In a cafe, and a woman has just complained (funny)

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She'd ordered a bacon sandwich and it's just been delivered to the table. She's now moaning because her bacon sandwich has a tiny crumb of black pudding on it. And she doesn't eat pork.

I feel for the poor staff having to explain which animal bacon comes from 😬

(And no, there's no vegan bacon on the menu so not a mix up!)

She'd have to have never been in a supermarket or any other food business apart from a very very narrow range to be unaware that most bacon in the UK is made from pork.

But clearly she was unaware of this, or she wouldn't have ordered the sandwich.

@AnApparitionQuipped leave the thread if it's upsetting you this much.

It's funny.

She has her husband with her who should be able to help guide her if she does genuinely have difficulties - but he'd probably have done that when she ordered the sandwich...

😂😂😂

Piglighting bastard!

That's an impressive made up narrative you've got going on there @AnApparitionQuipped

My whole family is very religious and doesn't eat pork. If one of them walked into a random greasy spoon ordering bacon and expecting it not to contain pork...they would definitely be considered stupid.

A staff member is heading to the table.

Ooooooh!

That's really interesting. I was having lunch in our canteen with some colleagues the other day and it was a bacon pasta bake or a vegetarian alternative and I was surprised that a coupld of the muslim guys took the bacon one as whenever it's pork on offer they take the alternative. I just assumed they weren't that strict. But maybe they don't realise it's also pork.

Husband currently looks like he's wishing for pigs to eat him!

Oooh tenterhooks ….

With cake?

I wouldn't necessarily complain, and I love black pudding, but I would still think it's pretty shoddy of the cafe to be so careless in their presentation of food, even a greasy spoon should do better.

And a lot of people who like bacon don't like black pudding. Just because it's from the same animal doesn't mean you like all types of pork product.

She may appear to be a middle aged white woman to the untrained eye.
But that may not be the way she identifies.

God how do MNers have the ability to ruin every single fucking thread by making po-faced accusations based on totally fictitious situations.

Black pudding contains cereal, so people could be allergic to it and not allergic to bacon.

I do not think that is what is happening to the woman in the cafe, or they would have said that, but it is not stupid to know that black pudding contains more than just pork.

I can’t tell if you are joking or not…

No cake. They're talking.

I'm not the only one in here whose invested in this, the other tables near hers are listening while trying not to look like they're listening.

But there was bread around the bacon?

I have family living in the ME (born and bred) and trust me, they all know what’s in bacon, black pudding, pepperoni etc. even haggis (‘why would you ear that???)

Just because they don’t eat it, doesn’t make them ignorant of what foods comes from little piggies.

@AnApparitionQuipped

Sometimes people get things wrong and it’s nothing to do with cultural difference or ageism or sexism or learning difficulties or mental health or disability.

Sometimes people have a little giggle at that because it’s funny and because all of us at some point have made a silly mistake too. There is enough to be serious about in life. If you’re so upset and can’t understand a lighthearted thread then leave it. We don’t need lecturing to.

Sorry should have said - the cereal is usually oats.

I have to say I love bacon but can't bear black pudding. Purely for psychological reasons. I know it basically tastes like sausages but someone once told me BP was like eating a pig's scab and I've never quite shaken off that image

Eat not ear. No ears in haggis. I can’t speak for what’s in a sausage though (mum used to say ‘everything but the squeek’)

Op you must stay and await the outcome of this ......

Well, this thread is annoying me - everyone jumping on to sneer at some poor woman - if it isn't religious/cultural, she might have learning difficulties - or, shock horror - simply not be as clever as the average Mumsnetter.

There is nothing clever about knowing that bacon is pork product and comes from a pig.

If the thread is annoying you so much just step away, it's not compulsory to read or engage in it.