All sauce should come on the side. @M@Marcello
Summary
A passionate stranger takes a firm stand: all sauce should come on the side at restaurants. His reasoning? The chef doesn't know how much sauce you want or deserve, so they should at least ask, just like they ask how you want your meat cooked. Kareem pushes back hard, challenging him on pasta with red sauce and signature sandwiches where the house sauce defines the whole dish. The rider keeps contradicting himself, saying chefs should "let me cook" with sauce choices but also "you got to let the chef cook" when it comes to signature items. The debate gets messy fast. He admits he only wants sauce on the side when he's unsure about it, which Kareem calls "embarrassing." But the argument that finally lands? Dipping versus pouring. That's a choice you get to make, and suddenly Kareem's convinced. Freedom of choice wins the day.
Full Transcript
So, what's your take? All sauce should come on the side.
100% disagree. You go behind my back at a person I have never met before and you decide how much sauce I want or deserve, you should at the very least ask. You ask me how I want my meat to be cooked, you should ask me how I want my sauce.
Fair point. Extreme, low, medium, let me know.
So, if you're ordering pasta at a restaurant, Right.
Red sauce, you want it on the side. No, that's different. I think at least I want some more information. [laughter] I'd like to give you some information about who I am.
Give me an example. Have you ever ordered a burger and the place does their house sauce and it takes over the identity of the sandwich? Yeah, I like that. It's a signature sandwich.
Okay. And what if you don't like the signature? Then you have just simply ordered something that you wanted and now you don't want it anymore. No, don't order the signature sandwich.
No, you order it with the sauce on the side. Get the regular sandwich.
They don't have a regular sandwich. The signature sandwich is the signature sandwich. You got to let the chef cook.
Listen, you're an artist. I get it. A sandwich artist.
But if the identity of the sandwich is going to change based on the sauce, they agree. The people are agreeing. She goes, "Yeah, yeah," [laughter] someone's finally saying this.
So, when you go to a restaurant, you get sauce on the side every time. Yeah. If I'm unsure if I'm unsure of the sauce,
My brother, that's embarrassing. How is it embarrassing? I don't know you. Maybe I would have liked to try the sauce. Just a little bit.
Oh, okay. I like it. See if I like it. If I like it, I'll put it on. If I don't, I don't. Light sauce, medium sauce. How do you want your meat cooked? You want me to cook? You want to let me cook?
Huh? Let me cook. I'm letting you cook.
Do you tell people how you want your meat cooked? Or do you let the chef cook? How do you cook your meat? I'm asking you a question.
Well, sometimes at restaurants, the chef, he just already cooks. We serve the burger medium rare only. That you don't get a choice. I respect that.
You know what I do like though? What?
If I'm getting a sauce on the side, I'm dipping.
Of course. Are you dipping?
Of course. Because some people pour.
And you know what that is? That's a choice that you get to make, isn't it? Would you like to dip or would you like to pour? Now I'm being convinced that you're actually right.
Thank you. Because I do like to dip.
And by the way, if you dip or you pour, it doesn't matter to me. That's your choice. And that's what I'm all about. Choice. Freedom of choice.
Freedom of choice.