Dear Salty, Some pals and I attended a track festival last weekend. After we’d been ingesting and standing all day the first night, we were ravenous and attempted to order some sandwiches from a BBQ seller at the competition. They changed into an extended line, and when we got to the front, they advised us they had been out of maximum in their food; they ought to put together mac & cheese crowned with some brisket.
The opposite companies also had lengthy strains, so we started k and paid $15 for the mac & cheese. It became so, so gross. The mac & cheese didn’t taste, and the brisket changed into the general sauce with bizarre meat strings. I couldn’t believe we paid $15 for it. But I paid cash and didn’t get a receipt, so I wasn’t positive I ought to have lower back it. Could I even have? By the way, we ate an honestly early dinner—from a unique dealer—the day after today to avoid this.
Unless you’re going to a food occasion—and even occasionally—the food you’ll locate at summertime fairs is a crapshoot. Festival organizers realize the food isn’t the principal draw at a music festival, so it’s mainly there to keep you from gnawing your arm off or getting so drunk you skip out in a porta-potty.
Of path, it’s nevertheless high-priced, but think about the meals at most live shows, sporting occasions, film theaters, etc. I paid $9 for a Corona at a street competition closing in the summertime. When you get an amazing, fairly priced meal, it’s the exception to the guideline. I’m no longer announcing that it doesn’t suck, but I am suggesting you would possibly decrease your expectations a piece. Festival meals aren’t cooked-from-scratch, farm-to-table stuff. It’s 95% starch, made in large batches, sitting out in vats.
Vendors, too, don’t continually know how much enterprise they’ll do. They’d, as an alternative, run out of food than have more because who’s eating the food value? They are. If it rains or the competition isn’t offered, the vendors are stuck with more meals they couldn’t promote. Running out is a way better scenario for them. The responsibility is with the competition organizer to ensure they e-book sufficient vendors and provide an awesome estimate of attendance so that although a stand or two runs out, there are nonetheless different alternatives available.
So, as I have with my relationship lifestyles, mood, and your expectations, could you have demanded a refund for the mac-and-cheese? Yeah, positive. I wager the companies might have given you your money lower back to get you off their case. But I suppose you’d be better off chalking this up to what it’s miles: overpriced, mediocre meals at a competition. Shocking! Next time, do what Aunt Salty does and smuggle a ham sandwich on your blouse. Works every time.
