Place: Waffle House
Lunch: Two eggs over light with white toast (no grits), 3 strips of bacon, small bowl of chili, Coke
And the winner is...WHATABURGER
Congratulations. You've won the "Don't lecture me about the tomato crisis" award.
I ate at three burger joints this week, each where I asked for my burger to be made with "no tomato" as usual. As you are probably aware, there's a salmonella scare with tomatoes, and most restaurants have pulled the pesky things from menus.
This is the response I got:
Hardee's: Snippy Counter Girl says "We no have tomato. Read the sign." I HAD already read the sign, and it said they'd removed tomato from "most items". So my request was still valid, Maria, you stupid snippy Hardee's counter girl. I HATE YOU.
Spangles: Smiling Counter Guy says (while pointing at their sign, which they've posted like 50 copies of everywhere) "Actually, due to the (blah blah blah), we're not currently serving tomatoes." To which I replied "Well, since I asked for no tomato, I guess we'll get along just fine then." At which point, he realized that mentioning it at all was really kind of dumb in my case.
Whataburger: "That'll be $7.07. Please pull forward to the window."
(Yes, I ordered more than just a burger.)
I've also noticed this week that Mexican restaurants that claim to make their salsas, pico de gallo, and what not fresh daily are STILL making said items.
Must be using canned tomatoes for that stuff, huh.
Suddenly, that whole "fresh" perception takes on a different tone, doesn't it.
