I’m going back and forth in my mind about whether I believe this story is sexist. I still haven’t made a decision. I kind of think this would be notable if we learned this about a dude, but would we have even learned this if it was a guy? Over the weekend, TMZ got a tip about Anne Hathaway. Annie was filming a Japanese commercial – which probably came with a multi-million-dollar paycheck – on the Paramount lot last week. Annie put in her breakfast order: a poached egg with an English muffin and avocado. She ended up sending back her breakfast FOUR TIMES.
Anne Hathaway likes her eggs just so, and God help the chef who goes astray. Hathaway was on the Paramount lot last week shooting a Japanese commercial when she ordered breakfast — a poached egg, along with an English muffin and avocado. The guys catering the shoot were going crazy, because she sent the dish back 4 TIMES!!
1st try: Poached egg too runny.
2nd try: English muffin was cold because it sat while egg #2 was being poached.
3rd try: Egg #2 cold because it sat while chef toasted muffin #2.
4th try: Egg, muffin and avocado were perfect, but it took so long she decided she was in the mood for a fried egg.She’s totally ovo it.
To be fair to the caterers, poached eggs are pretty difficult to master, especially if a person has specifications like “the egg cannot be too runny.” To be fair to Annie, what kind of on-set caterer makes a second poached egg and keeps the cold English muffin? So, is this diva-like behavior or just a lady who knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to demand it? These kinds of food requirements are built into her contract, I’m almost positive. As in, if Anne was scheduled to spend the whole day on the lot, shooting this commercial, the production company or advertising company was required contractually to feed her to her specifications. And they did not. Which could be seen by some as a breach of contract.
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Meh, I dunno. If it was coming back cold every time, she has every right. Personally however, if I have to send something back twice (or sometimes even once if it is really bad), I don’t bother getting them to remake something because it is obviously not going to happen. When this kind of thing happens to me in a restaurant, I usually just get more wine.
Me too. Sometimes i’m afraid that of i send something back, the person who prepared it might take offense and spit on my food or something.
Yep, I’ve worked in many restaurants and mean, demanding customers get food that’s hit the floor…or worse. Never seen anyone spit on food but I did see someone pull a little piece of skin off her finger and drop it in a rude customer’s drink.
Yeah, my mom told me never to send anything back because you can be sure it will come back having been spit on. I laugh at her but still I sometimes wonder…
Agree. I rarely send anything back, but if it comes back the same way the second time, I give up.
She’s a fool to send it back four times. By that time it would have been spit on or worse. You can send it back once but never more than that. Think that doesn’t happen? Oh, yes, it most certainly does.
Agreed. Twice is enough. Sometimes you have to just move on with life.
Some people are REALLY picky when it comes to eggs.. it’s a thing, I’ve witnessed it many times with a family friend. The eggs can’t be slightly runny or they go back to the kitchen. Some people are just like that
I get that and I’ve experienced it with my own relatives and always wonder if maybe they should just skip the eggs when they’re out and get the waffles or whatever instead. 🙂
For being such a simple food, eggs are pretty tough to master, and they are the mark of a good cook. I learned that from watching Top Chef!
In any case, I don’t know what Anne expected to get from craft services, but the 4th try is what’s diva-like. She should’ve just given up after the first and ate of it what she could, maybe ordered something else – uh, like that fried egg?
If this is true, who cares. Anne and personalities like hers are the ones who make life more *difficult* for themselves.
I think this story does have a sexist overtone to it. I have been on sets with famous people, and the catering company generally kiss the star’s ass. The story said she sent it back four times which I think is highly unlikely based on logical sense, because most people would think after two tries they can’t cook it the way you want. My guess is the caterer kept going we will get it the way you want it, and tried but failed and finally she said cook a fried egg. Knowing and seeing the staff before, it just seems more likely, and I don’t believe if this was a guy we would even hear the story certainly not this way. Guys unless gay can’t be divas, but women can and this makes good gossip.
That’s true, maybe the caterer was trying to impress.
Same. If it was coming back cold, that’s ridiculous but at the same time it’s obviously not going to improve. I just have a hard time believing that a chef wouldn’t stick an English muffin the toast oven or oven to keep it warm while they recook the egg.
That’s incredibly rude.
oops sorry Div i meant to say the actress was rude to send back the food 4 times no less than change her mind.
