rolls at lunchtime

JAMM222

Does anyone else always seem to get the one person behind the deli counter that is really bad a making rolls! would you like butter? yes a small bit please! 5 tubs later and she is still layering it on! grrrrrrrrrrrr:mad:

TJJP

Not to mention that a bread roll is not a baguette in any language.

boardinwork

Sounds like this one in a Spar in Talbot St :mad: I try to dodge her all the time!!!

Rob_l

JAMM222 wrote: »

Does anyone else always seem to get the one person behind the deli counter that is really bad a making rolls! would you like butter? yes a small bit please! 5 tubs later and she is still layering it on! grrrrrrrrrrrr:mad:

I hate these butter freaks firstly its horrible spread crap not butter and second what part of cover my roll did you get when i said a small amount :mad::mad:

I have had them throw bread int he bin I told them it was ruined and scrapping off the butter/ mayo would still leave it ruined I had to watch her carefully to make sure she didn't spit in my roll that day

boardinwork

I really like chicken fillet rolls with white onion, lettuce and a bit of mayo. Today i got a sandwhich though :rolleyes:

star-pants

oooooooh or wraps? ...serioulsy... I got a wallet sized box of a tuna wrap today.
how the HELL is someone supposed to eat that??

Had to get a knife & fix it myself.
jebus... >:(

JAMM222

would you like some ham? yes please! hold on while i kill 15 pigs and chop them up and stuff them in your roll!

smilingeyerish

speaking of white onion, why do deli's now all have red onion, sure, it looks fancier and the like but it just isnt as flavoursome! bring back the white onion!!! enough of the fancy pants red variety!!!

BaZmO*

Don't get me started on the Cheese and Coleslaw madness!! I know during the 80's there used to be Butter and Grain Mountains in the EU but are there now Cheese and Coleslaw Mountains that they're trying to get rid of in local Deli's?

These people that make the Rolls/Sandwiches, have they ever actually made one for themselves?
Surely they know that putting 2lbs of Coleslaw and 2lbs of Cheese on the bread is not going to heighten the eating experience?!?! :rolleyes:

boardinwork

I fancy one of the girls who makes my roll because she's so good at it. Whenever i get her, i breath a sigh or relief. Now i fantasise about making sweet love over the counter

xzanti

This is something that really p1sses me off... I rarely find a deli person that actually makes the roll the way I want it.. What’s with packing all the salad, mayo, cheese etc on and then laying the pieces of hot chicken across the top.. How in the hell is someone supposed to eat this without the use of cutlery and a plate??, it just goes everywhere I went to one on my way to work on Monday morning in Lucan, she asked me if I'd like butter or mayo and I replied "small bit of mayo please" to which she flashes me a big enthusiastic smile and asks "and what else" so I tell her and I walk off to get a drink.. When I took the clingfilm wrapped roll I had a feeling something wasn't right, call it skepticism or whatever so I went over to the counter and opened it and all that was on it was 1 slice of Swiss cheese and a my hot chicken fillet.. Dry as a bone, no mayo in sight.. So I went back and told her and she flashes me the same big smile, takes the roll off me and ladens it with mayo.. Had I not been already running late I'd of told her to make it again, it was dripping in the stuff, I had to scrape most of it off in the car.. I've often been tempted to stand over them and supervise the making of my sandwich, I wonder if they'd mind..

Ph3n0m

Maybe ye lot should make your own lunches instead of bitching about the "wrong" way that people in delis make them

biko

McCambridges on Shop street has brilliant rolls. And just a smidgeon of mayonnaise on it

JAMM222

Ph3n0m wrote: »

Maybe ye lot should make your own lunches instead of bitching about the "wrong" way that people in delis make them

obviously a bad rollmaker!

Rob_l

Ph3n0m wrote: »

Maybe ye lot should make your own lunches instead of bitching about the "wrong" way that people in delis make them

yeah and maybe i should perform my own heart surgery rather than complain about consultant doctors

JAMM222

biko wrote: »

McCambridges on Shop street has brilliant rolls. And just a smidgeon of mayonnaise on it

couldnt agree more used to go there at lunchtime when i was in school!

kev_s88

mmhmm.......rolls!

my ultimate roll is garlic mayo(no butter), grated cheese, lettuce, RED onion and spicy chicken.every so often i might get the ingredients of said roll and have them in a wrap but its just not as nice!!

