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!)

She's probably hoping for a replacement plus a refund for her trauma. I use to work in a supermarket cafe, some customers became aware that some managers would offer a £5 gift voucher as a way of getting rid of a customer who was kicking off. Unfortunately with some customers it meant they returned on a regular basis then looked for any small thing they could find that might earn them a voucher.

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That's on her though and no one else.

I would think the people who do r realise what bacon is could pretty much be counted on one hand. And if you don't want to eat a certain food, then the onus is on you to make that happen, not order something that the vast majority of people will recognise as the meat from a pig then complain that is meat of a pig.

My 13 year old won't eat anything from a pig and he knows what that means.

I can pretty much guarantee that the staff will be in the back trying to keep a straight face, and this story will get retold often "remember that customer who complained their bacon sandwich was pug meat?" Followed by laughter.

Reminds me of my friend who used to work in Tesco - a customer came back to complain that their disposable bbq they bought for 1.99 didn't come with all the food on the picture of the lit bbq. Sometimes there are no words for the stupidity of people.

Bread is made from wheat, usually.

Black pudding contains oats, usually.

Oats and wheat are different things, obviously!

(I do not think the cafe woman has an allergy, fwiw)

Are you the woman in the cafe? 🐷

I'm pretty sure that the woman does rather enjoy her bacon, even if she doesn't eat 'pork'.

They are probably even more aware because gelatine sneaks it’s way into things

Regardless of pork/not pork it's rubbish for the cafe to serve a chunk of whatever from someone else's breakfast on your plate.

If I was having avocado on toast, though I like tofu I wouldn't expect a blob of tofu scramble from someone else's breakfast to be plonked on my plate.

Do better.

I assume the woman means 'I don't eat pork except bacon' which is logical to her but embarrassing to say out loud.

I run a business in an area with very few Muslims and we have a lot of Muslim clients from Huddersfield/Bradford. We have to repeatedly explicitly say that the bacon and sausage is pork and I have had many many people argue with me. One one occasion a man refused to believe me and bought his son a hot dog - I had no idea what to say or do!

Im almost impressed that she knew what black pudding is made from. Lots of people don’t (or don’t want to think about it).

Only on MN.

Oh god I just nearly choked on my scone.

The staff member seems a bit exasperated and just went "but it all comes from a pig my love!" and doesn't quite seem to know what to do next.

Woman looks like she wants to throw something. Her husband is either having silent hysterics or is crying. I think he's laughing on balance. Can see his shoulders shaking 🤣

Does that mean there is a bacon sandwich going spare? I’ll have it! 🥓 And stick a slice of black pud in too, please. 😋

This reminds me of the time a gent ordered a chicken and bacon wrap at work but didn’t want the bacon for religious reasons-which is fine-I put it through,ran into the kitchen and made it myself so there was no confusion or any chance of bacon going near his food
10 minutes later he’s having a real go at me because it had chicken in it
we ended up refunding him as a chicken and bacon wrap with no chicken or bacon is,well,a wrap,lettuce and bbq sauce

manys the times I’ve been asked for a cheeseburger-plain
theyve then gone mental because it comes with cheese,and I then explain that they wanted a plain hamburger instead-but I’m the one in the wrong as I should have been able to read their minds

Or they order a black coffee-it’s my fault there’s no milk in it

my list could go on forever

True. I’m veggie so I tend to know where the sneak it in too!

My DH eats sausages but not other types of pork because he doesn’t like the texture/taste. But he would just pick out the black pudding and carry on.

I love that he held it together for so long but has finally cracked 😂

I can pretty much guarantee that the staff will be in the back trying to keep a straight face, and this story will get retold often "remember that customer who complained their bacon sandwich was pug meat?" Followed by laughter.
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Well if the cafe is serving dog, there really HAS been a cultural misunderstanding @tigger1001 - & I think we should all apologise to @AnApparitionQuipped for our lack of sensitivity about canine meat cuts.

I'm annoyed on behalf of the woman you're all sneering at, and I want to stick up for her.

This is how bullying thrives - people are upset when they see it, but they do nothing - they step away, or they join in 'for a laugh' without thinking about what they're really doing.

I just think people should stop and think before sneering at a stranger in this way.

It would be completely different if you were laughing at your own silly mistake; or if the woman was being outrageously rude.

But she's made a perfectly legitimate complaint about her food being not what she ordered. For whatever reason, she doesn't know that bacon routinely comes from pork. That's nothing to sneer at.

Hello fellow McDonald's drone 🤣

I share your frustrations!

Place marking. Not ashamed.

Well, you had made the full ingredients of the hotdog clear with honesty so if he chose to ignore you, that’s his problem! However I believe there are beef hotdogs available so maybe he was expecting those.

Haha-lovely to meet you!xxx

Well this is keeping me entertained while I eat my lunch. Not a bacon sandwich.

Oh god a second staff member is coming, along with the bacon sandwich that started all of this.