Do You Complain If......

[cupid04]

Do you complain if you get bad service? Last night went out for a Carvery
meal. Started off with a prawn cocktail. Instead of being served in the usual
tall glass, the prawns were on a plate, with salad, one slice of dry bread and
a miniature pot of what I thought was mayonnaise. I proceded to pour it all
over my prawns and salad. But, yuk it was runny butter. I ate most of it
even though it tasted horrid. Is this partly my fault? What would you have done?

[B00]

I'd have my eye sight checked out, you can't tell the difference between mayo and butter?

;-)

[Prudie]

I think in attempt to get away from the naff 70s tag on prawn cocktails, restaurants try to do their own thing so I wouldn't have complained. Certainly in US it's normal to serve prawns with melted butter rather than seafood sauce.

[Canary42]

What exactly is your complaint - that it wasn't served correctly, or that you can't tell mayonnaise from butter ?

[cupid04]

It was dark,Boo!

[boxtops]

Yes, I complain. We don't eat out often, but I'd complain. Prawn cocktail should have Rose Marie sauce anyway, that's pink.

I'd complain that the butter was runny, where's my sauce?

It's a bit late to complain though, once you've eaten it.

[DJHawkes]

i can't eat prawns as i am allergic and so haven't had prawn cocktail since 1975

[tiggerblue10]

Was the butter meant for the dry bread?

[gness]

Runny butter? Certainly a no-no if it was meant for the bread. I would have used charm to get another prawn cocktail.....because the melted butter would have put me off. x

[boxtops]

Perhaps it was described as a deconstructed prawn cocktail (i.e. in bits - this seems all the rage at the moment)

[cupid04]

Boo, funnily enough I've been to the opticians today and I don't need
stronger glasses. But I've got floaters although I've never seen them.


Boxtops that's how I usually like it with the seafood sauce!

[cupid04]

I think the runny butter was meant for my dry bread, so would my complaint have stood up. Hopefully, because the butter shouldn't have been that runny. Too late now though!

[B00]

lol, sorry for gently poking fun at ya Cupes ;-)

Did you not get no pink mayo stuff at all with it then? Surely if you didn't it's just a prawn salad?

If I'd ordered a prawn cocktail and it didn't come with the obligatory pink gunk, then yep, id have complained.

[tiggerblue10]

Did the prawns have any kind of sauce on it? What was the description on the menu (if there was one)?

[Jeza]

I love prawn cocktail and I want it served on a bed of shredded lettuce, prawns covered in sea food sauce and a slice of lemon please. Otherwise I'd send it back.

[Psybbo]

Perhaps complain at the end of the meal, not while you have courses still to come.

[cupid04]

I've been to the same Carvery before and last time it was served in a tall
glass with the seafood sauce and paprika.

[gness]

That's it Psyb, isn't it? Complain early and wonder if you're eating spit. :-(

[boxtops]

No, you complain at the time, draw the manager's attention to it, not the waiters.

[Psybbo]

Yes gness, I always worry about that

[boxtops]

.. or worse, as one heard about certain takeaways at one point... bleah, don't go there.