What part do people not understand about NO TOMATO?

[Spacehead]

I loathe a raw tomato.
I never order tomato on a sandwich/burger but if they put one on & it's too juicy(seeps into the bread) i won't eat it.

I think it's because years ago(probably like 30) my mom was canning tomatoes & several of the jars burst. It was the most God-awful smell on our back porch for several days.

 

[oiprocs]

English as a second language or not, I think there is a big problem when companies, specifically fast food or deli's or whatnot, hire people who have trouble with English. When you go to another country, do you see them bending ass-backwards just to understand what you're saying? No fucking way.

Same concept should apply here. If you come to America, keep you language, keep your culture, keep all of that, but you better pick up on English. Regardless of what anyone says, it IS the native language and you had better learn it if you want to hold a job or do anything that requires you to communicate with people.

I wasn't born here, but I sure think it's ridiculous when I try to order food only to find out my waiter/host/bartender/sandwich maker/cashier can't understand me, especially if it's words they hear daily, like bread, or plain, or no onion, or supersize.

/rant

 

[Jeff7]

The only way I like tomatoes if they have a sufficient quantity of other things to cover up the flavor. Acceptable forms:

- Stewed tomatoes on macaroni and cheese (real cheese, not Velveeta)
- Spaghetti or pizza sauce
- ketchup

Plain, raw tomatoes - gross. If I chew one for too long, the ol' gag reflex starts to kick in.

 

[Auric]

Originally posted by: kranky

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper

Originally posted by: Modeps
I'd understand if you got angry because they put mustard on it or some sort of drippy substance that cant be easily removed but you're complaining about a freaking tomato? Give me a break.

I've got a friend who's like this with anything remotely healthy. As soon as he knows it's in there, he treats the whole meal like a plate of vomit. ZOMG TEH INFESTATION!

I have a friend who's the same way (but he has mental illness). Once we hit the McDonald's drive-through on the way to visit another friend and he ordered a plain fish sandwich. He unwrapped it to find it had lettuce on it, and he wadded the whole thing up and threw it out the window, saying "They ruined it." It didn't matter that he could just scrape off the lettuce. It had been there, and therefore the sandwich was permanently tainted.

Wowzers. Bacon or such I could understand but lettuce is hardly going to leave any poxy taint behind. Plus, in this case it's a frickin pollack, oil, and white bread sandwich. I would be more concerned with the lettuce being tainted while discarding the rest.

 

[EGGO]

So far I haven't your luck.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: maxster



You sound like a jerk to me. He asked you repeatedly what plain meant. Why didn't you just answer him instead of repeating a word that he did not understand? What good would it do if you keep on repeating it?

Me: "PLAIN! Nothing on it!"

LOL...ignoring the fact that the only other possible interpretation in the english language was he wanted a large airplane sandwich.

 

[lyssword]

Originally posted by: skace
People who don't like tomatoes are weird.

I agree

 

[Xavier434]

I have the same problem when I ask for no lettuce but even more so when I ask for no sauce.

 

[SoulAssassin]

I'm a big fan of DD-WRT but I hear good things about Tomato as well.

Oh wait, what were we talking about again?

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: kranky

Originally posted by: AbsolutDealage
That's nothing. Try and convince someone at a sandwich shop to make a plain sandwich.

"Hi, I want the ham sandwich, but I want it plain"
"Plain?"
"Yes, plain. Just the ham and the bread. Plain."
"Do you want cheese?"
"No, no cheese. Plain. Ham and bread."
"Just the ham and the bread?"
"Yes"

<Moving down the sandwich line>

"Do you want lettuce or tomato?"
"No. Just the plain sandwich."
"Do you want dressing?"
"No. Plain. Just give me the sandwich like it is."
"Just like this?"
"Yes... just like that"

It's like a 5 minute ordeal to order such a simple thing.

That reminded me of this great story I ran across on the web a long time ago. A guy ordering a sub.

