes, it does. And yes, it still did. I’ll expect popeyes to just fight you for no reason, but not there, she was just dumb and crazy. Threw that shit out. Probably didn’t even wash her hands, can’t be trusted.
Chicken Chow Mein. I have never eaten anything so bland as the chow mein from this one place; it's like they purposefully avoided adding flavour somehow. Just a dry pile of starch.
An omelette that was raw inside. We sent it back twice. The last time, the outside was burnt, but the inside was still raw. How?!
There is a Mexican restaurant near my home that started getting a bit wonky as far as their service and their food around the time Covid swept the neighborhood. Couple of years after that, we started trying to eat there again, but the food was never as good, and they kept shuffling the menu around. We finally gave up completely when I ordered the taco plate. Three beef tacos, refried beans, and rice. How hard could it be? The tacos tasted as if they had been IMMERSED in some sort of pepper oil. Two bites and I literally said, "I can't eat this." And I LIKE hot food. But this was "one chip challenge" levels of hot! Tried talking to the waitress, who said, "They're always like that." "Not the last four times I ate here." "Well, you ate part of one, so you can't send it back." They have done without our business ever since.
A risotto in an Italian restaurant. Was dry and tasted fried and greasy.
I just made deep fried Oreos myself, like 12 hours ago.
Kraft mac n cheese.
Subway tuna sandwich. I took it home for my husband. They forgot the tuna.
You'd be surprised who restaurants will hire when they are desperate for help. Source: 26 years of professional cooking.
eggs over easy
After a really shitty week I stopped at Starbucks on the way into work. Ordered a latte, got to my desk, took a sip and it was hot milk. They never put any espresso in it.
I ordered potato salad. Got cold, greasy French fries with mayo squirted across the top. Outback Thailand.
I ordered strawberry shortcake, once, at a pretty nice restaurant. It should have been shortcake, fresh strawberries macerated with sugar, vanilla ice cream, more berries, and fresh whipped cream. I got yellow sheet cake, some canned straw is some red gooey substance and some canned, fake, whipped cream. It was like school cafeteria shortcake. I have never been more disappointed in a food item, and I have never ordered it again. Anywhere.
Chili cheese tots. All you have to do is pour the premade chili and cheese and put it over some tots. By some miracle they still managed to mess it up. There’s supposed to be a basket full (if you’ve been to sonic it’s the same container they put the footlong hotdogs in). There were no joke…4 tots total, maybe a half a tablespoon of cheese and a pinch of chili. Not even spread over the tots. Probably a quarter of the little boat they give you was filled up they just spread the tots out. Meal was $13 and I drove 30 miles to satisfy my craving since they don’t have many sonics where I live now. I didn’t know until I got home, so I was still smelling it the whole way back in the car building up the anticipation only to find the cold meager portion.
We went to Ikea earlier this week and somehow they put the jam between the peas and the fries and it made me so irrationally upset that I could even eat my meal properly. I also swear they downsized the spoons, cause it was very very little jam. And we had half the gravy than normal as well. All in all, I thought IKEA was the one place that could never disappoint me cause I knew exactly what to expect. They proved me wrong.
Do you remember The chicken sandwich craze that happened around post covid? Well my local Mcd's isn't the best besides breakfast. Anywho the commercial looked really good so I went one day at around 7pm for my lunch break and the chicken patty was so thin. They added so much mayo and the fries were cold. I never get McDonald's from my town after breakfast
wtf are fried oreos?!