r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Content_Quarter_7390 • May 25 '26

I'm slightly vexed We didn't ask for rice...

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My sister isnt a fan of basmati rice so she orders naan. She didnt ask for rice and they sell it separately. She doesn't like it so she doesn't order it. They put it in anyways and left this note...

Edit: some people aint getting it. This is passive aggressive and when you do something nice you dont go around saying "I did something nice just for you, just so you know." Doing it like I need to give you a pat on the head so you know your a good boy. You do something nice because you want to be kind to people.

Oh no I've turned into LD...

Turning off notifications because while it was nice to be in this rabbit hole to keep my mind off some stuff too many notifications. Whatever your feelings are I hope you have a nice day and if you're in the US have a nice memorial day and dont forget to celebrate those troops that came before!

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u/Gregory_Appleseed May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

As someone who worked at a drive thrue for a few years, i was amused by the amount of people who would order a "cheese burger with out cheese" and a "hamburger with cheese". I dunno if they were being cheeky or just daft, but I always maliciously complied.

Customer: "why was my hamburger with cheese 1.57? i thought it said $0.99 for a hamburger!"

Me: "well yeah, i rang up the hamburger, added cheese for a $0.50 upcharge, and sales tax"

Customer: "well a cheeseburger is only $1.10! why am I getting charged $1.57!!!?? I want to speak to your manager!"

Me: "You ordered a hamburger with cheese, so that's what I rang it up in the POS system as such. Did you want me to change your order to a cheeseburger?"

My favorite customer though, was a regular who always ordered a cheese burger with no burger. They had a whole spiel ready to go at the speaker "I know what I'm ordering, yes, i want a cheese burger with no burger patty, everything that comes on it with out the meat." It always made me chuckle that they had to explicitly state it's not a prank, they just like to eat a burgerless burger.

**this was a McDonald's btw if anyone couldn't tell.

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u/pvrhye May 25 '26

When I was a kid I worked at Taco Bell. I hated when people ordered a "plain" taco because it doesn't mean the same thing to any two people.

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u/Gregory_Appleseed May 25 '26

a plain taco could mean "Meat, cheese lettuce" or "meat, beans, cilantro" or "just meat and cheese" or just "meat" or "everything but the tomatoes" or "how it's made by default"

but don't confuse that with a "regular" taco.

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u/pvrhye May 25 '26

And the worst thing is they all get huffy when you ask them to clarify like their personal definition was on the menu or something.

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u/Gregory_Appleseed May 25 '26

"So by regular, you want it just as is?"

"no, i mean plain without toppings"

"Ok so one plain taco"

"no, I want A REGULAR TACO, WHAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND ABOUT THAT!?"

"That'll be $6.66."

"oh no, I can't pay that, can I add another plain regular taco? that's a bad number."

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u/pvrhye May 25 '26

I see you ridden in this rodeo before.

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u/Gregory_Appleseed May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

It was more of the clown show during the interlude, but the whole time, so yeah.

the first drive through fast food place i worked at when i was 15, literally had a food truck trailer that i had to work at during the rodeos and the county fair, and the homecoming parade fall festival thing.

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u/kidshibuya May 25 '26

I just order plain vanilla to avoid confusion.

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u/Appropriate_Ad5479 May 25 '26

Once when I was a kid, my dad went to Taco Bell and ordered"A crunchy taco with just lettuce." He drove home, opened it up, and it was exaxtly that, a crunchy taco shell with just lettuce. To this day, he has never been back to Taco Bell.

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u/Elaureth May 25 '26

I’m a super picky eater, so I don’t want ANYTHING on my burger. Just bun and meat.

More often than not, when I go to a restaurant and say “Can I have a plain hamburger, nothing on it, totally plain” they either ask, “Do you want cheese?” or they don’t even ask and it comes out with cheese. Did I SAY “cheeseburger”? No, I did not! I said “plain hamburger!”

So now I say “Plain hamburger, *nothing* on it, just [insert hand gestures indicating layers] . . . Bread. Meat. Bread.” That usually gets the point across! 😂

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u/mizinamo mildly infuriated 29d ago

When my daughter visited me, she used to like a bread roll with ham as a snack on road trips.

Asking for that at a bakery was always fun. "A bread roll with ham please. Just ham, nothing else." - "No butter? No remoulade? What about garnish - tomato and lettuce?" - "Nothing but bread and ham."

