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So this should be Freebirds |OT| now

I ate some Freebirds the other day (Austin, TX) and it was so damn delicious. I got a monster burrito with spanish rice, mixed cheese, steak, and the corn salsa. So good. Everyone should try Freebirds.
 
heliosRAzi said:
So this should be Freebirds |OT| now

I ate some Freebirds the other day (Austin, TX) and it was so damn delicious. I got a monster burrito with spanish rice, mixed cheese, steak, and the corn salsa. So good. Everyone should try Freebirds.
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I guess it may as well be, I thought at least a few other people would have a similar story of having trouble getting an alternation they thought was simple done.

I didn't know they were nation-wide. I live in the Central Valley in California and they've been popping up everywhere at a pretty incredible rate.
 
BertramCooper said:
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This fucking slays me every time.
 
dr3upmushroom said:
No, I wanted a Freebird quesadilla without cheese, I definitely wanted the tortilla and am aware of what a burrito bowl is.
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Going by your other post about how they piled on the ingredients because it didn't have to be wrapped up and how you wanted to be able to use a fork implied you wanted a burrito bowl. A burrito bowl comes with tortilla too.


Now that everyone's seen that picture, that's exactly what I wanted. With no cheese.

And they do all come like that, RobotChant has either never been to one or his local branch sucks, if you order a quesadilla they'll go through the process of asking "What type of rice do you want? What type of meat? Do you want veggies on that? What kind of beans? Etc." you definitely don't expect nothing but cheese and tortilla and have to specify the rest, at least not at the three branches I've eaten at.
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Those pictures are pictures of loaded quesadillas but they tell us nothing about how it was ordered. They also offered traditional cheese and tortilla quesadillas so no, they don't all come like that.

Wondering if I've ever been to a freebirds or if my local branches suck? seriously, I'm not the one confused by Freebirds relativiely small menu and relying on uniformed workers to direct me on how to order from it.
 
RobotChant said:
Going by your other post about how they piled on the ingredients because it didn't have to be wrapped up and how you wanted to be able to use a fork implied you wanted a burrito bowl. A burrito bowl comes with tortilla too.




Those pictures are pictures of loaded quesadillas but they tell us nothing about how it was ordered. They also offered traditional cheese and tortilla quesadillas so no, they don't all come like that.

Wondering if I've ever been to a freebirds or if my local branches suck? seriously, I'm not the one confused by Freebirds relativiely small menu and relying on uniformed workers to direct me on how to order from it.
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... It's kind of obvious that it's true that you've never been to one or that your local one is just weird though. Burrito bowls definitely do not come with a tortilla. I've ordered and been with people who have ordered them at several locations. The whole point is that they're a burrito without the tortilla, the bowl is necessary to hold it. I'm sure plenty of people can confirm that Chipotle is the same way.

And again, every Freebirds I've been to has asked me what rice, beans, meat, veggies, etc. I wanted when I've ordered a quesadilla, it's absolutely not true that the default is barebones meat and cheese and that you have to ask for everything else without being prompted. You'd have to refuse everything to get just cheese and the tortilla. Of course that's possible, but acting like it's the norm is ridiculous.

Chie Satonaka said:
So, did they just give him veggies on a bun with condiments? Why the hell would anyone even pay for that?
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A lot of vegetarians do that for convenience if they have to grab a quick lunch on the go. You can even order a "grilled cheese sandwich" at In N Out that is a hamburger minus the patty. The fact that this person order the double version meatless is stupid though.
 
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Love me some Freebirds. Those are my nachos from the last time I went. I used to go all the time when I lived in College Station, TX. Now I live in LA and I am glad they have been showing up.
 
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Love me some Freebirds. Those are my nachos from the last time I went. I used to go all the time when I lived in College Station, TX. Now I live in LA and I am glad they have been showing up.
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Their nachos are really, really good. I like to get chicken nachos and dump a container of BBQ sauce and a container of hot sauce over them.



I did some Googling and apparently you CAN order a burrito bowl with a tortilla (though every time I've ordered and seen one ordered it didn't come with one and the orderee wasn't asked if they wanted one), HOWEVER this is still not what I wanted since the doubled-over nature of the quesadilla means that you easily get tortilla in every bite, and more of it.

