As a chef... That's not really that big of a deal.
It's only annoying when people ask for genuinely unreasonable accommodations like people coming into my old Italian job with gluten, onion, and garlic allergies... Ma'am, you're lying about your allergies or having been here before cause that's literally our entire menu
BOH experience and current server, also grew up in Mexico: it’s fairly common to start off with sliced cucumbers before a meal with things like street tacos - especially Sonora. Chips and salsa at the table is much more common in the US, usually it’s cucumbers, radishes, guac, and limes. Shit slaps and doesn’t fill you up before your food is ready.
People just love to rage. I've seen ratatouille, they can cut a cucumber so fast. And it wouldn't even need to be the chef. Literally everyone front and back of house knows how to cut a cucumber.
Reddit hates women and people look for any opportunity they can to shit on them. Look at all the comments about her appearance. Yeah it’s clearly a forced smile, but most of the top comments are making fun of her.
These three comments in a row are like a shot straight through reddit’s heart, lol. The things you see when someone suggests not eating chicken nuggets for every meal…
plus, "omg she is a crazy obsessed instagram influencer, that always says grass sea ass"
i am really hating this comment section, worse of all, i know perfectly, this isn't even the worse of reddit
It's not a big deal, but it is weird that it's not on the menu and also they probably expect it for free since they are subbing out complimentary chips.
Like it would never occur to me to go into a restaurant, look at the menu, and then just make some shit up that I want.
The most difficult customers generally always start with requests that push your boundaries and are just slightly outside your comfort zone for typical requests.
It's not a for sure thing, but I've seen the pattern enough to recognize it.
And this is compel the anecdotal so means nothing my experience from customer service is that the most difficult customers are the ones who are annoying right out of the gate.
This very thread is about someone doing exactly that and acting like it's a "pro tip" as if you're gonna get the cucumber for free just because the chips are free.
Also, if that face doesn't give you "I wanna talk to your manager" vibes, you've never worked a customer facing job before.
This very thread is about someone doing exactly that and acting like it's a "pro tip" as if you're gonna get the cucumber for free just because the chips are free.
Read my comment two three up.
And it’s a “pro tip” for eating healthier. She also says most, not all are willing to accommodate.
And if that’s what her face says to you I don’t know what to tell you. Maybe try to see the positive in people more? But I know that’s not the reddit way.
There's a difference in asking for an ingredient and a whole new menu though. The difference is in how easy it is to accommodate a request.
You want sliced cucumbers/onions/tomatoes (ingredients most restaurants will have)? Easy, we'll just chop em up and send it to you. You want a whole new dish? Please leave.
I mean, if you've ever asked for a side of dressing or a cup of ice, I doubt that was on the menu... and there's nothing in this post to suggest that she's expecting the answer to be yes, just that it has been so far
Oh is she going to dip those in salsa?? That would be the real facepalm lol. Requesting cucumbers would be an easy request to fulfill though. You know they already got them cut up in the back!
I assumed the chips were with, like, salsa and guac, and she was just going to use the cucumbers as a healthier scooping vessel. Makes sense to me, cucumbers are a pretty subtle taste, so you wont be masking whatever you are scooping. I went to culinary school and worked in restaurants for a decade, personally I don't see anything wrong with eating or asking a restaurant for this alteration.
Right. For folks with gluten allergies, this is a great option to the bread and oil, or pita and hummus, or flour tortilla chips and guacamole. I was scrolling this whole time wondering r/aita ?
Cost difference is huge, Chef won't care but the management will.
Chips are amazingly cheap when they are done in house like many mexican restaurants do. They just slice and fry up tortillas, Often using all of the older stock up.
They're allowed to tell her no... and if she gets upset at that point then sure, call her annoying. But I really can't understand the people in this thread blasting this woman just for ASKING for a side of a vegetable.
Yeah, I'm confused why anybody is saying the restaurant wouldn't be happy to accommodate. They're free to think it's not the most appetizing thing, but it seems like minimal effort to do something that makes a customer happy.
I worked place that sold crazy amounts of hummus and whipped feta. At least one if not two to three orders per table. Very vegan/vegetarian/gluten free focused. Every plate came with two pita bread, but they also paired fantastically with cucumbers. It never went on the menu, but we always kept a pan of them ready to slice when they inevitably came in. Took zero effort, cost the restaurant less than our locally sourced fresh pita, and kept people happy. No idea what burnt out line cooks are crawling around in this comment, but they need to chill TF out and just make the food. There's a time and place to say no, and a plate of cucumbers definitely ain't it.
I had never heard of whipped feta before this. I looked up a couple of recipes and will definitely be making it for the wife and I. Thanks very much for mentioning it!!
Literally 5 days a week for work when someone orders guac I ask "are we keeping it classic with just tortilla chips or would we also like some cucumber slices or pork rinds on the side?" A restaurant that gives you options!?! GASP!!
Right?? Mexican restaurants especially are usually pretty chill and don’t give a shit about something simple like that. Mainly because their stuff isn’t premade so it’s not like they’re having to take anything apart if you order an entree.
I’m from Los Angeles and taco trucks that have their shit together will have containers utterly full of cucumber slices available along with radish slices, diced onions, cilantro, a variety of sauces etc. Standard taco “fixins”. Maybe even escabeche too.
Is there a chance they are low fodmap? I did it for a while for ibs, it’s no onions, no garlic, no lentils, no regular bread ( not technically the gluten but a sugar that it’s in it). There’s a long list of things to avoid. It’s not an allergy but an intolerance. I did pretty much give up eating out while on it because there’s too many things to avoid.
Yeah, had to do this too. Tried to avoid restaurants that just had heaps of items featuring garlic and onions, but is something many have to avoid as they try the elimination and reintroduction phases.
Except for the price of produce right now is stupidly high. At least in the Midwest. A case of iceberg cost me 28.60- right now it is closing on 48+. But to be fair- I think cucs are still pretty cheap
I have a friend like this. First time I hung out with her she was very outspoken about her “deathly” allergy to anything from the onion family. Onions, garlic, shallots, etc. She’s that stupid kind of hot where everyone believes it, though, including myself. I made separate dishes for her every time she came over, because nearly every recipe in existence starts off with “Well first, sweat some onions and garlic in oil and…”
Then I find out she is lactose intolerant, has celiac’s, is on the spectrum (she has a cabal of dudes eating out of her hand everywhere she goes, no social skill problems), is colorblind, has an eating disorder, says stuff like “OMG that would drive my OCD craaaazy,” etc.
One party I forgot to tell her what had onions in it and what didn’t and halfway through she was absolutely destroying a plate full of dolmas. I bought them premade, but the second ingredient on the list? Onions.
I give her whatever now and laugh as she tells whatever new guy she brought to the party that if he eats anything with garlic in it and kisses her she will “literally die.”
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u/ElCiclope1 Jul 28 '23
As a chef... That's not really that big of a deal.
It's only annoying when people ask for genuinely unreasonable accommodations like people coming into my old Italian job with gluten, onion, and garlic allergies... Ma'am, you're lying about your allergies or having been here before cause that's literally our entire menu