I have a lady who comes often who just wants oatmeal with the bleuberries I put in a dish at the side. She also gets the fruit and muffins and juices, but wants the oatmeal with blueberries as her entree..
i had two oatmeal guests who declined instant oatmeal. with shivers and shrugs. i have the regular oatmeal you cook in the pan, and that's what they wanted. they had to wait a while for it to be ready.
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It doesn't take that long to make oatmeal. It is one of our favorites as well..but for me...only in the winter. Too hot for summer breakfast.
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catlady said:
It doesn't take that long to make oatmeal. It is one of our favorites as well..but for me...only in the winter. Too hot for summer breakfast.
It's the mess. It's the whole 'I can't eat this, make me something special that is inconvenient for everyone' scenario. I don't know how SS does it by herself with more rooms, I really don't!
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If I knew in advance I would try to accommodate. IF not..they get the prepackaged or nothing!
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catlady said:
If I knew in advance I would try to accommodate. IF not..they get the prepackaged or nothing!
You know, we did know the oatmeal in advance. When they got here, tho, there was a back and forth on whether or not they would all have the quiche. So when did they tell us? Left a note that hubs found at 6 AM. A bit late as all the prep work happens at night. The other thing is, hubs is not good at coordinating meals to come out at the same time. So, cooking the oatmeal for her while making toast for the others and getting sausage cooked for the next table while trying to cut up the quiche, well, let's just say, 'not a pretty sight.' And I've got half the counter taken up pouring juice and putting together 'jam pots'. I try not to stress him when I have to stand a foot away with sharp knives all around.
It's the sheer number of guests. And the idea that once someone sees that there is something 'different' to be had, then all hell breaks loose.
Today, I had to specifically say to a guest, 'We can make this or that for you (dietary restriction), but everyone else gets what they get,' just to avoid someone else saying, 'Oh, good, I'll have that, too.'
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Doesn't it make you wonder, if they have children, which many of them do, do they cook a different dinner for each one of them, because Johnny doesn't like this and Mary doesn't like that? Give me a break!
I had a guest who had a farm and had like 5 kids, she said they got what's put in front of them, if they are hungry, they eat, if not, too bad.
She was not a picky guest.
The ones that get me are the ones who say, when you have a full house, of course, "Oh, don't go to any trouble for
me, I'll just have....." when that entire special order is just a PITA plate, 'cause now you have to make ANOTHER completely different breakfast on top of the one you've planned for your full house!
There's one for the dictionary: PITA plate
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