r/mildlyinteresting • u/_Ruby_Shade_ • 1d ago
This large crouton in my salad at Outback
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u/SenseAutomatic 1d ago
They still went ahead and serve this? Oh they think they’re funny 😭
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u/_Ruby_Shade_ 1d ago
No because who saw that and went “yeah we can send it” 😭 it was good though!
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u/Fluffinn 1d ago
I was a food expo as a teenager, and we would put the croutons on the salads. A crouton like this came out of the bag, and we hid it under some lettuce like it was some gift and sent it out. We thought it was hilarious
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u/Weevulb 1d ago
In another life a long long time ago - I used to work at Outback as a line cook. One of our responsibilities was to cut croutons... how it'd work is you'd take full loaves of cheap white bread and slice the croutons a whole loaf at a time. Then we'd leave em for prep the next morning and they'd toss them with oil and seasoning and bake. Back then they were pretty delicious. I'd be very surprised if they still make them this way since it's labor intensive and everything sucks now, but if so, what you see here is a stoner line cook or prep guy that didn't give a SHIT. <edit to add> Not that I'd know anything about that 🤣
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u/justscrollingthruyou 1d ago
17 year outbacker here
We used to cut the bread ourselves every day and toast. Then we’d coat with BUTTER, garlic and house seasoning then toast again for croutons. Mine were perfectly cut squares.
Around 10 yrs ago, they went to precut pre toasted squares that we would get in bags and we’d then coat those with the butter/garlic. These “logs” the OP received are quite common in the precut bags. I used to just break them apart before buttering.
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u/Weevulb 1d ago
I'll be damned but I'm not surprised. At least they still cook them and they're not from a bag. Way back then we used to make a LOT of stuff from scratch. All the dressings were scratch and their recipes were great. (Wish to god I stole them before I left). We'd get cheese in giant blocks and shred it and mix it together so it was fresh shredded and not coated in paper dust. It still like that or just a lot of pre-made crap these days? Back then we were only open for dinner so there was a huge post dinner cleaning effort and morning shift prep crew. I could make the DOPEST blooms. Looked like the pictures lol
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u/justscrollingthruyou 1d ago
Ya, EVERYTHING was made from scratch when I started except for ice cream, above mentioned bread and the cheesecake. I still remember a lot of the recipes and I haven’t worked there for around 7 years lol. I make the ranch for home use often. Creamy onion soup for the wife a couple times a year.
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u/squeakynickles 1d ago
This is just a stale garlic breadstick
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u/ciaomain 1d ago
(points to regular-sized crouton)
You call that a crouton?
(points to this crouton)
THIS is a crouton!
(insert Crocodile Dundee accent)
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u/steffyiscool 1d ago
At first glance, I thought that was your big toe with a fork, second glance, and I'm still unsure.
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u/astrophy6 1d ago
It's an Australian crouton... They are just bigger (and have some of the deadliest venom of all crouton species in the world).
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u/ThirstySun 1d ago
Here on the mainland of Australia we call that a “ centurion aka a Roman Soldier” we don’t fuck around with bloody croutons. Just whack in some soldier toast it’s what Ceaser would have wanted !
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u/Purple_Tree_Car 1d ago
So, last year I went to this ridiculously overpriced and pretentious restaurant in Pebble Beach (a place so insufferable that the waiters re-fold your napkin if you leave the table for a minute to go to the bathroom), and our salads were served with these crouton bricks.
I had no idea how to eat it, but quickly learned that trying to cut it with my knife and fork wasn't the way, as the fucker nearly went flying across the table.
My point is, in some places, this is clearly a choice. (A bad choice, but still a choice.)
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u/IcchibanTenkaichi 1d ago
Trash establishment. I will never eat there again. Long story short our food sat under warmers until the blood in the steak dried and coagulated, the steak had the meat paper wrappers still underneath them, the manager stuck up for her staff and said this was normal and offered to comp our drinks. An entire meal rendered inedible. I will never go back. I hope they go out of business.
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u/cgregg9020 1d ago
Salad: “You’re so big… you barely fit in the bowl.
Crouton: “Sweetheart, I’m not meant to fit. I’m meant to *overwhelm your greens.*”
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u/Zealousideal-Film982 1d ago
The croutons on the salad at Caesar’s in Tijuana are pretty big too, and they created the Caesar salad!
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u/ExtensionAddition787 1d ago
Kind of an example of just how much they don't care. Last time I was at outback the service was terrible and the food was not nearly as good as I had remembered. There are plenty of better restaurants to choose from.
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u/Shot_Improvement9077 1d ago
Woke up at 3 am cuz some meds I’m on have me all screwed up. I think I might laugh myself back to sleep! 😂
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u/PatSajaksDick 1d ago
Not sure if they still do, but the reason the Caesar salad at Outback always slaps is cause they make their dressing fresh, also with anchovies as god intended.
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u/InfiniteJeff369 1d ago
Everything is bigger in Australia. I mean have you ever seen a can of Foster’s?
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u/GetOffMyGrassBrats 1d ago
Not so much a giant crouton as a mini salad. That's just enough salad to make you mad.
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u/SmellyFace69 1d ago
That there is the king crouton. Eat it in one bite and make a wish. Don't tell anyone your wish or it won't come true.
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u/Deitaphobia 22h ago
This is in the grey area between too large to be a crouton and too small to be a bread stick.
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u/GCC_Pluribus_Anus 1d ago
That's a crouTON