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- From: kgorman@star-trek.bbn.com (Karen Gorman)
- Newsgroups: ne.food
- Subject: Re: Deceptive menu practices
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 14:12:42 GMT
- Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
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- Reply-To: kgorman@BBN.COM (Karen Gorman)
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- In article <Bxw029.C7E@world.std.com> rhs@world.std.com (Richard H Schwartz)
- writes:
-
- |>Excuse me, but I'm no stranger to Chinese restaurants or cuisine. However
- |>the point of another poster, that there are many many variations on the
- |>same dish is well taken. So is the point made by almost everyone that
- |>the only way to be (mostly) safe is to ask up front. I pointed out in
- |>my post that we normally do ask up front, if we're not ordering standard
- |>fare items. Obviously, we erred on the string beans. But I don't accept
- |>that about the soup. In thirty years, and probably hundreds of
- |>different Chinese restaurants, including many different styles, I have
- |>never seen pork in the Egg Drop soup.
-
- There's a first time for everything, and your experience just proved that
- adage.
-
- |>I guess I was deflecting blame too much from our waitress by putting it
- |>on the menu rather than on her. We sent the soup back, but then she
- |>brought the string beans with pork. So the waitress must share the blame
- |>for the ruined evening.
-
- I find your reasoning to be sorely lacking in any logic, and your arrogance
- most annoying.
-
- |>As to whether the quality of our evening was or was not ruined, you weren't
- |>there. We were hungry. My girlfriend's daughter was hungry. The first
- |>item of food they brought for us could not be eaten. Consider the effect
- |>of putting a bowl of soup in front of a child and then having to have the
- |>waitress take it away.
-
- Next time do your homework first and no one will have to suffer.
-
- |>Thanks to all for the comments. I probably *will* ask up front about
- |>everything from here on. Doesn't mean I'll think it's right that I have
- |>to.
-
- If you want to receive dietary correct food either go to a Kosher resturant
- or simply ask what the ingredients are, you and your dining companions are
- the ones with the dietary restrictions. If you don't practice either of
- these suggestions in the future, you will most definitely run into the same
- problem again and will not have learned anything from this experience.
-
- kg@bbn.com
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