To wonder why DD was refused food?

[TheLasrStraw]

Y8 DD came back from a residential trip and said she and her friend asked for a the Yorkshire Pudding without the meat sprinkles - the server was sprinkling the meat on it in front of them so could have just given one before he sprinkled it.

They were both refused.

We were told that this venue caters for all diets so why would they have been refused this?

@heidbuttsupper

This thread has really put me in the mood for Yorkshire puddings

Me too, especially if sprinkled with meat.

Was the server like The Soup Nazi from Seinfeld? They asked for the Yorkshire puddings without the "meat sprinkles" and he said no and then refused to feed them? If so you are not being unreasonable.

If, as I and others suspect, the Yorkshire puddings were part of a preset meal that they did not choose, then you are being unreasonable.

Genuinely, how could anyone on Mumsnet possibly answer this?

Genuinely need to know what "meat sprinkles" are, I'm imagining something like pork scratchings, or maybe shredded beef or bits of crispy bacon.

@AutumnAnn

Genuinely need to know what "meat sprinkles" are, I'm imagining something like pork scratchings, or maybe shredded beef or bits of crispy bacon.

Maybe it was just lumpy gravy...

Because the server took and instant disliking to your child, she reminded him of his vegetarian 4th grade teacher who he despised and he sneered at her and wanted to keep the Yorkshire puddings for himself and was going to eat them all with his meaty sprinkles once the under nourished children had left. Definitely that... Or it was part of a set meal that your child wasn't having so she couldn't have one. Either way, probably not really worth more than 10 seconds thought.

Meat flavoured hundreds and thousands?!

If it was part of a different set meal, why wasn't Op's daughter just told that?

It will be that x meat options were ordered and y veggie options and there wasn't enough to take items from the meat dinner to give to veggies. Eg there might have been a few spare but what if everyone asks for one? You can't let one child have one if there arent enough to give to everyone.

@whatAHexIGotInto
My thoughts exactly!

meat sprinkles = chrispy bacon bits is my bet.

op at that age I would expect dc to communicate. with the kitchen first, teacher if that didn't bring a result.
plus they wouldn't go hungry, they would have a tuck box with them

@TheLasrStraw

Any chance of clarifying 'meat sprinkles'?

Slight derail but meat sprinkles sound amazing. Are these like the meaty bits in the salad bar which are the main reason to go to a Harvester?

Jesus, why do people think that kids should just like it or lump it! adults wouldn't put up with that!

Has anyone said that they think that? Odd. I must have missed those posts. What I would expect is for a 12/13 year old to be able to politely challenge this themselves. I also wouldn't expect it to be the defining moment of a residential school trip.

It doesn’t surprise me.

Ds isn’t veggie but he has issues with food textures and hyper sensitive taste. Yorkshire puddings is one thing he will eat. His Sunday lunch consists of Yorkshire, potatoes and veg just without the meat.

At one school they preferred him to have no lunch than to allow him to have plain pasta with no sauce (it was a pasta pot where they put the pasta in a cardboard cup then added your choice of sauce from 2 options.

At secondary he wasn’t allowed a portion of chips to eat with his sandwich unless he had chicken nuggets with them. I used to tell him to order the nuggets then throw them away.

Please don't call the venue. That would be an utterly ridiculous thing to do.

@mycatisannoying

Please don't call the venue. That would be an utterly ridiculous thing to do.

I think op is long gone

The Yorkshire pudding was probably cooked in meat based fat making it unsuitable for vegetarians.

@BalloonSlayer

Maybe the puddings were cooked in lard so server assumed that they wouldn't want them if they didn't want the meat sprinkles.

This would be my thoughts, cooked in some sort of animal fat maybe

But the OP hasn’t actually said her dd is vegetarian. Just that she didn’t want the meat sprinkles. Similar to how I used to ask for pie without gravy (yuk to soggy pastry).

Oh my days, this thread has made the daily hottest thread email, and the voting is currently 52/48 l, reminding me of a bigger divisive vote...

No it doesn't. It just means they will have two portions of pork left over. There are still the same number of people needing food!

Meat sprinkles....🤮

One benefit of covid was the lack of residential school trips with their associated shit food. Residentials are now back on and the food has got even worse.... meat sprinkles. 🤮🤮🤮

The next child will then want no peas, the next no gravy, the next three balls of stuffing. This is a hot dinner on a trip, not a personally ordered meal, having to meet the whims of every child on trip (because that what would happen) isn’t practical.

Why should they have to eat something they don’t like just because they’re children? As others have said, it’s actually less work not to put something on a plate: what kind of mayhem do you think will result from not having meat sprinkles?

Pork wouldn’t have been acceptable to a Jewish or Muslim child but maybe they could eat the Yorkshire? ( unless cooked in pig fat)
I can’t see why your daughter couldn’t just have a plain Yorkshire pudding. Perhaps the server was having a bad day.