Bringing your own condiments?
Jun 27, 2015 | 9:40 am
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Bringing your own condiments?
If I have one gripe about most casual-dining restaurants it is the sauces they put on dishes such as chicken wings, ribs, beef, etc. Usually it's not very good and they drench the food. I often order such dishes with the sauce on the side so I can decide how much to apply or whether to use it at all.
Lately I've considered bringing my own sauces so my meal can be less salty, a little hotter or not quite as sweet.
Has anyone done this? What was the response? Any problems with doing it?
Lately I've considered bringing my own sauces so my meal can be less salty, a little hotter or not quite as sweet.
Has anyone done this? What was the response? Any problems with doing it?
Jun 27, 2015 | 1:49 pm
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I already carry a plastic bottle of hot sauce in my laptop bag. Perhaps I should add a few more sauces? 
Jun 27, 2015 | 2:12 pm
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Bringing your own condiments?
This is fairly common among people who like hot sauce. IIRC, so many people would bring their own bottle of Cholula Hot Sauce that many restaurants started stocking it instead of Tabasco.
Jun 27, 2015 | 5:21 pm
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In China, I used to take condiments from places serving Lanzhou lamian (the could-be-hotter sauce) and peanut sauce from Fujianese steamed dumplings (peanut sauce) and bring them to other restaurants.
Actually, I lament that I didn't purchase a slew of hot sauces from a market in Changsha (Hunan).
Actually, I lament that I didn't purchase a slew of hot sauces from a market in Changsha (Hunan).
Jun 28, 2015 | 6:55 am
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It just shows how back to front the authorities are. The stuff they serve in "casual dining" restaurants itself should violate the Health Code. Full of salt and sugar, both very bad for you and both some of the primary causes of people dying young.
Jun 28, 2015 | 9:12 pm
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Generally, all food served in a restaurant must be "prepared" there or in a licensed facility. Most codes only speak to what the restaurant can serve, so if you bring for your own personal use that would be fine -- but sharing with your dining companions is another issue.
For more, see here: http://www.sociologyinfocus.com/2013...-a-restaurant/
Jun 29, 2015 | 11:36 am
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I have been known to bring my own food to restaurants that don't serve food I can eat. It would be rude at a table for 1, but if I'm with a group of 20 from work, I'm open about it and haven't been told to put it away or leave.
My daughter brings outside food almost every time we eat out. My grandson is 2 and won't eat just anything. And no one's going to allow him to make a meal out of an order of french fries.