I can see everything except deciding she wanted a fried egg. That was obnoxious. I send back poached eggs if they are hard, so I don’t blame her. They shouldn’t be watery but velvety, so I can see how it could be too runny. There’s no excuse for not toasting another muffin. Obviously the first one would be cold. It’s not that hard. Any competent cook can poach an egg.
Yep, caterers should know that while they were poaching another one, the muffin was obviously going to get cold and vice versa so 2/3 are almost cancelling each other out if you ask me and not her fault.
Number 4 is obnoxious however, if true. Fair enough if it took too long and she had no time but to then decide on a different type of egg, yeah it’s rude.
Do you think number 4 is true though? I know the AnnE hate around here is real but I just find it hard to believe that she would be that much of an ahole.
How DO you poach an egg? I cook eggs all the time but I’ve always been too intimidated to poach an egg because it seems so technique-based. I’m really into those organic egg whites that they sell at Whole Foods and I eat tons of eggs on the weekend for some reason (and other boring facts about my diet).
Kitten: I use a poached egg tray that sits on top of a pot of boiling water. You grease the egg holder with butter (it’s the only thing that lets it not stick, trust, I’ve tried everything!), crack the egg in and cover with a lid. I check several times and when I can rest the fork on top of the egg without it being wobbly, it’s done.
@Kitten
Google Julia Child and how to poach an egg. It’s not hard to do one for yourself, but a lot can go wrong. The whites can float away, for example. You have to be very gentle. It would be hard to do a bunch of them at once because you sort of have to hover. If I can do it, a chef should certainly be able to do it.
I think it’s all BS, the whole thing sounds made up.
I just add a little vinegar to the water, pour the egg in, and set a timer for 3 mins. Honestly,poaching eggs takes so little time that I wouldn’t have toasted a new English muffin either unless it was soggy from the first egg.
Ahh and I was going to say there is an art to the perfectly cooked egg.
I don’t ever send food back, because I’m one of those people who can’t speak up to strangers for fear of being “rude”. Totally lame of me I know. Luckily I only eat at five star places. (Kidding!)
Anne lived in my town and went to my high school. She wasn’t nearly as insufferable, but you could tell she had the tenacity to propel herself very, very far.
However. I kind of get so annoyed be her extreme try hard. And I don’t know why. Like, even on Lip Sync Battle, she couldn’t just make it fun, she had to be the biggest and the best.
I remember asking a friend if she had seen Anne doing wrecking ball, and she was like I don’t care for Anne. And I said oh but this video is so great. She took one look and said, and this is why I don’t like her. I totally got it
Doesn’t everyone do big productions for Lip Sync battle? I’ve seen some bits here and there, and I’ve seen choreographed parts with backup dancers and of course costumes.
@Bridget they definitely do for the second number, but usually it’s just props and the dancers. She came out on a wrecking ball.
She won. (:
Could you really do the song without busting out the wrecking ball though? 🙂
There must just be something about the highly driven theater girl type. A bunch of my friends went to high school with a well known sci-fi actress, and she didn’t exactly fill them with the warm fuzzies either.
There is definitely an art to poaching eggs. I have an egg poacher and I cook eggs this way sometimes, but I have to add that a person’s preference should be communicated when ordering a poached egg – medium, easy, done, because you can poach an egg as long as you want and even though a poached egg is usually soft, preferences vary with eggs, so…..
I would not order a poached egg from any restaurant, period, because I am picky about my eggs. If a person can settle for a fried egg in the end, better to order that in the first place. I find it all pretty diva! But who knows what got lost or added in translation, so I take it with a grain of salt – this story and my egg.
I can actually see the whole thing. I hate runny eggs and would have asked them to cook them longer. In a decent hotel with a decent chef, they would have toasted a new muffin so it was hot to go with the now-cooked egg. The fried egg request was probably facing the reality of a “Plan B” because clearly after three tries of asking for what you really want and not getting it, best to ask for something else…
I’ve sent back soft-boiled eggs for being “too runny”, i.e., these eggs are barely one step up from raw! So I can’t fault Anne too much, except possibly for the bit at the end where she decided she’d rather have a fried egg. That starts to just seem like too much bother.
Yeah, that seems almost like deliberate torture. Hahaha, it’s perfect but now I don’t want it…
Anne with an e…please bugger off. You’re annoyingness is not abating, dear.