Faith

I do hate that. I ordered a roll before with mayo, chicken, lettuce and sweetcorn. She put in chicken, then lettuce, then sweetcorn, THEN MAYO ON TOP and wrapped it in clingfilm! When I unwrapped it, all the mayo and sweetcorn got pulled off.

BaZmO*

Faith wrote: »

all the mayo and sweetcorn got pulled off.

LOL

biko

Faith wrote: »

I do hate that. I ordered a roll before with mayo, chicken, lettuce and sweetcorn. She put in chicken, then lettuce, then sweetcorn, THEN MAYO ON TOP and wrapped it in clingfilm! When I unwrapped it, all the mayo and sweetcorn got pulled off.

*pats Faith on head*
There there now

Rob_l

Faith wrote: »

I do hate that. I ordered a roll before with mayo, chicken, lettuce and sweetcorn. She put in chicken, then lettuce, then sweetcorn, THEN MAYO ON TOP and wrapped it in clingfilm! When I unwrapped it, all the mayo and sweetcorn got pulled off.

You have to tell them one item at a time and int he order you wnat it on the roll otherwise they get confused poor primitive sambo makers

Faith

Rob_l wrote: »

You have to tell them one item at a time and int he order you wnat it on the roll otherwise they get confused poor primitive sambo makers

Yeah, I learned that the hard way. Now I order like this:

"I'd like a roll with mayonnaise please". I watch her put the mayo on.
"Now I'd like chicken please." Watch again.
"And some lettuce."
"Finally, some tomato."
"Thanks."

xzanti

Rob_l wrote: »

You have to tell them one item at a time and int he order you wnat it on the roll otherwise they get confused poor primitive sambo makers

I've tried that and it does work, sometimes, but sometimes they think all you want is chicken or whatever your first item is and cram it full of that.. We need to find a happy medium..

Mossy Monk

Easy solution. No butter. It is disgusting.

Rob_l

xzanti wrote: »

I've tried that and it does work, sometimes, but sometimes they think all you want is chicken or whatever your first item is and cram it full of that.. We need to find a happy medium..

thast when you slap them and respond with your best cartman impression "bad sambo maker thats not the way i want my roll" now take all that off and start again and dont make me come around tot he other side of this counter

Ph3n0m

Rob_l wrote: »

yeah and maybe i should perform my own heart surgery rather than complain about consultant doctors

See thats the problem - making a sandwich/roll aint heart surgery, so even you should be able to perform such an easy task, plus you dont have to feel bad if its crap, cause then you only have yourself to blame

xzanti

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Easy solution. No butter. It is disgusting.

At the risk of sounding like a Kerrygold ad.. Real butter is yum.. That tubbed crap is rank.. work of the devil

monkey9

Ph3n0m wrote: »

Maybe ye lot should make your own lunches instead of bitching about the "wrong" way that people in delis make them

Thank God. I thought i was the only one. Firstly, why should we bring in our lunches. If we want to go to the deli, we should be entitled to and get what we ask for. It's called customer service.
I mean, they don't seem to understand the term 'a little bit'. No matter what you say, they'll always put the same amount in. You have to actually stand there and watch to make sure you get what you ask for.
So it would start off by me asking "can i have a roll with butter please?" They will cut the roll and then ask me if i'd like butter or mayo. "I would like butter on my roll with butter please", i reply.
"What else?"
"Tuna please........and boiled egg.....no sorry, not onions. Boiled egg"
"You not ask for onions?"
"No, i said boiled egg"
"Anything else?"
"Yeah, a little bit of lettuce please", at which point they plonk a handful of the stuff onto the roll. Then another bit for good luck. They don't even push it filling in, they just wrap it up. And you can see the wrap go into the roll so when you unwrap it, lots of it will fall out. I once had a roll where the lettuce kept falling off everytime i lowered the wrapping so i didn't get any of it. I mean, maybe it was my fault. I probably should have told them that i didnt want the lettuce as a side salad, but that i actually wanted it in the roll.
It worse when you get it in the wrap. Now correct me if i'm wrong, but a wrap should probably be....you know.....wrapped!!!!!????? They dont get it all the way round so everything falls out, gets messy and you end up chucking it in the bin.
Or if getting a chicken fillet baquette. I only want a little ketchup, but they just squirt it in. So i ask for the roll buttered, then ketchup before asking for the ingrediants. And i hate it when it made, they turn around and say "do you want ketchup and mayo on that??" "What are you talking about?? I asked for ketchup at the start of the process.
And another thing, why is that when paying for these things or anything else in Spar or Centra etc, they always say "Next please!"
Yeak, i know how the queue system works buddy. I know i'm next. I'm standing in front of you, putting the stuff onto the counter. I know it's petty, but i can't help it. It's even got to the stage where i'm ready to get there before i can say it. Customer in front is putting the changing in wallet/purse. I'm looking the cashier straight in the eye to let them now that i'm fully aware and concentrating on what needs to be done. My attention hasn't wandered. I'm not looking around me. Customer.........is..........gone. Right, goods plonked down on the counter, tenner in the air going towards the cashier's hand and yet still...................."next please"

ciano1

Panini's ftw

Rob_l

Ph3n0m wrote: »

