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- From: bill@frog.CRDS.COM (auspex1)
- Newsgroups: ne.food
- Subject: Re: Deceptive menu practices
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.214414.24558@frog.CRDS.COM>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:44:14 GMT
- References: <BxtHKM.6Ao@world.std.com>
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- Organization: Charles River Data Systems
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- In article <BxtHKM.6Ao@world.std.com> rhs@world.std.com (Richard H Schwartz) writes:
- >This is a complaint. A nice night out at a restaurant that
- >came highly recommended was ruined. The restaurant is Yen's
- >Wok on Route 9 in Framingham. The problem is their menu.
-
- <... They ordered
- >Chicken With Vegetables, and from the section marked "Vegetables
- >and Bean Curd" we orderd Dry Cooked String Beans.
- >
- >The last item contained ground pork. Again, I don't recall ever
- >seeing pork mixed in with Dry Cooked String Beans before. Another
- >item in the same section of the menu is marked "with or without
- >pork". So why wasn't this one? Sure, I would have known that
- >the Home Style Bean Curd contained pork, because every restaurant
- >and every cook book does it that way, but lots of people wouldn't
- >know that, just as I didn't know that this restaurant puts pork
- >in the Dry Cooked String Beans. Given the much larger group of
- >people who, expecting a vegetable dish, are distressed by any
- >meat at all, I consider this to be a far more serious problem than
- >that of the soup. (Egg drop soup with pork and a pork base.)
-
- I have never seen Dry Cooked String Beans WITHOUT ground pork.
- I agree with the restaurant. If you have a particular food constraint
- then I think it is a good idea to check about all dishes, not just
- the ones you think you know. They were nice because they took the
- dishes back without any problems.
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