Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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Complain and eat no more.rick_chasey said:High risk strategy if you don’t want other people’s bodily fluids in your food tbh
Helps them, potentially saves you money and health.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
A lot depends on the issue, I've been with people who have had something they asked to be left off / substituted being brought out and just accepted it. Sending something back because you think the chef hasn't done a very good job might be more risky. I haven't had to complain many times and when I have it has usually been because something has taken ages to turn up or been missed which usually gets an apology and sometimes a discount on the bill. If you're not going to complain to the staff don't moan about it to those dining with you.rick_chasey said:High risk strategy if you don’t want other people’s bodily fluids in your food tbh
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I've properly complained twice... I once for a really shoddy meal (they were obviously short-staffed and were struggling in the kitchen) which they took 20% of the bill, and the other time which was so bad I just said that we were not going to eat the food, and we'd just pay for the drinks we'd already had. We went elsewhere, and have never been back.0
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The only good thing about the new forum seems to have changed.1
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Excellent. Thank you.shirley_basso said:Go to this link instead:
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Or click 'discussions' at the VERY top of the page (in blue toolbar)0
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It means scrolling to the top of the page though, so is still trivially annoying.0
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Definitely what this thread is for, but you can only find it after needlessly clicking through stuff you didn't have to before. I'm with Bean on this one.0
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Back on the subject of eating out:
- Restaurants that only have a QR code for a menu
- Restaurants that make you pay the bill online
- Waiters who ask people to taste the wine
- Waiters who have learnt to ask about wine tasting, but can't twist the bottle to stop it dripping
- Waiters who pour the wine
- Waiters who interrupt the conversation to detail something irrelevant e.g. the chef's recommendations
- People with allergies
- Cream out of a spray can
- Thinking that cream and ice cream are mutually exclusive
- Offering deserts without a choice of custard, cream or ice cream
- "Can I have the bill please?" with the response "Let me clear the table first"
- Places that think burgers don't need to be fully cooked
- A new place opening that sells either pizza or burgers
- Leaving a restaurant feeling hungry after a tasty morsel.
- An unsolicited "Still or sparkling?"
- "You can only have the table for x hours, is it that ok?" Depends how quickly you bring the food
- Double sittings
- The absence of any soft material, so you can't hear anything in the clean, modern looking place
- Needing to buy side dishes
- The way it is not possible for a classy restaurant to have different portion sizes
- Menus written in French. There is a word in English for sauté
- French restaurants
- Rise of pho, drowning out all the nice Vietnamese stuff
I should probably be a better cook. Think that's my lot.
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What's the English word for sauté?0
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Jumped.kingstongraham said:What's the English word for sauté?
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I forgot. It even gets verbed. Sautéed, sautéing.kingstongraham said:What's the English word for sauté?
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Very good. Is it something the spuds do?briantrumpet said:
Jumped.kingstongraham said:What's the English word for sauté?
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Can’t believe that amongst all that you haven’t got a gripe at food being served on anything other than a plate (or dish where appropriate).
Why is it no longer seemingly possible to have good quality food just served in a traditional way?
There’s a place near me that does nice food but for fish or meat you have to go to a deli counter and pick what you want and they charge you by weight, I just want to order bass (not ‘sea’ bass as they insist on calling it) and have a decent sized fillet served at the table.0 -
Good point. https://twitter.com/WeWantPlatesPross said:Can’t believe that amongst all that you haven’t got a gripe at food being served on anything other than a plate (or dish where appropriate).
Why is it no longer seemingly possible to have good quality food just served in a traditional way?
There’s a place near me that does nice food but for fish or meat you have to go to a deli counter and pick what you want and they charge you by weight, I just want to order bass (not ‘sea’ bass as they insist on calling it) and have a decent sized fillet served at the table.
A few more.
- Crockery on my plate. Basket of fries, lasagna dish etc.
- Pies that are soup with pastry floating on top
- Ketchup in sachets.