See thats the problem - making a sandwich/roll aint heart surgery, so even you should be able to perform such an easy task, plus you dont have to feel bad if its crap, cause then you only have yourself to blame

Look i never took the course in roll making its not part of my job description Im not goign to start attempting something like that

Also I prefer my rolls fresh I find if they are made earlier in the day and kept the bread gets damp and soggy and I dont find the experience enjoyable when eating a soggy sambo this is why I get them to make my roll/sambo rather than just buy one of the pre-made ones

Cunny-Funt

Damn you all moaning about getting too much food in your roll's.

I can't even eat rolls

kaimera

ciano1 wrote: »

Panini's ftw

Away with your continental crap! Infidel!

deaddonkey

boardinwork wrote: »

I fancy one of the girls who makes my roll because she's so good at it. Whenever i get her, i breath a sigh or relief. Now i fantasise about making sweet love over the counter

you wanna fill her baguette?

timamansio

ciano1 wrote: »

Panini's ftw

Ok - apologies for being off topic and for being a pedant but panini is already plural - no need for the 's' and definitely no need for the apostrophe. The singular is panino. Mind you, I'll admit that asking for a panino anywhere except an Italian deli is likely to result in a blank stare from the sandwich maker.

On topic(ish): The problem I have with staff in delis is the cross contamination factor - I don't want to be eating the previous customer's tuna because you've used the same gloves/knife to make my turkey and cheddar roll.

monkey9

timamansio wrote: »

Ok - apologies for being off topic and for being a pedant but panini is already plural - no need for the 's' and definitely no need for the apostrophe. The singular is panino. Mind you, I'll admit that asking for a panino anywhere except an Italian deli is likely to result in a blank stare from the sandwich maker.

On topic(ish): The problem I have with staff in delis is the cross contamination factor - I don't want to be eating the previous customer's tuna because you've used the same gloves/knife to make my turkey and cheddar roll.

Ha Ha, Timamansio! That must have really being irking you, you just had to let it out. Like when people say atm machine.

BaZmO*

timamansio wrote: »

Ok - apologies for being off topic and for being a pedant but panini is already plural - no need for the 's' and definitely no need for the apostrophe. The singular is panino. Mind you, I'll admit that asking for a panino anywhere except an Italian deli is likely to result in a blank stare from the sandwich maker.

Surely you mean Panino Maker?

TequilaMockingBird

monkey9 wrote: »

So it would start off by me asking "can i have a roll with butter please?" They will cut the roll and then ask me if i'd like butter or mayo. "I would like butter on my roll with butter please", i reply.
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LOL

I go to same deli every morning, I have done for probably the last six months. I always order the same thing. The same girl always serves me. Always.

And everyday, she looks at me and says "What would you like?" I don't expect her to remember my order (well, I do actually), but even some flicker of recognition would be nice. Everyday the same, white or brown, butter or mayo, and a completly blank look while asking what else I'd like. I feel like saying "Guess..go on...take a WILD GUESS ON WHAT I'D LIKE IN MY BLOODY SANDWICH."



Oh dear. Didn't realise it bothered me quite so much..

timamansio

BaZmO* wrote: »

Surely you mean Panino Maker?

Touché

ciano1

timamansio wrote: »

Ok - apologies for being off topic and for being a pedant but panini is already plural - no need for the 's' and definitely no need for the apostrophe. The singular is panino. Mind you, I'll admit that asking for a panino anywhere except an Italian deli is likely to result in a blank stare from the sandwich maker.

Wow he told me

boardinwork

I'd hate to have to make rolls all day

Timothy Bryce

Faith wrote: »

Yeah, I learned that the hard way. Now I order like this:

"I'd like a roll with mayonnaise please". I watch her put the mayo on.
"Now I'd like chicken please." Watch again.
"And some lettuce."
"Finally, some tomato."
"Thanks."

