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

[QuestionableMouse]

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!)

I'm sorry but you are going to have to go back and get the full story from the people who work there - nothing less is acceptable.

With all the references to turkey bacon on this thread, surely turkey bacon is really just the normal (PORK!) bacon you put on the turkey to keep the breasts moist? *sorrynotsorry

She didn’t come from Oxford?

Randolph hotel in Oxford insisted that as I was vegetarian a ham salad was perfectly fine to eat.
I got told if I didn’t eat ham that I should have said I was vegan. I got the impression as a vegan I would have been presented with a Salmon salad as when I explained what a vegan would eat I was told that was just plain picky (Dh’s company meals out were always at the Randolph. It was a beautiful hotel and for a meat eater quite nice meals. As at the time I was vegetarian I used to eat before hand.

I actually can’t eat any meat or fish it doesn’t agree with me. I will spend hours doubled up in pain with stomach ache

Do a quick dictionary check of what the word bacon is. It is defined as coming from a pig. For example:

"cured meat from the back or sides of a pig."
"a side of a pig cured and smoked;"
"Bacon is salted or smoked meat which comes from the back or sides of a pig."
"meat from the back and sides of a pig, dried, salted, and usually smoked"
"thin, salty meat product that's often served beside eggs at breakfast"
"meat from a pig treated with salt."

Even in muslim countries I have never seen non pork based bacon as just referred to as bacon on its own. It has always stated "turkey bacon" "vegetarian bacon" etc. Same as the sausages too. I assume to avoid any issues like this.

I can't imagine anyone who lives in the UK wouldn't expect that anything labelled bacon wouldn't be of the pork variety unless it said otherwise.

Delighted that we've given you hope for black pudding - I'd never had any other until we moved north of Watford and I have to say, for me it's not a patch on the Stornaway stuff. Enjoy!

I vaguely remember I think it was a Jewish celebrity in some game show and saying he didn’t eat pork and then saying how much he loved bacon.
I didn’t watch what ever programme it was on but remember catching something about it on my online news feed
I remember seeing some incredulity that he didn’t know bacon was pork

Can you find evidence what else bacon means even in other cultures ?

Randolph hotel in Oxford insisted that as I was vegetarian a ham salad was perfectly fine to eat.
I got told if I didn’t eat ham that I should have said I was vegan.

Interesting. My MIL spent a lot of her working life in a hotel in Oxford (though not the Randolph) and she firmly believed that vegetarians eat fish, and anyone who didn't eat meat or fish must be a vegan. I'm not sure if she ever actually met a lacto-vegetarian but she must have been very confused if she did. I think she would have drawn the line at offering ham to a vegetarian though.

I worked in mc’ds in the 90’s and back then they served both quarterpounders; the one without cheese was cheaper. I’m not sure why they pulled the plain quarterpounder from the menu 🤔🤨

You can never educate Spam.

@ThistleTits 😂 it was back when M&S did just ham sandwiches with no other condiments etc so probably!

No, but I have been to the Randolph and wasn’t that impressed even as a meat eater 😬

I recall that too - think it was a Come Dine With Me celeb edition.

It does sound like a possible case of early dementia to be honest.

🤣🤣🤣

I'll . . . I'll have mine black, thank you very much . . . 😬

That and I'm wondering if I tell my ds that in my world if I tell ds carrots, peas and broccoli are chocolate he would eat it.

After all - apparently deciding a pork product is non pork is enough......

That before you consider that's not even what is known about her decision about eating fired pig in a sandwich but not other pig other ways!

Right on every count, except that that isn't an eye roll, and I do find an enquiry for pigeon milk richly comedic.

So right on hardly any counts, really. 😄.

However, you get an extra point for being miserable, so you still get a coconut.

You can share it with your friends if you have any.

That's the only turkey bacon I would be interested in.

Thank you.

Apology accepted.

And I rescind my snark.

" Blueeyedgirl21 · Today 10:59
My cat is sat here crying and shaking because you haven’t included cat milk
sick of ignorant people who don’t even understand other cultures , typical brits "

That's literal violence! Hope cat is feline better soon! :-/ 😉

" @QuestionableMouse Blueeyedgirl21 · Today 11:02
@QuestionableMouse THERE ARE NO LIVESTOCKS IN TEESSIDE , you’re telling porkies …
Porkies, eh? 🤔🤔🤔
I'm pretty good with animals. They're sheeps not porkies 😂😁 "

😁
No livestocks? Well no, not once they've been turned into bacon, they're not livestocks any more then :-( but they taste good!

I reckon it'll be in Trip Advisor or Next Door by now.

Many years ago, my aunt (from near Oxford, actually) tried very hard to persuade my Muslim husband and self to have some M&S salad with 'wafer thin ham'. This was long before it became a thing and she was actually deadly serious that she thought it would be ok for us.

It happens ALL THE TIME (although getting better as time goes on).

When I looked at wedding venues one said they only had 1 veggie option... yep it was Salmon, they got annoyed claiming I (the veggie) was wrong about it not being vegetarian.

Pescitarians who use to call themselves vegetarians have a lot to answer for.