******* fast foodFollow

My Fiance eats that nasty Viatnamese Pho Soup. He dips raw beef (which I might say does sound a bit yummy) into some weird red sauce and then squirts Chriracha (sp?) into the soup itself so it looks like Georgia Red Clay. Then he takes a big spoon and puts the meat on it while dipping it into the soup. Then he proceeds to slurp his way through the entire bowl while I eat plain and unflavored veggies and white rice. Where is the justice in that? He has tried to get me to go there but I refuse under the banner that I should not be forced to eat rabbit food simply because I will not eat what I cannot pronounce or identify.

Can't a girl get mac n cheese, some nuggets, and maybe some fried shrimp?

I haven't had too many bad times with fast food, but then again, I don't eat there regularly enough to have the probability of mistakes come up.

I did however, order a Big Extra from McD's once and when i got home there was a bun, tomato, lettuce and sauce, but no patty. I probably should've eaten it as it probably would've been the best tasting sandwich from McD's ever. Other than that, I avoid the Burger King next to me because its the only one I've ever gone to that nukes the entire burger to heat them up before serving you, giving you hot, soggy veggies on top of it.

I went to a chick-fil-a for the g/f the other day, and ordered a chicken sandwich, NO PICKLE.

So easiest thing in the world, right? Bun, Chicken, Bun. Wrap, send out.

I get it home, she opens it up, the person in the back (the receipt was correct) put a sticker for extra pickle, which it did indeed have extra pickle.

How do you ***** that up??

Seriously, just try it. Close your eyes, open your mouth and receive the goodness.

Because at fast food restaurants, they assume a "standard" version of whatever the item is, and get confused if you change it. As you've discovered, if you ask for "no pickle", you're as likely to get "extra pickle". Fast food places are really designed to simply churn out the same identical item over and over as quickly as possible. Any deviation produces random results IMO because the lines of communication aren't designed for custom orders (no matter how much they may advertise such things).

When I go to a fast food place, I *always* simply order off the menu. There's a small subset of items that I like and I order those. If some place's "standard" thing isn't made the way I like it, I don't try to get them to change it. That's just asking for trouble. I just don't order it. IMO, this is about the only way to avoid problems with orders. I very very rarely get any sort of mixup doing this.

I lol'd a little.

I've never seen those words put together.

Yeah. I mean to each his own, but it seems to me if you want a burger but without the onions that they usually put on it, then it's not that big a deal to order it that way.

Have you ever tried to take the onions off of a McDonald's hamburger...?

They are extremely small and there are many of them.

I usually end up having to scrape off the ketchup and mustard as well.

And to add to the "Why not just take off what you don't like?" argument, my husband hates condiments of any kind. It doesn't matter which restaurant we go to, he orders it without ketchup, mustard, or mayonnaise. Really difficult to just take that off.

I'm not sure what McDonald's you went to, but every fast food place around here comes with stuff on it. The chicken has mayonnaise, the cheeseburgers have ketchup, mustard, onions and pickles, and the Big Mac has... Thousand Island? Or some crap like that.

You're lucky.

The thing about that though is with Tomatoes and Onions and Pickles, their juices permeate into whatever it is you're eating. Sure, you can take it off after the fact, but there will still be that taste of onion/pickle/tomato juice that you didn't want there in the first place. If you're eating in, you can kind of avoid that, but if you get it to go and drive 5-10 minutes home, it's just going to sit in its wrapper and stew. You get it home/to work, and *bam* you have a pickle flavored chicken sammich that more or less can't be fixed.