Restaurant LIED on Menu!

[Andara Bledin]

I would strongly suggest that you also find out, from someone higher up the food chain than the server, that the product in question was, specifically, veal as opposed to some special type of beef that's close in texture/taste to veal.

As mentioned, the cooking technique would be utterly wasted on actual veal, so it's quite likely that the server was passing on erroneous information. It would be in everybody's best interests to get the full facts from someone with more direct knowledge before making a complaint that might not be valid. At which point your complaint should turn into one about the server passing bad info as opposed to the menu doing the same.

^-.-^

[Beckpatton]

I'm sorry but beef is beef and veal is veal. That would be like ordering bacon on a burger and getting ham. Same animal sure but different product.

Glad you sent off a complaint, I would have been majorly pissed!

[LillFilly]

Thanks for the hotline information; I'll call tomorrow. Still no response from Cheddar's Corporate either regarding my phone call or email.

[Jay 2K Winger]

I'm sorry but beef is beef and veal is veal. That would be like ordering bacon on a burger and getting ham. Same animal sure but different product.

Glad you sent off a complaint, I would have been majorly pissed!

This reminded me of the other day, when Mom offered to cook up some bacon and hash browns as a late breakfast/lunch. Then she found that the open package of bacon she had had gone bad, the only other unopened package she had was "sell by Sept 4" (this was on Oct 30). She offered to fry some ham, but I just gave her a hurt/betrayed look.

J2K: "You promised me bacon."
Mom: "It's still pig..."
J2K: "But it's not bacon."

Now, I'd taken some leftovers from dinner the night before and put them in a Tupperware container to have for dinner that night at work. Some pork chops, a container of applesauce, and some stuffing. As I'm coming downstairs after getting changed-- as I figured I'd just head out and get my own lunch-- I hear something fall out of the fridge and Mom swears.

I come into the kitchen, and my dinner had fallen out of the fridge, and half of the stuffing had fallen out of the container. Mom is laughing with embarrassment and groaning at this, and I jokingly don't let her off the hook.

J2K: "It's not enough you have to ruin my lunch, you have to ruin my dinner too?!"
Mom:
J2K: "You're the worst mother ever!"
Mom:
J2K: "Just kidding, Mom, you know I love you."

TL;DR -- Indeed, ham is not bacon.

[NorthernZel]

TL;DR -- Indeed, ham is not bacon.

Indeed not. As you probably already know, bacon is the ultimate proof of the fact that a Supreme Deity exists.

[Mr. Anubite]

As you were tricked into eating something you would choose not to eat*, yes you are justified in being as upset as you feel. Do write a letter to corporate.

* Your reason for not wanting to eat it is immaterial, and not subject to question.

THIS

Seriously. I'm a vegetarian for religious reasons, and I can't tell you how many times restaurants have slipped chicken or beef or whatever into the vegetarian dishes I order. I once had a manager question me about it, like it's his business.

Me: Um, yeah. I ordered the brown curry with vegetables, and you put vegetables and beef in it, when the menu says it's vegetarian when you choose vegetables.
Manager: Oh. Sorry. Can you eat it anyway?
Me: No, I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat beef.
Manager: But it's delicious.
Me: And against my faith.
Manager: You don't look like the sort of person that can't eat beef because of their religion.
Me: raglefragledgekhdskfggrrrrr

[PepperElf]

THIS

Seriously. I'm a vegetarian for religious reasons, and I can't tell you how many times restaurants have slipped chicken or beef or whatever into the vegetarian dishes I order. I once had a manager question me about it, like it's his business.

They did the same thing on my second ship. And the cooks seriously didn't understand why it was a bad idea.

We were in the Middle East and had Muslim guests on board. For most of the food items they'd put up little signs with a picture of the animal but then they went and served some corn dish that they always made with bacon. And they had no sign up.

When I pointed this out the attitude is, "Well can you eat bacon then?"

Seriously? Did they not understand that could spark a serious international incident? That's not just a little "oops my bad" - that has the potential to become a SERIOUS insult. And that's not the kind of shit you want to start while you're in the Middle East.

[Mr. Anubite]

They did the same thing on my second ship. And the cooks seriously didn't understand why it was a bad idea.

We were in the Middle East and had Muslim guests on board. For most of the food items they'd put up little signs with a picture of the animal but then they went and served some corn dish that they always made with bacon. And they had no sign up.

When I pointed this out the attitude is, "Well can you eat bacon then?"

Seriously? Did they not understand that could spark a serious international incident? That's not just a little "oops my bad" - that has the potential to become a SERIOUS insult. And that's not the kind of shit you want to start while you're in the Middle East.

Wow. How can people be that dense? That's just like how the Sepoy Mutiny started.

In my experience, I was bothered by the racial implication the manager made. In his view, the fact that I'm white means it's impossible that I could maybe practice some faith where I can't eat meat.

[Andara Bledin]

Not only that, but if you don't eat meat for long enough, you can't eat meat. It eventually stops being a choice.

^-.-^

[Tama]

How does that work, with you not being able to eat meat and it not being a choice?

[PepperElf]

I'm not sure it's exactly a "cannot" eat meat but rather more along the fact that sudden diet changes usually upsets the digestive system. So if someone doesn't eat meat for years and then eats a steak they'll probably end up with some (or a lot of) gastrointestinal discomfort.

[42_42_42]

If you don't eat meat for long enough, the body adapts to the absence of the meat...if you start eating it again, it has to readapt, during which time, gastrointestinal problems tend to arise.

[Mr. Anubite]

One of my friends stopped eating meat, and then tried eating beef after not having any meat for four years. She said it made her stomach really upset, so she didn't do it again.

[wolfie]

We were in the Middle East and had Muslim guests on board. For most of the food items they'd put up little signs with a picture of the animal but then they went and served some corn dish that they always made with bacon. And they had no sign up.

When I pointed this out the attitude is, "Well can you eat bacon then?"

Seriously? Did they not understand that could spark a serious international incident? That's not just a little "oops my bad" - that has the potential to become a SERIOUS insult. And that's not the kind of shit you want to start while you're in the Middle East.

Strangely enough, with the 2 main groups in the Middle East which are constantly at each others' throats, "bacon is NOT on the menu" is one area where they are in complete agreement with each other.

Wow. How can people be that dense? That's just like how the Sepoy Mutiny started.

In my experience, I was bothered by the racial implication the manager made. In his view, the fact that I'm white means it's impossible that I could maybe practice some faith where I can't eat meat.

Or the implication that the manager made that nobody would point out a management mistake that didn't affect THEM personally, but were pointing it out to give the manager a chance to correct it before it reached someone who would be SERIOUSLY offended by the mistake.

[Mr. Anubite]

Or the implication that the manager made that nobody would point out a management mistake that didn't affect THEM personally, but were pointing it out to give the manager a chance to correct it before it reached someone who would be SERIOUSLY offended by the mistake.

That's true, too. I used to eat meat, but I have friends who have literally never had meat before. I can imagine they would be more offended than I.