I’m the opposite - don’t drink white so I will have red with fish and chicken etc
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I love a fried egg on top of peanut butter toast
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I like peanut butter on a hamburger. It gets a little messy but it’s really good.
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I’ve had this! With like a sweet/savory jam on it as a condiment
My daughter likes her steaks well done. Her request recently got turned down at a nicer restaurant. The chef refused to “ruin” the filet 
I use a knife & fork to eat many items that you’d normally pick up with your hands (sandwiches, burgers, etc.) I don’t like to have messy, drippy hands 
My family teases me mercilessly about it.
I’m a fries dipped in mayo convert.
You know, I might try eating more finger foods with a fork when eating out. I also hate a dirty hand, dislike going to restaurants where they serve a lot of items like burgers and sandwiches with cloth napkins, I feel like I’m rushing so I can excuse myself to wash my hands (at home I have paper napkins and a sink in the room). I love fries in mayo, have started adding Sriracha to it for a kick.
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I tend not to order things that are messy to eat when dining out. On the other hand, sometimes I’m served messy foods and accept with a smile and try not to get the food all over myself. haha!
The other day we were at Winter Village at Bryant Park. Our son bought us a delicious duck crepe that had a lot of sauce on it. It was delicious but messy. Fortunately we were outdoors and he also brought us a bunch of paper napkins. We were given forks but somehow it seemed eating it with a fork would have been even messier and more challenging. DIL proved this as she tried eating hers with a fork.
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More and more places seem to be using cloth napkins. I also worry about getting the food stains on my clothes, if I’m eating something messy, when the napkin is on my lap (yes, I am quirky). Sometimes I steal the little paper ones from underneath people’s drinks
I also found that it helps me eat less of the bread that comes with a sandwich or burger.
Standing up and eating at an event or wedding is a challenge and I usually just say no to anything that looks like it would be a challenge.
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Wow - being turned down. I’m medium well. That’s appalling she’d be turned down.
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She wasn’t happy. If she wasn’t with a group, she probably would have gone elsewhere. She thought the server was kidding at first, but no. FWIW, I also think overcooking certain cuts of steak is a crime but one should be able to eat it however one wishes. I’ve been overcooking her steaks most of her life.
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Well, I just take paper napkins whenever I can and take a chance with whatever food the servers confirm don’t have shellfish (which I’m allergic to). eating around others I don’t know well (fundraisers, etc,), I try to be a bit more careful to eat very neatly. It can be a challenge, especially if I have a bag of jacket.
My wife kills chicken 8 times over - always torched - but I eat it every day 
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It seems that maybe this would be a case where the chef needs to come out and chat with the customer. Hear her side and explain his/hers. Maybe they could have found a happy medium (no pun intended!) For instance maybe he could have suggested another cut of steak be cooked well done. Or see if her “well done” just meant no pink to be seen.
Just a face to face would have gone a long way in no seeming so opposed!
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I have definitely been in restaurants, usually higher end French ones (not always in the US), where the chef will outright refuse to cook a steak well done. This is not a surprise to me. Even medium well sometimes has to be compromised to medium, I often just ended up ordering fish or chicken in French restaurants!
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This may or may not be a food crime but speaking of napkins, I am the one who hoards paper napkins from the dispensers at fast casual restaurants and uses EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. I just seem to require a lot of napkins! I have to laugh when you go through a drive through and get 1-2 paper thin paper napkins.
Only use cloth at home.
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Is it a food crime to round up all the ginger left by people on your table at a sushi restaurant and eat it as is?
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“It needs to be well done!”
“Honey… it was well done an hour ago. Let the poor thing’s soul rest in peace.”
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Sometimes I lick my plate at home.
I haven’t yet done it in public, but boy have I wanted to. Instead I’ll use a spoon to get every last bit off the plate that I can.
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Maybe. Her argument was that she is a paying customer and should be able to request the food the way she wanted it. It wasn’t like this was a Michelin star restaurant.
I’ll have to ask her if it was a French restaurant. She was at a bachelorette party in a bougie upstate NY town.
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IMO better they turned down her request then spat on it and/or did other unmentionable things to her steak if it went back into the kitchen.
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