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menu interpretation

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OhHelpNooo · 27/06/2018 23:14

Just asking . . . if you saw on a menu in a gastro-pub kind of place 'Wiltshire* lamb and mint sausages' - what would you expect to get, and what other interpretations of that listing might be feasible?
*county changed to protect the innocent.

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argumentativefeminist · 27/06/2018 23:36

They wanted the ridiculous hypothetical mint jelly blob tubes?? Or they wanted lamb hunk, mint sauce, and 2 pork sausages on the side? 😂

fruitbrewhaha · 27/06/2018 23:37

They were dicks.
You should go on trip advisor to review the pub saying how wonderfully polite and restrained the staff behaved at such a nonsense complaint.

pallisers · 27/06/2018 23:39

Thank god they didn't order spotted dick!

Ha! or toad in the hole

kitnkaboodle · 27/06/2018 23:39

They must have misread it as 'Wiltshire lamb + mint + sausages'?? Perhaps they were drunk??

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OhHelpNooo · 27/06/2018 23:39

ACat spotted dick!!! Oh fuck that's funny Grin They were just so . . . horrible!

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GahWhatever · 27/06/2018 23:39

Idiots! I'm embarrassed on their behalf.

ZibbidooZibbidooZibbidoo · 27/06/2018 23:39

What the hell did they think mint sausages were?? Ewww.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 27/06/2018 23:40

It's all the fault of the Oxford comma. Or summat.

klep, lamb sausages are perfectly normal, and it's exactly the same cut you'd use to make lamb kefte or koftas or whatever version of minced-meat patties you choose to pick from anywhere in the Middle East across to India. You just need something like lamb breast that has plenty of fat running through it.

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OhHelpNooo · 27/06/2018 23:42

They wanted lamb. With sausages. They did not mention the mint. I'd like to think at some point they realised they were being dicks but oh no, they kept on banging on and asking for the manager. That'll be me, said the manager, but I can get you the other manager if you like. Who like everyone else was baffled (and quietly furious at the waste)

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blacksax · 27/06/2018 23:42

What would they have expected to receive had they ordered 'Steak and ale pie' - a juicy steak and a pint with a pastry lid?
Twits.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 27/06/2018 23:52

I do kinda want you to keep going to the pub with them, just so you can report back to us.

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OhHelpNooo · 27/06/2018 23:56

LRD I don't think they will be back . . . there was lots of huffing about how the place was not as good as it used to be!
Shall I tell you want they had to say about the 'traditional Austrian coffee cake'?

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ohtheholidays · 27/06/2018 23:58

Yes please what did they say about the cake and like everyone else I'd have been expecting some nice gourmet/butcher type of sausages with some peas and nice homemade gravy.

Deshasafraisy · 28/06/2018 00:00

Lamb and mint sausages though. Yuck!

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OhHelpNooo · 28/06/2018 00:01

After sausage-gate, and having been given replacement meals free of charge, they summoned the waiter/manager person over, got him to describe in detail what was in the cake, then dismissed him with a sneer and commented loudly on the nonsense of a 'traditional Austrian coffee cake' because "AS WE KNOW COFFEE CAKE IS NOT AUSTRIAN".

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SundayGirls · 28/06/2018 00:03

I'd have misread it as Lamb with additional sausages, TBH. I know it doesn't say that but I'd have seen it like that. Mainly because since when are sausages made out of lamb and mint?! (I know they can be made out of anything but that's not common, and the mint goes hand in hand with lamb on its own).

But I would have been embarrassed at my own mistake so it would not have come to light with the establishment (or even probably my fellow diners other than maybe my DH, my parents and siblings).

I wouldn't have dreamed of complaining. To complain to that level and tone suggests the professionally offended. If I was disappointed and/or hated the lamb sausages, I'd have said (quietly!) that I had misread the menu and was expecting lamb not sausages and would there be anything they could give as an alternative (if no actual lamb was available)? i.e, just be reasonable.

LilMadAgain · 28/06/2018 00:07

Cheers op, I'm having roast lamb on Sunday now. Let me guess BTW Austrian coffee AND some random cake?

Labradoodliedoodoo · 28/06/2018 00:08

MInt sausages?!

Verbena37 · 28/06/2018 00:09
Grin
Walkingdeadfangirl · 28/06/2018 00:10

This is why children at school need to learn SPAG.
British people are so uneducated. Neanderthals.

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OhHelpNooo · 28/06/2018 00:12

Perhaps just coffee served by a tall blond bloke in lederhosen and braces. Fuck the cake, just because it's written clearly on the menu doesn't mean it has to be there.

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StrangeLookingParasite · 28/06/2018 00:17

dismissed him with a sneer and commented loudly on the nonsense of a 'traditional Austrian coffee cake' because "AS WE KNOW COFFEE CAKE IS NOT AUSTRIAN".

God what a pair of twats. The staff have the patience of saints (and not St Cunty McFuckoff, either).

beluga425 · 28/06/2018 00:19

What total dicks.
<a class="break-all" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/austrian-coffee-cake-recipe/amp&ved=2ahUKEwiko7CN_fTbAhWKC8AKHd9vADUQFjASegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw37U1-xWsDA-MCsmA6ty1Hc&ampcf=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/austrian-coffee-cake-recipe/amp&ved=2ahUKEwiko7CN_fTbAhWKC8AKHd9vADUQFjASegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw37U1-xWsDA-MCsmA6ty1Hc&ampcf=1

GabsAlot · 28/06/2018 00:38

go on TA and praise the restuarnt op-they sound like utter fuckwits

AttilaTheMusical · 28/06/2018 00:44

I've had lamb and mint sausages - they were delicious.