By asking for your roll this way you also benefit from extra quantities of these fillings.

Good times.

homerjk

Praise the lord, I am not alone!!!

It actually depresses me for the rest of the day some of my sandwiches are that badly made.

I also try the one at a time ingredient most of the time to try and reduce the chance of getting an awful sandwich, but as some else said as soon as they hear one ingredient the run off to wrap the sandwich and I have to call them back. I'm thinking to myself "Did you really think I wanted just lettuce and garlic mayo on brown bread?"

There is also one snotty bitch I get sometimes who wont comply with the one ingredient at a time method. I'll say one ingredient and then she'll be like "And what else?" and stand there and ill say another and then she'll stand saying "What else?" and so on. Eventually she goes off to make it on her wee side of the counter and without FAIL she forgets something and comes back all high mighty handing it back. When I tell her she forgot the sweetcorn or whatever I get the stinkeye for about 10 seconds and then shes back and unwraps it.

[SIZE=-1]As someone earlier mentioned, I stop and think to myself, "Is this really the way you make your own sandwiches?", it couldn't be! [/SIZE]

I had the [SIZE=-1]pièce de résistance yesterday. New guy started so I gave him the benefit of the doubt and gave him all the goods at once. He put mayo on one side of the bread. This is one the single thing that drives me up the wall. who does that?! Anyway he was pretty competent (or so I thought) after this. Placed the ingredients on alright and went off to get the chicken fillet. He cut the fillet and just before he did I said to myself "This lad is SO going to put chicken on the other slice that has no ingredients on it". Bam! Straight onto the side with no ingredients. And as soon as he put on the last piece of chicken he realized. He stared at the two sides for about 10 seconds. He looked at me. He looked back at the the sandwich. And then he went for it. He grabbed the two pieces and hung on for dear life as he tried to somehow merge them together. Atomic disaster. Ingredients everywhere.

I took my sandwich, paid for it and walked out. Crying.
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JAMM222

heading for a roll now hopefully the rollmakers have been watching this thread!

Nature Boy

Deli shops are interesting, i can never undesrtand how they can get simple orders wrong so consistantly, even after telling them 3 time what you want. What i hate as well is when they try to guess what you want. Butter? Mayo? Chicken, lettuce and tomato? Why don't they just let you tell them what you want, it's much easier!!

cance

stop putting stinkin sweetcorn in tuna mayonaise you feckless band of cócks. serve em seperately and get twice the business.

Blisterman

Why do Subway have about 20 types of sauces you can get on your roll, and yet not butter?

Fooz

My local place insists on heating every wrap they make. They're nice cold too and I'd appreciate the option of having it either cold or hot. I've learned my lesson but only my lovely lettuce, mayo, chicken and onion wrap was nuked at 5,000 degrees. The hot runny mayo nearly scalded me and the heat turned the lettuce into some sort of manky cabbage-like horror.

*Lees*

The deli near my old job was the worst!! :mad:
I once ordered a sandwhich with mayo, chicken, cheese and cucumber! Instead of slicing the cucumber into thin little disks she chopped it thickly and then diced it into big fat cubes plonked it into my sandwhich and then squeezed both slices of bread together!! There was hand prints on my bread with little holes with cubes of cucumber peeking through!! :mad:
The lady in the deli near my new job is fantastic! She makes the prefect sandwhiches.. I love her!

whatawaster

the worst thing is when you ask for, say, "a spicy chicken baguette with butter and grated cheese" and they put the cheese on top of the chicken, meaning you lose 75% of the cheese as you eat it.

BaZmO*

whatawaster wrote: »

the worst thing is when you ask for, say, "a spicy chicken baguette with butter and grated cheese" and they put the cheese on top of the chicken, meaning you lose 75% of the cheese as you eat it.

Or, as used to be the case when I used to get my hot chicken baguette in Dunnes, I'd ask to have cheese on it and the girl would say that she wasn't allowed to give me cheese.

It used to be €3.95 (or thereabouts) for the roll with included hot chicken, lettuce, tomato & mayo. But if I asked for cheese, even when I offered to pay the extra, she'd say that she wasn't allowed. The mind boggles.

xzanti

I've stopped asking for grated cheese on my hot chicken rolls, it's actually scary the size of the handfulls of cheese I was getting, my car seat has grated cheese mashed in all over it (I eat on the run a lot)... Now I ask for swiss cause its sliced and they have to put it on first and I get get just a nice amount and its melted into my chicken... tastier too imo..