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| - Well, yesterday took the cake. I go in to order a salad (Cobb with no avocado) because 1) I was hungry. 2) Its close and I didn't feel like driving. And 3) I did not feel like walking over to Paradise.
I go in and order with no problem. I pay the dude and the gal starts making my salad.
Lettuce - Check.
Chicken (which she chopped right there) - Check
Tomatoes - Check
Egg (I get this instead of avocado) - Check
Bacon - Check
Blue Cheese - Checkkkkkkkkkkkkkkerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Wait.
She leans down to the cooler below the counter and pulls out a container.
Its not the container that the cheese was purchased in.
It wasn't a Tupperware or gladware type container.
*Drum roll*
The blue cheese was being stored in a Skippy Peanut Butter container. The size you'd get from Costco.
I stood there dumbfounded for a moment. I'm handed my salad and I turn and walk out, heading back to work. I get all the way back to my building and desk...thinking about it the peanut butter cheese situation the whole time. I then proceed to tell my coworkers, who all burst into laughter. I'm glad I can at least provide some humor. I am completely turned off by the salad after a few minutes of staring at the cheese.
I decide to go back to Pacific's and get my money back. A coworker decides to get out of the building and walk with me. We get there. And in short, they were both defensive. The gal even went to the back and got the big container of cheese saying...this is the cheese. I said that that might have been where the cheese originally came from, but that isn't where she got the stuff that was on my salad. That it came from a peanut butter container and that's not the proper method of storage. And I then said, "Open up the cooler." The gal then said...give her back her money. Yeah, give me back my $7.00.
Seriously. What if I had a peanut allergy?!?!?
I took my money and walked to Paradise, where I got a small Cobb, a small mac&cheese, and 2 cookies for $9.50. At least I know I don't have to worry about quality, freshness, and storage issues at Paradise.
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