I swear, she said that in homage to Anne of green gables but not enough people have read it (blasphemy) and so no one got it.
I got that right away! 😉
I total,y got it.
FIRST WORLD PROBLEM. Go read “Humans of New York” stories about the refugees, then come back and be grateful for the egg. Eat the freaking cold muffin. It won’t kill you. I know we can’t live our entire lives apologetically because others are suffering, but think of all the waste because of this one woman’s whims. I can’t even comprehend behaving like this – especially over free food on set.
My mother used to tell me a story about a rich man who was thrown in prison. They brought him an egg and he refused to eat it. The next day they brought him the same egg. He laughed at them and refused to eat it. The next day they brought him the same egg, and he had a hissy fit and refused to eat it. The next day they brought him the same egg. He ate it.
Agreed. Why is this a story, who gives a crap. Why am I even commenting on this? It’s one thing to be a little side commentary but a full analysis on the story of a cold English muffin? K.
i was thinking something similar the whole time. how about you just eat the damn thing because how much food is wasted in the country? and sometimes wasted on stupid BS like this? unless there is an inedible object of some kind in my meal i never send it back.
If she was gracious and kind while asking, I don’t see anything wrong with it (except, I would have avoided point 4, that was just asking for further unnecessary delay).
Re: point 4 – after a certain point, maybe she felt asking for a fried egg was just easier for everybody all around? If I’m in a restaurant and I ordered a poached egg and toasted muffin, and the restaurant screwed it up three times, I might be like ‘these people are f–king incompetent but it’s pretty hard to mess up a fried egg so I’ll just get that instead to make it easier for them’. But I wouldn’t say ‘You’re f–king incompetent, just make me a fried egg instead’, I would say ‘Oh I changed my mind’ because that’s more polite.
Yeah, that’s how I read this too–okay this has gotten nuts, just give me a fried egg, with everything hot, and we’ll call it a day. I’m very particular about my poached eggs too, which is why I never get them when I’m out!
That was my thought too.
I didn’t think about that. That’s absolutely possible.
Me too. I think after the fourth time she just gave up and said, you can fry it instead.
She’s not one of my favourite people but she gets no side-eye from me here.
It is how I read the story
Cold eggs are deplorable. As an assistant, I can attest that it was likely her assistant who made the call. I fix stuff 100 times a day according to the preference of the people I support without their knowledge to ensure I don’t have to hear about it and also because it my job to anticipate and deliver against needs/wants. I doubt she was getting her own food and may have not even known about it.
As long as you’re nice about it, why does it matter?
Stories like these about Anne Hathaway are just too easy
Would you say they were…over easy?
*I couldn’t resist and haven’t had my coffee yet^.^
Badum tich. 🙂
The first three time seem fair. The fourth one was a bit obnoxious. But if she’s paying for food, you can at least make it what she ordered.
I wonder if she herself sent it back, or if there’s an assistant who intercepts it first and made the decision. I think sometimes someone working for a celebrity makes decisions like that and then it gets blamed on the celebrity themselves . Or it could’ve been her directly.
I wouldn’t want to eat something cold or incorrect, but after two tries I think I’d just do it.
that’s what I was thinking too – surely there is an assistant involved and if so he/she is probably in trouble now!
i doubt assistants get to choose whether food is good or not, unless they’re trying it themselves.
How would one know that the egg is too runny without sticking a fork into it?
An assistant wouldn’t know her food is too hot or too cold.
Is this true? Isn’t she a vegan?
I think it’s obnoxious, but then again, I’m the kind of person that never sends anything back.
Yeah. I’m really surprised to see so many comments from people who send their food back, esp. due to minor stuff that’s really irrelevant. I’ve only ever done it when I asked for no tomatoes and the waiter forgot cause I find them disgusting, but even then I just ask them to take them off, not make a new dish.
Muffin that’s too cold? Beetch, you’ve lost touch with reality.
I suppose it depends on your tolerance level of what grosses you out. Runny egg whites gross me out and I’ll send them back if they arrive that way, mostly because I specify when I order that the whites need to be cooked and not runny. If I order a steak medium rare and get it blue rare, I’ll send it back. Ditto if it comes well done.
And English muffins need to be hot so the butter melts into all of those little holes. That’s the whole point of them!
