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post #31 of 43
7/16/08 at 3:33pm
My gripe with water and soft drinks is that I often drink alot at restaurants (just liquids in general). So I order an Iced Tea. I find that generally, my Iced Tea is refilled more frequently versus water for some reason. I hate calling someone to refill my water.
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post #32 of 43
7/16/08 at 3:42pm
I've never, ever felt that when ordering food anywhere. Though, I ate at the Cheesecake factory here a week ago, and the waiter didn't believe me when I told him what I wanted. I asked for the Mandarin Chicken, he said "Oh, you mean the Orange chicken I believe." I was like "No, there's this spicy mandarin cashew chicken right under that on the menu. (as I open my menu) He continues "No, I think I know what you're talking about, it's the orange chicken." I find the item on the menu and point to it, right below the orange chicken "Spicy cashew chicken in mandarin sauce" "Oooh," he says, "Got it." and walks off. That waiter, who was breaking our yet-to-be-seen real server, was now on break, and a different server this time comes back with my and my girlfriend's food, what does he bring? The orange chicken. Then he acts annoyed when I tell him it isn't what I ordered. Eventually our real server, back from break, gives me the dish I ordered, an a manager stops by to apologize and offer us a free dessert. I couldn't get too mad though, because I don't think you could make that mistake and not feel like a total and complete retard. Also, I kind of deserved it for eating at the Cheesecake Factory in the first place.
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post #33 of 43
7/16/08 at 4:13pm
For americans, a quick related question: WHen you simply order an "Iced Tea" in a restaurant, do they bring you the sweetened soft-drink Iced-Tea (a la Lipton, Nestea), or is it actually just cold tea in ice?

In Canada it's ALWAYS the former, and I've been told in the US it's always the latter.
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post #34 of 43
7/16/08 at 9:01pm
I've never asked but I'm pretty sure it is unsweetened Lipton/NEstea
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post #35 of 43
7/16/08 at 10:37pm
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Originally Posted by sonick View Post
For americans, a quick related question: WHen you simply order an "Iced Tea" in a restaurant, do they bring you the sweetened soft-drink Iced-Tea (a la Lipton, Nestea), or is it actually just cold tea in ice?

In Canada it's ALWAYS the former, and I've been told in the US it's always the latter.

In the US its typically just cold tea in ice, though a lot of places will have a regular iced tea and then some flavored/sweetened tea option as well. However, that isn't always the case and I hate it when the restaurants serve a flavored/sweetened iced tea and don't tell the patron that that is the case on the menu.

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I can't work out if this is a joke or not You have got to be fucking kidding me if it isn't!!That's absolutely ridiculous...

Nope, that's like the stories about starbucks and the "ghetto latte"...

I could care less about "looks" from the waiter for ordering water in a restaurant, what I do hate and sometimes feel intimidated about are the fancier places where you sit down and the first question is "sparkling or still water", this is the biggest rip off in the restaurant business and yet the waiters can still make you feel like a cheap ass for saying tap.
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post #36 of 43
7/17/08 at 2:50am
Just for restaurants in general (not just in the US), is club soda generally considered a 'water' (i.e. free) or a 'soda' (i.e. not free)? I've only ordered it a handful of times, and its about 50/50 i get charged for it, I found.
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post #37 of 43
7/17/08 at 3:09am
Club soda you have to pay.
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post #38 of 43
7/17/08 at 3:15am
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Originally Posted by sonick View Post
For americans, a quick related question: WHen you simply order an "Iced Tea" in a restaurant, do they bring you the sweetened soft-drink Iced-Tea (a la Lipton, Nestea), or is it actually just cold tea in ice?

In Canada it's ALWAYS the former, and I've been told in the US it's always the latter.

if it's a good restaurant, it goes without saying that it is fresh brewed ice tea. you add sugar to taste. i can't imagine that it's different in canada--not in a good restaurant.
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post #39 of 43
7/17/08 at 3:37am
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IIRC, it helps to reduce the occurrence of kidney stones.
Not quite. Whatever vitamins you think you're getting from a tiny wedge is going to be minimal. There were a couple of studies done a few years ago with patients drinking lemonade to reduce kidney stones but really, drinking more water in general is going to have a greater effect on your kidneys than a couple of chunks of lemon.
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post #40 of 43
7/17/08 at 6:06am
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Originally Posted by matadorpoeta View Post
if it's a good restaurant, it goes without saying that it is fresh brewed ice tea. you add sugar to taste. i can't imagine that it's different in canada--not in a good restaurant.

Not necessarily. In the South your tea may well come sweetened, but it will have been fresh brewed then sweetened on the premesis.

I find that sweetening already chilled tea never works quite right

K
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post #41 of 43
7/17/08 at 12:23pm
I wish more places had bottled water as an option to order, instead of tap, i would surely get that everytime
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post #42 of 43
7/17/08 at 12:26pm
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Originally Posted by matadorpoeta View Post
if it's a good restaurant, it goes without saying that it is fresh brewed ice tea. you add sugar to taste. i can't imagine that it's different in canada--not in a good restaurant.
Naw, even in the "good" restaurants Canada if you order Iced Tea it's assumed it means the sweetened pop-kind and not cold brewed tea. I'm sure there are a handful of exceptions; but I bet they often get 'exchanges' for the sweetened kind if a patron orders an iced tea and its simply iced brewed tea.
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post #43 of 43
7/17/08 at 1:45pm
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Not quite. Whatever vitamins you think you're getting from a tiny wedge is going to be minimal. There were a couple of studies done a few years ago with patients drinking lemonade to reduce kidney stones but really, drinking more water in general is going to have a greater effect on your kidneys than a couple of chunks of lemon.
whodini, thanks for clearing this up for me. This is good to know.
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