Does the flavor of lemon in your water make it pair better with food? I think not. If anything it distorts the flavors on your plate.
Water should be neutral, that is the idea. It should cleanse your palette, not inform it with another kind of acidic flavor.
The earth is 75% water, our bodies are as well. Just regular water, no lemon! Who could argue with that? When you drink water, you are a part of a huge cycle of evaporation and condensation that has been going on for billions of years. All without the addition of a single !@#$% lemon!
But you are fancy so you need lemon for your precious free water, is that right?
You know what really tastes better than water? Wine, beer or a cocktail. Try it.
hahahaha that's funny! fancy people ;) i'm sure i have tons of awesome server anecdotes somewhere in my head to contribute but i can't access any specifics. i do recall many moments of being treated like crap by inconsiderate douchebags, however. all people should be forced to work in a restaurant/bar for at least a year of their lives so they can understand how it works (i.e. the server doesn't cook the food, the server is waiting for the customer to leave so they can be done working, etc) and then maybe we could eliminate those campers and the public would become aware that all service (if you ultimately get your food/drink) is worth at least 20%
ReplyDeletealso, customer service in general kinda just sucks. managing a spa/ yoga studio is a bit better but people are still as amazingly unbelievable :)
thanks for the laugh.
Hey, I usually ask for water with lemon and have never felt it was an imposition, so this is a revelation. If I don't want an alcoholic drink or a soft drink, water with lemon somehow makes me feel like I'm having a "beverage!" And is that any more complicated for my waiter than getting me an iced tea or a diet coke? Where I live water with lemon seems the norm.
ReplyDeletePeople fly off the freaking handle about the lemon, sometimes, Anonymous, i think that's where he's going with that...no it's not that big of a deal, but if it's insanely busy, and we run out of cut lemons, and two tables' plates come up in the back that need ran, and you say lemons might take a second and the customer comes unglued (because they usually do), then the free lemon water can seem a little ridiculous, knowwutimean?
ReplyDeleteon a similar note, what is the deal with water-no-ice people? they LOSE their MINDS if you accidentally put the ice in the water, like you habitually do when you make a glass of free ice water for every single customer that walks through the door and gets seated in your section. you didn't accidentally put a lemon in there, or shards of glass, just ice! it's an honest mistake! i'm just saying.
Fo' real, doh.
ReplyDeletei'm a no-ice person, but i don't mind if some cubes get in there. and i won't send it back if it's all normal ice-y. i've got cold-sensitive teeth and it's a drag, but not enough to piss of someone who could spit in my food, you know?
ReplyDeleteI must say, anyone who would spit in someone's food, I don't care how rude the person was, must be a psychopath. I don't think I have ever known that to actually happen. The thought of it is so gross!
ReplyDeleteThe worst thing that would ever really happen is probably you would get blogged about! And hey, that's an honor when you think about it!
I told some friends at lunch the other day about this lemon in water issue after the three of us had put in such an order. When the waiter brought our waters to us, one of my friends thanked him warmly for the water with lemon. He then said, "This is the first timne anyone has thanked me for water with lemon." Midway through the meal, he spontaneously brought us all fresh glasses of water with lemon. Hopefully my two friends have a new appreciation of the issue that this is getting a "beverage" that makes no addition to the check and will pass the appreciation on.
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