I don’t eat gross food so it doesn’t gross me out. There is a reason rare steak or runny egg looks gross to you. You wouldn’t have that problem on a plant-based diet.
I don’t eat out much, so when I splurge at a restaurant, I expect the food to be cooked properly – preferably even better than I do at home. If my order’s wrong or the meat isn’t actually medium-rare as ordered, I definitely send it back. I’m not paying 4x the cost of a meal to have it be subpar.
My kids do as well. Apparently the waiter (or chef) decided that a child couldn’t possibly want a medium-rare steak. He even tried to talk her out of it when she ordered, and she told him that’s how she liked it. They brought her a well-done one. I was actually quite proud that she sent it back and handled it all herself.
I thought she was trying veganism, she even had shoes made just for her for a red carpet event. She probably gave it up…
Wverything except the last is fine, IMO. At that point, just eat the damn egg you ordered in the first place.
If a guy did this, I would still think it was bumhattery. Four times? Ugh.
Yes but would it be reported? Bad behaviour is expected from the boys, remember
That’s pretty funny if it’s true. While I am not inclined to give Anne Hathaway an inch re: behaving like an entitled brat, in this case I will say she wasn’t being too demanding. Poached eggs ~are~ tricky, but is it really too much to expect the egg and the muffin to be ready at the same time? I would think anyone who works in catering could handle that. I wonder if it even happened! 💁
Since we both agree poached eggs are tricky and evidentally she likes her “not soft” when poached eggs are normally soft, I have to wonder if she was looking for something to crab about – setting them up for failure. Why not avoid ordering poached eggs altogether, but alas, it’s a stupid egg and we can’t trust what people report.
I’m inclined to give her some slack – remembering a time when I was served eggs benedict with sauce still icy cold, I sent it back, waited 20 minutes and had the same thing happen again. I eventually left the restaurant hungry and went elsewhere.
Anne’s problem has always been she’s an overexcited people pleasing theater geek. I’ve never heard about her being rude or diva-like.
Honestly I think the real problem is that these actresses have such strict diets that it drives them batty when they actually get to eat something it has to be just so.
^^This.
This makes perfect sense.
One of the only times Ive ever sent food back was a poached egg. Cut into it and the yolk and some of the egg white around it were still raw. I’ll suck it up and eat most stuff without sending it back but honestly, nope… couldn’t do it.
The first three times are fair, I think. And maybe if she was pissed off at the poor service which seems really unprofessional I can see someone sending it back a fourth time as a sort of f*uck you.
But I will never understand how people can order eggs when they’re out anyway. Everybody has a preference for how they like their eggs done and expecting somebody to cook it to your specific taste is risky. Plus unless they’re delivered immediately they’ll be cold by the time they reach the table. Cold eggs that are too hard or too runny has to be the most unappetising thing ever. I’d rather cook them myself and order something else while I’m out.
I think I agree with this. From a catering truck on set I wouldn’t order a poached egg for that exact reason, too tricky to get completely right.
In the interest of fairness, I have to admit a bit of a bias because I fine her extremely annoying and insincere.
Having said that, I still think this is pushing towards diva-throwing your weight around-unnecessary assholery. I get that you want your poached egg done correctly and yes, a caterer should know better than to let other stuff get cold while you fix the bit you messed up, but my god, really? After sending something back FOUR times and then just saying, “Oh never mind, I’m just feeling a fried egg instead” is such an entitled, jerk move.
We don’t know what the circumstances were for the caterer either-it could be someone was new, or they were shorthanded.
if they can’t get it right or there was a further problem I’d be like dammit, just get me something else then, I’m hungry. #breakfastmostimportantmealoftheday
This story just makes the catering ppl look incompetent, IMO.
I completely agree. Had she insisted they ordered out by round 4, I might have still sided with her.
Agreed. They’re being paid to do a job, and they should do it. Sending a fresh egg out with the original, now cold and soggy, toasted muffin? Unprofessional and sloppy.
I’ve heard tons of stories from people from Hollywood who all states she is a diiiivaaa and horrible to work with. I’m not whaaaat about this story.
I personally wouldn’t take the food back 4 times. Just f?ckin eat it. One time, sure, but srsly Anne – 4 times? And this on top of her mean girl rep. Uuuh. Maybe the food actually was good, she just wanted it 100000 % correct and was a bi%ch about it.
