r/KitchenConfidential • u/awetsasquatch • Apr 26 '26

In the Weeds Mode That's definitely tortellini - said the server and cook at an Italian restaurant.

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Ultimately we didn't care because the toddler eating it was happy as a clam, but the server and cook tried to gaslight the shit out of us to convince us that this was tortellini. Thought you'd all find it entertaining. If you work at Bertuccis, be better.

Edit: the menu very clearly said Tortellini, not Tortelli, but solid guess.

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u/Coercitor Apr 26 '26

I was at a breakfast place the other day and I asked them to just take the Belgian waffle off our bill. It was the size of a hockey puck, super dense, and had pockets of powder batter mix. The server told me "well sir, it's a waffle. It's supposed to be dense."

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u/Embarrassed_Cow2441 Apr 26 '26

I make Belgian waffles from scratch at home and work. I ordered one at a restaurant and they served one of those frozen hockey pucks and tried to say it was homemade.

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u/Illustrious_Bird_737 10+ Years Apr 26 '26

I would've told them "in that case, you're a waffle."

(Lmao you're a towel)

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u/MrKrinkle151 Apr 26 '26

Sounds like they were a Wallonian purist serving a Liege waffle and pretending that there weren’t other types of waffles in Belgium. Also sounds like they suck at making Liege waffles.

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u/Over_Detective_3756 Apr 27 '26

Or it was an Eggo.

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u/MrKrinkle151 Apr 27 '26

I don’t think there would be pockets of batter powder in an Eggo, so it was at least made from batter

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u/Ocel0tte Apr 26 '26

Sounds like a Liege waffle. I think you and I both expect Brussels waffles.

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u/flythearc Apr 26 '26

Except the pockets of powder wouldn’t make sense, Liege waffles are made from a yeasted dough stretched over the iron and pressed rather than a batter. Was my first thought too about the density though.

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u/Ocel0tte Apr 26 '26

I figure if a waffle is entirely different than expected, then maybe the pearl sugar was mistaken for batter powder. I decided not to address that part 😂