However, I will conceed that it's close enough to what I wanted to be acceptable if for whatever reason the cheese-less quesadilla is too great an imposition.

It's weird the guy who helped me didn't suggest that instead of a regular burrito, but I guess he was just so shell-shocked by my order that he wasn't thinking properly.
 
I have cooked refried bean quesadillas with no cheese. They are pretty good, but they definitely taste more like a taco than a quesadilla.
 
Man those nachos must be like, what, 3k calories? lol

Wish we had freebirds around here, chipotle just started moving in so I hope freebirds will follow.
 
Dresden said:
Man those nachos must be like, what, 3k calories? lol

Wish we had freebirds around here, chipotle just started moving in so I hope freebirds will follow.
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Think the menu says 500-900 for the regular size order, double that for "Monster" size, which I'm guessing is ridiculous, regular is already pretty big.

Skip sour cream and their borderline gross, Velveeta-esque melted cheese and you're probably at the lower end of that range, not something to eat all the time but not bad for fast food either.
 
dr3upmushroom said:
Think the menu says 500-900 for the regular size order, double that for "Monster" size, which I'm guessing is ridiculous, regular is already pretty big.

Skip sour cream and their borderline gross, Velveeta-esque melted cheese and you're probably at the lower end of that range, not something to eat all the time but not bad for fast food either.
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How can you have nachos without borderline gross velveeta-esque melted cheese? Thats like having a quesadilla without cheese =)
 
The reason restaurants don't just give you whatever you want is: it can reflect badly on them to start serving all manner of stuff customers build from their stock of ingredients. It can also get pretty inefficient, and in a case like this there'd probably be like a 30% chance they'd waste one normal quesadilla while making your quesaless-dilla because they went on auto-pilot.

It's also not as simple as 'just give me what I want, it's my problem if it's nasty'- because on the extreme end of the spectrum you'd therefore be able to order raw chicken or TRULY off-menu items just because they can technically be made with what they've got on-hand.

They gotta draw the line somewhere. And maybe it's debatable, but I think drawing it at a quesadilla without cheese is not terribly unreasonable.
 
Alucrid said:
My friend went to subway and ordered a sub with jsut cheese. The sanwich artisan didn't know what to do.
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Did the sandwich artisan not know how to put cheese onto bread anymore because the request was so alien that it short circuited their brain? Like maybe they're in a mental institution now because of the perfect physical anomaly or whatever?
 
Snkfanatic said:
What...my God Subway is already bad enough but to just get their stale bland bread and tasteless cheese. Wow
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Yeah why are you even going to subway if that's what you want? Guy sounds like a weirdo, TBH. You can go to the grocery store down the block and buy some hoagies and sliced cheese and go to fucking town. I imagine that the type of person who only wants cheese on their Subway is going to do something real weird and socially out of step in the lobby, like doing loud, wet cunnilingus on the bread or something. I bet that guy likes to eat out bread like it's a vagina. Hell, I'd bet money on it.
 
My fuckitudes... Why can't there be a Freebird in Indiana? Damn, this last page looks utterly delicious.

I guess I can finally try Chipotle in the meantime.
 
Timedog said:
Did the sandwich artisan not know how to put cheese onto bread anymore because the request was so alien that it short circuited their brain? Like maybe they're in a mental institution now because of the perfect physical anomaly or whatever?
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i think she spends hr days putting cheese on the walls of her padded cell at st marys of fatima's institute for the mentally ill.
 
Timedog said:
Yeah why are you even going to subway if that's what you want? Guy sounds like a weirdo, TBH. You can go to the grocery store down the block and buy some hoagies and sliced cheese and go to fucking town. I imagine that the type of person who only wants cheese on their Subway is going to do something real weird and socially out of step in the lobby, like doing loud, wet cunnilingus on the bread or something. I bet that guy likes to eat out bread like it's a vagina. Hell, I'd bet money on it.
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haha what
 
It would be hard to make a quesadilla without cheese. First of all, the contents would just fall out, and second, you'd burn the fuck out of the tortilla before it was cooked.

