** boiling is rarely an ideal method of turning good ingredients into anything other than a future repressed memory.

False. But you have every right to be wrong!

Pizza guy, there at the bottom? That guy is my fucking hero.

I can’t believe the willingness to kill over a damn book that’s in mass print anyway. I know she didn’t do it but the fact that it has to be said so many times, like it matters, is mind boggling.

I’m dying. This comment is everything.

I’m one of those people. I won’t eat any filled donut, bc of the sensation of the filling vs. the pastry. Eclairs are the worst- it’s like getting a mouthful of cum from a donut shop. No thanks.

This is the dumbest response one can possibly have to the above post. If you are working in food service (and I’m assuming you are), you should really get a different job that would be more to your mental speed. Like, perhaps, a job where someone pays you to smash your face into a wall over and over.

Are you insane?! Somebody could shoot you at the library! Or run over you with their car while you’re going to the library! Best to just never leave your home. TRUST IS FOR FOOLS

Why do people who don’t have allergies/dietary restrictions feel the need to play the “what would happen if you ate this” game? i have had two colon resection and there’s a bunch of shit I’m not supposed to eat. I probably won’t die if someone slips a little flour or dairy in my food but too much can be very painful…

Tbh, it’s not really a problem in restaurants (the pieces of tomato are either large enough to just pick off if they fuck it up, or it’s not something I can order anyway), but if I’m at a cookout or dinner party or whatever, the conversation is always

If your body has an actual demonstrable reaction to them, it might as well be an allergy, even if it’s not technically the correct term. I mean, you should probably specify “I won’t go into anaphylaxis or anything, but the reaction will be really bad if I eat them.”

You make a very valid point. But please, as a former server, do us a favor. Have a little patience. Most servers do not know every ingredient of every dish on the menu down to the DNA level. If the server says “I don’t know, I’ll have to ask” don’t roll your eyes and make snide remarks about how bad a server they are…

If you projectile vomit all over a restaurant, you should ask them for a wafer-thin mint before you leave.

I love mangoes. My stomach does not love mangoes. A restaurant once failed to honor my “seriously, no mango in this please” request and I ended up projectile vomiting all over everything, in full view of a ton of potential customers.

I totally agree, at the end of the day I’m paying for the food any (reasonable) request should be accommodated. If I want my steak well done with catchup on the side you should do it. Though if I ever do this please lock me away in a Russian gulag until I redevelop a sense of taste.

For most restaurants it makes business sense to just cook the meal how the customer asks, but I would actually have no problem with a restaurant that chooses, for example, not to honor a request not to cook a steak well done, especially as you get into more upscale restaurants.

I had a coworker (who was otherwise an excellent server) get fired because he told someone a dish was nut-free when it actually had a cashew spread on it. We were busy, and he forgot, but it was extremely careless. He didn’t even bother to mention the allergy to the kitchen. I saw her get carted off in an ambulance on…

Due to a horrid birch pollen allergy I’m allergic to almonds and everything in the rosacea family (stone fruit, strawberries and apples.) Now my allergy is not likely to kill me but it’s serious enough to ruin my evening.

Thank you for writing this and for sharing this person’s story. I hope this gets mainpaged on every website across the interwebs. My daughter has a serious allergy to tree nuts (as in her throat will swell shut and she could die) and a good fifty percent of the time, when asking the server about the ingredients of a…

Pork Wine. The OTHER white wine.