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From: brown@aero.ARPA (Leonard Brown)
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.cooks
Subject: Re: Restaurants Using Non-Dairy Creamers
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Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 11:31:44 EST
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In article <2618@sdcrdcf.UUCP> faigin@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Daniel P Faigin) writes:
>Remember, you can always (politely) ask for milk, you can't ask
>for non-dairy creamer.
>
>Additionally, dairy products left out on the table allday would
>spoil and make you sick.
>
Most restaurants have low calorie sweetener and low or non-sodium "salt"
available for the asking, if not on the table.  I would prefer that they
provide the "non-dairy" creamers for those want them, and put one of
a) the small plastic containers of half-and-half in a bowl of ice,
b) a small pitcher of cream, and maybe one of milk, on each table,
c) (my favorite, common in Australia) small plastic containers of UHT
   milk in bowls at each table.

The coffee shop where I go when I'm too tired to cook dinner has Sweet-'n-Low
on the table along with the sugar packets, you can ask for Lite Salt,
and before the new management took over there was a steel pitcher of half
and half on each table.  The busboys changed these regularly.  Now they have
a bowl of non-diary creamer on each table.  Since I prefer milk in my coffee,
I ask for a pitcher of milk and usually get it, once someone who knows the
language of the week (the busboys change monthly, and never know English)
translates my request to the busboy, who is in charge of getting coffee, tea,
soft drinks etc.
-- 
Leonard Brown:  brown@aerospace.ARPA
                brown@aero.UUCP
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