Cooking Goddess
Chef Extraordinaire
It WAS fun, expat! Besides that, when I left the job in late 1999/early 2000, I was getting paid $9 an hour! Just to stand, smile, and offer food to people. Win-win all around.
I hear ya. We went out to eat the other night and I ordered a steak with asparagus and French fries. When the food arrived, the French fries were a funny orange colour. I asked if they were sweet potato fries. Yes they were. I had to send them back because, I am not supposed to eat sweet potato. I had already gone through the rigmarole of asking if there was soy in anything and if the cooking oil was soy or vegetable oil. The annoying part was how long I had to wait for my mashed potatoes to arrive, after I got my other food back, with no sweet potatoes.I had lunch in a hotel today with my husband and our youngest son. I ordered roast beef, which the menu said was served with seasonal vegetables, mashed potato and roast potato. When the food came the vegetables turned out to be covered by a cheese sauce, which I cannot eat, so I told this to the waiter and he brought me another portion without the cheese sauce.
My gripe is, why do restaurants assume diners will be able to eat something they add to a dish, but don't mention on the menu? Another example of this happening to me is when I order ice cream and it comes served with chocolate sauce - something else I can't eat. I know it sounds minor, but these surprise embellishments can ruin a meal for me.
Gillian
It WAS fun, expat! Besides that, when I left the job in late 1999/early 2000, I was getting paid $9 an hour! Just to stand, smile, and offer food to people. Win-win all around.
I was traveling past few days and I had a small 4 oz hammer with me (don't ask). Out of curiousity (I knew I had to check it in) I ask TSA agent about and was told that it can be used as a weapon (4 oz Weapon) and as such must be checked in. On the plane with me there was this kid, who had a skateboard. Really 4oz is a weapon and skateboard is just a toy?
I am not complaining, I am all for safety, but really is there any common sense?
P.S. Just posted this question on TSA facebook page, wonder if they will answer.
I was traveling past few days and I had a small 4 oz hammer with me (don't ask). Out of curiousity (I knew I had to check it in) I ask TSA agent about and was told that it can be used as a weapon (4 oz Weapon) and as such must be checked in. On the plane with me there was this kid, who had a skateboard. Really 4oz is a weapon and skateboard is just a toy?
I am not complaining, I am all for safety, but really is there any common sense?
P.S. Just posted this question on TSA facebook page, wonder if they will answer.
The stupidity continues, this is TSA response: "Sorry for the frustration. Tools greater than 7 inches in length are not allowed in carry-on."
Idiots, I did not ask you about the tool, I wanted to know about the skateboard.
I asked them again, no response yet.
So do any of you think if I bring my embroidery with me, they will confiscate the needle because the tip may have poison on it and if I prick the skin of the pilot who is behind a securely locked door, the plane will crash or the pilot may go to sleep for 100 years like Snow White or Sleeping Beauty did?
I've taken my petit point with me before, as well as my 3-4" inch scissors as the guidlines AT THAT TIME said I could. I checked on-line and called because the scissors are extremely sharp and pointed, and aren't cheap so I wanted to be sure before taking them since all I had was carry on luggage. The flight attendants, happened to be all female, were cooing over my petit point as I pulled it out and was working on it during the flight but a couple of them were really surprised I was allowed to bring my scissors on board. Just told them I had done the above and didn't have a problem at all going through security with them. Their response was oh, I didn't know that.