AIBU to think if you want me how I want it, give it to me as I ask?

[FirstOnRecallDay]

Today DP and I visited a well known diner chain for some dinner and I ordered a burger, no problems there, the waitress then returned to our table and asked me how I'd like my burger cooked, as a person who likes meat almost breathing as it reaches me I asked for it med-rare.. For her to say:

"I'm sorry, we only do medium as a minimum.."

She returned with a miserable piece of coal blacked and beaten that was drier than the bread it was served in.

AIBU in thinking that if you ask me how I want my meat, I have the right to be annoyed when you tell me I can't have it that way?

Im going to complain strikeoutin hope of free vouchers strikeout

First attempt at strikeout failed. Where's my ?

YANBU !
ok maybe slightly but I'm taking pity on your strikeout fail

holds breath

so the question should have been "would you like your meat slightly ruined or really ruined?" YUM

Yanbu

I'd have been asking what was wrong with the quality of the meat that meant I couldn't have it medium rare

I had exactly that at a diner in London 2 weeks ago and it was lush.

I thought restaurants don't do pink or rarer,it's always well cooked. So yes YANBU, what's the point of asking?

DP didn't quite understand my outrage, but he eats everything well well well done anyway. plus he had a hotdog

(See lorelei? )

YAB a teeny bit U. Burgers carry a higher risk of bacteria than a steak for example. Think of the surface bacteria on a steak only being on the outside, so this is cooked. Bacteria never gets to the middle so you can eat it rare. Burgers are minced, so bacteria on the surface has been minced around and is now in the middle. So undercooking it can be risky. So they're probably just being cautious my setting medium as the minimum.

Ha, what was the point in asking?
If my dh is asked he always says
I like mine to look like a good vet could revive it.

Morethan, mine vanishes from the table just before I get to the mopping up the steak juice, it's just gravy I tell him.

YABU - you should have complained straight away!

Did anyone else read the title and think it was about sex?

obviously I have issues I need to address!

how would you like it cooked? just run it through a warm room.

interesting fact about the mince though, good knowledge.

I assumed cup of tea.

If it's the kind of place where they ask how you take your burger (I'm thinking of Quod in Oxford) then they should be serving nice food, not charcoal.

They don't ask in McDonald's, frinstance, so you don't expect gourmet.

And in a very nice restaurant they'd mince the meat to order so surface area wouldn't matter.

Spaulding is right. Unless the meat is freshly minced and cooked immediately, eating a burger that is pink in the middle carries a high risk of giving you nasty after effects.

My issue is not so much the fact it has to be cooked to death, it's more so that she asked me a question then told me no. Why give me the option??

sooty I think we may share the same ishoos.

And then, having noted "medium-well" rather than well done, brought it out incinerated anyway.

"What would you like?"
"A, please."
"We only do B or C."
"Oh. B then."
...
"Here's your C."

I have no ishoos, but yes sooty I did too! ;)

I am hacked off about this too. When it comes to meat, I'm with Gollum. GIVE IT TO US RAW, STUPID FAT HOBBIT.

YAB a bit U.

The first is just a question of phrasing. Probably would have been better of she'd asked 'would you like it medium or well done?' Not really a big issue though.

YANBU about it being incinerated if you asked for medium but I might have sent it back there and then.

I'm with the others on well cooked burgers though. Even though I prefer my beef still mooing.

I think I have the same issues as sooty and Lamu though.

Still mooing is the only way.

I have had this conversation in France many times (in French)...

Waiter: How would you like your steak?
Me: Blue.
Waiter: Ummmm blue?
Me: Yes, blue. Really, I know I'm English but I know I want it barely dead.

They always hoover worriedly in the corner as I take a bite.

I was a vegetarian for 8 years.

sootythecat
^Did anyone else read the title and think it was about sex?

obviously I have issues I need to address^

Your not the only one