- Shrimps with their shells on
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You really do eat at a wide variety of places!!TheBigBean said:Back on the subject of eating out:
- Restaurants that only have a QR code for a menu
- Restaurants that make you pay the bill online
- Waiters who ask people to taste the wine
- Waiters who have learnt to ask about wine tasting, but can't twist the bottle to stop it dripping
- Waiters who pour the wine
- Waiters who interrupt the conversation to detail something irrelevant e.g. the chef's recommendations
- People with allergies
- Cream out of a spray can
- Thinking that cream and ice cream are mutually exclusive
- Offering deserts without a choice of custard, cream or ice cream
- "Can I have the bill please?" with the response "Let me clear the table first"
- Places that think burgers don't need to be fully cooked
- A new place opening that sells either pizza or burgers
- Leaving a restaurant feeling hungry after a tasty morsel.
- An unsolicited "Still or sparkling?"
- "You can only have the table for x hours, is it that ok?" Depends how quickly you bring the food
- Double sittings
- The absence of any soft material, so you can't hear anything in the clean, modern looking place
- Needing to buy side dishes
- The way it is not possible for a classy restaurant to have different portion sizes
- Menus written in French. There is a word in English for sauté
- French restaurants
- Rise of pho, drowning out all the nice Vietnamese stuff
I should probably be a better cook. Think that's my lot.
You should be more assertive with the wine waiter and answer “no” when asked if you would like to try the wine. I can not imagine how sh1t a place would need to be to just tip it in your glass.
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I never order wine, so it is someone else inconveniencing me. Obviously good friends will do it just to annoy me. Of course there are more people who think the charade adds some value to their "experience", but that doesn't stop it being trivially annoying.surrey_commuter said:
You really do eat at a wide variety of places!!TheBigBean said:Back on the subject of eating out:
- Restaurants that only have a QR code for a menu
- Restaurants that make you pay the bill online
- Waiters who ask people to taste the wine
- Waiters who have learnt to ask about wine tasting, but can't twist the bottle to stop it dripping
- Waiters who pour the wine
- Waiters who interrupt the conversation to detail something irrelevant e.g. the chef's recommendations
- People with allergies
- Cream out of a spray can
- Thinking that cream and ice cream are mutually exclusive
- Offering deserts without a choice of custard, cream or ice cream
- "Can I have the bill please?" with the response "Let me clear the table first"
- Places that think burgers don't need to be fully cooked
- A new place opening that sells either pizza or burgers
- Leaving a restaurant feeling hungry after a tasty morsel.
- An unsolicited "Still or sparkling?"
- "You can only have the table for x hours, is it that ok?" Depends how quickly you bring the food
- Double sittings
- The absence of any soft material, so you can't hear anything in the clean, modern looking place
- Needing to buy side dishes
- The way it is not possible for a classy restaurant to have different portion sizes
- Menus written in French. There is a word in English for sauté
- French restaurants
- Rise of pho, drowning out all the nice Vietnamese stuff
I should probably be a better cook. Think that's my lot.
You should be more assertive with the wine waiter and answer “no” when asked if you would like to try the wine. I can not imagine how censored a place would need to be to just tip it in your glass.
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That's different, the contact with hot oil/fat does the cooking, not the hot pan, so doesn't involve moving the stuff around as much in the pan, and more oil.pangolin said:
Fry?kingstongraham said:What's the English word for sauté?
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Having entered a few running races recently, finishers t shirts and medals. Like, I suspect, most people who start running I liked getting them at first to mark my first 5k / 10k / half / marathon or particular big events. However, I now have a third of my drawer space taken up by t shirts and so many medals that the thing I had them hanging on keeps falling over so I’ve chucked them in a box.
I seem to rotate through the same dozen or so better quality ones, some long sleeve ones that are great in winter and some bright ones when I run on roads with no pavement.
The races I entered yesterday had an option not to have the t shirt and donate the cost to charity but what I really want is an option to not have a t shirt or medal in return for a cheaper entry when a 10k is now costing £25 and a marathon about £60.0 -
Last time I got t shirt at an event, it was a nylon thing which went straight in the bin. I never minded decent quality t shirts as it meant I never had to buy any. I’ve never had any time for finishers medals, they always went in a draw before heading for the bin.0
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Fell races tend not to involve any of that stuff. Trail races on the other hand tend to be triple the price and come with medals, Tshirts etc.Pross said:Having entered a few running races recently, finishers t shirts and medals. Like, I suspect, most people who start running I liked getting them at first to mark my first 5k / 10k / half / marathon or particular big events. However, I now have a third of my drawer space taken up by t shirts and so many medals that the thing I had them hanging on keeps falling over so I’ve chucked them in a box.