Me: "I'd like a plain number three, white, end piece preferred, no cheese. And BBQ chips. To go."
Clerk: (grabs a wheat roll) "Number three?"
Me: "Yeah. Plain."
Clerk: (holding a wheat roll) "What size?"
Me: "That's on white, please. Large."
Clerk: (cutting off a small piece of the wheat roll) "Ok."
Me: "Uhhh...I want that on white. End piece if you got it. And a large."
Clerk: "Oh...yeah...sorry. What size?"
Me: "Large."
Clerk: (grabbing a white roll -- with an uncut end still attached) "Ok."
Me: "End piece is preferred."
Clerk: (cutting off a small piece from the roll which is just barely long enough to qualify for a large sandwich, resulting in two pieces of the roll: a small-sized piece and a piece that is only about half as long as the small size although it is the end piece of the original whole roll) "Hmm."
Me: "That's large, please. Large."
Clerk: "Huh?"
Me: "I want a large number three."
Clerk: "Oh...yeah...sorry." (looks at the two pieces of bread on the counter in front of him, confused) "You said you wanted an end piece?"
Me: "Yeah. End piece is OK. Not required. Picky teenage daughter."
Clerk: (horizontally slices the smaller-than-small-sized piece of white roll -- the piece that has the end on it) "Ok."
Me: "Uh. Excuse me. I want a large number three."
Clerk: "I thought you wanted the end piece."
Me: "I want a large number three. Plain. The end piece is OK, but it is not required."
Clerk: (continues to make the sandwich on the less-than-small-sized end piece) "Ok."
Me: "Uh. Excuse me again. That's a large number three, please."
Clerk: "I thought you wanted the end piece."
Me: "I want a large number three, plain. Forget about the end piece, OK?"
Clerk: "What do I do with this?"
Me: "What do you do with what?"
Clerk: "What do I do with this end piece?"
Me: "Push it aside. Get a fresh roll of white bread, OK? I want a LARGE number three."
Clerk: "Oh...yeah."
Me: "Picky teenage daughter. She has to have a large, plain sandwich."
Clerk: (cuts off a large sized piece from a fresh, whole white roll) "That's a large, right?"
Me: "Yes. Large. You got it."
Clerk: "Number three?"
Me: "Yeah. Plain."
Clerk: "What kind of cheese?"
Me: "That's plain."
Clerk: "What kind of cheese do you want on it?"
Me: "I want it plain, please."
Clerk: "What is that?"
Me: "What is what?"
Clerk: "What is plain?"
Me: "I want a large number three, plain."
Clerk: "What do you mean, plain?"
Me: "Yes, plain."
Clerk: "What do you mean, plain?"
Me: "Just a number three. Plain. Absolutely plain."
Clerk: "I dunno know what you mean."
Me: "I want a large number three, absolutely plain."
Clerk: "I don't think we have that."
Me: "You can't make a plain sandwich? I order them here all the time!"
Clerk: "What do you mean, plain? We don't have plains."
Note that, at this point, the other customers at the counter are visibly amused, one even chuckling out loud. I look at them, and get "What a moron!" looks from them, so I know it's not just me. The other clerks appear curious about why a customer is raising his voice, but they still appear unaware that anything odd is going on.


Me: "I want a LARGE number THREE, absolutely PLAIN. Can you make one of those for me?"
Clerk: (visibly irritated) "I dunno. What do you mean, plain?"
Me: "PLAIN! Nothing on it!"
Clerk: "Nothing? Just the bread?"
Me: "No. Just a plain number three. Nothing on it at all. No--"
Clerk: (interrupting) "What kind of cheese?"
Me: "No cheese at all! Plain!"
Clerk: (walks away from his station and talks to the manager) "I can't do this."
Manager: "What's wrong?"
Clerk: "He won't tell me what kind of cheese he wants."
Me: "Can I speak to a manager?"
Manager: "Is there a problem?"
Me: "I'm just trying to get a sandwich made."
Clerk: "He keeps talking about some kind of airplane or something."
Manager: "Airplane? What's his order?"
Clerk: "A large number three airplane...or plane...I dunno what he wants me to do."
Manager: "What did you order?"
Me: "I'd like a number three, plain, on white, preferrably an end piece...no cheese. BBQ potato chips. To go."
Manager: "What was the problem?"
Me: "I have no idea, but it appears from what he said to you that he doesn't know what the word 'plain' means."
Manager: "Well, we'll get you taken care of."

Wow, jeez, you are a douche. It's obvious he's not the brightest person to make a sandwich, but you purposely continued to act superior to him even when you kenw you could have just said "No cheese".

Same w/ the end piece crap. Who talks like "Large #3. End piece is OK" WTF? Why couldn't you just have asid "Large #3 on an endpiece bread if you have it"

You got all worked up b/c you thought you were better than him. You need to learn how to order a sandwich.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: mjuszczak
Almost every day this week, I have gone to three different delis to order a sandwich. I order:

Egg salad on wheat bread, lettuce, and onion - NO TOMATO

simple, right? Four things - egg salad, wheat bread, lettuce, onion.

