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April 09, 2006
Hold the tomatoes...all forms of them
After going to Unity Temple this morning, we decided to grab some lunch at this new Italian restaurant. John was understandably hesitant when I suggested it, wondering if I would be able to find anything 'safe' to eat. Of course I'll be able to find something at an Italian joint that doesn't have tomatoes or garlic or onions.
Right?
Well, yes and no. The choices are quite limited. And I learned and interesting lesson about tomatoes. Case in point:
I ordered a chicken panini. The board said it was just chicken and spinach. I asked the server what else was on it. Just chicken and spinach. Ok. Perfect.
I get my sandwich. I can't believe it. Tomato sauce everywhere. Since I'm feeding Eli, John takes my sandwich up and talks to the manager. John explains that I can't eat tomatoes (which I made my server aware of).
"Sir," said the manager, "There are no tomatoes on this sandwich."
Uh, what?
After John clarified that there were, in fact, tomatoes on the sandwich, a different manager comes up to me and asks if there was anything wrong with the sandwich.
Me: I can't eat tomatoes right now.
Her: There are no tomatoes on the sandwich, just tomato sauce
Me: Tomato sauce is made out of tomatoes!
For an Italian place there are a lot of employees who don't seem to know that.
Posted by janna at April 9, 2006 06:40 PM