I seem to rotate through the same dozen or so better quality ones, some long sleeve ones that are great in winter and some bright ones when I run on roads with no pavement.
The races I entered yesterday had an option not to have the t shirt and donate the cost to charity but what I really want is an option to not have a t shirt or medal in return for a cheaper entry when a 10k is now costing £25 and a marathon about £60.
Always liked the Haweswater Half Marathon which gives you a tea mug...Full of hot tea at the finish.
The old Fred Whitton beer glasses were good to but they went by the wayside a few years back.
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I'd add in bowls used when a standard plate would suffice and is easier to cut up food on instead of in. Then the ubiquitous slates and chopping boards, no need.TheBigBean said:
Good point. https://twitter.com/WeWantPlatesPross said:Can’t believe that amongst all that you haven’t got a gripe at food being served on anything other than a plate (or dish where appropriate).
Why is it no longer seemingly possible to have good quality food just served in a traditional way?
There’s a place near me that does nice food but for fish or meat you have to go to a deli counter and pick what you want and they charge you by weight, I just want to order bass (not ‘sea’ bass as they insist on calling it) and have a decent sized fillet served at the table.
A few more.
- Crockery on my plate. Basket of fries, lasagna dish etc.
- Pies that are soup with pastry floating on top
- Ketchup in sachets.
- Shrimps with their shells onThe above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
If I get served aerosol cream, it gets sent back and I never go back.TheBigBean said:
- Cream out of a spray can
The problem for me is, I can cook. I love cooking and even served some time in catering so eating out is a minefield for me.
I think 'if I could have cooked what I ate better at home, I resent paying the bill'.
Also, after 3 courses at a local restaurant last year, I came home hungry. The food and service was good but fcuk me, at £xxx pounds for 2 adults and 2 children during their happy hour, I want food, not some exhibition on a plate that won't fill me up.
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The most ridiculous meal I ever had was at a place called 'Stones' in Crediton, where, supposedly, one cooked one's own little morsels of food on, er, hot stones. Except the stones didn't stay hot enough for long enough, so they kept on having to bring more stones out. Oh, and the vegetarian option included prawns.
They closed about a month after opening.0 -
Yeah, I’ve done a few fell races. They’re usually about £5 and you get free soup or similar afterwards. One I did have a bottle of beer to all finishers that was named after the hill we ran up, it must retail at £3-4 a bottle. The last one I did the organiser made a profit so is dropping the entry fee next year, I think the rule is they can’t make a profit so if they do they tend to donate it to charity.mrb123 said:
Fell races tend not to involve any of that stuff. Trail races on the other hand tend to be triple the price and come with medals, Tshirts etc.Pross said:Having entered a few running races recently, finishers t shirts and medals. Like, I suspect, most people who start running I liked getting them at first to mark my first 5k / 10k / half / marathon or particular big events. However, I now have a third of my drawer space taken up by t shirts and so many medals that the thing I had them hanging on keeps falling over so I’ve chucked them in a box.
I seem to rotate through the same dozen or so better quality ones, some long sleeve ones that are great in winter and some bright ones when I run on roads with no pavement.
The races I entered yesterday had an option not to have the t shirt and donate the cost to charity but what I really want is an option to not have a t shirt or medal in return for a cheaper entry when a 10k is now costing £25 and a marathon about £60.
Always liked the Haweswater Half Marathon which gives you a tea mug...Full of hot tea at the finish.
The old Fred Whitton beer glasses were good to but they went by the wayside a few years back.
By contrast, one of the profit making companies that runs a lot of local road races took over running a 10k but when they realised they were going to lose money they cancelled and refuse to give a refund (they had to relent in the end under threats of legal action).0 -
This. I'd go as far as to say when in a restaurant I never order anything I'd cook at home. Grabbing a meal on the go is different to a planned meal out though.pinno said:
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I think 'if I could have cooked what I ate better at home, I resent paying the bill'.
...The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0
