To be astonished that Morrisons cafe cannot make scrambled egg

[FishyTree]

Fancied a quick brunch with DH this morning so headed to Morrisons cafe after we finished our shopping. Asked for scrambled egg with my breakfast but was told they only had fried or poached!

Upon querying this with a manager I was told the scrambled egg comes pre prepared and gets microwaved in a bag.

I don’t expect Michelin starred food at a supermarket cafe but Aibu to expect them to be able to make fresh scrambled egg?

I would never order scrambled eggs somewhere like that. You know it’s going to be horrible.,

So take a pen and cross out the margarine 🤷‍♀️

If workers can't deviate, does anyone know the reasoning of why greggs would sell me a baguette, but wouldn't butter it for me? I offered to pay. They butter the sandwiches. I had a tin of soup at work so was only buying a roll. This was years ago before all the rules around labeling and calories etc.

I had similar in Wetherspoons..put me off for a while but I do enjoy the taste of spoons prepoached eggs and their eggs Benedict is chefs kiss so I just try not to think too much about it!

Powdered scrambled eggs are definitely a no no however!!

No serrated knife to cut the baguette? Bread comes sliced so doesn't need to be cut open.

I have seen frozen scrambled egg for sale in a cash and carry. It came in a grey block. I couldn't imagine how it was prepared that wouldn't be more difficult than cooking from scratch

Did you seriously ask to speak to a manager because they couldn't make you something that wasn't on the menu! Jesus wept! Entitled much!

They had knives.

I can only eat my own scrambled eggs. Fried and poached doesn’t actually require an ability!

I'm astonished you're astonished.

Make use of your local independent greasy spoon. They great places usually, friendly, decent quality and part of the community. And not really any more expensive than places like Morrisons and Wetherspoons.

Costa do a breakfast bap with poached egg in that just goes in the microwave and it's amazing. I dread to think what they do to it so a pre cooked and microwaved poached egg stays all runny and delicious but it does.

Of course you're being unreasonable to want something from a supermarket cafe that's not on the menu. Absolutely beyond me why you'd take that up with the manager. What did you expect them to do?

We always order the fried egg the quality has slipped since they also have to deal with takeaway orders. It gets very busy in there cafes they would not be able to keep up and cook from scratch.

They wouldn't be allowed to make it for you even if they wanted to. They have to follow strict guidelines on how to prepare the food only from the menu. If they made it for you and gave you food poisoning they would be held personally accountable, not morrisons

Do you mean for the individual or the caterer?

I found this from 1961! All this will be automated now...much cheaper than paying a cook

I used to work in a cafe. The omlettes were two frozen pockets of egg (from Brakes brothers) with some dodgy filling put inside, then shoved in a microwave. Bleughhh.

Quiet week OP? I’m embarrassed reading this. How dull.

Cheap places very rarely actually cook anything, the staff just heat up ready-made food.

A few years ago, I went to an office Christmas meal celebration at a local cheap chain pub on a Friday evening a couple of weeks before Christmas. We had all paid in advance £15 and submitted our choices from a limited set menu about 10 days before the event.
A colleague and I had chosen the vegetarian option, as didn't fancy a full-on turkey dinner in the evening.
About an hour after we'd arrived, a waiter came to the table to say they'd actually run out of our pre- booked vegetarian option, but they'd popped into sainsbury's and got a couple of ready meals, which they held out in front of us. We had to choose which one we wanted and they would heat it up for us! We were dumbfounded! But the waiter didn't so much as bat an eyelid. 🤣

I know it must technically be ok, but it seems grim to me to have runny yolk in a poached or "over easy" fried egg chilled and sealed, or frozen, to be reheated. Isn't there a bacteria risk? Scrambled makes more sense as it's cooked through.

Wow! I never thought of it that way. Mind-blowing insight - thanks for posting this rollercoaster of excitement!

Yeah, agree with PPs. My Saturday job was in the BHS resteraunt. Everything came frozen or freeze dried to be reheated. The scrambled egg was in a rectangular plastic bag. We opened it, put it in a metal tin and put it in an industrial steamer. The only thing we cooked was fried eggs.

The manager actually used to be a chef but the kitchen didn't have the facilities to make scrambled eggs. There was no hob, no pots and pans, no whisk. It wasn't that kind of kitchen! Even the fried eggs were cooked on a flat hotplate behind the serving counter using a wallpaper scraper. The best we could do was a cooked yolk or flipping it to cook the top if someone asked.

In the past I have done exactly that for McDonald's. Emptied the chiller of semi skimmed in a smaller lidl 🙈😂😂😂

Yes.

It was in catering sized blocks, 20+ years ago. Decidedly unappetising. Your film was quite mesmerising in bits

They could have just swung the bag around their head a few times before microwaving it.

Ah, I hadn't thought of a steamer to reheat frozen scrambled egg. That actually makes sense (sort of)