Do you know anyone like this?? Drives me insane!!!

[Lipperfromchipper]

Actually reminded of this on another thread and thought it was worthy of its own 🤣🤣

Does anyone know someone like this?!! Drives me INSANE!!

My SIL... goes to a restaurant and orders a meal let’s say
Sea bass with samphire and a butter based sauce with mash and veg on the side...but then requests the following
Can you take off the samphire
and instead of the ‘butter sauce’ can I have mushroom sauce from the chicken dish instead
and then instead of mash can I have chips and instead of the veg can I have a plain green salad.

Emmm ok says the waitress.. SIL gets the dinner as she requested (much to the chefs annoyance I imagine!!) and then COMPLAINS that the meal is bland or doesn’t really work!!! Meanwhile I just want to fucking scream!!!! OF COURSE ITS SHIT YOU MADE THE FUCKING DISH UP!!

HARD WORK!!And relax...,

I am not sure why it bothers you so much OP. Are you the one cooking the food?

Maybe because she is the one sitting cringing at her sils appaling behaviour?

Mintjulia. Vegan "cheese" is indeed mostly grim. But as far as I know chaume cheese usually isn't even vegetarian, so your apparently vegetarian friend had been eating a non-vegetarian dish for years.

People like this are why you get huge menus with crap frozen ingredients. Much prefer a choice from 4 or so things that are well put together and fresh.

i only do this when the potato offering is crushed potato. I will always ask to swap to mash or chips (depending on which i think will go best). I really don't get the concept of crushed potatoes - i sort of think lumpy mash. not quite one thing or the other. just don't get it. i don't understand why it is a thing.

In all my 50 odd years, Ive never complained about a meal or asked for a dish to be changed in any way.

I find it infuriating when people faff over food or complain. It completely ruins the night. You may as well shit on the table - it has the same atmosphere killing effect.

I've never done this as I didn't think it was possible. I think if the dish isn't to your liking order something you do like. I also look at the menu online before booking and if I don't like what they serve I don't go there and I'm not fussy about food.

YANBU-it used to drive me mad when I was waitressing in my teens. Usually because I would then have to try to explain to chef that table 21 didn't want his carefully thought out dishes but wanted x,y,z instead. He was generally pretty offended at this (don't blame him!).

The other thing that always really bugged me was when people ordered their meals (we served generous portions) and as soon as it arrived they would say, 'oh, can we have more carrots/chips/whatever' before they'd eaten whR they had been given. Invariably, they would always leave a lot of food Just seemed so wasteful!

She's an entitled jumped-up twat.

Urgh I had a friend who used to complain that everything was 'disgusting'. Used to call over staff and say 'this coke isn't fizzy, it tastes disgusting', 'this meat is disgusting' etc. It was so embarrassing.

Seems a bit bizarre that it bothers you so much OP?

My mil always asks to substitute chips for rice. She asks for her sauce to be separate as oppose to on the dish. She likes an extra salad. According to you, I should be embarrassed by her ‘behaviour’! Well guess what, I’m not at all. If we’re spending £125 on a meal and drinks for 4 then I don’t think it’s too much to ask.

The restaurants we’ve been to have always been very accommodating.

I think this thread says more about you than the person your slagging OP

My MIL does this. Then shuffles it around her plate with a face like a dog pooed on it before the waitress asks 'is everything alright with your meals'. And she makes a passive aggressive 'it's fine' dismissive comment before telling us it's not very good. BUT YOU SPECIFIED EVERYTHING ON YOUR PLATE!

My mil always asks to substitute chips for rice. She asks for her sauce to be separate as oppose to on the dish. She likes an extra salad.

@Porkeypine again that is completely different...she is separating the dish not completely changing it!! supplementing chips instead of rice is fine I suppose if you don’t like rice. But doing that alongside, changing the sauce and the overall main components of the dish is ridiculous imo. Like pp’s have said chefs put things together for a reason!!

The restaurants we’ve been to have always been very accommodating.

yes well that doesn’t mean you don’t get bitched about in the kitchen!!

@Lipper

I’d rather get bitched about by the restaurant staff than the company I was with 😁

Oh and DH told me that MIL is proud of the fact she always asks to change rooms no matter which hotel nor how nice the original room. We've been away 4 times (in 15 years) with her and I've only just clocked.

I have swapped celeriac mash for mashed potatoes before now, I cannot bear celeriac...yicky... it was with venison and there was mash on the menu to go with some cod I think. (which i would have gone for had the swap been a no go)

and a lovely waitress offered to have a coral sauce served separately for a starter, I think it was a crab cake, as I don't do scallops/corals and was worried that it might be drowned in the sauce and spoiled.Anyway it was delicious, I did drown the crab cake in the sauce and enjoyed it muchly. Waitress also got a generous tip for being sweet and kind.

I think you have to know your restaurant though and if the kitchen is actually cooking things rather than deep frying or ping cooking then it's worth an ask.

I work in a restaurant.
There are 60 dishes on the menu. Pick one.
Taking out one ingredient you don't like fine, completely changing the whole dish is a pain in the arse.
Sometimes I get a whole table of 4 or 6 people and not a single one will just pick something off the menu without fucking around with it. Highly annoying and so entitled.

DH told me that MIL is proud of the fact she always asks to change rooms no matter which hotel nor how nice the original room.

What does she get out of that? Is it a power thing? Or is there always a secret nicer room in a hotel?

Yes, my sister does this 🙄 Orders something not on the menu and then whinges when she feels it's not good enough. Can you say control freak...

find it infuriating when people faff over food or complain. It completely ruins the night. You may as well shit on the table - it has the same atmosphere killing effect.

Don’t be SO ridiculous!

@TroysMammy

I think if the dish isn't to your liking order something you do like. I also look at the menu online before booking and if I don't like what they serve I don't go there

Try ordering a vegetarian, no egg, meal - straight off of a menu. Or do you think I shouldn’t be allowed to eat outside of my home? That’s without even considering that other people get to choose the restaurant too, not just me.

My SIL is banded from every restaurant near us, she on e got us banned before the food even arrived.
It's so rude.

My mum is terrible for this,no matter what restaurant/cafes we go to she expects them to know exactly how she likes her food,she wont say to the servers though and waits till it comes to the table,then moans at us that its not good,it drives me nuts!

That’s how I know I have been in New York so long because I do this. My husband hates it, in my defence American restaurants are generally really accommodating. This has changed somewhat over recent years because as you say it changes the whole dish. I would never do it in fancy places though, only cheap and cheerful family places. I am not an animal.

Took a group of women friends to my local Italian family run restaurant for a pre-booked Christmas lunch. They all just ordered a starter - I was ashamed. I will never take them again. The restaurant is a real gem and they treat it like McDonalds.