Where did you hear the stories?
I have nothing but shade for her. Eat your cold toast and pretend you are in England. et the job done, dammit.
I’m guessing there was waiter spit in Attempt #3 – any guesses as to what was in Attempt #4?
Yes, imagine what was in the fried egg after all that palarva…
Exactly lol!! Can’t imagine what the chefs did to it!
Oh lawd, just eating the f-ing egg. This is why i hate people.
Yes. This is cliche but it has to be said: THERE ARE PEOPLE STARVING IN THIS WORLD.
It doesn’t seen logical that an A list actor would depend on catering to get his or her meal just right. She can afford a personal chef if she’s so particular. Wouldn’t her specific on set demands like personal chef be provided? This story is pretty lame.
If she sends back poached eggs for breakfast, I can’t even imagine what happens at lunch or dinner.
A note to the public:
If you keep sending your food back, save yourself the trouble and ask your server to rub your food on their a$$ in front of you because it’s gonna happen either way.
Best and most true comment ever!
I’m no diva but I already had to send food back, asked for the meat to be very well done, politely (I went out to dinner with friends to a restaurant that served only meat ). They brought back medium rare, it tasted of blood. So, I can’t blame her, entirely…
I wouldn’t send something back more than once. Sending something back four times is ridiculous.
I feel her, man. I recently started eating Eggs Benedict (runny eggs gross me out but there’s not a lot of variety where I live and I was bored so it’s a mental challenge). I normally can’t be bothered to complain, but the kitchen served me EB that was completely cold. The English muffin wasn’t even toasted. Just a plain, cakey, refrigerator-cold English muffin. The eggs were runny and COLD. VOOOOMIT. I actually didn’t bother complain and played my mental mind games to get through it but the next time I went, I asked for it hot and got like a hard-boiled egg on a steaming hot muffin. That actually wasn’t bad, aside from burning the sh*t out of my mouth.
If I ate out constantly, I’d be pickier and definitely send things back until they came out edible. Eggs are gross already. Cold eggs are the worst. If you’re paying a lot for something (and I was. This was like 20$ EB. I mean, that’s enough ensure they come out warm), I think it’s fine. But if it’s cheap, it’s not worth it.
I can just imagine her reading that and freaking out. She wants so badly to be liked by the public.
And no we don’t hear silly diva stories about the men in Hollywood. They tend to have much bigger egos and are much more difficult on the whole to work with than the women, but they usually get a pass unless it is someone who is just openly a jerk and nightmare like Shia Labeouf or Sean Penn.
But taking the sexism question out of this, I would consider sending a dish back four times a diva move. Maybe I’m too nice but I wouldn’t send a plate back even once.
That is a true story? Wow.
I wouldn’t send back food unless it was completely unedible because if I ordered food, it means I was hungry.
And I am definitely not prepared to wait for it an hour, while it is being done just so.
Weird.
I sort of sympathize with her on this. I remember, waaaay back when I was still in single digits, Dad was making me fried eggs for breakfast. And he ended having to fry 7 eggs, because the yolk wasn’t exactly the way I wanted. Though, I did eat the previous 6. And the toast. And the bacon.
God, I miss that metabolism.
But sending it back four times to catering? No, not after the second attempt, because it’s frustrating for you and the cook.
Looks like an incompetent caterer.
A decent chef knows how to poach an egg.
I used to eat out 5 times a week and that for several years and I have seen very good and the worst.
A decent caterer/restaurant takes a customer´s complaint serious and tries to fix it. On the other side, a manager/owner needs to deal with a harassing customer.
Sending food back 3 times? I honestly can not imagine eating in a place like this. Sounds very strange to me.
I’m one of the folks who gets scared about sending food back – I am not a fan of spit or grossness.
You’re so right. People have no clue about hoe many ways someone can f&ck with your food. Most of these servers are getting paid low wages or buy tips only. Now throw in an obnoxious customer sending their food back. You’re food is going on a wild journey before it gets back to you.
you had me lol with ‘wild journey’. I’ve watched Mystery Diners lol. That’s exactly my thinking. I’d be hesitant to send something back even once.