Also, ordering burgers without meat is a horrendous waste of money. Just get a chicken sandwich or salad FFS.
 
fredrancour said:
I just... do not understand your motive. Without the cheese to glue the filling in with, you'd have a flat burrito that would fall apart very easily. This is as fundamental as trying to order a quesadilla without a tortilla. You are asking for a completely different food item. At that point, whatever aspect of the food you're after is surely represented better by a variation on a different menu option. Does being flat matter that much? Or the light frying on hte exterior of the quesadilla that may not be there with a burrito?


Granted, I think he should have given it to you. Would have made for a better story when he and his co-workers discuss this in confusion later.
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I like quesadillas with chicken and salsa. Toasted tortilla is important.

I can totally imagine ordering one without cheese. Its nothing like ordering a cheeseburger without cheese.
 
we have both those restaurants here but I'm holding off on going being mexican I'm well picky about my mexican food. I live in a city with a mexican restaurant on damn near every street corner so there is always some where good to go, so it makes holding off even easier. I judge a lot of places by their carne guisada (red gravy ftw!) if you don't have good guisada chances are you don't have good food.
 
Baconsaurus said:
I'd like a cheeseburger with no cheese, please.
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a McDonalds near me had a local special on Tuesdays where you got 3 cheeseburgers for 1.50, which is cheaper than 3 hamburgers (which is like 2.00).

So someone in front of me just ordered cheeseburgers with no cheese to get the sale price.

So it's not that silly
 
TheMan said:
he shouldn't have made you feel stupid

but yes, you are stupid
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Disagree. The OP's shame should teach him a valuable lesson: do not order food in a stupid manner. This employee was trying to make the world a better place.
 
they turned freebirds into a franchise? explains why their burritos got all small all of a sudden they used to be the size of a paper towel roll and for $8 now they are all small :(
 
dr3upmushroom said:
I guess it may as well be, I thought at least a few other people would have a similar story of having trouble getting an alternation they thought was simple done.

I didn't know they were nation-wide. I live in the Central Valley in California and they've been popping up everywhere at a pretty incredible rate.
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theyve been in UCSB for about 10ish years maybe longer
 
Crumpet Trumpet said:
A friend once ordered a double whopper with no meat.

Yeah...
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I've seen people order "vegetarian" whoppers for years. It seemed odd the first time I saw it because I wasn't very familiar with vegetarians at the time. Now it seems perfectly normal to me. However, it seems weird to order a double instead of a single though unless you get more lettuce and tomatoes on a double.
 
He should have just made your order since it's not that hard to figure out what you mean, but you gotta admit, OP, that's one fucking weird request.

I'd like a chocolate chip cookie, without the chocolate chips please.
 
Rentahamster said:
He should have just made your order since it's not that hard to figure out what you mean, but you gotta admit, OP, that's one fucking weird request.

I'd like a chocolate chip cookie, without the chocolate chips please.
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After the OP posted what the Freebird version of a quesadilla is, the request doesn't sound weird at all.
 
Rentahamster said:
He should have just made your order since it's not that hard to figure out what you mean, but you gotta admit, OP, that's one fucking weird request.

I'd like a chocolate chip cookie, without the chocolate chips please.
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To be fair, the way chocolate chip cookies are traditionally prepared would make that a pretty demanding request.

This is probably the most accurate analogy that can be drawn: it's like going to one of those fancy grilled cheese places (they do exist) and getting a grilled cheese with tomato and bacon, hold the cheese.

It's madness. It's absolute madness and you should be made to run a fucking gauntlet of shame and physical trials just to obtain this fucking disaster, but they can technically make the thing asked for with little-to-no hassle given to the employee.
 
I hate picky eaters. Like the people that would die if a tomato touched their sandwich or something. If I'm hungry enough I'll eat anything.

I realize melted cheese is something different.
 
dojokun said:
Why does the OP have to "try"? It shouldn't be an effort to make an order. The worker shouldn't have said anything beyond "Okay, you got it."
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The worker, like a lot of us, was confused about what he actually wanted. It would have probably been worse if the guy made something and the customer was pissed, so he struggled to understand.
 
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