They even ASK BY DEFAULT most of the time: "Lettuce and tomato?"

I say no. NO tomato. None.

4/5 times they have put the tomato on anyway. The fifth time they didn't put the tomato on, but they didn't put the lettuce on either.

Is lettuce and tomato THAT popular? Am I that weird that I HATE tomatoes?

Maybe you mumble when you talk so they can't hear clearly when you say no tomato.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: maxster



You sound like a jerk to me. He asked you repeatedly what plain meant. Why didn't you just answer him instead of repeating a word that he did not understand? What good would it do if you keep on repeating it?

Me: "PLAIN! Nothing on it!"

yeah but look how long it took for him to finally answer him. He got all worked up over something so trivial all to make the sandwich guy feel small. He could have gotten his sandwich quick and easy if he just explained from the start what he wanted.

 

[440sixpack]

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five

Originally posted by: kranky

That reminded me of this great story I ran across on the web a long time ago. A guy ordering a sub.

Wow, jeez, you are a douche. It's obvious he's not the brightest person to make a sandwich, but you purposely continued to act superior to him even when you kenw you could have just said "No cheese".

Same w/ the end piece crap. Who talks like "Large #3. End piece is OK" WTF? Why couldn't you just have asid "Large #3 on an endpiece bread if you have it"

You got all worked up b/c you thought you were better than him. You need to learn how to order a sandwich.

Note previous post(s):

Originally posted by: kranky

Originally posted by: maxster

Originally posted by: kranky
That reminded me of this great story I ran across on the web a long time ago. A guy ordering a sub.

Me: "I'd like a plain number three, white, end piece preferred, no cheese. And BBQ chips. To go."
Clerk: (grabs a wheat roll) "Number three?"
[big snip]
Manager: "What was the problem?"
Me: "I have no idea, but it appears from what he said to you that he doesn't know what the word 'plain' means."
Manager: "Well, we'll get you taken care of."

You sound like a jerk to me. He asked you repeatedly what plain meant. Why didn't you just answer him instead of repeating a word that he did not understand? What good would it do if you keep on repeating it?

Wasn't my story, found it on the web.

 

[GoatMonkey]

This is why I avoid most delis. They look at you like there's something wrong with you if you don't want exactly what everyone else orders. I don't like sandwiches with mayo, mustard, pickles, or tomatoes. They always have to ask twice, like there's something wrong when you don't want something. I know they heard me, and they do it even if they're American. Language isn't the issue.

I suppose I would do the same thing if someone asked me to build them a computer with no network port, or hard drive or something.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: Martin

Originally posted by: mjuszczak
Is lettuce and tomato THAT popular? Am I that weird that I HATE tomatoes?

In America, no. In a place like Italy, you'd be in a mental asylum.

Tomatos are not Italian. They're American.

Makes you wonder, what did people in Italy eat before the discovery of America?

 

[torpid]

You went to three delis multiple times this week trying to get a sandwich with no tomato? At some point you should consider cutting your losses and making a sandwich at home. Just in terms of the amount of time you wasted repeatedly going to three delis, you probably could have baked your own bread each day.

 

[xboxist]

I love ketchup, chili, marinara and other various tomato-based items. But when it comes to actual tomatoes or tomato slices... /vomit

They ruin everything. Cold, mushy orbs of seedy bile. Horrible contrast to the rest of the foods they're commonly served with.

 

[Auric]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: Martin

Originally posted by: mjuszczak
Is lettuce and tomato THAT popular? Am I that weird that I HATE tomatoes?

In America, no. In a place like Italy, you'd be in a mental asylum.

Tomatos are not Italian. They're American.

Makes you wonder, what did people in Italy eat before the discovery of America?

Plain pasta. PLAIN! Actually, they only got pasta after "discovery" of China.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: Auric
What is it aboot tomatoes that invokes such loathing? Folks can't just not like them or be indifferent but must hate?

Nah, I am indifferent. I like cooked tomatoes quite a bit (and sun dried), but am relatively indifferent to tomatoes on my sandwiches.

 

[OdiN]

Simple fix. You watch them make it right?

When they finish, then tell them - "Okay, now make another sandwich - only this time, make it as I ordered it, without the tomato."

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: mjuszczak


Is lettuce and tomato THAT popular? Am I that weird that I HATE tomatoes?

I love tomato sauce, love ketchup, HATE raw tomato. I too order every sandwich and burger without it. Unlike you I rarely have a problem. At least 90% of the time delis, burger joints and restaurants get it right.

Maybe you mumble.