They call it that because it has been produced to have an approximate look and taste of whatever food it is termed. ie. Vegan Shrimp looks and tastes like shrimp, vegan chicken looks and tastes like chicken. The idea of a menu is, or at least should be, to give the customer an idea of what it is they are ordering. …

If you do this, can you wait until May next year? When I will finally be in NYC (and if fact, in the US for the very first time)? I know that is donkeys years in cafe terms, but I would love to be part of that!

Wow, sorry, that guy sounds like such a complete prick. But I have to ask, didn't the kitchen have a shut off time ahead of the actual close time?

I never heard the term seagulls working hospitality. It's a term we use in retail though, which is what we call the customers who suddenly all appear as soon as one of us hits the floor with a markdown printer (especially at the end of the day when we mark down the hot chickens).

Oh Lord, I read the words "In the Weeds" and I'm immediately back in what I consider the single worst shift of my entire life. So, I worked cooking at Wagamama, way back in the day. I was in the Fry section and on this particular Wednesday night, I WAS the fry section. We were typically not busy at all on that week…

Yep, I now work in a supermarket deli, we have a bain marie set up with hot snacks. I'm constantly calling "Hot behind!" I did it one night at my sisters birthday party, which I was catering. Her friend, to whom it was addressed, thought I was making an assessment of her ass!

I'm not remotely educated about fashion and don't care enough about it to know if Karl Lagerfeld is a design genius, but as a feminist he has always been a failure and as a human being he strikes me as being a bit delusional.

This indeed! I also have type II bipolar and you just described my life to a T. And alarm bells went off when I read number 3's story. I'd say there's a very good chance the room mate has BPD and may have never been diagnosed. I wasn't diagnosed until my mid 30's.

Am I the only person who wants to liberate her boobs for her from that cloth prison? And I don't mean that in a sexual way. I mean that in a "that dress is too small for her breasts" way.

I don't know if this is a thing anywhere but in Australia, but I went on a cruise a few years ago and after one of the island stops (think it might have been Lifou, but don't quote me) pretty much every single female (and a few of the males) came back with cornrows. I swear, I was one of the very few women on the…

I would love to agree with you, but there really ARE a whole lot of white people who are exactly as, I wouldn't say naive, I'd say ignorant as they seem to be pretending to be. Not all of them, sure, some of them are just trolls. But the slavish followers of fashion? A lot of them don't allow actual deep thoughts…

I agree with you one hundred percent on the issue of the complete lack of culpability or complaisance on the part of the celebrities who have been stolen from. But I, also, have wondered this whole time if I was the only woman on earth who wasn't taking nudie pics of myself. So glad it's not just me.

Somebody sticks their foot (clad or unclad) through the seats to rest near my head, I can assure you I'll be using it as a rubbish receptacle. I have to put up with asshole behaviour at work without comment enough that I will not tolerate it in my 'real life'.

Thank you! This was exactly what I was looking for! Some of the online guides had tip advice for practically everybody! I was so scared I wouldn't be able to afford to set foot outside my hotel room without going totally broke and/or offending every single person I had any interaction with! (sorry for all the…

Probably totes off track here (and for this I apologise) but I'm from a land where tipping is not the norm and I'm visiting the US next year. I've worked in the hospitality industry and I currently work in retail and I get hives reading the stories about the way servers are stiffed by assholes and I really, really…

Does it include doctors? Mum, Dad, grandparents and babysitters who may have bathed them as a baby? Does one need to make a graph depicting who and in what way or for what reason the penis was touched?

As they old saying goes, "I always tell a guy I'm Bi on the first date. I let him figure out the Polar on his own!"

While I would love a new kitten (or puppy) I don't think that travel via the post would be very beneficial to them. So I will refrain from explaining why. But I know. Trust me, I know.

Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka (wonder if they've hyphenated their names now?) They seem like they'd be a riot. And I'd make Neil literally sing for his supper. I have no problems being upstaged on my big day, I'm not over fond of being the centre of attention at any rate.

I wonder if Kimye have seen this and are sitting around all pissed. "So they can't make it to Italy for OUR wedding, but they can find the time for some randoms?"