I think it depends on where you are and how you approach it. I have had really good waiters suggest that if I didn’t like the way it was prepared that they would fix it for me, because I wasn’t eating it. I remember one time I was pregnant, although just and I ordered something it got there, but I just couldn’t eat it and was picking at it. The waiter asked what was wrong, and my husband told him I was pregnant and I got something else that he didn’t charge us for. I gave a great tip, went back many times. Most of the time when the order isn’t right it isn’t the waiter and sometimes stuff just happens. I think one time back to most restaurants isn’t a big deal if you approach it correctly, more than that and you may risk a backlash.
It might be a difficult task for most people, but I would think professional chefs should be able to cook eggs and seve food at the appropriate temperatures. That is just cooking basics. If the chef was too dense to realize both the egg and the muffin needed to be remade, this persons has no right cooking professionally.
Being in the restaurant business, I find this story hard to believe. 4 times???? What chef does not toast another muffin while fixing the egg, etc. However, if that is true, that is one stupid/worthless caterer. On the other hand, sorry, but I would not want to eat something that came back from a kitchen for a fourth time. Trust me, angry chefs will do things to your food when you piss them off to that degree (sending food back four times). That is the truth sorry people 😉
This story makes me cringe. If this any validity to this, Anne does come off as a high maintenance and fussy. But what I find most cringeworthy is that the fact it is even being reported at all and that someone went through the trouble of keeping track of all the details as it went down. I am all for some good celeb gossip, but stories like these are absurd. I am all for enjoying a good rumor about marital woes, behind-the-scenes feuding with costars and affairs with powerful married men, but I feel weird knowing that Anne Hathaway was fussy about her eggs.
Maybe it is just me. 😉
If I ever get into the catering field, please remind me NOT to offer poached eggs on the menu!
The Paramount lot chefs are well aware of whom they have to deal with, so my guess is that she was being terrible insufferable diva or the chef was on a bad day or just hired.
How on God’s green earth can a poached egg be “too runny?” If you like poached eggs, you like the runny. This is like saying “my lasagna is too cheesy.”
I don’t think I’ve ever sent anything back besides beef because they didn’t get my temperature request right – and that’s happened maybe twice, and I’m always profusely sorry. (Well-done steak makes me gag, I feel like I’m eating a shoe.)
I can almost understand sending back the egg because eggs are so gross if not cooked correctly. But your toast getting cold? Srsly?!
Anyone who has ever worked in food service has a hundred stories about people like this, they’re always horrible and never tip!
It’s an egg. Not a steak. Just eat the toast of its that horrible.
Who wrote that AH didn’t tip ?
Oh no one. Just the type, you know.
I’m picky about my eggs and just don’t order that in a restaurant. I need my eggs dry as a bone. I wouldn’t send back any food out of fear of what they could do it. I’d only order a sure thing that you can’t mess up. I’d rather go hungry than send back food only to wonder if it’s been ‘improved’.
I used to be too nice to send back food but after too many bad dining experiences shilling out money for food that should be up to par and wasn’t, I’m now the person who definitely sends back food if it’s not done right.
Recently I went to a la carte style restaurant and ordered pumpkin soup for my appetizer. Pretty simple right? Chile, soup barely tasted of pumpkin but instead had an overwhelming taste of ginger AND the ginger wasn’t strained right because I could taste the minute pieces of husk with every mouthful. I sent it back and asked for vegetable soup. Know what I got? Watery, over salted soup with vegetables that clearly came from a can. I’m hypertensive but even if I wasn’t, no way could I eat that sh*t.
I didn’t send that one back but I called for the check, paid and haven’t been back since.
> I didn’t send that one back but I called for the check, paid and haven’t been back since.
And that is what I normally do.
If people don’t know how to cook, they you are not going to fix it by sending the food back repeatedly. It is kind of a “solve the world hunger” problem. You can’t fix everybody. Just avoid them. The loss of business will hurt them eventually and either they will learn or not.
Who needs all the extra aggravation and why take on the training of the restaurant staff to the list of your responsibilities?
if it s true, yeah, it’s diva.
Oh whatever don’t have a ‘poached egg’ if you’re feeling that bitchy. Seriously, if I am feeling overly bitchy I will not order the eggs Benedict. I feel I won’t know if it’s my level of bitchery or the fact they got the ‘poach’ level wrong. I’ve served and tended bar and really if you don’t like your eggs “too runny” why order them poached in the first place? It’s a douche move if you ask me. High maintenance. Next.