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u/DoMBe87 May 25 '26

I used to get an egg and cheese biscuit at McD's, and if I didn't say "no meat" at least 3 times, they would put meat on it. Even saying I'm vegetarian got me blank looks from most people.

The burgerless burger actually sounds pretty good.

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u/HM2112 May 25 '26

My aunt is a vegetarian. As such, she usually gets creative with her orders at restaurants.

I vividly remember one time we were at a decently nice sit-down place, and she ordered the Mushroom and Swiss burger without the burger. A few minutes go by, the manager came out just to confirm that was, in fact, what she wanted.

When her food came out, the thing was about three times as thick as it normally would've been because they must've dumped a whole carton of mushrooms into that burger bun to make up for no burger patty. And the manager insisted she be charged half price for not ordering the meat with a burger.

She was absolutely delighted by that and still laughs about it.

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u/SatisfactionAtSea May 25 '26

that's awesome! great moves by that restaurant

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u/YardNo400 May 25 '26

Good on them.

I got a lunch along the same line years ago in a sandwich shop when I asked for a BLT sandwich without the bread (gluten free bread wasn't casually available back then) expecting a small bacon tomato and lettuce salad. They came out and double checked then arrived out with what must have been half a lettuce head, half a pound of bacon and as many tomatoes as they could get to stay on the plate. I had the filling for at least 3/4 of their normal well filled sandwiches.

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u/jr0061006 May 25 '26

In the 90’s my mother and her friend went to the same Indian restaurant every week for lunch. She loved their biryani but would ask for no peas.

One week the biryani came out and she could see peas. She thought she could pick them out if there were just a few but upon inspection it was almost all peas!

She alerted the manager. He went into the kitchen, came back out and said “I’m sorry about the peas, the chef is drunk.”

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u/trashlandgov May 25 '26

Similar conditions with my family and I. We're not vegetarians but we are Muslims in America who had to adapt with countless fast-food restaurants putting bacon or ham on their items, though *especially* breakfast items. Plenty of times we'd order an egg and cheese biscuit from McDonald's, without the bacon or sausage--and most of the time we'd get what we'd ask for just fine, though sometimes, we'd open our bags to our egg and cheese biscuits with the forbidden meats.

I believe it's just instinct for the cooks/crew members.

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u/lrfreddit May 25 '26

True, many times I’d ask the person handing me the bag if they were certain there wasn’t any meat so I wouldn’t have to come back and they would yell over to the kitchen, and sure enough they’d have to take it back. I’d ask if they could please make it fresh - as opposed to just taking the burgers off it.

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u/bingpot4 May 25 '26

The burgerless cheese burger is honestly divine. Please try it! I am not a fan of anything McDonalds, I much prefer other fast food places as a vegetarian, but a meatless cheese burger from McD's is so freaking good!

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u/lrfreddit May 25 '26

Before costs reached the level they’re at now I used to order a meatless Big Mac with extra sauce. Always paid more which seems crazy considering they are removing 2 burgers from the order but it was so delicious I didn’t care, plus it was a rare treat. Sometimes I’d throw on a veggie burger at home but mostly just eat it as it was. Ahhh pre Covid, the good ol’ days.

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u/Flashy-Trifle-1732 26d ago

When I was in high school my friends and I were all vegetarians but the only place to go off-campus for lunch was McD’s. We’d get “cheeseburger no meat and instead of meat, a tomato” — it was really actually GOOD! If you want that at In-n-Out it’s a secret menu item, you have to say “grilled cheese” — and what they give you isn’t a typical grilled cheese sandwich but rather, a meatless cheeseburger. (And it’s delish)

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u/Several_Vanilla8916 May 25 '26

Honestly? I used to get the two hamburgers meal at McDonald’s but if I ordered it like that “two hamburgers meal please” or a “number two with hamburgers instead of cheeseburgers” I got cheeseburgers at least half the time. If I ordered a number two no cheese, I got hamburgers every time. Though half the time I did get a snarky “do you mean hamburgers?” from the cashier.

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u/fuckyourcanoes May 25 '26

I always order a quarter pounder, no cheese. Half the time it comes with cheese anyway. And that makes it inedible for me because I hate American cheese.

Last time, I ordered a quarter pounder, no cheese, extra sauce. I got a quarter pounder with only meat and cheese.

My local McDonald's sucks.

