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[damselfish]

Query: when you ask for a white pizza, do you expect chicken?

Because I sure don't. I ordered one from the Mexican place on campus, expecting maybe some Mexican-American-cuisine twist on a white pie (lots of peppers, that's Mexican! which seems to be the MO of so many places), but given their delicious looking veggie pizzas I wasn't expecting something outlandish like chicken. The menu just lists the pizzas as "beef, white, veggie" etc, doesn't say what's on each one but you can assume given the name, right? And white pies are vegetarian-friendly. You might be surprised by mushrooms or an unusual sort of cheese, but so long as you're okay with dairy, a white pie is a safe bet.

I asked if that was mine, or the order of the guy ahead of me, and the woman was like "it's a white pizza."

"But I don't want chicken--"

"The white pizza comes with chicken," she said, incredulous.

"I... I've never seen a white pie with chicken. It's usually just cheese, sometimes mushrooms--"

"Did you want a veggie pizza?"

"...No, I just... can I get chips and queso instead?"

She still looked at me like I had lost my marbles and insisted that a white pizza had chicken on it, and for a minute I wondered if I had woken up in some alternate reality where all white pizzas have forever been tarnished by the touch of meat, completely undoing the delicious, delicious purity of cheese.

Then the other workers made fun of me, snickering about the customer chucking out perfectly good chicken and oh silly students, not liking what they specifically ask for. Laughing and talking about such "customers" even as I paid, right in front of me because obviously this is the mature way to go about things that aren't going to make me feel awkward and judged about my eating issues. The guy behind me was staring at me like I was nuts, or maybe I was projecting that part and he was as baffled as I was by the situation.

Yeah, definitely time for a complaint. Oh sorry I didn't magically know something not listed on the board, menu, or website! I totally deserve a sound mocking.