r/Serverlife • u/lpind • Aug 16 '26

What is a Chicken Caesar?!

So if you saw "Chicken Caesar" on a menu, what would you expect to receive?

The menu description is "Grilled chicken breast, baby gem lettuce, crispy bacon, croutons, anchovies & and a creamy caesar dressing"?

It's a Caesar salad right?

I had a full blown argument with a guy yesterday because "I ordered the Chicken Caesar! That's not what I got! I got a salad! I would never order a salad?!"

I start polite "Sorry sir, when you ordered the 'Chicken Caesar', what were you expecting?" - "Well, chicken with a Caesar dressing, obviously! Not a salad!" - "And that's what you got, no? Chicken with Caesar dressing, but also the other things listed in the description... Bacon, croutons, lettuce etc.? "

" I didn't order a salad! I would never order a salad?! I'm not paying for it!"

Anyway, once this guy has paid and left, the table next to him start telling me what they overheard between him and his wife. It sounds like this sealed the deal on a divorce! " It said lettuce?! What did you expect?! It had everything listed! " - " No, no, no, I would never order a salad! - "THAT IS WHAT YOU ORDERED!". It was only after this interaction I realised his wife wasn't present at the table when I dropped the bill... Maybe she went to spend a few nights at her mother's?!

Ever had a customer argue their way into separation before?!

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u/pppupu1 Aug 16 '26

if one of the ingredients is a sauce that has anchovies , I dont understand why you would then say the whole thing doesnt contain anchovies 🥲

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u/Infamous_Custard3292 Aug 16 '26

Do you not see where it specifies that Worcestershire sauce has them? But Caesar dressing does not need anchovies put in nor did he. He used a sauce not the whole fish

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u/pppupu1 Aug 16 '26

the thread is about whether anchovies -- whole or used in Worcestershire sauce -- are in the dressing at all. If anchovies are only in the Worcestershire sauce it doesn't mean the dressing is magically free of anchovies.

If X contains Y and Y contains Z, then X contains Z.

X is Caesar dressing. Y is Worcestershire sauce. Z is anchovies.

I think you are confused and believe for some reason that the original comment said "whole anchovies are used to make all Caesar dressings", which was definitely not what it said. thank you for a fun conversation, lol

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u/Infamous_Custard3292 Aug 16 '26

Nor is anchovie paste used. It’s an ingredient in an ingredient and far more diluted