I don’t buy this story. What kind of dumb caterer doesn’t realize you can pop an English muffin in the oven/toaster oven to keep it warm while recooking the egg?
My sister occasionally has to send fod back because she has Celiac’s. She usually is pretty good about asking before she orders if a dish has bread crumbs or flour in it but sometimes she just orders something based on the description that sounds gluten free only to discover she can’t eat it. Also if they remake the dish or just take away the offending ingredient she has to specify she needs an entire new dish made due to gluten contamination. I always hope waiters/chefs are understanding and don’t try to spit on her food and take it out on her just because they are clueless about Celiac’s. Her life does depend on constant vigilance–she won’t go into anaphylactic shock but she will spend the entire day vomiting in a toilet even if she consumes a small amount. So hopefullly food service people understand she isn’t being picky, it’s her health at stake.
My husband is chef in a restaurant and before to be father,he disliked the allergic-food persons.He changed his mind since that our daughter is gluten-allergic .Now he was the first chef in his area involved in the gluten-free meals
Your sister is brave. If I had an a medical condition I really wouldn’t trust anyone. Not that they would do anything on purpose, but I would be concerned about human error. Special diets are a pain in the butt especially if you life depends on it.
I just wish they’d written ‘ova’ instead of ‘ovo.’
I’m having a ‘sorry not sorry’ moment. I hate when people bitch about their food. As a poor grad student can I just say that I’m happy every day I wake up and have food available to me? God almighty, I would never send my crap back four times. Here’s an idea–take your freaking English muffin off the plate the first go around and eat it while you wait for your eggs. What, you wanted to eat the eggs ON the English muffin? #GTFOH. I get that people spend their money on a service. I was super unhappy with my catering for my wedding and then I asked myself why I was being so bitchy about something that was ruling over five minutes in the grander scheme of my life. If I *really* wanted things “perfect” (no universal standard for that) I could get off my ass and accommodate myself.
I’ve heard too many stories of her being a b-tch to servers to dismiss this as bad food/incompetent cook.
And… what’s going on with her face? Did she get a (bad) nose job? It looks way too small for her face. She’s really not aging well.
How well were these caterers getting paid? Because if the costs were as high as I suspect, damn right I’m sending it back if it’s not right.
lila fowler-what’s wrong with you?anne is very gorgeous woman.and she is absolutely one of the most beautiful face in hollywood .you can’t deny that.so why you criticize her.are you jealous.
Money, too much money and ass-licking can cause this.
Why scan outer space for insight into how life is on other planets when all you have to do is ask a Hollywood assistant or caterer or etc….
Only silly people eat raw or semi-raw eggs that they don’t know the source of and haven’t prepared safely themselves.
Body builders, athletes, body buffs, malnourished people are sometimes told to eat raw eggs, many people around the world eat raw eggs. I was told to consume raw eggs by our medical doctor when I needed to gain weight because of a severe illness. Raw eggs are highly nutritious. Its actually a common practice. Gross but your not silly if you do it and most people will never have food poisoning from it. Whats sillier is how we are required, thanks to the FDA, to wash the protective coating off of the eggs.
Maybe poached eggs is her thing and one of her favorites foods? The nicest people in the world can flip a lid over poorly cooked food.
I’m thinking she might be preg — you’re told not to eat runny yolk when you’re pregnant. (Also based on how she looks in those photos.)
She’s braver than I am. I’d never send my food back for fear of what the catering stuff would add to it.
I assume number 4 is a joke.
I don’t really think it’s worth ordering a poached egg when you are out – it is so hit and miss. In fact, my local cafe has a disclaimer on their menu that says something like “Please note our ‘poached’ eggs are actually steamed. If you order a poached egg it will take longer than scrambled egg, a fried egg and a boiled egg…ask yourself, can anyone make me the poached egg I really want?”
Or something!
Poached eggs are tricky, so subject to taste. I’ve never mastered them myself, and in truth my favorite poached egg is in Egg McMuffin form! It does sound like the chef was being lazy with the cold muffin, but she should have known it wasn’t going to end satisfactorily after that and ate the damn egg. I do think she’s a diva in sweetheart’s clothing so it doesn’t surprise me that she was going to make that incompetent egg chef’s life a misery. I kind of want some scrambled eggs now!