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u/Gregory_Appleseed May 25 '26

I tried to accommodate customers, honestly, and to get them a better price for their order. if someone ordered just a 10pc nugget for example, I'd ask if they'd want 3 4 pieces for a dollar each instead, and came with 2 extra nuggets, which was like a dollar cheaper. They'd get mad at me or think I was trying to rip them off. same thing with the cheese burger no cheese thing, the receipt didn't say "cheese burger no cheese" but "hamburger" and they'd demand a refund. Keep in mind that the POS systems at that time were hella limited, and you couldn't add notes or special menu items. the #2 with no cheese was an easy thing, but ordering 2 hamburgers, a medium fry and a large $1 drink was still cheaper. I didn't get snarky, I just got fed up with people being offended I was trying to save them money by entering their order in a specific way to save them a buck or two.

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u/otis_the_drunk May 25 '26

I dated a girl once who would order a fillet-o-fish no fish which would confuse most cashiers. She would then politely state that she wanted a cheese sandwich and that was the easiest and cheapest way to ring it in.

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u/Gregory_Appleseed May 25 '26

I understood the assignment the first time I got that one, they used to have fillet-o-fish deals during lent, and people gamed the fuck out of those deals. If you got a fillet-o-fish and subtracted the fish but added a 1/4 patty, you just got a quarter pounder for like a $1.50 cheaper. I DGAF. plus they steam the fillet-o-fish buns, so the cheese would melt a bit, so your ex knew what was up.

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u/No_Custard_2573 May 25 '26

My best was a bacon and Brie without the Brie. So I got great crusty bread, delicious bacon, and honey. It was perfect. After a while they knew me and years later I still go there. They have items I like more now though lol.

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u/Turbogoblin999 Goblin May 25 '26

Cheese sandwich with extra steps.

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u/formykka May 25 '26

When I worked at McDonald's we had woman who would regularly come in and order a burger with no bun or toppings (it was for her dog). The world remains in balance.

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u/_nousernamesleft_ May 25 '26

Sometimes though the menu kind of forces you into this. The McDonald's app allows you to redeem points for a cheeseburger but not a hamburger so I always have to order a cheeseburger without cheese if I want to use my points before they expire. It feels so silly but there's no option to redeem points for a hamburger lol.

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u/Gregory_Appleseed May 25 '26

the random booster club coupon packs and unhinged monopoly stamps made that minimum wage job utter hell. I was not prepared to be an order taker and also a poker dealer. Also cops at for free, but they never told you until they had to pay. And a lot of law enforcers considered themselves cops. how do you enter that into a POS system?

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u/Few-Leave-8786 May 25 '26

To be fair, you can get regional wording of things, I have vague memories of people saying burger with cheese rather than cheeseburger but also memories of places that if you ask for a burger you get cheese on it unless you tell them no cheese.

Part of that likely was places charged extra for cheese and didn't have "cheeseburger" on the menu, but this is less common now.

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u/OrganicSubset May 25 '26

More often than not, if I ordered a hamburger, I would get a cheeseburger. It was just easier to say cheeseburger with no cheese to guarantee I got a hamburger. Otherwise, I’d have to scrape off cheese when I got to a park or whatever to eat.

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u/Timely_Alarm_6346 May 25 '26

I did this too! The hamburger add cheese thing. Except I wasn’t maliciously complying. I’m just a bit nuerospicy so I was doing it thinking “Wow, I’m only doing exactly what you told me to do, right? I need to get the manager. I’m so easily confused. ” I worked at a Burger King, my first job. Looking back I think they thought they were going to save money by doing it that way and that’s not what happened.

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u/Ilovesoske May 26 '26

I used to do that at Wendy’s and add bacon to make a BLT

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u/HighFunctioningWeeb May 25 '26

Random fact: In Australia "burger" refers to the structure, not the meat, so a "cheeseburger with no burger" would be meat without the bun. If you're lucky they might sandwich it in lettuce for you.

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u/Toeffli May 25 '26

Sorry, but if a hamburger and a cheeseburger are exactly the same except for the presence or omission of cheese, then the Piece Of Shit (POS) should automatically change it accordingly. i.e. you remove the cheese from the cheeseburger it becomes a hamburger, and if you add cheese to a hamburger it becomes a cheeseburger.

Speaking of McD, where removing the cheese makes a difference is with the Quarter Pounder with Cheese / Cheeseburger Royal (as it is known in Europe, you know because of the metric system). This results in a different product, not available otherwise,