Chefs, Vegans, and Jews
I work as a caterer for a certain university in the U.S. As mentioned in another post, allot of stuff in food service these days comes pre-prepared. 80% of the crap you eat in a cafe was made by some massive food service company in gargantuan factory kitchens.

Well getting to the meat of the story, We had a large group of vegans who were having a convention at the university. (Vegans in case you do not know are the hardcore serious types of the vegetarian world they will not eat anything that came from an animal including milk and eggs and most gelatin)

One of the items the group ordered was a vegan vegetable soup. to provide this unique menu item Chef ordered several cases of a frozen vegan vegetable soup that comes to us pre made in a bag all we do is boil the bag for 15 minutes, open the bag and dump it in the pan, Voila! Dump and stir technology.

So we served the the "vegan vegetable soup" and that evening after we cleaned up Chef asked me how they liked the soup.
Well I told him the really liked it, (they did) and then he says to me, "Yeah i fixed it up real good."

"Fixed it?" i asked.

"yeah..." he says. "Tasted like shit so i added some chicken stock to it."

Needless to say my jaw dropped. I probably should have told the Manager but Chef is 68 years old and back in his day there were no special dietary needs so i just chalked it up to early senility and had a good laugh about it with the other kitchen staff. To this day i wonder if those vegans ever realized what was in the soup... well at least it wasn't man milk.

Oh there was this other time during passover that we ordered the wrong type of matzo crackers... during passover Jews can only eat matzos that are "kosher for passover". These matzos were not and when I informed the manager about it he told me not to worry about it because the customer was not going to see the box that warns you it is not for passover use! So we served the matzos... Am I going to hell now?
(eastonm3, Fri 28 Sep 2007, 0:15, Reply)